2010 Twenty20 Cup final
Event | 2010 Twenty20 Cup | ||||||
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Hampshire won by losing fewer wickets | |||||||
Date | 14 August 2010 | ||||||
Venue | 2009 → |
The 2010 Twenty20 Cup Final, known for sponsorship purposes as the 2010 Friends Provident t20 Final, was a 20
Hampshire were making their first appearance in a
Background
The
The tournament split the eighteen county teams into two groups. Within each group every team played each other twice, home and away; the sixteen group-stage fixtures per team were an increase from the ten played the previous season.[3] The top four from each group progressed to the quarter-finals. The competition culminated on "Finals' Day", during which both semi-finals and the final were played, at the same ground, to determine the tournament champions.[4] In 2010 the life insurance company Friends Provident took over as sponsors of the competition, which became known as the Friends Provident t20.[5]
Route to Finals' Day
Both teams featured in the south group of the competition. Somerset won eleven of their sixteen matches to finish top of the group, including victories in both of their matches against Hampshire.
Hampshire, who had finished fourth in the group stage having won eight and lost eight of their matches,[12] travelled to Warwickshire for their quarter-final. Warwickshire batted first and scored 153; Danny Briggs took three important wickets for Hampshire. In reply, James Vince remained not out, scoring 66 runs to help his side to victory with one ball remaining.[14]
Build-up
Finals' Day was broadcast live on Sky Sports,[15] was hosted at Hampshire's home ground, the Rose Bowl in Southampton. The ground had been chosen in 2008 as the venue for the finals, as part of a package of matches awarded to the ground by the England and Wales Cricket Board.[16]
Hampshire were missing four of their first-team players; Dimitri Mascarenhas, Nic Pothas, Michael Lumb and Kabir Ali, due to injury. They also chose not to include Kevin Pietersen, who had announced his intention to leave the club. Hampshire's chairman, Rod Bransgrove, explained the omission of Pietersen: "it would not be fair on the lads who took Hampshire into the Twenty20 finals if one of them had to step aside so he could be parachuted into the team."[17] Patrick Kidd of The Times rated James Vince as Hampshire's most dangerous batsman, though his team-mate Jimmy Adams entered Finals' Day as the competition's leading run-scorer, with 600 runs.[18] Wisden Cricketers' Almanack's Hugh Chevallier rated them as the weakest of the four teams to reach the semi-finals,[19] and The Times concurred, giving them the joint-longest odds of any finalists; 7–2.[18]
Once the four semi-finalists were known, Somerset were touted as favourites by ESPNcricinfo, who described them as a team "with no clear chink in their armour."[20] The Somerset team featured the competition's two leading wicket-takers, Alfonso Thomas and Kieron Pollard. Kidd highlighted Somerset's strong batting line-up, and listed them as second favourites with odds of 9–4.[18]
Semi-finals
Hampshire featured in the first of the day's semi-finals; playing against Essex. Having been asked to bat first, Essex scored 156; Briggs once again took three wickets for Hampshire, and Dominic Cork and Abdul Razzaq each bowled very economically. Essex bowled well to leave Hampshire needing 42 runs from the final four overs, but aggressive play from Sean Ervine, Neil McKenzie and Michael Carberry took Hampshire to a six-wicket victory.[21]
Rain delayed the start of the second match, in which Somerset batted first against Nottinghamshire. Attacking batting performances from Marcus Trescothick, who scored a 28-ball 60, and Jos Buttler, who made 55 not out from 23 balls, propelled Somerset to 182 runs from their twenty overs. Further rain inbetween innings meant that Nottinghamshire required a Duckworth–Lewis adjusted target of 152 runs from 16 overs. Aware that there was more rain around which might further curtail the match, they played attacking cricket, and remained around their required rate throughout the innings, until the wicket of Samit Patel fell at the start of the 13th over. Rain then came in, and the match finished at the end of that over; Somerset won by three runs, using the Duckworth–Lewis method.[22]
Match
Summary
Played on the same day as both the semi-finals, the match was a
After Trego's dismissal, Kieswetter began scoring more quickly, hitting 3 fours and 2 sixes before both himself and James Hildreth were dismissed in quick succession. Hildreth, who had scored 12 runs, hit a full toss from Razzaq to Christian fielding at gully, and then four balls later, Kieswetter sliced a delivery from Christian to extra cover, where it was caught by Carberry.[24] Kieswetter had scored 71 from 59 balls, after taking 37 deliveries to score his first 29 runs;[26] writing in The Guardian, Vic Marks said that the performance "did not really signal a return to form", as he "willed himself to a significant score, seldom timing the ball".[29] The dismissals moved the Somerset score to 149 for four, and brought two new batsmen to the crease, Pollard and Buttler.[23] Pollard struck a four and two consecutive sixes during the penultimate over, before Cork took the wicket of Buttler in the next over.[30] With three balls of the innings remaining, Pollard was surprised by a bouncer from Cork which got in through the gap in his helmet grille and struck him in the face.[26] Pollard's eye was swollen shut, and he had to retire injured from the match and be taken to hospital.[31] Cork, who was shaken by the incident,[31] dismissed Suppiah with the penultimate ball of the innings, and then prevented any runs from the final ball.[24] He conceded three runs from the final over, restricting Somerset to a score of 173 for six.[29] Lloyd described Somerset's score as a little above par, and suggested that Hampshire would need a "flying start to their pursuit".[28]
De Bruyn returned to bowl the last over; from the first four balls, the Hampshire batsmen scored two
Scorecard
- Toss: Somerset won the toss and elected to bat first
- Result: Hampshire won by losing fewer wickets[23]
Batsman
|
Method of dismissal | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | SR |
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Marcus Trescothick * | c Daniel Christian b Abdul Razzaq |
19 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 237.50 |
Craig Kieswetter † | c Daniel Christian |
71 | 59 | 6 | 2 | 120.33 |
Peter Trego | c Sean Ervine b Danny Briggs | 33 | 24 | 3 | 1 | 137.50 |
James Hildreth | c Daniel Christian b Abdul Razzaq |
12 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 85.71 |
Jos Buttler | c James Vince b Dominic Cork | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 71.42 |
Kieron Pollard | retired hurt (not out) | 22 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 314.28 |
Zander de Bruyn | not out | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
Arul Suppiah | c Michael Bates † b Dominic Cork | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
Ben Phillips | not out | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
Extras | (1 no balls ) |
11 | ||||
Totals | (20.0 overs) | 173/6 | 8.65 runs per over | |||
Did not bat: Alfonso Thomas, Murali Kartik |
Bowler
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Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Economy
|
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Dominic Cork | 4 | 0 | 24 | 2 | 6.00 |
Chris Wood | 4 | 0 | 51 | 0 | 12.75 |
Abdul Razzaq | 4 | 0 | 37 | 2 | 9.25 |
Daniel Christian
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4 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 7.50 |
Danny Briggs | 4 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 7.50 |
Batsman
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Method of dismissal | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | SR |
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James Adams | b Arul Suppiah | 34 | 24 | 3 | 1 | 141.66 |
Abdul Razzaq | c Craig Kieswetter † b Peter Trego | 33 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 173.68 |
James Vince | run out | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
Neil McKenzie | c Marcus Trescothick b Ben Phillips | 52 | 39 | 3 | 1 | 133.33 |
Sean Ervine | not out | 44 | 31 | 7 | 0 | 141.93 |
Michael Carberry | c Craig Kieswetter † b Ben Phillips | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
Daniel Christian
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not out | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 75.00 |
Extras | (2 byes, 4 leg byes, 1 wide) | 7 | ||||
Totals | (20.0 overs) | 173/5 | 8.65 runs per over | |||
Did not bat: Dominic Cork *, Chris Wood, Michael Bates †, Danny Briggs |
Bowler
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Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Economy
|
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Alfonso Thomas | 4 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 5.75 |
Ben Phillips | 4 | 0 | 44 | 2 | 11.00 |
Zander de Bruyn | 3 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 9.66 |
Peter Trego | 4 | 0 | 38 | 1 | 9.50 |
Murali Kartik | 4 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 6.75 |
Arul Suppiah | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 6.00 |
Umpires:
Key
- * – Captain
- † – Wicket-keeper
- c Fielder – Indicates that the batsman was dismissed by a catch by the named fielder
- b Bowler – Indicates which bowler gains credit for the dismissal
Aftermath
Writing for The Daily Telegraph, Scyld Berry and Oliver Brown suggested that it was unlikely that the players were aware that Christian could have been run out, saying that "most professional cricketers are most unprofessional when it comes to knowledge of the laws."[34] Chevallier's report in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack went a step further, blaming "Somerset's glaring ignorance of the laws".[19] Asked about the incident post-match, the Somerset captain Trescothick said that they "clearly just did not think at the end there".[31] In his autobiography, Brian Rose, who was Somerset's Director of Cricket, admitted that very few of the Somerset staff and players were aware of that particular law.[35]
The Times's Simon Wilde described the loss of Pollard to injury during the match as a major setback for Somerset, particularly as his two replacements performed poorly: as substitute fielder, Compton dropped a catch, while de Bruyn conceded 29 runs from three overs.[33] Speaking after the match, Cork described the victory as vindication for Hampshire's selection policy, saying "We've been slaughtered throughout this campaign in some circles: why weren't we playing this person?", but he praised the blend of youth and experience for building a team "that can play against the best and beat them".[31]
Hampshire were awarded £200,000 for winning the competition, while Somerset collected £84,000. As man of the match in the final, McKenzie received £2,000.
Notes and references
Notes
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