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ScorecardJos Buttler produced another innings of huge promise as Somerset maintained their 100% record in the Clydesdale Bank 40 with a 115-run victory over Lancashire at Taunton. The England Under-19 batsman hit an unbeaten 64 off 37 balls to help his side post 245 for 4 after winning the toss. James Hildreth hit 72 not out and Nick Compton 59.Lancashire never looked remotely capable of reaching their target on a turning pitch as they suffered a sixth defeat in 10 group fixtures. Murali Kartik returned 4 for 30 as they were bowled out for 130 in 29.4 overs.Buttler, who made a big impact at Twenty20 finals day on Saturday, produced the cleanest hitting of the match, sharing an unbroken stand of 98 with Hildreth and hitting seven fours and two sixes. Hildreth hit six fours in a 71-ball innings that took his aggregate of runs in eight Group A matches to 439 at an average of 109.75.Craig Kieswetter had fallen early and Marcus Trescothick made only five by the eighth over, which saw him dropped at cover and then well caught off the next ball by Gary Keedy moving backwards at mid-on off the bowling of Tom Smith.By the end of the 15th over Somerset were becalmed on 66 for 2. They then lost Zander de Bruyn (25), who top-edged a sweep off Keedy to wicketkeeper Luke Sutton. Compton was forced to be watchful and hit only two boundaries in bringing up his fifty off 59 balls as the total progressed to 130 for three. He then attempted a scoop shot off Luke Procter and only succeeded in giving a simple catch to Gary Montgomery.Somerset took their batting power play at 167 for 4 in the 34th over as Buttler joined Hildreth in cutting loose. They scored 47 off the following four overs in swashbuckling style.Those efforts were made to look even more praiseworthy when Lancashire replied. Alfonso Thomas removed Tom Smith and Ben Phillips accounted for Steven Croft and Kyle Brown as the visitors slumped to 23 for 3. But it was the introduction of Kartik for the 14th over that ended any doubt about the outcome. Extracting plenty of turn from his first delivery, he bowled Paul Horton behind his legs sweeping with his fourth ball to make it 64 for 4.Leg-spinner Max Waller also enjoyed the surface and bowled Gareth Cross with a googly before Kartik pinned Procter lbw. At 73 for 6 the Lancashire innings was in disarray and there was no way back as Kartik continued to weave his magic.

ScorecardAn unbroken half-century partnership between Alistair Brown and Chris Read enabled title-chasing Nottinghamshire to gain the upper hand of their Championship duel against Essex at Chelmsford.By stumps they had put on 54 in 13 overs to carry their side to 126 for 5 in reply to an Essex total of 154 all out that represented something of a recovery after they had lost half their side for 45.Their problems began in the fourth over of the morning when John Maunders was needlessly run out attempting a single. Jaik Mickleburgh was bowled by Charlie Shreck soon afterwards before Andre Adams plunged the home side into further trouble when he removed Billy Godleman and Matt Walker in the same over.He did so by finding enough swing and lift to discover the edge and wicketkeeper Read did the rest. Paul Franks then got rid of Tom Westley, again with the help of the impressive Read who went on to claim six victims in an innings for the seventh time in his career.Tim Phillips did his best to keep the Essex innings afloat after entering the battle with the score on 69 for 6. His concentration and careful shot selection enabled him to gather a valuable unbeaten 46 that contained seven boundaries.His biggest support came from Maurice Chambers, the pair putting together a stand of 34 for the final wicket which represented the highest of the innings. Shreck and Franks finished with 3 for 40 and 3 for 20 respectively while Adams’ two successes came at a cost of 26.While Chambers performed doggedly with the bat, it was with the new ball that he made the biggest impact, his hostility and swing quickly putting Nottinghamshire on the back foot.He struck in his opening over by getting rid of Bilal Shafayat with an lbw decision and then bowled Alex Hales.He later trapped Steve Mullaney leg before and so often did he pass the outside edge that he could consider himself unlucky not to have claimed further successes. The other two wickets to fall were picked up by left-arm spinner Phillips. Mark Wagh fell lbw while Samit Patel was caught at short leg by Godleman while pushing forward.Nottinghamshire found themselves in trouble at 72 for 5 before they gained the initiative through Brown and Read. Read completed a highly successful day’s work by reaching the close on 31 which included a straight driven six at the expense of Phillips.Brown will resume on 30 with Nottinghamshire seeking another 29 to move into a first-innings lead. An absorbing opening day finished with Chambers having claimed 3 for 49 and Phillips 2 for 17.

Cricket Australia could be set to have a former Test player as chairman for the first time since Sir Donald Bradman, with the election of Wally Edwards as deputy chairman. Edwards, who is the longest serving of the current board of directors, was promoted to the role at the Cricket Australia board meeting in Melbourne on Friday.An opening batsman from Western Australia, Edwards played three Tests during the 1974-75 Ashes series. He has served on the CA board since 1996 and, as deputy chairman, he will be the leading candidate to take over as chairman when the incumbent Jack Clarke’s term expires.”The board’s decision to elect Wally Edwards as Cricket Australia’s deputy chairman is a wonderful result,” Clarke said. “Wally has been a dedicated servant of the game, firstly as a player and now administrator and I look forward to working closely with him to ensure the continued success of cricket in this country.”A civil engineer, Edwards owns a Perth-based company that manufactures irrigation products, and he has also served as vice-president of the Western Australian Cricket Association. Edwards, 60, said he was looking forward to his new role.”It is a great honour to be elected Cricket Australia’s deputy chairman,” Edwards said. “I am excited at the prospect of working with current chairman Jack Clarke and the Cricket Australia board as Australian cricket strives to continue is recent success and help to ensure cricket retains its position as Australia’s favourite sport.”

The BCCI has extended the deadline for Lalit Modi to respond to the second show-cause notice it issued to him on May 6, following a charge by Giles Clarke, the ECB chairman, that Modi was planning on setting up a parallel league in England. Modi will now have to submit his response by May 31, a ten-day extension from the original deadline.”The extension was asked because they needed more time for formulating an appropriate reply,” Mehmood Abdi, Modi’s legal counsel, told Cricinfo. “The request was sent in two days back, and N Srinivasan’s (the BCCI secretary) approval came back yesterday.”In his e-mail to the BCCI, Clarke alleged activities by Modi that he said were “detrimental to Indian cricket, English cricket and world cricket at large.” Modi has dismissed the charge as “fiction”.Modi, on May 15, responded to the first show-cause notice – containing charges of financial impropriety – issued to him by the BCCI in typically dramatic fashion. The reply, along with the supporting documents, ran up to 15,000 pages packed in large cardboard cartons wheeled into the BCCI headquarters in Mumbai.

ScorecardAdam Gale extended his good form for Yorkshire to steady England Lions•Getty Images

Alastair Cook failed to shine with the bat again but Bangladesh also ran into problems ahead of next week’s first Test at Lord’s when they collapsed against England Lions at Derby.England opener Cook made only 31 after the tourists had slipped from 109 for 1 to be bowled out for 220, with Steve Kirby taking three wickets in 18 balls.Ravi Bopara returned from England’s Twenty20 World Cup triumph to run through the tail, finishing with 3 for 9, but he made only 12 with the bat as the Lions were reduced to 16 for 2, and Cook’s lean season continued when he mistimed a pull.Andrew Gale then led a recovery with an unbeaten 63 as the Lions ended day one on 125 for 3. Bangladesh had batted well in the morning after they were put in against a Lions attack which struggled for the right length, but the innings was undermined by some rash shots.Tamim Iqbal drove and glanced Kirby for three consecutive fours and Imrul Kayes brought up the 50 in the 11th over when he off-drove Chris Woakes to the ropes. Kayes was dropped on 20 when he drove James Harris low to Woakes in the covers but Iqbal’s attacking instincts betrayed him when he top-edged a hook at Liam Plunkett and was caught at fine leg for 36.Kayes looked well set until he flashed at Woakes and was caught behind for 42, and the tourists’ decline gathered pace after lunch as the seamers found a more consistent line. Junaid Siddique was taken by a juggling Moeen Ali at second slip for 30 and Mohammad Ashraful suffered his first failure of the tour when he edged a big drive at Kirby.The Gloucestershire paceman then found some extra bounce to have Mushfiqur Rahim caught by Ali for a single and Plunkett struck with his first ball back when Jahurul Islam mistimed a pull to mid on.The tourists were in deep trouble at 158 for 7 after Abdur Razzak edged Woakes to first slip but Mahmudullah responded by hooking Plunkett for two consecutive sixes before he pulled Bopara to Monty Panesar at fine leg.Panesar did not bowl in the innings which was quickly polished off by Bopara, who replaced the injured Michael Carberry. Bopara then failed with the bat, taken at second slip by Robiul Islam, and Moeen Ali went first ball when he edged low to Kayes.Cook and Gale had some uncomfortable moments against the tourists’ seamers but were rebuilding the innings until the skipper pulled Rubel Hossain to mid-on. Gale completed his half-century from 71 balls and shared an unbroken stand of 50 with James Taylor to leave the Lions 95 behind at the close.

Scorecard and ball-by-ball details
How they were out
Hawk-eyeDavid Warner had fun at the expense of Ravindra Jadeja•AFP

The match started with a maiden. Silence before a storm that absolutely blew India out of its way. Six-hitting has seldom been made to look easier: David Warner and Shane Watson just kept clearing their front legs, creating room, and kept lofting the Indians over various parts of the Kensington Oval. Finding gaps and all they didn’t care about. Between them they hit 13 sixes and only three fours, and by the time they were done, 142 runs had been scored in 14 overs. Australia’s last four overs for 23 runs were silence before another storm: during which their awesome attack annihilated India, except for Rohit Sharma, the only one of eight batsmen to reach double figures.The same ample and true bounce that worked for Australia hurt India. That the ball came on, coupled with the short boundaries, gave Watson and Warner the confidence to go for their big hits. The Indian batsmen, though, with no option to duck or leave thanks to the huge chase, were almost always in bad position when playing the short deliveries. And they got plenty of them at a healthy pace.That Rohit was playing in the first place, an extra batsman keeping India’s attack down to two seamers, could be argued to be a defensive move even before the match started.Out of a spinner-dominated attack, Harbhajan Singh was a bowler apart: he bowled that initial maiden and went for just 15 in his four overs. By comparison, Ravindra Jadeja, who will want to delete May 7 from the 2010 calendar, went for 36 in six deliveries spread over two overs. That after he had dropped Watson when only on 7, and before he ran himself out by running away from the stumps. That Jadeja was brought to bowl a second over after being hit for three successive sixes exposed a rare tactical error from MS Dhoni: he had not left himself with a great choice of bowlers.The subdued start that Watson got off to against Harbhajan, though, would have given Dhoni false confidence. After facing seven consecutive dot balls first up, Watson just exploded, pulling Ashish Nehra way over long-on for six. The template had been set. Both the batsmen sat back, took their leading legs out of the way, and hardly hit anything off anywhere but the middle of the bat.Jadeja contributed to the onslaught, bowling short repeatedly, and Watson brutalised him over midwicket, cow corner and square leg. By the time Jadeja came back, in the 10th over, Australia had consolidated on the start, Zaheer Khan had looked ineffective, and Warner had warmed up, reaching 29 off 25 with Watson on 47 off 29. Three balls later, he came level with Watson, with sixes either side of a widish long-on and a huge one over midwicket. Both the barrels had started firing, and we were in for a contest as to who would hit more sixes.Watson, already ahead by one, hit Yusuf Pathan for another big one in the next over, but was bowled immediately after by a delivery that kept low. Warner showed no signs of slowing down, hitting Yusuf and Yuvraj Singh for three sixes in the next three overs before edging one that bounced extra.Yuvraj, Nehra and Zaheer, who bowled well at the death, kept India one short of the dubious record for most sixes in an innings, 17. Soon Rohit would find himself in a fight to avoid the biggest defeat in a Twenty20 international featuring two major sides.Dirk Nannes and Shaun Tait were simply too quick for the top order. Limp shots, batsmen jumping to negotiate accurate bumpers, bottom hand coming off while playing them, lobbed catches inside the circle, a superb yorker and a bit of silly running thrown in, and India were 50 for 7. M Vijay got an edge trying to drag Nannes from outside off, Gautam Gambhir was hurried and had by a Nannes bouncer, Suresh Raina followed a top-edged six with another top edge off Tait that went nowhere and could even had hit his stumps had Michael Clarke not caught the skier.Rohit’s clean and assured hitting, 79 off 46 balls, not only delayed the defeat, it also made a case for his selection ahead of either Jadeja or Yusuf and kept the net run-rate damage down.

Match facts

Wednesday, April 14
Start time 2000 (1430 GMT)Shane Warne’s role with ball and as captain will be integral to Rajasthan’s prospects•Indian Premier League

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A win on Wednesday, for either side, will be a huge step towards a spot in the final four. Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers Bangalore are coming off painful losses, during which they failed to grab key opportunities, and are tied on 12 points with three other teams. Whoever loses this encounter will then have to win their final game convicningly, and will still need other results to go their way. So tight is the points table that neither Shane Warne nor Anil Kumble would want to leave the fates of their sides to outside chance.

The stakes are higher for Rajasthan, given that their position is weaker thanks to a net run rate of -0.288 that currently leaves them fifth in the points table. Their fortunes have changed remarkably since their first meeting with Bangalore. The defeat in that game was Rajasthan’s third in a row, and their campaign looked in shambles. Since then, they strung together four consecutive wins before dropping two, followed by a win and a loss. Through their topsy-turvy tournament, they have remained in contention thanks in no small part to the leadership of Shane Warne, who has again managed to get a lot out of his inexperienced players. Now it is crunch time and it’ll take more than the odd canny bowling change or inspired field placement to take them further.Rajasthan’s main area of concern going into the match will be the state of their batting. In their previous match they failed to put up a fight in a stiff chase against Mumbai, after losing three crucial wickets to run-outs. To avoid another such mishap, they need their batsmen to regain control and Yusuf Pathan, in the midst of a slump, at his aggressive best. Their chances will also depend on the batting of the openers and the all-round abilities of Shane Watson.Bangalore’s campaign has also lost steam after a strong start, and both batsmen and bowlers are to be blamed. In the last match, the batting approach was quixotic, with Jacques Kallis’ slow-coach ways in contrast to Rahul Dravid’s fluency. It was down to Robin Uthappa’s clean hitting to lift the middle order after four wickets fell in consecutive overs. Too much was left on his plate and he fell just when he seemed to be scripting a classic. In the losses before that game, the bowlers lost the plot, failing to defend 184 against Deccan, and conceding as many against Delhi. The strong batting line-up has been patchy, often putting too much pressure on Kallis who cannot shift gears easily. The side that was branded a Test team in 2008 seems to slipping towards that label.

Form guide (most recent first)

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Team talk

One of Rajasthan’s highly regarded domestic players, Aditya Dole, dropped the match against Mumbai, and even a spirited innings down the order may not be enough to keep him in the playing XI. There could also be a recall for Shaun Tait at the expense of Adam Voges, given the way Sachin Tendulkar punished their seam attack.
Bangalore’s middle order has been a worry throughout the tournament, despite how strong it looks on paper, and it is foreseeable that Kevin Pietersen returns in place of Cameron White. The bowlers did wonderfully to try and set up the chase in the previous match, and the only disappointment was KP Appanna, who could face the axe for this key clash.

In the spotlight

Shane Warne: Few will doubt his leadership skills, but Warne the bowler has yet to really make an impact in the IPL. He has struggled to make the breakthroughs and his one stellar outing had more to do with Deccan Chargers’ nerves than his own magic. His ineffectiveness against Tendulkar proved critical in the defeat against Mumbai: Tendulkar took him for three boundaries in an over, and 23 runs overall from 15 balls. Those boundaries changed the tone of Tendulkar’s game and he revived Mumbai from a disastrous start to a big total.

Siddharth Trivedi: He has been Warne’s go-to man ever since he returned to the line-up after missing the first few games, and his fall-ball delivery is the slower one. It has foxed several batsmen this year and was a key weapon in the end overs against Deccan. However, things went awry against Mumbai and his 20-run final over hurt Rajasthan. He’ll hope it was an off-day, but with the margin for error narrowing, Trivedi may have to try something else tomorrow.Ross Taylor: The man who is keeping Kevin Pietersen out of the line-up has not delivered this season. In the last game Taylor was yorked by RP Singh for one off five balls in a pressure situation; in the previous game against Deccan he was trapped lbw by Pragyan Ojha for 1. Against Delhi Daredevils he fell slogging Rajat Bhatia for 22 off 10 to open up the floodgates. Teams seem to have figured out Taylor’s penchant for deep square-leg and deep midwicket, so they’ve not been feeding him much on the middle and leg line. The spinners, importantly, haven’t given any air and the manner in which Ojha beat him for pace was telling. Bhatia too got him with a slow off-cutter. Taylor needs to start thinking out of the box if he’s going to make an impact.

Previously…

Rajasthan 3 Bangalore 2
Rajasthan’s first match against Bangalore this season was utter disaster – they were bowled out for 92 and the home side steamed to a ten-wicket win.

Prime Numbers

• Anil Kumble has the edge over Shane Warne in terms of their bowling numbers in IPL 2010. Kumble has 11 wickets to Warne’s 10. Kumble concedes 6.16 per over, while Warne is far more expensive, going for 7.74.
• Overall too, Bangalore’s spinners have done better than Rajasthan’s. Slow bowlers from either side have taken 15 wickets each, but while Bangalore’s average 30.20 per wicket and 6.88 per over, Rajasthan’s average 43.93 per wicket and 7.56 per over.
• Warne has dismissed Bangalore’s top-order pair of Jacques Kallis and Rahul Dravid 19 times in international cricket: Kallis has fallen to him 11 times and Dravid eight.
• Both Kallis and Naman Ojha have been prolific openers, outscoring their team-mates by some distance, but the telling point has been Ojha’s strike-rate. Against Kallis’ 121.37, which has at times hurt Bangalore, Ojha’s healthy 138.58 is a boost for a side lacking muscle.

The chatter

“Kallis has won us a couple of games earlier but today he got stuck; You can’t expect someone like Robin Uthappa to see you through.”

The Warriors will be strengthened by the return of Wayne Parnell, Jaques Kallis and Mark Boucher to their squad ahead of the domestic Pro20 Final against Highveld Lions at Port Elizabeth on Friday.Kallis and Boucher have both recovered from minor injuries picked up during South Africa’s tour of India. Boucher suffered a back spasm which ruled him out of the second Test and Kallis suffered a hamstring strain in the course of his unbeaten century in the final ODI.While neither have featured in the Warriors’ Pro20 campaign due to their national commitments, Kallis played a vital role in the team’s victories in the MTN40 semi-final and final, scoring an unbeaten 73 in the nine-run win over the Cape Cobras and following that up with 87 not out in the final.Several members of the South African squad suffered injuries on their trip to India, with JP Duminy splitting the webbing in his hand during the defeat at Gwalior in the second one-day game, and captain Graeme Smith fracturing a finger in fielding practice before the second Test. Their participation in the opening games of the Indian Premier League, which starts on March 12, is yet to be confirmed.Albie Morkel has recovered from his ankle injury, but Roelof van der Merwe is still nursing a hamstring niggle.

Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsAlastair Cook continued his impressive form with a century in his first Test as captain•PA Photos

Alastair Cook is only keeping the England captaincy hot seat warm, but he continues to sit very comfortably in the position as he maintained his impressive tour of Bangladesh with an unbeaten 158 on his first day as the Test leader. Alongside Kevin Pietersen’s much-awaited return to form, which ended agonisingly on 99 to a left-arm spinner, the pair formed the backbone of England’s dominant opening-day total of 374 for 3 at Chittagong.Cook became the fifth England captain to score a hundred in his first match in charge. The last one to do so was Pietersen although that innings, against South Africa at The Oval, feels like a lifetime ago. At last, though, there was a glimpse of the Pietersen flair as he and Cook added 170 in 45 overs, but that does have to be countered by the immensely dire quality of the bowling on offer. Bangladesh started poorly and didn’t get any better, finishing the day with a series of freebies for Paul Collingwood as he eased to 32 and Cook closed three short of a new career-best.It was thanks to the generosity of Shakib Al Hasan, the Bangladesh captain, that the visitors were able to take first use of a surface that looks certain to wear and turn considerably – albeit slowly – as the match progresses. His decision to bowl will go down among the most unfathomable calls, although it smacked largely of a lack of confidence in his own team’s batting than any belief that it was the best way to challenge in the game.However, England weren’t going to look a gift-horse in the mouth especially after packing the side with batting. Cook was barely troubled during his 244-ball innings as he continued his quietly impressive tour where he has maintained, and improved, his form despite the added burden of captaincy. During the one-day series there was a new-found freedom to his strokeplay and he brought that confidence into the five-day game, never typified better than when he reached his hundred from 148 deliveries with a slog-swept six. His first boundary was the same shot and it meant he doubled his tally of Test sixes in the space of an innings.

England captains who began with hundreds

• Archie MacLaren 109 at Sydney in 1897-98

• Allan Lamb 119 at Bridgetown in 1989-90

• Andrew Strauss 128 at Lord’s in 2006

• Kevin Pietersen 100 at The Oval in 2008

• Alastair Cook 158* at Chittagong in 2009-10

A sign of the confidence in Cook’s game was a return of the cover drive which he shelved in South Africa after his troubles outside off stump to the quick bowlers. However, the threat from the Bangladesh attack was far removed from that of Dale Steyn and Co. and he pierced the off side with increasingly regularity. If Andrew Strauss had woken in the early hours in the UK he will have watched contently with the team in safe hands.But while Cook came into the match with form, it was a vastly different story for Pietersen. He entered under mounting pressure having endured another lean run since arriving in Bangladesh and a continuation of his poor record against left-arm spinners. He was soon facing Abdur Razzak, but it was a missed opportunity from Shakib when he didn’t introduce himself straight away and instead stuck with Rubel Hossain after his dismissal of Jonathan Trott.Pietersen has spent hours in the nets working alongside Andy Flower on his technique against left-arm spinners and there was a clear change in method in evidence as he stayed leg-side of the ball rather that getting squared-up. He laid an early marker with a fine inside-out drive through mid off and his footwork was far more certain.In the final over before tea he reach fifty from 60 balls with some help from a misfield and after the break began moving through the gears with a hint of the flamboyance that has been missing since he lost the captaincy. He made a statement to Shakib by dispatching him for a six and two fours – all straight down the ground – in the space of four balls. It appeared he would blaze to three figures, but this isn’t, yet, the Pietersen of old and he tried to nudge his way there which resulted in him being squared-up by Razzak.Cook, though, motored on past 150 before shutting up shop as stumps approached. England batsmen don’t score many double hundreds – there’s a big one on offer here. He had been outscored during the early exchanges as Michael Carberry made a confident start to his Test career having been handed his cap alongside the Middlesex paceman Steven Finn. Carberry eased to 30 before becoming tied down by offspin and fell to an ambitious sweep against Mahmudullah.Jonathan Trott went about his innings at his own sedate pace, but looked confident after his warm-up hundred as he added 77 with Cook. He was given out caught off the helmet from a Rubel short ball which bounced as much as anything all day. There is no UDRS in this series so all Trott could do was shake his head and it was the only thing to go Bangladesh’s way. However, they didn’t deserve anything else and it is already only a question of how long they can hang on in this Test.

Neil McKenzie, the South African top-order batsman, will be joining Hampshire as a Kolpak player this summer. McKenzie will link up with the squad on April 4 and, as he is out of the frame as a national player, will be available for the whole season.McKenzie, who captains the Highveld Lions in South Africa, will bring further international experience to an exciting squad which already contains Kabir Ali, Simon Jones, Shahid Afridi and Ajantha Mendis. “I’m really looking forward to playing for Hampshire,” he said. “I know it’s a great club – one with great expectations of itself – and it will be exciting to be part of it.””The addition of Neil McKenzie to our strong squad is the last part of a carefully-planned process,” explained Rod Bransgrove, Hampshire’s cricket chairman. “His well-proven abilities will bring further resilience to our batting in all forms of cricket and I really believe that we now have a squad which will challenge for honours in all competitions. I am delighted that he has chosen to come here.”McKenzie played in 58 Tests and 64 ODIs for his country, and was an integral member of the South African squad which toured England in 2008. His match-saving century in the first Test at Lord’s stretched over more than nine hours and proved crucial in the final analysis, as it allowed South Africa to grab the momentum and ultimately secure a 2-1 series win. His experience in England also includes county stints with Durham and Somerset.”Neil is a highly-experienced and effective batsman who brings great presence to the Club both on and off the field,” said Giles White, the first XI manager. “We need strength in depth to sustain a realistic challenge in modern day cricket and I am satisfied that we now have that in all key departments. No doubt, Hampshire supporters will warm to him very quickly and I hope he and his family enjoy the Hampshire experience this summer.”