County Champion: Nottinghamshire defeated Hampshire with 366 runs

Hampshire went bankrupt after centuries of Jack Haynes and Liam Patterson-White as Nottinghamshire's first division leader won the third win in the opening five games of the county's championship season and won the third win with a huge 366 shot.

All-rounder Patterson-White hit a grand career-best 135 with 21 quarters and two sixths, while Haynes scored 120 points, with the two scoring 345 in the second inning at Trent Bridge, 238 and 238.

Chasing the 483 win seems totally unrealistic, making the new ball a powerful weapon, but Hampshire supporters want to see the game enter day four at least.

Instead, they witnessed their team beat a painful 116 in 17:30, while former favorite Mohammad Abbas wasn't even in the goal as Lyndon James (5-22) and Brett Hutton (4-56) shared bowling honors.

The winning profit is Nottinghamshire's second-biggest history.

The chaos of the last class was in total contrast to the first, when Nottinghamshire's seventh wicket was the Partnership 87 at the end of Saturday, it felt like a different race with 144 runs added before lunch.

Haynes, 60, gave his teammates a 21-shot start, but in this event, the Hampshire bowling laboured in vain, evoking life from the aging ball, looking benign in the game, with Patterson-White first and foremost three characters.

He reached a milestone from 139 balls and put a strong pull on Sonny Baker with six. This is his second in the second game, running 76 runs on the border.

Given that he hasn't played for half a century in 32 innings in the three seasons before the season and has been working to keep his position aside, it's no surprise that he allowed himself to have a long celebration.

Moments later, he played the best career in 2021 against Somerset at Taunton, and then Baker finished Haynes’s one hundred as a single, 137 goals from 137 and 16 fours, and he was second in five innings.

Haynes fell on his leg at 80-year-old Deep Square and left for three games after lunch. Kyle Abbott now has the new ball in his hand, but it's back, running to the deep middle goal for the second time, which makes Haynes pay Baker's throw, defeating the ticket inspector, and making him comfortable to beat him.

Still, the completed first run was enough to bring the partnership to 238, Nottinghamshire's second-largest against any opponent's seventh wicket.

Abbott followed up with a more traditional new ball wicket in the following game - his stats have reached 23 seasons so far - and Hutton has been caught without scoring, after which Farhan Ahmed was succumbed to the bottom edge by James Fuller and Patterson-Patterson-White.

It provides Hampshire with a theoretical goal of 483 to win the game, or hit the ball long enough to save some pride. However, when they slide to 33-3 in tea, the chances of achieving this are quickly diminished.

Abbas hit six wickets, but on the other end, Hutton used to have a leading Fletcha Middleton leg, and Mark Stoneman grabbed behind the thin outer edge. James then dismissed James' first step, and when Kyle Verreynne got a second catch, Pers layed off.

There was little sign of Hampshire trying to sleep behind tea while the wicket fell at an incredible frequency.

Ben Brown's loose Lutton fell in the hands of the square legs, Nick Gubbins was tamed and stuck in a stumbling way with extra cover, Liam Dawson was caught, caught on the border hook, rich footsteps to the middle goal, Toby Albert, Toby Albert fell on the first slip, fell to third by the third shot, caught by Haynes, and caught in Haynes - once the visitor of Midd.

Abbott and Baker put the home festivities on hold for 10 points before putting Hampshire top scorer Patterson-White appropriately in the final wicket, who cut the latter to 27 points.

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