Format: CricInfo Version 1t

County Championship, 1976
Hampshire v Somerset
Dean Park, Bournemouth
24,26,27 July 1976

Result: Somerset won by 16 runs

Toss: Not known
Umpires: H Horton and KE Palmer

Close of Play:

Somerset 1st innings
BC Rose               st Stephenson      b Cowley              91
PW Denning            c Gilliat          b Rice                15
PA Slocombe           run out                                  38
IT Botham             st Stephenson      b Sainsbury           44
*DB Close                                b Sainsbury           43
VJ Marks              c Turner           b Sainsbury            5
+DJS Taylor                              b Richards            37
GI Burgess            c Gilliat          b Richards             0
D Breakwell           not out                                  14
HR Moseley            not out                                   1
Extras                (b 6, lb 5, w 2)                         13
Total                 (8 wickets, 100 overs)                  301

DNB: DR Gurr.

FoW: 1-44, 2-118, 3-190, 4-212, 5-225, 6-286, 7-286, 8-288.

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Rice                        11      2     36      1
Jesty                       10      3     23      0
Cowley                      30      7     76      1
Southern                     7      2     24      0
Sainsbury                   32      8    101      3
Richards                    10      1     28      2

Hampshire 1st innings
BA Richards           c Taylor           b Botham              30
P Barrett                                b Botham              14
DR Turner                                b Botham               0
TE Jesty              not out                                 159
AJ Murtagh                               b Botham               0
NG Cowley             lbw                b Botham               0
*RMC Gilliat          lbw                b Botham               0
PJ Sainsbury          lbw                b Marks               46
JM Rice               c Close            b Marks                0
+GR Stephenson        c Burgess          b Close               17
JW Southern           run out                                   3
Extras                (b 8, lb 12, w 4, nb 3)                  27
Total                 (all out, 99.5 overs)                   296

FoW: 1-47, 2-47, 3-52, 4-52, 5-52,
     6-52, 7-188, 8-208, 9-273, 10-296.

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Moseley                     10      0     28      0
Gurr                        14      4     57      0
Botham                      12      5     16      6
Burgess                     15      4     39      0
Breakwell                   25      9     63      0
Close                        9      2     31      1
Marks                       14.5    6     35      2

Somerset 2nd innings
BC Rose               run out                                   9
PW Denning            c Cowley           b Southern            62
PA Slocombe           lbw                b Southern            42
IT Botham             c Richards         b Southern             0
*DB Close             c Turner           b Cowley              36
VJ Marks                                 b Southern             0
+DJS Taylor           c Stephenson       b Southern            10
GI Burgess                               b Richards             7
D Breakwell                              b Rice                29
HR Moseley            c Rice             b Richards            14
DR Gurr               not out                                   1
Extras                (b 1, lb 4)                               5
Total                 (all out, 128.1 overs)                  215

FoW: 1-10, 2-79, 3-79, 4-90, 5-144,
     6-147, 7-167, 8-168, 9-202, 10-215.

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Rice                         8.1    2     21      1
Jesty                        5      2      4      0
Cowley                      24      9     33      1
Southern                    47     18     79      5
Sainsbury                   18      9     18      0
Richards                    23      9     50      2
Murtagh                      3      1      5      0

Hampshire 2nd innings (target: 221 runs)
BA Richards           c Denning          b Gurr                 4
P Barrett             lbw                b Breakwell           26
DR Turner             c Close            b Breakwell           55
TE Jesty              run out                                  50
*RMC Gilliat          c Rose             b Marks               15
AJ Murtagh            c Botham           b Breakwell            4
PJ Sainsbury          lbw                b Breakwell            6
NG Cowley                                b Marks                4
JM Rice               c Taylor           b Marks               11
+GR Stephenson        not out                                  10
JW Southern           lbw                b Moseley              4
Extras                (b 5, lb 8, w 2)                         15
Total                 (all out, 71.2 overs)                   204

FoW: 1-4, 2-89, 3-92, 4-133, 5-141,
     6-149, 7-164, 8-182, 9-192, 10-204.

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Moseley                      3.2    0     16      1
Gurr                         4      1     14      1
Botham                       2      0     10      0
Burgess                      3      1     11      0
Breakwell                   25      6     57      4
Close                        9      1     23      0
Marks                       25      9     58      3

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