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County Championship: Hampshire relegation fears increase as Surrey close on win

Hampshire sat on the brink of County Championship relegation after Surrey leg-spinner Rahul Chahar ploughed through them at the Utilita Bowl.

India spinner Chahar, in his first Championship appearance, made the most of a turning pitch to take 7-45 and see Hampshire collapse from 61 without loss to 148-9.

The south coast county need to avoid defeat to guarantee staying in Division One next season, but they struggled in their chase of 181.

Bad light stopped play at 16:35 BST, to leave them on tenterhooks overnight, with 33 runs still needed – and CricViz offering a 14 % chance of Hampshire managing it.

Surrey began the day with four wickets in hand, but Hampshire bumbled their way through the morning – setting up a wretched day – taking 23 overs and giving up 56 runs in the process.

It began fine, when Ali Orr pulled off a spectacular one-handed catch over his shoulder to see off Tom Lawes in the fifth over of the day.

The wicket also handed Kyle Abbott his fourth five-wicket haul of the season, and took his tally to 56 scalps, beating last season’s tally of 55.

Ralphie Albert reached 63 before hooking to long leg, but Matt Fisher scrapped and frustrated the hosts with Chahar and James Taylor.

Fisher safely batted for almost an hour and a half for 22 not out, with Chahar hanging around for half an hour before swiping to the leg side boundary rider, and Taylor blocked for 45 balls before James Fuller finally found an outside edge.

Hampshire had been a bowler light, after Washington Sundar split the webbing in his hand fielding a ball off his own bowling the previous evening, and were facing a tough chase.

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Keith Barker: Hampshire all-rounder on his ‘tough year’ following ban

Following the completion of his 12-month-ban, Barker has been able to make two appearances for Hampshire to close out the season.

After playing for Hampshire’s second side, Barker returned to the first-team once more for County Championship contests against Sussex and Somerset.

“Not being able to be around my team-mates and train properly was hard,” Barker added

“Luckily I had my family there to support me but its then been great to get back into training recently and play some games for Hampshire.”

The all-rounder will now return to Warwickshire where he spent 10 seasons between 2009 and 2018 – taking 357 wickets and scoring six first-class centuries.

He also helped the club win the County Championship title in 2012.

During his time at Hampshire, Barker took 179 first-class wickets at an average of 24.

“If someone had said to me that I’d done better with my stats, especially at the back end of my career then I’d have taken it,” he added.

“I’m really happy with how it’s gone but I couldn’t have done that without my team-mates, without them it wouldn’t have been possible.

“Things don’t always go to plan but I’m grateful that I’ve been able to play and represent Hampshire again these last few weeks.”

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County Championship: Hampshire boost survival hopes as Surrey’s title chances fade

Surrey were rolled out for 147 to all but snuff out their County Championship title-winning hopes, as Hampshire boosted their chance of remaining in Division One.

The defending champions went into the last round 14 points behind Nottinghamshire – who they lost to last week – but after they collapsed, their hopes of a fourth successive crown dwindled further.

Kyle Abbott led the rout with 3-27 – taking his 50th Championship scalp of the season in the process – with James Fuller and Washington Sundar also picking up three-wicket hauls.

Hampshire had eased themselves into a first-innings lead, picking up three vital bonus points in their fight for safety.

Surrey chose to bat first and gave 17-year-old Ralphie Albert his first-class debut. The all-rounder was not even born when Hampshire’s Liam Dawson made his professional bow.

Surrey were massively depleted with Gus Atkinson, Ollie Pope, Jamie Smith, Sam Curran, Will Jacks, Tom Curran, Jordan Clark and Cam Steel all unavailable, but even still their display was surprising.

Dom Sibley had already been dropped at second slip before he was lbw to Abbott, before the South African drew a loose drive out of Ryan Patel to celebrate his 50th wicket of the season.

It is the sixth Championship campaign that Abbott has reached the landmark, and would later add number 51 when he bowled Albert.

Fuller also grabbed three wickets to gut the rest of the top order, as Rory Burns wafted to a juggling Sundar at first slip before bowling Ben Foakes with a nip backer and found Dan Lawrence skying an attempted pull – the latter walked before the ball was caught having scrapped hard for his innings-high 36.

The back end of the innings saw wickets fall to spin. India international Sundar was particularly wily in his 20 balls, in which he only conceded five runs while taking three wickets.

Ollie Sykes went back to one that skidded into his stumps, Matt Fisher was undone by a stunner that cannoned across him and into off stump, while compatriot Rahul Chahar guided to first slip. In the middle of it, Tom Lawes was caught and bowled by Dawson.

Surrey were bowled out for 147 inside 44 overs – their lowest total of the season at the least opportune moment as the title slipped away from them.

The pitch had offered a fair amount of movement, but not excessive, and wickets were mostly down to batting errors and high-quality bowling rather than the elements.

Hampshire further suggested a poor pitch wasn’t to blame as Ali Orr glided through the opening overs.

He smashed 18 of the second over of the innings alone and by the fifth over had already secured a partnership higher than anything Surrey had managed in their innings – their best being the 32 between Lawrence and Sykes.

Orr’s fast start was undone by a careless swing down leg side but Fletcha Middleton and Nick Gubbins put on 50 to set the sort of foundation that the visitors could not lay.

Both the bowled Gubbins and leg-before Middleton fell to Lawrence – who ended the day with 2-12 after an exceptional nine-over spell of off spin.

But Hampshire avoided any serious wobble as Toby Albert and Ben Brown stayed cautiously positive to take them to close with a lead – despite 13 wickets falling on the opening day.

Match report supplied by ECB Reporters’ Network, supported by Rothesay

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NASCAR Playoffs Bracket 2025 Point Standings After New Hampshire Round of 12 Results

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Ryan Blaney booked the first spot in the quarterfinals of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs on Sunday.

The driver of the No. 12 car captured a win at New Hampshire Motor Speedway to advance from the round-of-12 to the round-of-8.

Blaney beat out Josh Berry in a race dominated by Team Penske. Blaney won the race and his teammate Joey Logano led the most laps.

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Blaney ensured that the next two races will be as stress free as possible for the No. 12 team.

Blaney passed Berry late in the race and held off the push from the No. 21 car to the checkered flag.

The No. 12 car driver is locked into the round-of-8, while the other 11 playoff participants have to fight over the next two races to solidify their spots.

William Byron is in the best spot from a points perspective to advance. He is 47 points above the cut line.

Byron could be in a position to clinch a round-of-8 spot on points sooner rather than later if he replicates the second-place performance he had at Kansas last fall.

Chase Briscoe is in eighth with a 12-point advantage over Ross Chastain on the cut line. Chastain, Austin Cindric, Tyler Reddick and Bubba Wallace all have work to do at Kansas and the Charlotte Roval to make the top eight.

Chastain, Reddick and Wallace are the last three winners of the playoff race at Kansas.

None of the four drivers beneath the cut line finished inside the top 10 at Kansas back in May.

Kyle Larson won that race at Kansas. A win, or a high finish, for the No. 5 car at Kansas this time around would be great for Larson’s round-of-8 status.

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