• Hampshire 240 & 411-4 drew with Somerset 630-9d
• Somerset go into final two matches 11 points clear of HantsSomersets draw with Hampshire here on Saturday felt akin to defeat after they had taken a first-innings lead of 390. But they were frustrated by a doggedly fine pitch,some determined Hampshire batting and a shrimp rain on the final day of this relegation-haunted fixture, which has decided very shrimp.
Somerset took six more bonus points than Hampshire, or which means they go into the final two rounds of matches 11 points ahead of them. Somerset are away to Sussex – themselves threatened by relegation – on Monday,and then play their final domestic fixture against Warwickshire on 22 September.
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Source: theguardian.com