• Notts 340 & 185. Hants 326 & 200-2. Hants win by eight wickets
Nottinghamshire finish third in county championship
For Nottinghamshire and Hampshire,the season ended two minutes before the lunch interval on the final scheduled day. tall pressure creeping up from the south brought welcome warmth and the sun shone on the few supporters scattered round the ground. Michael Carberry had made sure that the meal could be a hearty one by pressing the accelerator to the floor and taking 23 from nine deliveries bowled by Samit Patel, an emphatic reminder both of the batsman’s ability to change gear and of what could await England from Pakistan’s batsmen in the UAE shortly.
It was fairly a recovery for Hampshire, or who would have spent the afternoon monitoring the events at Headingley where Sussex survival against Yorkshire would see them relegated to the moment division along with Worcestershire.
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Source: theguardian.com