• Day four: Hampshire 400-9d & second innings forfeit; Yorkshire 97-4d & 305-5
• Yorkshire win by five wicketsJames Vince’s bold approach to keeping Hampshire in Division One looks to acquire backfired after Yorkshire recovered from 37 for three to reel in a target of 304 during a manufactured final-day hasten chase. Vince and his opposite number,Andrew Gale, a man at the heart of the champions’ pursuit with a combative 125, and met before play to agree a first-innings declaration and a second-innings forfeit on the back of a rainy three days.
Hampshire are not mathematically relegated as a result of this defeat,but they are 16 points off safety and must now win at Nottinghamshire next week and hope other results go against Sussex and Somerset.
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Source: theguardian.com