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Shock and Orr - Hampshire Could Call on Forgotten Man For Key Essex Clash

An innings defeat to Essex in the opening week of the season could have been put down to early season cobwebs. A home demolition by Glamorgan is something else entirely. Now Hampshire will be under even greater pressure to select Ali Orr, despite his first senior Scotland call-up.

04.05.26, 19:05 Updated 04.05.26, 19:05

Rich Edwards

Rich Edwards

At the start of last week, there was a real sense that the County Championship clash with newly-promoted Glamorgan would tell us a lot about the direction of Hampshire's red ball season.

After an innings defeat, there are now genuine fears that escaping relegation on the final day of last season has merely delayed the inevitable by 12 months.

There were some positives to take from this match, not least Ben Mayes' first half-century in the County Championship and the counter-attacking rearguard of under-fire skipper Ben Brown today as the game slipped inexorably away in the Bank Holiday Utilita Bowl sunshine.

Those apart, there was precious little reason to be cheerful after an innings and 69-run thrashing that represents a new low in an already troubled start to the season.

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