![]() ![]() This would give the stitch in stitched up like a kipper the double meaning of both being confined by being sewn in and at the same time having been tricked. The four overs after the break were explosive, Carberry and Benham cracking 47 runs, and though Benham and then Nic Pothas were to run themselves out, Carberry found a solid partner in Dimitri Mascarenhas to see Hampshire home for a remarkable victory. to stitch someone up means to betray a person by fabricating evidence against them to manipulate a situation to ones advantage. He lost John Crawley, picked up low down by Jon Trott at short midwicket off Maddy, and Michael Lumb, caught bat-pad off Harris, but together with Chris Benham saw Hampshire through to tea needing 168 off 34 overs. Carberry hung on in there, often beaten, repeatedly squirting the ball down to third man, playing the left-arm spinner Paul Harris off the back foot, but just occasionally connecting with a thumping drive. With the sun finally shining and the wicket already beginning to play more truly, it was a critical passage of play. ![]() Brown only went on to score 10 before being bowled by a Jimmy Anyon yorker, but he was 12 overs in doing so, going some way towards taking the shine off the new ball in the process. Michael Brown had yet to get off the mark when he drove at Streak and edged straight to second slip, where Maddy could not hold on to a low chance. Things began to go wrong early for Maddy. ![]() Having taken 183 balls to get to three figures, Carberry took only 32 more to go to 150, and though he slowed thereafter, hampered by a tight hamstring and exhaustion, had reached a career-best 192 not out when Tim Groenewald's beamer was called a no-ball to give Hampshire victory. Having reached the landmark shortly after tea, he suddenly looked like a different player, unveiling a series of flowing drives, cuts and pulls as Hampshire accelerated towards their target. The batsman should have been run out on his way to three figures and seemed to use the edge of his bat more than the middle. Michael Carberry did it for him, the likeable opener first battling his way past one hundred. Warne, sitting up on the balcony, did not even have to bat. ![]()
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