Hampshire win thriller

Twenty20 Cup, South Division. The Rose Bowl: Hampshire 153 all out beat Sussex 148-7 by five runs

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The televised game proved to a real thriller on the opening night of Twenty20 cricket.

In a match of see-sawing fortunes, Sussex did well to reduce the required equation to 10 runs needed off the last over with four wickets in hand.

But Ed Giddins proved equal to the task, bowling surprise dangerman Mushtaq Ahmed in the middle of the over to leave the excellent Tim Ambrose (54 not out) with a little too much to do.

I feel like I've just bowled 44 overs, not four. I was just aiming for the base of the stumps Ed Giddins

Hampshire were bowled out on the fourth ball of their last over when James Kirtley clean bowled Giddins.

But the Sussex bowling star was Mark Davis. His three overs, all bowled at the death, cost just 13 runs and he took three wickets.

Hampshire managed to get 66 without losing a wicket as James Hamblin and Derek Kenway started brightly, but little else of note followed in their batting.

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Hampshire: JRC Hamblin, DA Kenway, SM Katich, *JP Crawley, WS Kendall, +N Pothas, AD Mascarenhas, Wasim Akram, SD Udal, AD Mullally, ESH Giddins.

Sussex: JD Lewry, *CJ Adams, MW Goodwin, +TR Ambrose, RSC Martin-Jenkins, MJ Prior, KJ Innes, B Zuiderent, MJG Davis, Mushtaq Ahmed, RJ Kirtley.