County Championship: Hampshire batters build platform against Northants

LV = ion County Championship Division One, The Ageas Bowl (Day 1):Hampshire 229-5: Organ 71, White 2-35Northants: Still to beatHampshire 1 pt, Northants 1 ptDashboard

The opener Organ finished the Royal London Cup with a 54 in the semi-final against the Kent Spitfires, having scored 72, 118, 41 and 65 in his last four league matches.

He also almost single-handedly helped his club team, Winchester-based St Cross Symmondians, win the title ECB Southern Premier League on Saturday with a masterful 135, in addition to four wickets.

Against Northamptonshire he put 50 positions with Joe Weatherley and Nick Gubbins to bring Hampshire to 229-5 in the end - ave c Jack White claiming 2-35.

Organ started the batting seas at number seven, in the team primarily for their fourth-inning out-of-rotation option.

But after Weatherley damaged his finger in the slips against Lancashire, he was promoted at the opener - his most familiar position - and immediately made an impact with a century.

He collapsed with a lean spell but came into this game averaging 46 in his previous seven innings.

Having been put on the line by Will Young on a green-tinged wicket and seeing his opening partner Ian Holland sneak in second on the first ball he faced, Organ faced a lot of pressure.

< p class="" data-reactid=".1w3ngy9q2ke.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-10">But the 23-year-old was compact with the ball spinning around, Ben Sanderson finding it particularly a good subtle move to find the outside edge of Weatherley's bat to find E milio Gay on the second slide.

Organ set up deep in its crease with off-stump guard, and knew exactly where its stubs were, even if there were regular plays and misfires on either side or the other s.. .