County Championship: Northamptonshire were eliminated for 56 against Hampshire

LV= County Championship Division One , Ageas Bowl (day two) Hampshire 367: Vince 95, Dawson 63; White 4-80Northamptonshire 56: Zaib 29; Barker 4-13 & 50-2: Whiteman 25*Northamptonshire Trail (3 pts ) Hampshire (6 pts) by 261 runs 4-13 in its 12 overs, while Mohammad Abbas and Ian Holland grabbed two wickets each.

Only Saif Zaib managed to reach double figures - scoring 29 - with four of his team-mates falling in love as they went one point short of Hampshire's 57 against Kent on the pitch last season.

This meant that they had given up a 311-point deficit in the first inning, after that Hampshire had been knocked out earlier for 367, with the fence seeing two more wickets fall - the score 50-2 with Hampshire's lead now 261.

Northamptonshire exceeded many expectations with their sixth-place finish in the Championship last season - with Luke Procter, Emilio Gay and Rob Keogh all scoring over 800 points.

So so far this year there's only been one batting run in five games and totals of 72, 63 and now 56.

They are also the only team to not have done 300 races yet this season - although this is mitigated somewhat by the fact that Gay and Procter have missed games through injury.

Unsurprisingly, this modest batting record only translated into one victory.

Their attempts at improvement which began horribly when Hassan Azad was grilled by Gay and ran away without facing a ball in the first over - Mason Crane's brilliant direct hit at the poi...