da realsbet： Derbyshire’s decision to put Hampshire into bat backfired as Derek Kenway and Will Kendall hit half-centuries before lunch on the first day
Nigel Gardner25-May-2001Derbyshire’s decision to put Hampshire into batbackfired as Derek Kenway and Will Kendall hit half-centuries.Despite including two spinners, the home side chose tobowl first and although Graeme Welch made an earlybreakthrough, the rest of the morning was dominated bythe batsmen.Perhaps early cloud cover influenced Tim Munton, butthere was little sign of any swing as Kenway andKendall shared an unbroken century stand.Giles White was the only Hampshire casualty when hetried to leave a ball from Welch but deflected it intohis stumps in the third over.That was Derbyshire’s last success of the session asthey paid the price for bowling too wide, allowing thebatsmen to drive and cut.Kenway was first to his 50 which came from 89 ballsalthough he survived a dropped catch on 51 when KarlKrikkken failed to hang onto an edge off seamer TomLungley diving low to his right.Kendall reached his half-century in the last over ofthe morning and at lunch, Hampshire were 116-1 from 32overs.