Bears’ run ends

• 21/05/2010
• First XI

The Hampshire Royals brought the Bears' unbeaten run in the Clydesdale Bank 40 competition to an end, when winning by 130 runs at Edgbaston

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The Hampshire Royals blasted the Bears’ attack around the ground in the Clydesdale Bank 40 competition, after winning the toss and batting, with both Michael Carberry and Jimmy Adams scoring centuries in the Edgbaston sun.
Michael Lumb 5, went cheaply, to Boyd Rankin, but the arrival of Carberry signalled an avalanche of runs off the Bears’ bowlers as Ian Westwood rang the changes looking to break up a partnership that threatened early on to register a massive total for the visitors.
When eventually Keith Barker dismissed Carberry for a superb century, the Royals were 173-2 in only the twenty second over and the runs kept coming as Ervine 48 and Adams added eighty six for the third wicket in ten overs.
Adams became the second centurion for the Royals, finishing with one hundred and thirty one before being bowled by Rankin with just two deliveries left in the innings as Hampshire totalled a huge 341-6 from their forty overs.
Facing a target twenty three runs greater than any total ever made by the Bears in forty over cricket, Carter and Trott started brightly at seven an over, before Carter 20, fell to Wood.
Bell 41 clipped a ball from Ervine straight to Carberry at short fine-leg and when Troughton and Maddy followed quickly, the Bears were 133-4 in the nineteenth over.
Trott completed another half-century, but with his side becoming increasingly dependent on his runs, he found Lumb in the deep for a solid sixty.
Clarke, Ambrose and Imran all went within twenty balls of one another as Ervine collected a fourth wicket and only a late flurry by last pair, Barker and Rankin, took the Bears to 211 when Rankin became Wood’s third victim in the thirty second over.
The Bears lost by 130 runs and with it their first match in the season’s competition.