Championship Rewind: Warwickshire v Hampshire, 1998

Championship Rewind: Warwickshire v Essex, 2003

When Hampshire visited Edgbaston in July 1998, they faced a Warwickshire side which included England's latest Test debutant.

Two weeks earlier, Ashley Giles had made his bow at the highest level against South Africa at Old Trafford. A distinguished Test career which was to bring 143 wickets, 1,421 runs, Ashes glory and a niche in history as the only bowler ever to have the great Sachin Tendulkar stumped in Test cricket was underway.

During three breezy days in Birmingham, Hampshire were well and truly turned over by the all-round talents of England's latest Test all-rounder.

It was proving an unhappy season for Warwickshire. Brian Lara's return and his appointment as captain in particular was proving to be the mistake that a significant minority of members had feared it would be. Hampshire were the fourth championship visitors of the season to Edgbaston and the Bears were still to win at home. A draw with Durham was followed by defeats to Nottinghamshire and Lancashire.

The bad run ended, thanks largely to Giles, though he had to dig the Bears out of another big hole on the opening day.

After choosing to bat, Warwickshire were soon 18 for three and, when Lara fell for a brisk 35, it was 63 for four. Dougie Brown hit a typically defiant 51 but at 184 for seven they were still coming in way short.

Number nine Neil Smith started the fightback with an aggressive 51 on which Giles, at number ten, built with a muscular 75 (88 balls, 13 fours). Most impressively, Giles managed to add 76 with last man Ed Giddins, a true rabbit, who made 11.

Having lifted the Bears to 367, Giles then got busy with his left arm spin. After Brown dismissed both openers for a combined five runs, Giles exploited a wearing pitch to take five for 48 and restrict Hampshire to 249, a deficit of 118.

By the third day, when the visitors set out in pursuit of a victory target of 306, the pitch was offering Giles plenty of assistance and he eviscerated the chase with 6.2-4-9-4. Hampshire were skittled all out for 80 and beaten by 225 runs.

Giles finished the match with 83 runs and match figures of 28.2-12-57-9, further evidence that here was one of the most under-rated but effective all-rounders of his generation.