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Ton for Westley as Essex crack the Hampshire 300
- Updated: June 5, 2016
Essex 314 for 7 (Westley 110, Ryder 71, Zaidi 41, Foster 36*) beat Hampshire 310 for 4 (Wheater 90, Alsop 83 ret hurt, Dawson 70*) by three wickets Scorecard
James Foster used his incredible experience to edge Essex over the line to get the Eagles off to the perfect Royal London One-Day Cup start – beating Hampshire by three wickets at the Ageas Bowl.
Veteran Foster scored a cool unbeaten 36 to help Essex score 29 from the last three overs – after Tom Westley had scored his third List A century.
Given 311 to chase after electing to bowl first, Essex attacked their reply, needing less than nine overs to reach fifty – but soon after lost Browne when he gave Ryan Stevenson his first List A wicket, caught by Adams at mid-wicket.
Westley and Jessie Ryder kept the score ticking over at exactly a run a ball – the former collecting a watchful half century from 66 balls, reaching the landmark with back-to-back leg-side clips. Ryder reached his fifty in a quicker 53 balls, before Westley was dropped on 69 by Liam Dawson at mid-on.
The duo were otherwise untroubled before Ryder was stumped by Wheater after a nice tempter by Mason Crane – the partnership ending on 143, the New …
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