India batter Tilak Varma continued his excellent start to the County Championship with a second century for Hampshire on Thursday (July 24).
Hampshire played host to Nottinghamshire at the Rose Bowl in the latest round of the County Championship, as the league resumed following a break for the T20 Blast.
Home skipper Ben Brown chose to field first after winning the toss, and day one (July 22) saw Notts make it to 241-5 thanks to Freddie McCann (79) and Jack Haynes (70*). Haynes went past a century on day two, and a mammoth 203*, as well as 71 from No.9 Brett Hutton helped Notts declare at 578-8. Hampshire reached 80-0 by the end of day two.
Both openers, Joe Weatherley and Fletcha Middleton, were dismissed for 52 within four overs of each other, the latter bringing Tilak Varma to the crease.
Match 82, Hampshire vs Nottinghamshire
vs
- Ball by ball Over
Tilak Varma scores second century in four innings for Hampshire
Varma put together stands of 42 and 20 with Nick Gubbins and Tom Prest respectively, before somewhat stabilising the innings alongside captain Brown. He went past a half-century in the process, his third fifty-plus score in four innings for Hampshire after knocks of 100, 56 and 47 before this game.
When Brown departed, Hampshire were 231-5 but Felix Organ stuck around with Varma. The India international reached his second century for the club in the evening session, tucking Pakistan pacer Mohammad Abbas into the leg side for a single.
This was his seventh hundred in first-class cricket, to go with five half-centuries. By now a regular in the IPL and for the India T20 side, Varma set a new world record last November, becoming the first player to score three consecutive centuries in T20 cricket.
Image credit: Instagram / @hantscricket
