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Good morning and welcome to The Oval. Hampshire have arrived for a rogue one-off match, out of step with the rest of the Championship, which restarts properly on Friday, and tickled into place because of fixture congestion.
The two teams play keepy-uppy at opposite ends of the ground, the groundstaff hammer a pitch and brush dust into a wheelbarrow and someone bats in the nets to a coach with a dog thrower.
There aren’t many people here yet, lots on the train were obviously on their way to Lord’s, where the weather, as here, looks better today. I don’t think we’ve done a one-off game since the Bob Willis Trophy Finals of 2020 and 2021, so I’ll try and dig around for interesting stories on top of the cricket – do point some my way.
Play starts at 11am, there are plenty of chairs on the patio.
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