Manav Suthar takes seven wickets as Warwickshire thrash Hampshire by innings and 129 runs

India spinner Manav Suthar took seven wickets as Warwickshire defeated Hampshire by an innings and 129 runs in the County Championship. Yuzvendra Chahal claimed nine wickets for Northamptonshire in another game, while Auqib Nabi made an impressive Surrey debut

Southampton: India’s newest spin-bowling star Manav Suthar picked up a match haul of seven wickets as Warwickshire defeated Hampshire by an innings and 129 runs in a Division One away game of the English County Championship.

Having picked up 11 wickets in his first two games for the Birmingham-based county club before leaving for national duty in Sri Lanka, the left-arm orthodox spinner started from where he had left off, claiming 7/94 from a total of 38.3 overs across Hampshire’s two innings.

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Batting first, Warwickshire scored 398 and then bowled out Hampshire for 115 and 154 inside three days. The match ended late on Friday evening, India time.

Suthar had figures of 3/42 in 15 overs in the first innings and followed it up with 4/52 in 23.3 overs in the second innings.

Of his seven dismissals, one batter was bowled, two were leg-before-wicket and one was stumped, signalling his dominance over the Hampshire batting unit.

Quiet debut for Auqib Nabi

In another match at The Oval in London, Surrey beat Yorkshire by one wicket, with Jammu and Kashmir pacer Auqib Nabi picking up a wicket in each innings in a winning cause. His maiden county wicket was India Test teammate Kuldeep Yadav.

Towards the end of the chase, he also hit a six to bring Surrey closer to the target.

Yuzvendra Chahal picks up nine in losing cause

Out of contention for a national recall, Yuzvendra Chahal picked up nine wickets for Northamptonshire, including a five-wicket haul in the second innings, but Durham produced a clinical bowling performance to win the Division Two game by 153 runs despite conceding a first-innings lead.

Durham scored 205 and 261 in their two innings, while Northants, after scoring 263 in their first innings, were bowled out for 50 in the second essay in pursuit of 204.

However, it was a good match for the 36-year-old leg-spinner Chahal, who took 4/36 in the first innings and 5/84 in the second. His leg-break that went through the gates of former England skipper Ben Stokes was a beauty.

Chahal has so far picked up 14 wickets in three first-class games and another 15 in seven Royal London Cup games (List A).

In the same match, Mayank Agarwal, who turned up for Durham for the first time, scored 36 and 48. His second-innings 48 came in an 89-run stand with Stokes.