LV COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP DIVISION ONE, Riverside:
CLOSE OF PLAY, DAY ONE: Hampshire 298-8 v Durham
Hants 2pts, Durham 2pts
Match scorecard

Carberry made his England debut on the tour of Bangladesh

England opener Michael Carberry hit 113 but then saw his Hampshire team-mates collapse as Durham fought back on day one at the Riverside.

Carberry and opening partner Jimmy Adams (68) shared 183 for the first wicket after Hampshire chose to bat.

But after then progressing to 244-2, they lost six wickets for 40 before closing on 298-8.

England winter tourist Liam Plunkett (3-85) was Hampshire's chief tormenter in a hostile third spell.

After starting poorly, his ability to extract some life from a placid pitch helped turn the game after Carberry and fellow left-hander Adams had looked completely at ease in a partnership that just fell short of the 191 they shared at the same ground in 2006.

Without injured England pacemen Graham Onions and Steve Harmison the Durham attack struggled and spinner Ian Blackwell was on as early as the 22nd over.

It needed some beginner's luck to make the breakthrough, England Under-19 all-rounder Ben Stokes having Carberry, whose century came off 140 balls with 15 fours and a six, caught low down by Plunkett at backward point off his first ball.

Plunkett then had Adams caught by wicketkeeper Phil Mustard off an inside edge, before Blackwell sparked the collapse when he had Neil McKenzie caught at slip and trapped Chris Benham leg before.

James Vince got an inside edge on to his own stumps to give Plunkett a second wicket, before he had Sean Ervine caught behind after dropping him at gully off Mitch Claydon.

The score was then 284-6, and soon became 284-8 as Claydon trapped both Nic Pothas and James Tomlinson leg before.

BBC Newcastle's Martin Emmerson reflects on the day's action:
"Hampshire will be kicking themselves that they haven't gone on to make big runs here. Durham endured 108 overs against Essex without a wicket last week and they must have been thinking back to that spell as Michael Carberry and Jimmy Adams piled on the runs.

"They put on 183 for the opening wicket, adding 105 before lunch alone. But when Carberry chopped Ben Stokes' first ball of the day to Liam Plunkett at point things began to change. He left for 113, with him and Adams just eight runs short of their best opening stand against Durham from four years ago.

"And when one man fell, so another followed. Adams went three overs later for 68 as Durham's bowlers eventually made belated in-roads. Other than a partnership of 55 from former Durham man Neil McKenzie and Chris Benham, the visitors lost wickets in spurts, three of the latter partnerships failed to yield a run.

"So after a day in which Durham lost the toss and couldn't get a wicket in the first 50 overs, things didn't look too bad at the close for the home team as Hampshire were reduced to 298-8, losing six wickets in the space of 40 runs in the final session of the day."

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