Dom Kelly Leads Hampshire to Resounding Victory Over Derbyshire In The One-Day Cup 2024
Dom Kelly’s Five-for and Hat-Trick Propel Hampshire to a Commanding Win over Derbyshire in the ongoing One-Day Cup 2024.
In the Metro Bank One Day Cup, Dominic Kelly led Hampshire to a decisive 143-run victory over Derbyshire by taking his first professional five-wicket haul and his first List A hat-trick since 1981.
England Under-19 quickly scores a hat-trick after Nick Gubbins and Joe Weatherley set up a significant Hants total.
Derbyshire 152 (Guest 44, Kelly 5-19) lost to Hampshire 295 for 8 (Weatherley 93, Gubbins 62) by a margin of 143 runs.
Zak Chappell, Harry Moore, and Daryl Dupavillon were all removed by 18-year-old Kelly, making him the third player in Hampshire history to achieve a treble, following John Rice against Northamptonshire in 1975 and Malcolm Marshall against Surrey.
Together with Nick Gubbins’ 27th format fifty, Joe Weatherley had opened the scoring with an impressive 93, setting Hampshire up for 295 runs. Before Kelly’s valiant efforts, Derbyshire was unable to match Brooke Guest’s 44 in the reply.
Hampshire, the losing finalist from the previous year, finishes the Utilita Bowl with a perfect record and only one loss, good enough for a spot in the elimination round. This was Derbyshire’s second defeat.
In their first visit to Utilita Bowl in ten years, Derbyshire won the toss and elected to bowl first. They bowled with remarkable accuracy, restricting Hampshire to 32 runs in the opening ten overs.
In the One Day Cup, Hampshire’s top-order batting had not performed well thus far, but all three of them stole the show with a patient performance that set the stage for a second-half innings-long run-chase.
Together with Weatherley, Fletcha Middleton scored 30 of the first 44 runs, but Daryn Dupavillon took his first three wickets with a steepling top-edge.
However, that breakthrough merely marked the start of a foundation-setting stand of 113 between Weatherley and Nick Gubbins, one that was always within control even if it frequently seemed far from the par of 280.
Although Weatherley signed a contract with the Brave during The Hundred, he has been permitted to play for Hampshire because of a lack of playing time. He exploited his sabbatical to amass runs after only one innings against Lancashire last year, scoring 100 and 40 in those two innings.
His innings demonstrated a mastery of smoothly transitioning between gears; he reached his seventh List A fifty in 88 balls, and then he began to play more regular shots, reaching 93.
The slow start was picking up steam as Gubbins scored a half-century off of 59 balls, seemingly only ticking the runs total upwards. Runs had to accompany every wicket that fell on the platform. Dupavillon bowled Gubbins with a beautiful dipping yorker, and Tom Prest then cut to backward point.
As he attempted a third run, Weatherley was thrown out, ending his hundred-run chase, but Ben Brown entered the game and hammered home 31 off 22 balls.
Dom Kelly clipped to mid off, Felix Organ was leg before wicket on the opening ball, Toby Albert holed out to the last ball of the session, and Brown concluded his stay with a slog sweep to deep square. With 85 runs coming off the last 10 overs, Hampshire reached their highest List A total against Derbyshire.
Table-setters Derbyshire never really got going with their reply, particularly after it was decided that Luis Reece had been caught behind the third ball.
Before Anuj Dal was bowled by Kelly’s pace, Brad Wheal was caught off guard by David Lloyd, and Matt Lamb required a runner to be caught off a top edge.
But Brooke Guest had remarkable timing when it came to back-to-back offside sixes off Felix Organ. However, a running mix-up with Samit Patel put an end to his promise of dominating the run chase, as Ross Whiteley swiftly found deep square leg.
Then, with Chappell soaring far into the air, Moore castled, and Dupavillon leg before (after Sam Connors had fallen in the interim), the stage was set for Kelly to put an end to the 43-year itching.
