HAMPSHIRE hit back from last week’s thrashing by Nottinghamshire in emphatic style with an 89-run County Championship win over Warwickshire inside three days at Edgbaston.

Set a target of 310, Warwickshire were all out for 220, unpicked by seamers James Fuller (five for 56) and Kyle Abbott (three for 44 - eight for 91 in the match).

Alex Davies (66, 106 balls) and Ethan Bamber (43, 78) offered some resistance but the rest were blown away by a Hampshire side resurgent after their surrender at Trent Bridge.

Hampshire captain Ben Brown said: "We were really hurting after last week and the nature of this division is that you come up against another strong side next, as we did in Warwickshire, so to have that challenge staring you down and to have performed like this, I am really proud of the lads.

"It's not easy when you get beaten like we did last week to pick yourselves up and we did that brilliantly. To get 300 in the first innings was a really good score. The wicket was absolutely brilliant, credit to the groundsman, the pace and carry for the whole game was fantastic so to get 300 in that first innings was fantastic.

"Then Abbo with the ball, he just can't keep out of the game at the moment. It was another top performance from him as it was from James Fuller today. Fletch batted brilliantly - to get 70 in the second innings in the context of the game was brilliant and Toby Albert chipping in as well. There were really good performances throughout.

"They are a good side so it was never going to be easy to beat them but we felt relatively confident today with a 300 run chase. It was a pitch that you could definitely bat on but the best bowlers could also get something out of it."

Hampshire’s second innings had closed in the morning on 203. Beau Webster took four for 57 and Bamber four for 60 but the match was decided by the visitors outbowling their hosts on a pitch which offered encouragement to seamers throughout. 

After Hampshire resumed on 159 for six, already 275 ahead, Bamber quickly struck twice when Brad Wheal edged to second slip and Fuller’s middle-stump was sent flying.

Abbott pulled Bamber for six in a handy run-a-ball stand of 32 with Toby Albert (43, 85) before Webster had Albert and John Turner caught behind in three balls.

Warwickshire were 10 for two after three overs chasing 310, after Abbott hit Rob Yates’ off stump, Davies struck his first two balls for four and Tom Latham edged Abbott to wicketkeeper Brown.  

Unfazed by the rocky start, Davies and Sam Hain added 68 in 24 overs before offered no shot to an Abbott in-ducker and was lbw. Davies reached a 66-ball half-century but was among the casualties as Fuller ripped out three for three in 12 balls.

At 126 for six, Warwickshire needed something special from their lower order and it was understandably beyond them. Zen Malik hoisted Turner to fine leg. Bamber and Che Simmons fought hard to add 43 in 17 overs before Fuller returned to complete his five-for by removing both.

Bamber edged behind, Simmons lofted to long leg and when Turner flattened Olly Hannon-Dalby’s off-stump, Hampshire's reassertion of their qualities was complete.