Oh no, not him again...

Hot weather, a good batting strip and Notts lost the toss again.

It was to be a long hard slog.

There were a few edges early on -

especially for Ryan Sidebottom

but, apart from one chance dropped by Jason Gallian, none of them went to hand until Michael Carberry, one short of his half-century, edged one to Chris Read.

In the end it was Notts' only success.

The biggest cheer of the day came when it was announced over the tannoy that Geraint Jones had only scored eighteen in the Test Match - on his 30th birthday as well. (According to Wikipedia it was Spongebob Squarepants' 'birthday' today too - I wonder if Duncan Fletcher has him ahead of Chris Read in the pecking order for the England wicket-keeping job as well?)

The Notts' bowlers stuck to their task though, and the batsmen never really cut loose

But 303-1 is a commanding position for Hampshire to be in and Notts will need to do better tomorrow - I wouldn't like to see Hampshire reach 600-2! However, with John Crawley at the crease there's no end in sight. He has scored two unbeaten triple centuries against Notts in the last two years: 301no here two years ago, and 311no last September at Southampton - where he also scored another two hundreds (106 & 116) against Notts last month.

Hampshire 303-1 (Adams 123no, Carberry 49, Crawley 106no)