Teenage Crane claims Hampshire record

Mason Crane bamboozled Warwickshire to become the youngest Hampshire player to take a LV= County Championship five-wicket haul on day two at the Ageas Bowl.

Leg-spinner Crane, who is 18 and 171 days, beat Alex Kennedy’s 106-year record by 21 days as he posted figures of 5-35.

He shared the Hampshire wickets with West Indian Fidel Edwards who also returned a five-wicket haul with marginally better figures of 5-32.

It was not all plain sailing for Crane as he dropped a basic chance at mid-on to give Laurie Evans a life – off Jackson Bird, who was bitterly unlucky to go wicketless.

The 18-year-old Crane began his wicket-taking spell by bowling Warwickshire captain Varun Chopra with a well-disguised googly.

Then four balls later Crane added another former Test star to his scalp list – his first professional wicket was Kumar Sangakkara – as Jonathan Trott scored a second duck in a week against Hampshire.

Sam Hain and Tim Ambrose then departed in two balls to leave Crane on a hat-trick – Hain caught behind while wicketkeeper Ambrose was leg-before – to end a 20-ball spell of four wickets for six runs.

Edwards had taken the first Warwickshire wicket before lunch when Ian Westwood edged to Gareth Berg at fourth slip. He then took over from his accomplice Crane to clean up the tail with his speedy and slingy action.