HAMPSHIRE'S latest game in the County Championship, at Trent Bridge against Nottinghamshire, may have ended as a dull draw on Monday.

However, it is a game John Crawley will not be forgetting in a hurry as he scored 301 not out in Hampshire's first innings.

The triple ton was the highest individual score by a Hampshire player since Dick Moore recorded 316 at Bournemouth against Warwickshire in 1937, and only the third of all time.

Had skipper Shane Warne not declared with Hampshire's score on 641-4, he could well have gone past the top score in the record books.

The huge score was quite ironic as it was only Crawley's second Championship ton for the county since he joined in 2002.

His only other century came in the opening match for Hampshire when he struck 272 against Kent at Canterbury, which is the fifth-highest score of all time for the county side.

The only two other scores of note in the last 30 years for Hampshire are 259 by Gordon Greenidge against Sussex at Northlands Road, Southampton, and Trevor Jesty's 248 against Cambridge University at Fenners.

Elsewhere in the game, Michael Clarke was also celebrating after he notched up centuries in both Hampshire innings with scores of 140 and 103.

That was the first time a Hampshire player had achieved that feat since fellow Australian Matthew Hayden in 1997.

The total number of runs scored in the game was 1,548, as Nottinghamshire scored 612, in reply to Hampshire's 641-4.

The visitors then made 295-6 in their second innings.

That was the third-highest aggregate total ever in first class cricket and, in total, five players scored centuries - Hampshire's Crawley and Clarke along with the Nottinghamshire trio of Darren Bicknell, David Hussey and Mark Ealham.