Hampshire cricket are mourning the death of Neville Rogers, who has passed away, aged 85.

Former Hampshire batsman Rogers, pictured, played for the county from 1946 until 1955, scoring 15,292 first class runs, a record which makes him the 16th highest run scorer in the club's history.

He played a total of 285 matches, and finished with a first class batting average of 31.79

Rogers first joined the Hampshire club as a 21-year-old in 1939 but the outbreak of war meant that he did not make his debut until 1946.

He served overseas during the war and was promoted to open the batting with Jimmy Arnold.

He was out in the nineties four times before he scored the first of his 26 first class hundreds for the county. Rogers, who was born into a strong cricketing family in the village of Cowley, Oxfordshire, never played for England but in 1951 he had a Test trial and was also 12th man.

He was dropped to number five in 1955, his final season, and skippered Hampshire in his last five games for the county, four of which were won as the county finished in third place.

But Rogers's Hampshire career finished on a low. Having earlier been offered a three-year contract and a benefit, he went to work for former Hampshire teammate Jim Bailey after being offered the prospect of only one extra year.