John Crawley scored his first Hampshire century for almost a year as the Hawks won their fourth National League game of the season at the Rose Bowl yesterday.
Former Lancashire star Crawley's 101 was only his second National League hundred and his highest score in 123 innings in the competition.
It confirmed that he is in his richest vein of one-day form for Hampshire, after struggling in the competition last season.
His 66 against Somerset Sabres a fortnight ago was, until yesterday, his best for the Hawks and his latest hundred, his third one-day ton for the county, was further evidence that he is back to his best in the limited overs game.
Not since the C&G Trophy defeat against Somerset at Taunton last June has Crawley reached three figures and you have to go back to last year's Benson & Hedges competition for his last Hampshire hundred in either form of the game at the Rose Bowl.
But he must have felt it was going to be his day when he continued his 100 per cent National League record with the coin, winning the toss for the seventh time in as many one-day games this season.
Hampshire's skipper opts to bat whenever he wins a Rose Bowl toss and after doing so yesterday he batted until the last over of the Hawks innings, facing 134 balls during nearly three hours at the crease.
Crawley's innings was chanceless but after reaching three figures in the penultimate over by hitting a Danny Law full toss for two, he holed out to long-on where Gary Pratt took a fabulous catch, diving forward after running in from the boundary.
He scored nine boundaries during his stay at the crease, most of which were driven, and received excellent support from Simon Katich and Nic Pothas before masterminding Hawks in the field.
Derek Kenway missed a straight one in the tenth over and Robin Smith nicked a ball that lifted in Ian Hunter's next over but Crawley and Katich put on 70 in 18 overs for the third wicket before the Australian chipped Nicky Phillips, his former Durham teammate, straight to long-off.
Then Pothas continued his impressive start to the season by contributing an unbeaten 30 from 44 balls, helping to add 75 in 14 overs for the fifth wicket with Crawley after Will Kendall had edged his second ball to the wicketkeeper.
In reply Durham threatened to make a game of it but Alan Mullally's economy - he went for less than two runs an over - and Dimitri Mascarenhas's second four-wicket haul in as many National League games ensured a fourth win of the season for Paul Terry's side.
Mascarenhas, pictured left, produced a sensational burst of three wickets in as many overs which began when he ended a first-wicket stand of 50 between Phil Mustard and Nicky Peng by bowling the former.
Peng's run-a-ball 44 came to end when Shaun Udal took a brilliant diving catch as he ran in from the extra cover boundary in Mascarenhas's next over
A fifth-wicket partnership of 82 in 19 overs between Gordon Muchall and Jon Lewis ended when Muchall drove straight to Will Kendall at mid-on and with it any realistic chance of a Durham victory.
Lewis soon followed, driving straight to Crawley at wide mid off, Udal ran out Danny Law from deep extra and Hunter was beaten by a Wasim yorker.
When Wasim stepped up to bowl the last over, Durham needed an unlikely 16 runs with two wickets in hand.
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