TODAY marks a Hampshire sporting first Pietersen, Beckham, Lampard and Trescothick ALL appearing in the same stadium on the same day!

Hampshire Cricket's Rose Bowl hosts a Twenty20 international between England and Sri Lanka tonight.

And at 5pm most of the ground record 20,000 attendance should be in place to watch England's World Cup tie with Trinidad on the giant screens.

It promises to be a great day, but Hampshire chairman Rod Bransgrove is dreaming of more!

He hopes that a successful staging of the Twenty20 international will boost The Rose Bowl's chances of hosting a Test match.

Bransgrove believes this is the biggest day at the Rose Bowl since the ground opened for business more than five years ago.

He hopes that the turning on of the new floodlights at 6.45pm tonight will be the start of another exciting chapter in the stadium's history.

Bransgrove said: "I'm a little bit nervous because there are a lot of things we need to get right that could go wrong, but I'm very excited, especially about the lights because the chairman and the chief executive of the ECB will be here to see them.

"They will be able to see the ground at its best, which will not do our chances of hosting more internationals, including Tests, any harm at all.

"I can't wait. We're getting used to staging more and more internationals but it will be the first time we'll have had 20,000 people here for a cricket match."