Hampshire are today selling the remaining 800 tickets for Thursday's Twenty20 match between England and Sri Lanka at The Rose Bowl.

The ticket office opened at 9am this morning and is open until 9pm tonight.

Tickets can also be bought online at www.hampshirecricket.com and by ringing 0870 243 0291.

They are available at £40 for adults and OAPs, and £15 for under 16s.

Gates open in the afternoon and the capacity will be a Rose Bowl record of nearly 20,000.

A Twenty20 game between Hampshire and a Professional Cricketers Association XI the latter is captained by Hampshire legend Robin Smith begins at 2pm.

It will be the second year running that Hampshire have faced the PCA XI last year, before England's Twenty20 win against Australia at the Rose Bowl, the hosts won a close game by three runs.

Smith, pictured, skippered the PCA XI that day as well.

England's World Cup group B match against Trinidad & Tobago will be shown live on two giant screens at 5.05pm before the main event begins under The Rose Bowl's new floodlights at 7.15pm.

Hampshire batsman Kevin Pietersen was today lining up for England in their first-ever ODI against Ireland at Stormont.

Andrew Strauss was captaining an England side shorn of several regulars including Michael Vaughan and Andrew Flintoff.

Hampshire's Dimi Mascarenhas was included in the PCA XI that was facing the Sri Lankan tourists in a Twenty20 international at Arundel Castle today.