{"id":263055,"date":"2025-07-14T02:02:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T02:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/263055\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T02:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T02:02:24","slug":"highlights-hampshire-hawks-men-v-sussex-sharks-vitality-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/263055\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights: Hampshire Hawks Men v Sussex Sharks, Vitality Blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tCricket<br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Blast 2022 Winners 280 x 280.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"right\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tUtilita Bowl is the home of Hampshire Cricket and Southern Brave, whilst also being a host venue for England Cricket internationals.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, Hampshire Cricket finished second in the Vitality County Championship, reached the knock-out stage of the Metro Bank One Day Cup and hosted seven action-packed Vitality Blast fixtures as Hampshire Hawks.<\/p>\n<p>Southern Vipers went into their final season as the \u2018Vipers\u2019, reaching both Charlotte Edwards Cup and Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Southern Brave Men finished Runners-Up in The Hundred after hosting four spectacular double header matchdays at Utilita Bowl with the Women\u2019s side in July &amp; August.<\/p>\n<p>Both England Men &amp; Women hosted sold-out IT20 cricket at the venue based just outside Southampton. England Women welcomed New Zealand, before England Men hosted Ashes rivals Australia.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, England return for three international fixtures, including Men&#8217;s fixtures against West Indies and South Africa, as well as England Women hosting India.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HampshireCricket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/hantscricket\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/hantscricket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cricket Utilita Bowl is the home of Hampshire Cricket and Southern Brave, whilst also being a host venue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-263055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114849129689642285","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}