Cricket: County Championship: Win Is Such Sweet Sorrow ; Warwickshire Beat Hampshire by Ten Wickets

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'So foul and fair a day I have not seen.' Though Shakespeare was probably not thinking of Warwickshire when he penned the first act of Macbeth, his words, as so often, are eerily prescient.

For there was a bitter taste to Warwickshire's crushing victory over top-of-the-table Hampshire. Heath Streak's superb six for 31 sentenced the visitors to defeat within two days, thereby taking the champions within five points of the summit with a game in hand.

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Cricket: County Championship: Win Is Such Sweet Sorrow ; Warwickshire Beat Hampshire by Ten Wickets

But amid the joy, this victory has come at a heavy price; the future of cricket at Stratford. For the second year running at this festival, Warwickshire's best-laid plans were thwarted. Last year, foul weather ruined the game aga...

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