By Alex Smith

July 12, Utilita Bowl, Southampton
Gloucestershire 176-9 Hampshire Hawks 177-5
Hampshire Hawks won by 5 wickets
Toss: Gloucestershire, who elected to bat
BENNY HOWELL took down his former Gloucestershire teammates with a crash, bang, wallop half-century to keep his new county’s Blast hopes alive. All-rounder Howell had already taken two wickets as Hampshire fought back to restrict their visitors – who have never won a T20 at Utilita Bowl – to 176.
But his out-of-this-world batting saw him club four sixes and five fours to equal his T20 best of...