This Saturday, Leicestershire Foxes and Hampshire will go head to head for one-day glory, as we stage the Metro Bank One Day Cup Final for a third successive summer.

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The two sides' routes to the final have been sprinkled with sparkling individual performances, with records broken and career-bests shattered along the way.

Read more below.

 

Batting brilliance

Fletcha Middleton's emergence onto the first-team scene this season has been key to Hampshire's successes.

Having made an impression against Nottinghamshire in the four-day season-opener at the Ageas Bowl, Middleton's form in the List A competition has been equally strong.

Half-centuries against Leicestershire, Lancashire, Surrey and Warwickshire helped to propel the opener to 465 runs in the competition so far - the most of any player from the competing finalists' sides.

 

Seam-bowling successes

While the 50-over summer has been dominated by Warwickshire’s Oliver Hannon-Dalby with the ball, a trio of Foxes seamers have claimed 16 scalps in the tournament to date.

Chris Wright, Tom Scriven and Josh Hull all displayed their potency with the ball as Leicestershire secured top spot in the group.

Hampshire's Ian Holland has gone one better thus far, with 17 wickets including 5/35 in an emphatic victory over Surrey at Guildford.

 

 

High scores

Leicestershire compiled their List A best this summer, with a score of 411/6 helping to comprehensively defeat Lancashire at Old Trafford.

That performance was led by a career-best 129-ball knock of 161 for Rishi Patel, while Colin Ackermann contributed a breathtaking century from 62 deliveries in the Foxes’ middle order.

For Hampshire, both Nick Gubbins and Aneurin Donald have passed three figures - Gubbins compiling his knock at Welbeck Cricket Club, and Donald's 115 crucial in a ten-run quarter-final triumph over Worcestershire.

 

A career-best with the ball

Last season’s title-winners at Trent Bridge, Kent Spitfires, were outclassed by Leicestershire during this summer’s group stages – with right-armer Roman Walker at the heart of their victory.

On his birthday, the Foxes seamer claimed career-best figures of 6/43 as the defending champions were skittled for 116, with Walker accounting for Ben Compton and Joey Evison before returning to mop up the tail.

Leicestershire’s 264-run triumph was their biggest margin of victory in one-day cricket.

 

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