HAMPSHIRE chairman Rod Bransgrove is hoping for another Ageas Bowl run feast tomorrow - after a record-breaking start to England’s one-day international series against New Zealand.

England will take on the World Cup runners-up with the series level after amassing more than 400 for the first time in an ODI international at Edgbaston – before sharing in the highest ODI aggregate on English soil at The Oval last night.

Hampshire’s home ground is a 17,000 sell-out for the third ODI between new-look England and a Kiwi side that captured the imagination at the World Cup they co-hosted earlier this year.

After winning the series opener with a 50-over-best 408-9 in Birmingham on Tuesday, England responded to the Kiwis’ 398-5 - the biggest ODI total they have ever conceded - with 365-9 from the 46 overs that were possible in a rain-affected finish.

New Zealand also made the previous biggest total conceded by England on home soil - their 359-3 at the Ageas Bowl two years ago.

“New Zealand are a really good side and the last time they were with us Martin Guptill made 189 not out in an outstanding game, so all the portents look good,” said Bransgrove.

“We’ve already seen some unbelievable cricket in this series, I just wish we had another 2,000 seats - I think we could have sold anything for this game.

“This England team is fabulous – the only name missing is James Vince!”

Most of England’s players have good memories of the Ageas Bowl. Captain Eoin Morgan scored two of his seven ODI hundreds at West End and it is where Jos Buttler came to prominence as a teenager, with a 23-ball 55 not out in a T20 semi-final for Somerset against Nottinghamshire, in 2010.

The Ageas Bowl was also the setting for Joe Root’s first double hundred for Yorkshire in 2012. Ben Stokes hit five sixes in a Liam Dawson over while making 135 not out for Durham four years ago, while Sam Billings’ County Championship-best 92 was made away to Hampshire last September.

As well as being the start of an exciting new era for English cricket, the Ageas Bowl’s 18th ODI is also its first big match since the opening of the Hilton Hotel. “This will be the first time we’ve gone through logistics like turning hotel bedrooms into hospitality suites,” said Bransgrove.

“But we’re very confident about what we’re doing.

“I see the ground as being absolutely complete now.”