Chris Adams has made his peace with Shane Warne ahead of tonight's Twenty20 showdown at the Rose Bowl.

The pair clashed in April during Sussex's Championship match with Hampshire when the Sussex captain accused his opposite number of trying to humiliate his young players, and in particular Matt Prior.

Warne countered by telling Adams 'to put his own house in order'. He added: "If he had a problem he should have been man enough to complain to me in person after the game."

But Adams says all that will be forgotten when they go out to toss up in front of a 9,000 crowd this evening.

"I rang Shane, we had a chat and everything is fine. There wasn't too much of a difference of opinion anyway but the press found it quite an interesting story!

"Shane and I have both played long enough to know what the game is about and what is important. We're fine now, what happened is forgotten about."

The two captains may be pals again but Adams is still expecting a hostile reception from the majority of the sell-out crowd - and he can't wait.

"In any game that Shane Warne plays it's going to be intense and competitive and today will be no different," he added.

"Deep down I'm looking forward to the battle and putting myself into an arena where the majority of the crowd will be Hampshire supporters. I expect some flak but I'm prepared for it."

Adams was thrilled with his side's performance in Wednesday's south division opener when they crushed Essex by nine wickets after Mushtaq Ahmed had taken a competition best 5-11 to set things up.

Only when Ronnie Irani and James Middlebrook were putting 53 for the second wicket was it an even contest, but Adams contends that there is little a side can do to stop teams taking advantage of the fielding restrictions are in place.

"I thought it was a fantastic all-round performance after they got off to a flyer," he said.

"We got caught cold a little up front, but if a batsman is prepared to have a dip and it comes off there is very little you can do as a fielding side.

"You are only allowed two men out of the circle in the first six overs so it becomes a bit of a lottery to decide when they hit where the ball is going to go.

"We showed that when we batted when Matt Prior hit 20 off the second over. Once that happened it was game over."

Both sides are expected to be unchanged and Hampshire will be chasing their first win after losing by 18 runs to Middlesex on Wednesday when the visitors' total of 210-6 was the highest in Twenty20 games at the Rose Bowl.

Meanwhile Sussex's next two home games in the competition are heading for 5,800 sell-outs.

Aroun 4,000 tickets have been snapped up for next Wednesday's game against Surrey and nearly 4,500 have been sold for the return against Hampshire in a week's time.