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Hook & Newnham Basics
Standing (from left): Josh Fitzer, Daniel Corbett, Jake Ayling, Alex Fitzer, Kit Morris, Alex Hoare-Nairne.  Front: Adam Greening, Tanish Ramakrishnan, James Thompson, Ollie Webster, Ellis McCarthy

Ollie Webster and Australian Ellis McCarthy shared a century opening partnership as Hook & Newnham Basics cruised to a nine-wicket win over Portsmouth to win the Hampshire Under-19 T20 Loveless Shield final at May's Bounty.
Webster, who is due to fly to Australia shortly to spend the winter with the Brisbane grade club Northern Districts, hit unbeaten 52 and Ellis 48 as Hook made short work of passing Portsmouth's 161-6 with four overs to spare.
Samir Ackram (52) top scored for Portsmouth, whose own hopes of victory disappeared in a bizarre 12-ball fifth over by left-arm spinner Ben De Laszlo.
Unable to control his leg spin, the Oxford University bound scholar conceded a staggering 26 runs off one solitary over, enabling Hook to advance their score from 39 to 75-0, with only 10 runs coming off the bat.
That over demoralised Portsmouth, who effectively waved the white flag.  
Fleet beat New Milton (103) by seven wickets to win the Hampshire U17 Kerry Cup.
South Wilts were dismissed for 85 by Burbage & Easton Royal in the Wiltshire U19 Cup, which Swindon eventually won.

St Cross Symondians will face top Bradford League side Townville in the national final of the ECB Vitality Club T20 Cup at Worcester's New Road county ground  on Sunday September 20.
That's their reward for beating Potters Bar and mighty Penzance in last weekend's South play-offs at May's Bounty.
Townville, who finished runners-up in the Bradford League, produced two outstanding performances to clinch a place in the National Final of the Vitality Club T20 Cup.
They dominated the North Regional finals with wins over Lindow by 84 runs and Northern by 59 runs and now they will take on the south winners St Cross Symondians.
After the disappointment of seeing their hopes of a first league title literally washed away yesterday, they bounced back impressively.
They now have the chance to match the achievements of Hanging Heaton (2018) and New Farnley (2025) who have won the competition.
Their success at Denby means that the Bradford Premier League now has teams in both the national finals following New Farnley winning their National Club Championship semi-final against Smethwick last week.

Basingstoke  North Hants host the Hampshire Under-17 and Under-19 Cup finals at May's Bounty on Sunday, viz 10.30- Fleet v New Milton and 2.30pm Hook & Newnham Basics v Portsmouth.

​Bournemouth and Portsmouth bring the curtain down on the ECB Southern Premier League season whey they meet in the T20 Cup final at Chapel Gate on Saturday, 2pm.
It's the first time the teams have ever met in the T20 - and a long while since either of them  actually lifted the trophy.
Portsmouth's last cup final win was back in the mid-1990s, while Bournemouth's triumph in 2010 led to them going on to become ECB national champions.

​Bournemouth: Alfie Ingram, James Van Gool, Ben Rogers, R Jhala, Tom Robinson, George Guirdham, Luca Amat, Ollie Breckon, Ashley Smith, Dan Conway, Josiah Edy
Portsmouth: Ben Duggan, Joy, Dan Wimble, George Metzger, Harry Gadd, Ray Reynolds, Sam Caddy, Sarij Zaidi, Freddie Gadd, Joe Kooner-Evans, Tom Lewis.
Umpires are John Leckie and Sean Lilley.

Alton all-rounder Jude Wright hit 87 off 51 balls as Rotherfield Park turned the tide to beat Hook & Newnham Basics by 61 runs and win the Guy Jewell Trophy for a second year running. 
Rotherfield were in desperate trouble at 67-7 when the tall, powerful Cardiff & Met university graduate turned the May's Bounty cup final on its head.
Hitting seven sixes and six fours, he eventually raised the score to 143 and beyond the reach of Hook.
Brisbane bound Hook talent Oli Webster (4-16) made inroads, but Wright continued to blast away before perishing in the deep.
Webster, who jets off for a winter in Queensland grade cricket shortly, underlined his batting prowess with a quick fire 28, but that was about all Hook could muster.  Three wickets by spin all-rounder Freddie Eggleston sent them plunging to 82 all out.     

​Spectators were ducking and diving for cover as fours and sixes flew all around Basingstoke's May's Bounty as St Cross Symondians twice produced a brutal batting assault to win the ECB Vitality Club T20 South play-offs.
In their two weather trimmed 12-over matches, St Cross hit a staggering 293 runs (for the loss of five wickets), including 21 sixes most of which sailed out of the ground.  For good measure, they also hit 21 fours in the two matches.
Battered and bruised after a 161-run assault, South semi-final opponents Potters Bar limped away from the battlefield having replied with 79-8, while later St Cross defended 132-3 to beat hot T20 favourites Penzance by four runs, the Cornish champions having required 21 off the last over.
"It was another fantastic day for the club," beamed St Cross skipper Ed Ellis. "Playing a shorter 12-over format suited us as our top order batting is so strong, as we proved twice over.
"Hammering Potters Bar in the semi-final sent our confidence rocketing. Penzance were something special, but we lifted all aspects of our game to an outstanding level, none more so than in the field, where we were absolutely super.
"I backed our bowlers to defend 132. Penzance hit two sixes off the last two balls to slightly distort how well we beat them."
St Cross openers Gregor McKenzie (33) and Felix Organ (37) set the tone by scoring 50 runs inside the initial four overs against Potters Bar - but that was just the taste of things to come.
A staggering 64 runs came off the final three overs, with Gareth Schreuder clearing the boundary rope nine times with a succession of improvised shots which flew past the bewildered Potters Bar fielders.  He hit 64 off 20 balls, six sixes coming off the final nine balls of the innings. Astonishing stuff.

​Six time Cornwall League champions in the  past seven years, Penzance flexed their considerable muscle for the South final with a 15-run win over 2017 national T20 champions Tunbridge Wells - but they weren't to be spared more St Cross big hitting.
McKenzie, who carried his bat for 55, and Wilf La Fontaine Jackson (39) led St Cross to 132-3 - a modest total in comparison, but the Penzance bowling attack was on a different plain. 
Nonetheless, St Cross backed themselves and continued to chip away, taking wickets every ten runs or so and getting the Cornishmen behind the required scoring rate.
Having batted all 12 overs, Simon King might arguably have been his side's match winner, but he left he field 61 not out and Penzance short of their target at 128-6.    

St Cross Symondians show the flag after thrashing Potters Bar and later beating hot favorites Penzance to become the ECB T20 South Vitality Club champions at May's Bounty.  
They now go through to the National Final at New Road, Worcester, on Sunday 20 September.
Due overnight rain matches were 12 overs per side.
St Cross scores -
St Cross Symondians 161-2 (Schreuder 67*, Organ 37, McKenzie 33) Potters Bar 79-8 (Bransgrove 3-7, Abbas 2-17). St Cross Symondians won by 82 runs
St Cross 132-3 (McKenzie 55*, La Fontaine Jackson 39) Penzance 128-7 (King 61*, McKenzie 2-31). St Cross Symondians won by four runs.

​Full report + photographs to follow.

St Cross Symondians expect to be at full strength for Sunday's ECB Vitality T20 Club South finals at Basingstoke & North Hants, with skipper Ed Ellis having returned from a school hockey tournament in Argentina.
His return means that Wilf La Fontaine Jackson, who kept wicket in the play-off round wins over Wimborne and Finchampstead, will hand over the gloves.
St Cross will face Potters Bar in the opening 10am semi-final and, if successful, will play either Tunbridge Wells or hot favorites Penance in the 4pm South final.
Full bar and catering facilities will be available at May's Bounty, where there is plentiful free car parking.

The ECB Southern Premier League season has ended in a damp (and very wet) squib with all 20 scheduled fixtures washed out.  

​Harry Gadd, above, just missed out on a century as Portsmouth dished out a 147-run thumping to Lymington on the penultimate Saturday of the Southern Premier League season.
The skipper fell four runs short of a hundred after arriving in the middle with his side 56-4 in the New Forest having been inserted.
Josh Royan (3-49) had occupied centre stage, dismissing Sam Caddy (15), Ray Reynolds (9) and Dan Wimble (3).
But Gadd hit 10 fours and three sixes in his 88-ball innings, adding 118 for the fifth wicket with George Metzger (71) to wrestle the initiative away from the hosts, Portsmouth closing on 267-9.
It was Gadd’s sixth half-century of the league campaign, including three scores in the 80s – 87 not out v Hampshire Academy, 87 v Bashley and 85 against Bournemouth.
Spinner Tom Lewis was Portsmouth’s star bowler when Lymington were bundled out for 120. The former South Wilts man returned figures of 7.2-2-13-4 after being introduced as first change.
He accounted for Ryan Scott (7), Ethan Baker (6) and Charlie Wilson (10) as the New Forest club dipped to 55-3.
Freddie Gadd (3-36) and Ben De Laszlo (2-20) subsequently reduced them to 82-7 with the former having skipper Gareth Berg (7) caught by the latter.
Fittingly, Lewis wrapped up the innings on 120 by bowling tailender Albert Adkins.

Portsmouth 267-9 (Gadd 96, Metzger 75, Royan 3-49) Lymington 120 (Crabb 33,  Lewis 4-13, F Gadd 3-36). Portsmouth won by 147 runs.

Cole Rushforth belted 68 off 49 balls to turn the tide of Bournemouth's eventual 39-run win over double ECB Southern Premier League champions St Cross Symondians at Winchester's Green Jackets ground. 
Beset by hamstring injuries last season, Rushforthhas established himself as one of the SPL's lead all-rounders this term and certainly played a key role in this victory.
Rj Jhala (43) and Simon Woodruff (41) eased the Lions to 148-5 when Rushford, aided by Tom Robinson (38), sent the score rocketing to 283-8. 
Rushforth then had master blaster Gregor McKenzie caught behind by  Ben Van Der Merwe for a single in the first over of the title winners’ reply.
It was 32-2 when Wilf La Fontaine-Jackson, fresh from hitting 181 on his Sussex 2nds debut, was bowled by Josiah Edy for 14.
Monam Abbas (76) top scored as St Cross closed on 244-9, only their second loss of the season.
Bournemouth’s total (Charlie Gwynn 3-43, which puts him third leading wicket taker in the
Premier Division) was too much for St Cross to chase although at various points in the reply it looked possible.  Monam Abbas anchored our innings and shared useful partnerships with Jack Bransgrove (20), Gaz Schreuder (25) and Harry Trussler (29).
After Monam was bowled, an 8th wicket stand of 41 in quick time was promising, only for Byron Langley (30 off 15 balls, with two 6s and two 4s) to find himself at the same end as Nav Dubey in running confusion..  

Bournemouth 283-8 (Rushworth 68, Jhala 43,  Woodruff 41, Robinson 38, Gwynn 3-43) St Cross Symondians 244-9 (Abbas 76, Langley 30, Smith 3-57). Bournemouth won by 39 runs.

With 669 runs and one match still to play, Hampshire Academy skipper Sam Ashman is a near certainty to be chosen as the Premier Division's Young Cricketer for 2026 - his aggregate getting a 100-run boost from his maiden SPL top flight century in a 58-run win over Alton.
He's also 60 runs clear (of James Degg) in Premier Division run charts.
Ashman - fresh from hitting 64 for Hampshire in a 2nd XI fixture against Leicestershire – hit 10 fours and a six in his 99-ball 100.   Opener Samand Khan (50) was next highest in a 247 all out total at the Jubilee Fields.
In reply, Alton were bowled out for 199 with Sam Ruffell (71 not out) offering the most resistance.
Charlie Forshaw, who has played 16 T20 matches for Guernsey, dismissed three of Alton’s top five, including captain Scott Myers for a duck, en route to figures of 8-2-22-4.

Hampshire Academy 249 (Ashman 100, Khan 50, South 3-41, Egleston 3-58)  Alton 199 (Riddell 71, Egleston 35, Foreshaw 4-22). Hampshire Academy won by 48 runs.

Teenage Hampshire seam talent Abdul Rehman, from Basingstoke & North Hants, took 8-50 against Middlesex YCs in his ten-overs in an ECB Under-16 Cup quarter-final tie at East Woodhay - but that was as good as it got for his team.
Middlesex piled up 297 before Hampshire collapsed from 71-2 to 112 all out.  Francesco Bibby (30) and Hook & Newnham Basics' left-hander Kim Morris (28) top scored.

Hampshire Over 60s are through to two Seniors' cup finals next Tuesday (1 September) after beating Buckinghamshire and Norfolk.
Grayshott's Paul Scanlon, with 17 boundaries in his unbeaten 116, and Fawley's Dave Streather (64) eased Hampshire to 266-5 against Bucks at Farnham Royal.  Martin Shephard took 3-43 as Bucks made 232-8.
Andy Jones (64), Mark Jackson (53) and Pete Doust (48) led the way as Hampshire IIs scored 243-8 v Norfolk, who made 211-7, Dave Humphries taking 3-28.
Durham and Cheshire are the cup final opponents, with Hampshire traveling to Oakamoor CC, near Stoke-on-Trent and Stroud hosting the Cheshire game.

​Fair Oak are hot favourites to take the Division 1 crown following Hambledon's demise and will break open the bubbly if they take the academic points from Basingstoke's scheduled visit to Lapstone Park.
Hampshire's Fletcha Middleton, opening partner Sam Reed and Aussie spin all-rounder Connor Gibson played lead roles in Totton & Eling's 95-run defeat at Southern Gardens.
Middleton(80) was within sight of a fifth SPL century when he was dismissed, having partnered Reed (63) in a 149-run start.  Totton kept their chins  up in the scorching heat as Gibson hit an unbeaten 79 to take Oaks to 285-8.   
Boswell Chapangu (45), Billy Blyghton (36), and Josh May (31) top scored in Totton's 190-8, Gibson’s fine afternoon completed with a career best 5-41 haul.

Already-relegated Bashley (Rydal) recorded only their third victory in the ECB Southern Premier Cricket League Premier Division season, beating Burridge by five wickets.
​It has been a tough 2026 campaign for the New Forest club, who found themselves unable to counter a brown envelope epidemic and were rooted to the foot of the table for some time.
Electing to field first after winning the toss at The Ridge, it was the combination of George Wilson and Jayden Gengan who caught the eye with the ball for Bashley.
South African Gengan (3-26) removed half of Burridge’s top four while the loyal Wilson weighed in with 3-23.
Alvin Cameron also got in on the wicket-taking act with 2-27, as Burridge was dismissed for a total of 104, opener Joe Collings-Wells (27) top scorer. 
In reply, Jack Stearman also scored 27 for Bashley, and together with opener Cameron Basey, they put on a partnership of 50 for the second wicket.
Basey eventually departed for 21, but it was Michael Porter who got the away side over the winning line as he hit six fours on his way to an unbeaten score of 34 from 35 deliveries.

Experienced Basingstoke umpire Paul Turner spent five hours in A & E after being struck just above the ankle during St Cross Symondians' ECB T20 run blitz against Wimborne. 
He bravely stood for the remainder of the St Cross innings but withdrew from active duty soon after.  He stayed and watched the remainder of the play but checked in for X-rays later.  No bones broken but some nasty bruising was the initial prognosis. 
"The hospital has subsequently reviewed the X-rays and have spotted a hairline fracture," Turner said.
​Paul was lucky and as one spectator admitted: "It was pretty much a perfect straight drive by Felix Organ.  It went like a rocket and sounded like a rifle crack when it hit Paul’s ankle."

​Bournemouth host Portsmouth in the Southern Premier League T20 Cup final at Chapel Gate on Saturday week 5 September 2026 at 2 o'clock.
The semi-finals produced a ten-run win for Bournemouth (146) over Burridge (136-7) and a 22-run victory for Portsmouth (192-4) over South Wilts (170-9) , the tie producing 19 sixes !
Opener James Van Gool (58) and Ben Van Der Merwe (33) provided Bournemouth with an 89-start but after Ben Rogers (22) had helped the score towards 133, the Lions suffered a massive collapse, with six wickets falling for two runs ! Rajat Palmar and Matt Teale took four wickets each before Bournemouth were all out for 146, seven balls left unused. 
(Teale (30) got Burridge off to a steady start, but the visitors lost wickets in clusters, Ashley Smith (4-21) creating inroads and Alfie Appleby Ingram conceding just ten runs off his four overs.  Burridge finished ten runs adrift at 136.7 
South Wilts were knocked out of the T20 Cup by Portsmouth despite Matt Falconer's big hitting.  Chasing Portsmouth's hefty 192-4, South Wilts were in trouble at 58-4 when the teenage left-hander arrived at the crease.
He proceeded to smash the Portsmouth bowling to all parts of the Southsea seafront ground, clearing the boundary rope six times in addition to hitting five fours.  He made 75 off 37 balls before South Wilts' closed at 170-9.
Nazim Siddiqui (67) and Carlin Joy (38) shared a century second wicket stand for Portsmouth - George Metzger (40 not out) and Harry Gadd (24 not out) advancing the city side's score to 192-4.

​Harry Broderick led the way with an unbeaten 80 as South Wilts took just 15 overs to overhaul Sarisbury Athletic's total of 158 at Allotment Road.
It led to South Wilts pulling off an emphatic eighth-wicket win to remain second in the ECB  Southern Premier League behind champions St Cross Symondians.
Broderick, an award winning carpenter by trade, hit three sixes and ten fours in his 47-ball knock.
He and fellow opener James Degg (38) blitzed the short boundary, hitting 18 fours and three sixes in their 99-run stand.
Cape Town's Josh Chippendale weighed in with 31.
Earlier, Sarisbury collapsed from a promising 128-2 - eight wickets falling for 30 runs, principally to Degg (4-9) and recent recruit George Allom, who produced impressive figures of 3-16 off his ten overs.
Joe Baker (44) and Jack Robson (43) eased Sarisbury towards a decent total, but the innings collapsed after a triple breakthrough by Allom, who joined South Wilts in June from Nottinghamshire Premier League club Papplewick and Linby.
Degg ripped through the Sarisbury lower order.

ECB SOUTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE
RESULTS – ROUND 17 : 22 AUGUST 2026

ECB PREMIER DIVISION 

Bournemouth 283-8 (Rushworth 68,Jhala 43,  Woodruff 41, Robinson 38, Gwynn 3-43) St Cross Symondians 244-9 (Abbas 76, Langley 30, Smith 3-57). Bournemouth won by 39 runs.

Burridge 104 (Collings-Wells 27, Singh 23, Wlson 3-23, Gengan 3-26)  Bashley (Rydal) 105-5 (Porter 34*, Stoneman 27, Teale 3-15).  Bashley (Rydal) won by five wickets.

Hampshire Academy 249 (Ashman 100, Khan 50, South 3-41, Egleston 3-58)  Alton 199 (Riddell 71, Egleston 35, Foreshaw 4-22). Hampshire Academy won by 48 runs.

Portsmouth 267-9 (Gadd 96, Metzger 75, Royan 3-49) Lymington 120 (Crabb 33,  Lewis 4-13, F Gadd 3-36). Portsmouth won by 147 runs.

Sarisbury Athletic 158 (Baker 44, Robson 43, Degg 4-9, Allom 3-16)   South Wilts 160-2 (Broderick 80*). South Wilts won by eight wickets.

DIVISION 1

Calmore Sports 225 (Allaway 106, Lomax 43, J Restall 3-31, Pratt 3-65)
Hambledon 168 (Bembridge 35, Lewes 32, J Restall 27*, Jewer 3-25, Metcalfe 3-27)
Calmore Sports won by 57 runs

Fair Oak 285-8 (Middleton 80, Gibson 79*, S Reed 63, Simms 3-34)
Totton & Eling 190-8 (Chapangu 45, Blyghton 36, May 31, Gibson 5-41)
Fair Oak won by 95 runs.

Langley Manor 140 (Budd 54, Lloyd 3-26)
Rowledge 143-5 (O Ryman 60*, Chilcott 25, Le Roux 24, Doubell 3-32)
Rowledge won by five wickets

Old Tauntonians & Romsey 277-6 (Tulk 77, King 71, Trodd 59, Mills 31)
Basingstoke & North Hants 199 (A Neal 61, Abid 26, Tulk 3-29, Newman 3-31)
Old Tauntonians & Romsey won by 78 runs.

Ventnor 195 (Thimodya 104, Morgan 4-44)
Havant 196-7 (Barnard 79, Lucy 3-23)
Havant won by three wickets

DIVISION 2

Liphook & Ripsley 143 (Harvey 58, Divecha 4-34, McCarthy 4-35)
Hook & Newnham Basics 146-1 (J Hall 59*, Buckingham 41, Virji 28*)
Hook & Newnham Basics won by 9 wickets

New Milton 118 (Denham 37*, Nyumbu 6-36)
Andover 119-3 (Mayavo 55*, Williams 36*)
Andover won by seven wickets.

Parley 199 (Bragginton 35, Savage 29, Collins 24)
Waterlooville 97 (Birch 41, Bragginton 4-11, Nicholls 4-17) 
Parley won by 102 runs

Sparsholt 231 (Fuller 50, Berzins 42, Ley 29*, Emslie 25, Athawes 3-46)
Portsmouth & Southsea 167 (Wheeler 35, Davidson 26*, Fuller 4-45, Ley 3-27)
Sparsholt won by 64 runs

Sway 211 (Hall 77, Burton 38, Williams 3-41) 
Fawley 180 (Munir 66, Singh 40, Earl 25, Richards 3-6)
Sway won by 31 runs

DIVISION 3

Alton 346-5 (Hale 126, Mark Heffernan 61, Mike Heffernan 48, Paul 41*, W Bridger 27*)
Hook & Newnham Basics II 221 (Ayling 70, Corbett 32, Watterson 25, Seymour-Smith 24, Cavell 4-41)
Alton II won by 125 runs

Ferndown Wayfarers 193 (Sansom 56, Stephenson 30, R Barnwell 4-29, Gillam 3-30)
Fareham & Crofton 183 (Bulled 55, R Barnwell 26)
Ferndown Wayfarers won by ten runs

Hursley Park 288-5 (T Flynn 83, Spink 60, Pavitt 48, Rosier 34*)
Hartley Wintney 137 (M Teale 28, Bishop 4-22, Green 3-21)
Hursley Park won by 151 runs

Odiham & Greywell 152 (W Kettle 48, Collins 43, S Hill 3-31, J Hill 3-35)
Sarisbury Athletic II 129 (Sanders 23, Hill 4-37, Ikin 3-10)
Odiham & Greywell won by 23 runs

St. Cross Symondians II 297-8 (Hawkesworth 95, Foster 47, Haworth 33, Bhome 3-48)
Trojans 135 (Khan 38, Perera 35, Hawkesworth 4-32, Orchard 3-37)
St. Cross Symondians II won by 162 runs.

Ties to be played on Sunday 23 August 2026 at 2pm -

Bournemouth v Burridge at Chapel Gate
Portsmouth v South Wilts at St Helen's, Southsea

Admission free with refreshments available, along with plentiful free boundary side car parking.