​Seasoned Burridge spin all-rounder Suji Wickramasinghe and Parley paceman Ollie Green have topped the Hampshire League County Division 1 individual performance charts this season.
Wickramasinghe, with 629 runs, saw off challenges from teen pair Dan Bailey (Sway) and Jacob Harris (Gosport Borough) to become lead run scorer, while Green [left] is top wicket taker for the second consecutive season.
New Milton raised Eric Linge made a hefty 811 runs for Ferndown Wayfarers, while Salisbury teen Henry Smith grabbed the opportunity to underline his swing bowling prowess by taking 33 wickets for South Wilts.
Hampshire Women's starlet Providence Cowdrill helped IBM Hursley win County 3 North with 32 wickets.
It was all in the Line of Duty for policeman Sam Godfrey to win the County 3 South batting prize with 772 runs for Cadnam, while Gregor McKenzie literally walked away with the County 4 North batting prize for Twyford.
Cricketers to receive their awards at the Hampshire League presentation dinner at the Ageas Bowl on Friday 8 November -
COUNTY DIV. 1: Suji Wickramasinghe (Burridge) - 629 runs
COUNTY DIV. 1: Ollie Green (Parley) - 36 wickets
COUNTY DIV. 2: Eric Linge (Ferndown Wayfarers) - 811 runs
COUNTY DIV. 2: Henry Smith (South Wilts) - 33 wickets
COUNTY DIV. 3N: Elliot Hennessey (Oakley) - 801 runs
COUNTY DIV. 3N: Providence Cowdrill (IBM Hursley) - 32 wickets
COUNTY DIV. 3S: Sam Godfrey (Cadnam) - 772 runs
COUNTY DIV. 3S: Ali Gajic (Verwood) - 35 wickets
COUNTY DIV. 4N: Gregor McKenzie (Twyford) - 729 runs
COUNTY DIV. 4N: Ollie Emslie (Wherwell) - 30 wickets
COUNTY DIV. 4S: Stuart Gurney (Ryde) - 660 runs
COUNTY DIV. 4S: Warren Turner (Railway Triangle)- 32 wickets
COUNTY DIV. 4W: James Brown (Burley) - 883 runs
COUNTY DIV. 4W: Marc Burton (Farley) - 35 wickets

At long last they've agreed on something !
It's taken a fair while, but news seeping out of Brussels suggests Michel Barnier, Jean-Claude Juncker, Angela Merkel and Boris are in agreement ...
The Southern Premier League Divisional 'Teams of the Season' have been picked and will be announced early next week, one per day.
Spokesman Donald Tusk said: "It's been a hard grind, so many aspects to consider. There's the hard border around Bemerton and Chapel Gate for starters. Can we do a trading deal with Ventnor and is Bashley (Rydal) a Dorset ground ?
"The team choices may not be to everyone's liking, but nor's Brexit by all accounts ..."

Alton's Adhay Gonella and Andover batsman/wicketkeeper Alex Ayers produced eye catching performances in the latest round of New South Wales Premier matches.
Because Alton frequently engage seam bowlers as overseas players, Gonella only gets the occasional opportunity to display his bowling skills - but, given a chance by his adopted Sydney club Campbelltown- Camden, he didn't disappoint.   In a 16-over spell he took 4-31 as opponents UNSW were dismissed for 227.
Ayers, meanwhile, snapped up four catches behind the stumps as Parramatta dismissed hosts Sydney for 248.  Ayers the opened  the batting and was 3 not out overnight.  Play resumes on Saturday.

Sixteen Hampshire clubs - Alton, Beaulieu, Burridge, Fair Oak, Grayshott, Havant, Hook & Newnham Basics, Hursley Park, Langley Manor, Longparish, Purbrook, Sparsholt, St Cross Symondians, Sway, Tichborne Park and Waterlooville - have been granted ECB ClubMark accreditation for 2018-2021.

South Wilts' pace bowler Luke Evans [pictured] has switched States to play his Aussie Grade cricket this winter. 
​Previously with the Victorian sub-district team Parkdale, Luke has crossed the New South Wales divide to play for St Patrick's in the Cricket Albury Wodonga competition and will debut in this weekend's back-to-back curtain raiser T20 matches.
The South Wilts connection remains at Parkdate, however, with Will Harries and teenager Jack Spearman having flown to Melbourne for their winter activities.

Island spin all-rounder Ben Attrill flew to Australia last night to spend the next six months honing his skills in South Western Australia county district cricket in the coastal town of Albany, a five-hour drive south of Perth.
The 18-year old, who is cutting his teenage teeth with Lymington in the ECB Southern Premier League, will play for Denmark in the Albany District League, where five of the six A-Grade clubs share the same turf pitches.
Attrill, who has deferred a placement at Oxford Brookes university to travel Down Under, got relatively few opportunities to make a significant impact Lymington, but was a leading light in the Isle of Wight U17 squad, hitting three fifty-plus scores in the ECB 50-over B Cup and another in the three-day county match against Dorset.
Attrill, who also took 19 wickets in ECB competitions with his off-breaks, will make his Danes debut in Saturday’s match against Railways.

Arthur Godsall has been named South Wilts' Cricketer of the Year after scoring 349 runs and taking 23 wickets for the Bemerton-based ECB Southern Premier League club.
The former Ealing all-rounder enjoyed a purple patch in early July, taking a personal best 6-21 as Alton were skittled for 44 before lunch and the following week struck a maiden SPL century against Basingstoke & North Hants.
Joe Cranch was 2nd XI player of the year - his 492 runs including a career-best 185* against Langley Manor, plus three other fifty-plus scores - while Henry Smith (in his fresher term at Nottingham University) was the lead third teamer, his 33-wicket haul also winning the Hampshire League County 2 bowling award.  Young James Brewer took 31 wickets in HCL cricket to win the 4th XI award.
Tim Cowley and James Wade, who have taken on a joint groundsman's role at Bemerton, were named senior and junior Clubmen of the Year, while the President's award went to scorer Adrian James.

​The Dorset Cricket Society has announced an attractive programme of speakers for the upcoming 2019/20 winter season, with former Hampshire captain Jimmy Adams, ex-Warwickshire & England opening batsman Dennis Amiss and past Zimbabwe skipper David Houghton all listed to appear in October.
The DCS meets every Thursday afternoon (from 1.45pm) throughout the close season at the Hurn Bridge Social Club, adjoining Christchurch FC and the Hurn Cricket Centre and membership is open to all cricket enthusiasts and comes highly recommended.   
The Dorset Cricket Society website is www.dorsetcricketsociety.co.uk and further details can be obtained from Graham Jones on 01202 248211.  Membership costs a mere £10 per annum and £3 per week.
Jimmy Adams will open the batting on Thursday 17 October, with Dennis Amiss (24 October) and David Houghton on 31 October.  Vic Marks, Paul Downton, Rev Andrew Wingfield-Digby, Alan Fordham (ECB Cricket Operations Manager) and Derek Randall in the subsequent batting order.

​Talented ​opening batsman/wicketkeeper Josh May, pictured celebrating a catch, has been named Basingstoke & North Hants’ Player of the Year. 
​In addition to making 283 runs in a demanding  role, May topped the Southern Premier League Division 2 wicketkeeping charts, with 24 dismissals, 15 catches and nine stumpings. He was awarded player of the year not only for his cricket but for all the help and dedication around the May’s Bounty club. 
​Joe Oates was named 1st XI player of the year.

​Emerging Hampshire Academy all-rounder Scott Currie has been named in a 16-strong England U19 squad set to tour the Caribbean in November and December.  
If the Poole-based prospect does well in the pre-Christmas tri-series against Sri Lanka and the West Indies in Antigua, he could be picked for the ICC Under-19 CWC in South Africa in February.
Currie’s Caribbean selection caps a superb summer for the Currie family. Elder brother Bradley won an ECB Southern Premier League championship winners medal with Bashley (Rydal) and is hot favourite to be named Young Cricketer of the Year.
Also in the England squad are Sussex's Horsham-raised batsman Tom Clark and the hard hitting Sam Young, late of Mark Garaway's Millfield, who played several times for Dorset this summer.
England, who have former Hampshire wicket-keeper Nic Pothas as fielding coach, will play two warm up matches against an Antigua U19 side before taking on Sri Lanka and West Indies in three matches at the Coolidge ground and the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium.   The tour begins on December 1.
​Picture: Roy Honeybone.

The Isle of Wight Under-17 side faces the camera before the three-day ECB County Championship match against Wiltshire at Newclose in July 2011.
As a matter of curiosity, how many of these lads are still playing ?

Standing (from left): Ollie Moseley, Tom Groves, Gary Cooper, Jack Lyons, Andy Davis, Henry Bartlett, Jordan Galsworthy. Front: Callum Miller, Harry Bradley, James Cheek, Billy Clark, Sam Rockley. 

Basingstoke & North Hants have received planning permission for a new state-of-the-art sports pavilion to replace the 154-year old building at May’s Bounty.
Basingstoke Sports and Social Club teamed up with architects Ayre Chamberlain Gaunt and project management consultancy PDCM to deliver the £2.6 million pavilion. 
The new look facility, which will serve and overlook both the May’s Bounty and Castle Field grounds, will be fitted with four unisex outdoor changing rooms, two squash changing rooms and two for officials. It also plans to add downstairs changing rooms and toilet facilities, helping to accommodate disabled players. 
As well as the sporting facility as part of the multi-million pound project there will be the inclusion of a new club bar with members’ lounge and a flexible function space with capacity for up to 150 people. 
Ayre Chamberlain Gaunt, based in Basing View, also hopes to bring the standards of May’s Bounty up so that county cricket can once again return to Basingstoke. 
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David Ayre, director of Ayre Chamberlain Gaunt, said: ‘We’ve been involved since very early on in the process working with Basingstoke Sports and Social Club, Hampshire Cricket and the 2 of 2 English Cricket Board so we’re delighted to get the go-ahead for this much-needed local hub for sports.” 
The design of the new facility consists of two carved brick blocks that come together to form a plinth that houses the changing room spaces. 
An external terrace wraps around the first-floor social spaces, providing 360-degree views of the surrounding sports pitches. A folded canopy marks the building as a landmark while sheltering the terrace. 
The grant of planning permission for the new sports pavilion is a timely boost for Basingstoke’s cricketers who are facing the likelihood of their two Southern Premier League teams and their 3rd XI in the Hampshire League all being relegated after a woeful summer. 

​Two promising Southern Premier League prospects, Alton’s Abhay Gonella and Andover batsman/wicketkeeper Alex Ayers have flown to Australia to spend the winter  enhancing their skills in the competitive and demanding arena of New South Wales Premier Cricket in Sydney.
A product of Guildford Royal Grammar School, Gonella [top left] has played for Alton for the past two seasons, hitting six scores of 50 or more in Premier Division matches.
He has deferred a three-year placement at the London School of Economics to join the Campbelltown-Camden Grade club.
Alex Ayers [top right] had a particularly fine summer in domestic cricket, scoring some 1,200 runs for Dauntsey’s School, near Devizes, and almost 500 for Andover, including two centuries, 135 against Rowledge and 122 v Ventnor. 
Ayers, 18, will play for Parramatta, where the late great Richie Benaud cut his teeth in club cricket before going on to captain Australia in 28 of his 63 Tests.
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* Photo credits - Abhay Gonella (Roy Honeybone) and Alex Ayers (Dave Vokes)

Former Hampshire Academy and Bashley (Rydal) left-arm quick Tom Barber, 24, has been released by Middlesex, having joined the club after a spell with the MCC Young Cricketers.
He made his County Championship debut for Middlesex v Glamorgan in 2018 and twice played T20 matches against Hampshire in front of capacity crowds under the Lord’s floodlights. 
​Barber has spent most of the past season playing Second XI Championship cricket and turned out for Harrow St Mary’s in the ECB Middlesex County League, taking nine wickets in 11 appearances.
On Barber departing the club, Middlesex Managing Director Fraser MBE said: “Tom Barber has the lot as a fast bowler. He is tall, left-arm, fast and has the ability to swing a cricket ball. Some bowlers possess one or two of these assets, very few three or four. 
“Our inability to develop this potential into the finished article, someone who can combine these assets with the ability to consistency hit a challenging length, has been a source of great frustration to everybody. Tom is a cracking lad who has worked hard and managed himself extremely well at Middlesex, and we wish him the best of luck in the next stage of his career.”
Barber himself commented: “I would like to thank the club for the opportunity, the fans and members for their ongoing support and would like to wish Middlesex every success moving forward”.
* The county rumour mill suggests that Barber could be joining Derbyshire.

Lymington stalwart Tony Wharton has been awarded a life-time achievement award at the NatWest Outstanding Service to Cricket Awards (OSCA) at the Ageas Bowl.
Tony, who has spent 30 years tirelessly working to improve cricket through the New Forest and particular his former clubs Langley Manor and New Milton and current club Lymington, received 41 per cent of the votes to attain the award ahead of Ray Holyer [Hampshire Association of Cricket Officials] and long serving Hursley Park cricketer and groundman Chris Westbrook.
Over and above his sterling work at Lymington, where he is treasurer and frequently first team scorer, Tony has been an ever present helping and coaching young cricketers. He was made a life member of the club in 2014. He has been treasurer of the Southern League and is president and former chairman of the South Hants Indoor Cricket League at Eastleigh.  
A carefree and cavalier opening batsman (and dibley dobley bowler) in his playing days, Tony Wharton has played cricket worldwide and once scored a century at Ventura on the Bournemouth & South Hampshire tour to California in 1989.  He is pictured in his prime chilling out after a long bowling stint at the Isolation Cavaliers ground in the West Indies, where he once worked and grew bananas.
 

Gosport Borough cricketer Jordyn Dore has been selected for England’s Learning Disability squad for the International Federation for Intellectual Impairment Sport (INAS) Global Games in Brisbane next month.
The Global Games will see more than 1,000 of the world’s best athletes with an intellectual impairment compete across nine sports at some of Brisbane’s iconic international sporting venues.
The Borough player and coach first impressed in Chance to Shine sessions at Baycroft School back in 2013, and was selected to join Hampshire's award-winning Irwin Mitchell Disability Programme.
Jordyn was part of Hampshire's disability team who were national champions in 2017 and 2018, Gosport's second team in the Hampshire Cricket League, as well as coaching the club's under 9s, women's softball and sessions run by the club's innovative "Privett Pavilion" community cafe.
“This is a great opportunity. It's been my goal from the start to represent England. Now having the chance to do it in Brisbane it's just amazing and the support has been brilliant which is really appreciated,” he said.
Nick Wheeler (Head Coach, Hampshire D40 Disability Squad) added: “I could not be prouder from a coach’s point of view. His dedication and hard work has shown the last two years and his selection is very much deserved.”
England and Wales Cricket Board are fully funding Jordyn, but his father Gary also needs to make the month-long trip due to the distance and duration.
If you would like to support the cost of Gary's travel and accommodation, this page - www.gofundme.com/f/help-get-jordan-to-australia - has been set up to which you can donate.

Tom Friend’s silverware haul continues to grow. Already a championship medal winner with Bashley (Rydal), Ventnor raised Friend has won the ECB Southern Premier Division batting award with 621 runs – and has now been named August ‘Cricketer of the Month’ by www.vimpsatthecrease.com website, the monthly awards being made in conjunction with Cricket-Hockey.com, the Downton-based sports equipment specialists.
​Friend began the month with a half-century against Alton, made three separate scores of 30 or more, but more specifically hit an unbeaten 84 against Bournemouth, an innings that secured the title for Bashley (Rydal).

Sarisbury Athletic’s Village Cup semi-final conquerors, Hertfordshire League club Reed carried off the trophy for a third time at Lord’s on Sunday – but their celebrations were dampened by a serious eye injury sustained by Houghton Main opening batsman Ian Simon.
Simon was not wearing a helmet when he hooked a short ball into his eye. He was rushed to hospital for tests, and underwent an operation to drain blood from the area. He had broken his cheekbone in several places. Fortunately, he remained conscious, and was asking for updates on the score from hospital.
With their opening batsman retiring hurt, Houghton Main managed just 160-8, and the team from the former colliery near Barnsley were unable to defend the modest target on a pacey Lord’s pitch on a warm September day, losing by seven wickets, with Reed skipper Tom Greaves hitting 67 not out and left-hander Rob Lankester 59.
Reed, fresh from clinching promotion to the Saracens Hertfordshire Premier League in 2020,  join Troon and St Fagan’s in lifting the Village Cup three times, having done so in 2012 and 2017. Only Woodhouse Grange (four) have won it more times than the Hertfordshire club.
The match took a worrying turn in the 13th over when a short of a length delivery which rose unexpectedly and Simon deflected it into his eye. Medical staff, along with Houghton Main’s No.4 batsman and neurosurgeon Dr Yousaf Rehman (who had just been dismissed) rushed onto the pitch to attend to Simon. There was a 20-minute break in play while he was stretchered off and taken to St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, accompanied by his family. He was set to remain in hospital for at least five days.
* The ECB’s Royal London national club championship final between Nantwich and Swardeston is at Lord’s on Monday, noon.

HARTLEY Wintney finished their Southern League Division Two campaign with their sixth straight win to end up finishing fourth in the table. 
Their season ended with a five-wicket win at Waterlooville, who were dismissed for 93, with James Beckwith ripping his way through the top order with an impressive 5-10 return in seven overs. 
Visiting Hartley won the toss and elected to bowl and James Beckwith ripped out the top order on his way to a very impressive 5-10 in seven overs. 
Fellow opening bowler Anthony Parson also took a wicket as none of the Ville top five made it into double figures. 
Some late resistance by Ash Silva (29) helped the home side nearly reach three figures, as Jamie Teale, Roy Cockram take wickets and Angus Brown grabbed two which saw them bowled out after 35.5 overs. Silva (3-9) did his best to keep his side in the game, but Hugo Hammond hit 23 and then an unbroken stand between Will Ross (18) and Matt Digweed (15) made sure Hartley's season ended with a super sixth victory.
Charles Janczur (3-18) and Suman Ganguly (2-3) reduced Paultons to 13-5 at Ripsley Park, where Scott Dawes (25) spared the visitors total embarrassment before spinner Oscar Amis (3-5) completed a 76 all out demolition. Liphook & Ripsley polished off the target inside 15 overs.

Totton & Eling have won the Southern Premier League Division 2 championship – despite losing FIVE of their last seven matches.
Yet they still managed to finish nine points clear of St Cross Symondians II, who stumbled in their last two games, critically the last one against Fair Oak, who beat them by ten runs.
Had that close-run affair at Lapstone Park gone the other way, celebrations would have been ringing out at the Green Jackets Ground, as opposed to Southern Gardens.
Ironically, Totton’s third successive defeat – by 61 runs at May’s Bounty – came against a Basingstoke & North Hants second team who simply had to win to have any chance of avoiding relegation.  Alas, eighth-placed Waterlooville had enough points in the bag to finish ten ahead of the Bountymen.
Scott Dyer (76) and Matt Thankachan (41) lifted Basingstoke from an uncertain 121-6 (Brighton Mugochi 4-23) to 209 against Totton, who dropped to 23-3 before Owen Morris (50) and Bothwell Chapungu (41) took them to a challenging 101-3.
But, once separated, the Totton innings collapsed to 148 all out against spin, with Keith Harris taking 3-23, and Matt Thankachan and Rakitha Perera two each.
Requiring four points from a possible 22 to ensure second place and hence promotion to SPL1, St Cross Symondians II fell to a narrow ten-run defeat against Fair Oak at Lapstone Park, but comfortably passed their points target.​
Charlie Gwynn's 83, aided by Tom Hockenhull (47) and Rhys Oxley (42), set up Fair Oak for a competitive 236-9. Having already ensured promotion at tea, St Cross set off in pursuit but lost wickets at crucial moments. Matt Howarth's 50 off 29 balls threatened to take the game away from the home team, but his departure meant that St Cross finished ten runs short at 226-9 (Dave Orchard 41). A win would have given  them the Division 2 league title as Totton and Eling continued their stuttering August run but remained at the top.

My dear old things !  Burridge CC are to host an Evening with retired BBC Test Match Special commentator Henry Blofeld at the Hamble Memorial Hall, High Street, Hamble-le-Rice, SO31 4JE on Thursday 3 October 2019 at 8.15pm.
Tickets for the evening, priced £40, which includes free food and drink, are already selling well, but if you fancy a top autumn cricket evening out then contact Robin O'Grady: [M: 07795 683868] or email robogrady@btinternet.com 

Alex Ayers and elder brother Charlie shared a double century third-wicket partnership as Andover went on a 324-run blitz at the expense of Southern Premier League Division 1 rivals Rowledge, whom they skittled for a meagre 70 to chalk up a massive 224-run victory.
Rowledge were already under the cosh when the brothers began their 206-run partnership, the third double hundred SPL stand by an Andover pair.
After a cautious start, the siblings proceeded to cause mayhem and thrash the Rowledge bowling to all parts of London Road.
Alex Ayers (right), who has tasted some Hampshire second team cricket since finishing at Dauntsey’s, ran up three sixes and 22 fours in a career-best 135 while Charlie, particularly brutal, pierced the boundary rope with two maximums and 13 fours on his way to 84.
Rowledge got some relief when the rain arrived with Andover 260-2 and the Ayers duo still going strong - with 12 overs still remaining. Ironically, they both perished to the emerging left-arm spin of Ollie Baker (2-44), but the onslaught continued with Nathan Birks (27) hitting three successive sixes as Andover powered to 324-9, a total trimmed by the rain break, with Rowledge set an improbable 295 off 41 overs.
Joe Randall emerged from the mauling with a creditable 5-77 for Rowledge, for whom the improbable became the impossible when, on a rain freshened surface, Babu Veettil (3-24) and Mike Adams (2-13) reduced them to 32-7.  Will Ryman (22) struck out in defiance before becoming one of four victims for Richard Taylor (4-19), whose tail end blitz left the visitors 70 all out.
Andover ended the season in a satisfactory fourth spot behind runners-up Sparsholt and Portsmouth, who each finished on a winning note.
Sparsholt won a low key affair at Steephill by three wickets after dismissing winless Ventnor for 115 (Hugh Calloway 32), while Portsmouth edged out Village Cup semi-finalists Sarisbury Athletic by seven runs in a rain cut meet at St Helen’s, where the city hosts successfully defended a trimmed 185 off 45 overs.
Portsmouth’s original 194 (Jack Marston 45, Tom Wallis 34, Alex Hammond 29) featured three-wicket returns by Phil Jewell 3-30 and Josh Hill 3-36.
But a remarkable spell of left-arm spin bowling by Andy Marston (3-1) put Sarisbury behind the clock.  Marston conceded only one run off his nine overs, eight of which were maidens, removing top scorer Tom Mills (32), Jack Lovett and the dangerous Josh Hill.   Dan Clouting (32), Chris Sanders and Phil Jewell kept SA in the hunt before they were dismissed for 178.
It was Sarisbury's fourth successive defeat since exiting the VC at Reed, who play Yorkshire's Houghton Main in Sunday's village final at Lord's.
 

SOUTHERN Premier League Division One champions Hook and Newnham Basics signed off their title winning campaign, with their 14th win out of 16 – their 17-run victory sentencing Old Tauntonians & Romsey to the second relegation spot alongside Ventnor.
Openers Harry Robson (13) and Daniel Moore (33) put on 33 after which the Hook innings was underpinned by a fine half century from Richard Willcock (51), who arrived at the crease with the score on 53 and departed when it was 166-8.
He shared a couple of handy partnerships with Josh Buckingham (20) and Rhodes Franklin (14) before Anik Divecha hit an unbeaten 15 as Hook finished on 192-9, spinner Rob Newman (4-34) and teenage left-armer James Trodd (3-34) taking seven of the wickets.
OTs reply got off to the worst possible start, as Joseph Vaughan was bowled first ball by Jack Murrell, pictured left..  Lanky left-armer Liam Shore (2-34) then removed Iain Woodhall, before Murrell struck twice more as the Romsey hosts found themselves 33-4.  But when Charlie King (43) and Harry Tulk (59) added 104 for the fifth wicket to take the score to 137, OTs looked as though they might pull off an unexpected victory. But a great run out by Divecha removed captain King to swing the game back in Hook’s favour. 
Opening bowlers Murrell and Shore returned and with it went the home side’s chances of victory.  Shore took one wicket and Murrell three more to take his tally to 6-40 for the game, his best return of the season since joining the newly crowned champions from Paultons. 
It was left to Ollie May to finish off the job with Buckingham snapping up his fourth catch of the game (and take his season’s tally to 27) as Hook finished their superb season in fine fashion.

George Marshall struck his second undefeated century of the season as Hambledon kept the promotion pressure firmly on Fawley with a handsome victory over Tichborne Park.
Playing for only the ninth time this season, Marshall hit 124 not out as Hambledon piled up 341-5 before rushing Tichborne Park out for 91 to win by 250 runs.  He made a career-best 154 against Fareham & Crofton in mid-summer.
But with Fawley defeating Hythe & Dibden in the Waterside derby, Hambledon had to settle for a third placed finish.
The scene was set for left-hander Marshall after Will Bond (50) and Portsmouth Grammar School’s Chris Pratt (46) had provided Hambledon with a century start.
They dropped from 121-1 to 185-5 (James Long 4-51), but that was as good as it got for Tichborne, who failed to take another wicket.
Marshall, with 23 fours in his 124, and Australian Luke Barber (51*), with a half-century on his Dons farewell before returning to his native Melbourne, took control with an unbeaten sixth-wicket stand of 166 which carried Hambledon to 341-5.
Due to some untimely weather interjections, Tichborne had seen four of their previous six matches cancelled.
No surprise then their ring rusty batsmen were rushed out for a meagre 91 (Lachan Jess 29), with Will Parvin taking 4-40. They ended the summer eight points behind promoted Fawley and, like Tichborne Park, lamenting the number of games – four in their case- los to the weather.      

                                           

​Fawley, Southern Premier League Division 3 runners-up
Back (from left): Jono Lush, Rob Leach, Sufian Munir, Nikhil Kadyan, Andy Parratt, Kieran Earl. Front: Adam Freeman, Bailey Parratt, Callum Earl, Will Crossley, Dave Streather. 

What a difference a year has made to Fawley’s fortunes !  Twelve months ago, finger nails were being bitten to the core as only three points separated them from the relegation trap door to Hampshire County Division One cricket.
A year on and the Watersiders are celebrating promotion into Southern Premier Division 2 as runners-up to Bashley (Rydal) II. Fawley were one of only three sides to topple the champions in their title winning 17-match season.
Fawley had to win their final match against near neighbours Hythe & Dibden to ensure Hambledon didn’t nick second place during their strong finish to the season.
But once the hugely influential Sufian Munir [left](3-22) reduced Hythe to 7-4 and later 48-6 when Dan Taylor (50) and Will McKay (33) began a partial rebuild.  Hythe reached 153-9 with Adam Freeman and Bailey Parratt sharing the other six wickets.
Craig Stow’s 4-33 return ensured Fawley wouldn’t have an easy ride. In fact, at 55-5 it was odds-on Hythe & Dibden – and Hambledon snatching that prize second place behind Bashley !
But Munir was still there – a situation that continued even with Fawley a healthier 104-7.  But Premier 3’s leading run maker (he finished the season with 807 league runs) prevailed, finding a reliable partner in Adam Freeman, whose 17 not out helped get the Holbury side home. Munir, cool as ever, finished with 72 not out, including ten boundaries.  It was a promotion clinching knock alright …