ECB SOUTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE
RESULTS - ROUND 4 - 27 MAY 2023

ECB PREMIER DIVISION

Totton & Eling 243 (Stephens 45, Elliott 43, Chapungu 39, Taylor 34, South 3-37) Alton 145 (Myers 55*, Ruffell 23, Harris 22, Mugochi 3-33, Bracey 3-48). Totton & Eling won by 98 runs.
Bashley (Rydal) 106 (F Gordon 31, Booth 5-17) St Cross Symondians 107-1 (Bransgrove 54*, Organ 29*). St Cross Symondians won by nine wickets.
Havant 255-9 (Metzger 95, Gadd 40, Middleton 30, Rushworth 4-40, Smith 3-49) Bournemouth 196 (Van Gool 57, Webb 31, Willoughby 24, Reynolds 3-26, Hindley 3-27). Havant won by 59 runs.
Lymington 200 (Abbas 51, Crabb 38, Cox 24, Goles 4-33) Burridge 158 (Hughes 39, Chowdhury 26, Berg 3-20). Lymington won by 42 runs.
South Wilts 216-9 (Rizvi 42, Degg 37, Mynott 37, Fairfax-Ross 33, Baker 4-29) Hampshire Academy 220-8 (Eckland 104*, Cheater 56, Burton 5-37). Hampshire Academy won by two wickets.

DIVISION 1

Andover 284-9 (Mutambami 81, O Williams 64    ) New Milton 153 (   ). Andover won by 131 runs.
Rowledge 177 (J Wish 60, O Ryman 27, A Neal 3-27, Brown 3-36) Basingstoke & North Hants 180-7 (Nurse 56, Wood 56). Basingstoke & North Hants won by three wickets.
Hambledon 198 (Pratt 39, LeClercq 49, Behrens 40, Boys 27) Calmore Sports 199-6 (Johns 78, Cook 23, LeClercq 3-23). Calmore Sports won by four wickets.
Hook & Newnham Basics 277-8 (H Robson 106, Murrell 39, C Calloway 3-46) Ventnor 278-6 (Thimodya 146, Mills 47). Ventnor won by four wickets. 
Sarisbury Athletic 239-8 (J Robson 76, Richardson 43, Wright 30, Kooner-Evans 3-43) Portsmouth 240-5 (J Marston 105, Hay 59, Daini 26*). Portsmouth won by five wickets.

DIVISION 2

Fair Oak 243 (G McKenzie 73, Reed 52, McNenney 35, Yegnasubramanan 35) Hartley Wintney 171 (Kerr 39, Mulvey 39, Roughley 31, M McKenzie 4-33). Fair Oak won by 72 runs.
OTs & Romsey 210-7 (King 75, Cowley 52, Peruzi 30*) Waterlooville 221-5 (McGregor 69, McCoy 45, Shephard 23, Silva 22*, Newman 3-40). Waterlooville won by five wickets. 
Portsmouth & Southsea 217-9 (T Benfield 44, Davies 36, Willey 30*, Green 3-45) Langley Manor 221-5 (Budd 79, Harris 68). Langley Manor won by five wickets.
Sparsholt 267-4 (W Berrill 114*, Frith 53, Robins 44, Ley 30*) Liphook & Ripsley 170 (   ). Sparsholt won by 97 runs.
St Cross Symondians II 341-3 (Trussler 193, Foster 69, Beetham 34, Howarth 33*) Hook & Newnham Basics II 146 (Rizwan 29, Light 29, Corbett 27, Hirst 3-20, Orchard 3-22). St Cross Symondians II won by 156 runs.

DIVISION 3

Bashley (Rydal) II 200-9 (Morris 54, Crisp 36, Parsons 24, Taylor 4-34) Gosport Borough 203-5 (Lunt 102, Richards 28, King 27). Gosport Borough won by five wickets.
Havant II 220 (P Hayward 43, Galliers 40, Turner 31, Jones 29, Venter 4-35) Trojans 93 (Matthews 4-25, Gardner 3-16, Hayward 3-19). Havant II won by 127 runs.
Paultons 244 (Drake 75, Richman 69, Barton 25, Khan 3-45, Reader 3-45) Fareham & Crofton 155 (Stoddart 41, Briggs 25*, Dawes 3-22, Barton 3-24, Smith 3-31). Paultons won b 89 runs.
Parley 114 (Waller 4-28, Bernard 3-39) Sway 118-7 (Grasham 20*, Green 3-30). Sway won by three wickets.
South Wilts II 219-9 (R Pitman 71, S Pitman 45, Falconer 32, Smith 3-49) Fawley 72 (Lewis 5-19). South Wilts II won by 147 runs.

Hampshire’s Fletcha Middleton will be hoping to take his promising County Championship form into Havant’s ECB Southern Premier Division challenge against Bournemouth at Havant Park, 12.30.
The Fair Oak raised 21-year old, who has had stints at Alton and Totton & Eling since graduating from the Hampshire Academy, has twice made 50-plus Championship scores in addition to three more in the 40s.
Bournemouth will be captained by Luke Webb in the absence of Chris Park. Dan Conway is also missing.
Havant: Middleton, Hopson, Metzger, Gadd.H, Stone, Walker, Hindley, Reynolds, Morgan, Jerry, Ziemkendorf
Bournemouth: Webb L (capt) Willoughby, Park N,Van Goole, Freak, Pack, Rogers, Hurley, Rushforth, Smith, Breckon. 
Ed Ellis returns to skipper St Cross Symondians, who continue their defence of the championship against Bashley (Rydal) at the Fagan Field, where they were formally crowned last September.
Michael Booth is back from Durham University and should be available for the remainder of the season.
St Cross Symondians’ ECB Royal London national club championship tie against Taunton Deane on Sunday is off as the WEPL Premier Division side have conceded.
Either Potterne or Bath based Landsown will come to the Green Jackets for the regional final next month.
Bashley (Rydal): W Trippcony, B Francis, P Holly, M Porter, F Gordon, J Digby, G Pardoe,  Mortimore, O Webber, S. Wilson, J Huns.
St Cross Symondians: Ellis, Mumford, Foyle, Haworth, Booth, Beer, Lewis, Organ, Bransgrove, Woodruff, Gwynn 
Jack Mynott strengthens South Wilts batting against the Hampshire Academy on Spring vice-presidents day at Bemerton.
South Wilts: Degg, Stearman, Mynott, Broderick, Draper, Rowe, Rivzi, Fairfax, Huntley, Grant, Burton 
Academy: Eckland, Cheater, La Fontaine Jackson, Ashman, Kelly, Ewright, Jack, Prichard, Baker, Gadsby, Basey.
Freddie Egleston returns from Leeds & Bradford University for Alton’s visit to Totton & Eling.
Totton & Eling: Joe Baker, Bothwell Chapungu, Harry Stevens, Josh Elliot, Josh May,  Bright Mugochi, Billy Blyghton, Josh Taylor, Sam Beer, Joe Bracey, Alex Adlam.
Alton: Harris, South, Egleston, Ruffel, Myers, MP Heffernan, MJ Heffernan, Gadsby, Sumner, Walters, Varney.
Kam Dhariwal, who made 168 against the Hampshire Academy last week,is a notable absentee for Lymington against Burridge at the Sports Ground.

Ventnor are preparing to take their run guns to Hook & Newnham Basics tomorrow – hoping for a better outcome than on their previous trip to Basingstoke a fortnight ago.
On that occasion and bereft of any meaningful pre-season practice, they lost to the Bountymen.
But after thrashing Calmore Sports last weekend, Ventnor are bristling with confidence for what is a dress rehearsal for next Sunday’s national Village Cup county final at the KGV.
Tom Friend and Dineth Thimodya, who butchered the Calmore bowling last weekend, make the trip up the M3, but Josh Buckingham is again missing for the Hook Army
Hook: Lockwoood, Warner, Robson, Buckingham M, May, Neville, Armstrong, Murrell, Gardner, Watts, Divecha.
Ventnor: Woodhouse, Bartlett, C Calloway, H Calloway, Edwards, Friend, Mills, Morgan, Snell, Thimodya, Whyte.
Sarisbury Athletic give a debut to past Totton & Eling all-rounder Jalil Richardson against winless Portsmouth at Allotment Road.   Ricky Rawlins is back.
Sarisbury Athletic: J Hill, Lovett, Grierson, Rawlins, Robson, Feltham, Franklin, Wright, Holzmann, S Hill, Richardson.
Opening batsman Chris Pratt returns from a working stint at the IPL to bolster Hambledon’s prospects at Calmore Sports.  Teenager Ben Reilly also returns.
Hambledon: Chris Pratt, Spencer Leclercq, Justin Behrens, Henry Glanfield, Charlie Boyd, Darryn Stares, Dan Mugford, Ben Reilly, Mark Butcher, James Restall, Ollie Bembridge 
In the other SPL1 match Andover host New Milton at Batchelors Barn Road.
Andover: Ayers, Williams, O Banks-Williams, J Banks-Williams, Jansen, Nyumbu, Mutumbami, Adams, Veettil, Hooper, Knight
Hartley Wintney and Portsmouth & Southsea, who share the Division 2 leadership after two games, have home advantage in round 3.
Hartley host Fair Oak on the historic Cricket Green, while promoted P & S look to secure a third successive win when Langley Manor visit St James’ Park.
Roy Cockram, who hit a half-century in last week’s win over Hook & Newnham Basics II, is unavailable, but Scott Baldwin should be an ideal replacement.
Hartley Wintney: Hammond, Kerr, Williams, Roughley, Baldwin, Mulvey, Ross, Teale, Parson, Philpott, Asmat.
Scott Dyer, Hook & Newnham Basics’ marquee close season switch from Basingstoke & North Hants, is optimistic the 50 he scored against Hartley Wintney will earn him a top six batting slot against St Cross Symondians.
Hook & Newnham Basics II: Light, Moore, Love, Rizwan, Dyer T, Corbett, Allnutt J, Dyer S, Dovey, May O, Clarke.
Winless pair Liphook & Ripsley and Sparsholt go head-to-head at Ripsley Park, while Waterlooville will need to set fields carefully to curb Charlie King’s aggression at the top of the OTs & Romsey order.

Totton & Eling are the first club to receive a point deduction under the ECB Southern Premier League's strengthened disciplinary procedure. 
Concerned at the rising number of disciplinary cases in recent seasons - 11 players were banned in 2021 and 17 last year – the Premier League is now hitting clubs with points penalties when players are banned (whether suspended or not)
A toughening up of the disciplinary rules was unanimously adopted by clubs at last November's league annual meeting.
The rules agreed to by clubs allow the league to invoke the deduction in either the current season, or next year depending on the timing of the charge.
A Level 1 player offence (including damaging equipment, low level dissent, excessive appealing or using obscene gestures) now attracts a one-point deduction, a Level 2 infraction two points, with the rate of deduction increasing for the more serious level 3 and level 4 offences.
Local university student Josh Taylor is the first Premier Division player to be banned this season, having been reported for abusive remarks towards an opponent in Totton & Eling's defeat by Havant last weekend. 
He will sit out Totton's first all-day 'time' pennant match at Burridge next Saturday, with T & E deducted a point under the process.
League Chairman Steve Vear MBE said 'the unanimous agreement at the AGM to follow the lead of some other premier leagues to deduct points from the league table following a ban is a sad yet necessary step to ensure we continue to send the message that poor behaviour and breaches of the code of conduct is simply not acceptable.
"This, together with a change to our club charter, requiring club leaders to take pro-active steps in managing player behaviors which we will be holding them account to will hopefully help to reduce the number of issues through the 2023 and 2024 season." 

Sway are unchanged and at full strength for the top Southern Premier Division 3 showdown against Parley at Station Road, 12.30. 
The match features the two most recently promoted clubs out of the Hampshire League, the pair having won their opening games – Sway against South Wilts and Bashley (Rydal) second teams, and Parley in relatively low scoring affairs over Havant and Trojans. 
Parley make one change with Owen Morris, late of Totton & Eling, returning to his roots. He last played for Parley in 2017, when they were in HL County Division 2.
Sway: Tim Noble, John Walter, Will Crossley, Alex Hall, Dave Steadman, Hugh Bernard, Greg Jones, Jon Grasham, Richard Thomas, Steve Howe, Jon Waller. 
Parley: Jacques, Collins, Morris, Bragginton, Barber, Laird, Embalagama, Green, Powell, Nicholls, Avoth.
Gosport Borough, who joint top the log after back-to-back wins over Fareham & Crofton and South Wilts, make one change - and one which should pack a punch – with seamer Muhammad Ali returning from injury and replacing the all-round talents of Charlie Pennicott against bottom side Bashley (Rydal) II. 
Bashley were on the receiving end of a run mauling from Sway last week and skipper Phil Morris will demand far greater accuracy fron his bowlers at Privett Park.
Gosport Borough: Lunt, King, V.Richards, Harris, Adams, Taylor, Kitchin, Regan, Prathapasinghe, Ali, J.Richards. 

​Neighbours Fareham & Crofton expect to be without their captain James Headen for the forseeable future following a back injury sustained against Fawley last week.
Left-hand opener Tom Kent will lead the troops at Paultons, whose Australian all-rounder Callum Barton shone at Havant last week, scoring 68 and taking five wickets - in a losing cause !
Fareham & Crofton: Tom Kent, Angus Southon, Jez Bulled, Craig Jeffery, Morgan Frost, Sam Stoddart, Luke Gould, Shahryar Khan, Pete Briggs, Dan Reader, Andrew Martin. 
In the other round 4 matches, Fawley host South Wilts II and Trojans entertain Havant II.

St Cross Symondians are through to the ECB national club championship regional final without needing to bowl a ball in this weekend's scheduled semi-final tie at the Green Jackets.
Having beaten Corsham and Bedminster in the previous rounds, St Cross were drawn at home to another WEPL Premier Division side Taunton Deane, but the Somerset side has conceded the match.
St Cross will now host either Potterne or Lansdown in the west group regional final at the Green Jackets on Sunday 11 June 2023. 

Stuart Shapland played a real captain's role, leading from the front as Hampshire Seniors put their first points on the board in the ECB 50-plus County Championship with a narrow two-wicket win over Cornwall in Falmouth.
He took 3-42 with the ball and later top scored with 69 as Hampshire successfully chased down a Cornwall total of 237-8.  Paul Burrows (33) and Andy Parratt (30) did their bit up front, as did Pete Hayward (31) later, but it was left to Brendan Fourie, with 25 not out, to get Hampshire across the line after eight wickets had fallen.
The Isle of Wight also have a win on the board after beating the Channel Islands at Shanklin. Mark Price (50) and Kerry Rice (33) top scored in the IWCB's 153.  One time KES student Gordon Irish (41) top scored for the CI before Rice took 3-11 to win the game.
The IWCB also gave a good account of themselves in a high scoring 16-run defeat by group table topping Devon, Shanklin's Andy White hitting 125.

Hugh Bernard clubbed 64 off 36 deliveries as Sway ran up a formidable 259-6 before inflicting an overwhelming 107-run defeat on Southern Premier Division 3 neighbours Bashley (Rydal) seconds.
The one-time Kent and England U19 all-rounder hit six giant sixes out of the Fagan Field as Sway cashed in on some wayward Bashley bowling - they conceded 48 extras, 41 of them wides, James Ragettli-Cross 22 of them - after Will Crossley (52) and Alex Hall (34) having set up a comfortable launch pad.
Bashley, who used eight bowlers, had little to offer to stem the tide. Thereafter, it was left to the undefeated pair of Jon Grasham (25) and Greg Jones (13) to crank up the total to 259-6. In consolation, home skipper Sam Read took 2-48.
Bashley’s top five succumbed to the incisive away swing of Jon Waller whose opening spell of 4-38, broke the back of their reply at 91-5. Alex Turner (35) looked in good form until he offered a skier to the faultless hands of Bernard, the first of his three catches. 
Simon Morris (27) and Sam Scott (28) attempted to salvage batting points until Grasham (3-21), Richard Thomas (1-29) and a brilliant return catch by Dave Steadman (2-36) ended the issue at 152 all out.

Sway go head-to-head with recent arch Hampshire League rivals Parley at Station Road on Saturday (1230), last year’s CD1 runners-up having also won their opening two SPL3 games, the most recent by three wickets against Trojans. 
Trojans lost their first five wickets with only 36 runs on the board, with three of the dismissed batsmen making ducks.  However, opener Ed Boyd made 41 out of 65 before he was sixth out.  Captain Piero Perera and Nisar Ahmad 49 for the seventh wicket, but when Ahmad was out for 26, the next three wickets fell for the addition of only four further runs, with Perera 23 not out in a total of 118 all out, with four of their batsmen being out lbw. 
Parley made a brisk start, and after Tim Felstead took a wicket in his first over they were 35-1 after seven overs.  However despite double figure scores from Marcus Bragginton, Tom Jacques. Roshan Embalagama and Kieran Laird, excellent ten-over spells by Jamie Donaldson (2-15) and Luke Dimmick (4-19) meant that Parley found themselves 91-7 with 28 runs still required, but Spencer Savage and Bo Powell (18*) saw them home without further loss. 

Jez Bulled was left marooned on 98 not out but, worst still, finished on the losing Fareham & Crofton side as Fawley’s West Indian left-hander Tishawn Francis swatted a late half-century to swing the Southern Premier Division 3 match at Bath Lane. 
That wasn’t the end of Fareham’s woes as skipper and lead seam bowler James Headen suffered a back injury shortly after tea and was unable to bowl. He could be absent for a week or three, leaving Fareham’s seam bowling options bare, Oli Southon and Ben White having joined Burridge pre-season. 
Former Havant gloveman Bulled was at the crease early as opener Angus Southon was dismissed without scoring for the second week running, but his second wicket stand of 124 with Tom Kent (60) put Fareham in the box seat. Craig Jeffery (20) pushed the tea-time total to 229-4.  
Brad Merritt hit 59 for the Oilmen but the outcome was in the balance when he was fifth out with the Fawley score on 156, Jeffery (3-44) having teased three poles with his leg spin. 
But Fareham were unable to contain Tishawn Francis, who smashed four sixes in a game changing 51 not out, or Callum Earl (20 not out) who swung it in Fawley’s favour with an unbroken sixth wicket partnership of 77. 
Promoted Fareham, who have now lost their opening two league games, didn’t help themselves by sending down 32 wides in an extras total of 45. 
Gosport Borough, who trounced Fareham in their May 13 opener, are joint top of Division 3 following a second consecutive win.  They backed up their nine-wicket victory over Fareham a 44-run success against South Wilts 2nds at Bemerton. 
Gosport posted 183 all out, although they would probably have hoped for more at 51-0 and later 155-4. Aussie Ollie Lunt (21) and Gavin King, whose 37 off just 36 balls contained seven fours, got them off to a strong start before Alex Adams struck 53 including a six fours and a six. 
Mark Anderson Emm took the last six wickets as Gosport crumbled from a threatening 154-4, but their 183 all out (Rob Pitman 2-15 off ten overs) proved too many for South Wilts, even with Tom Morton and James Hayward in their batting line up. 
Hayward top scored with 34 and Tom Bolam made 29, but Morton was trapped leg before for six at 27-1, after which it was uphill for South Wilts, who were dismissed for 139, Scott Taylor taking 3-6. 
Hampshire Seniors star Peter Hayward made key contributions with bat and ball as Havant 2nds defeated Paultons by 59 runs. 
First, he came in at No 7 to top score with an unbeaten 53 with nine fours and a six off 51 balls. After being 68-4, Havant recovered to post 191 (Callum Barton 5-35) with Hayward and tailender Henry Pelling-Smith (19) adding 44 for the ninth wicket.  Teenager Ben Feeney earlier hit an eye catching 44. 
Paultons must have fancied their chances when they reached 102-3 in reply with Aussie Barton 68 not out.  But Hayward trapped the Sydney based all-rounder leg before, triggering a collapse that saw the visitors lose seven wickets for 29 runs to be 132 all out, Ali Gardner taking 4-25.. 

Seamer Shafeh Asmat and Aussie leg spinner Lachlan Roughley shared eight wickets as Hartley Wintney thumped neighbours Hook & Newnham Basics seconds to end the round 3 programme joint top of Southern Premier Division 2.
Their respective four wicket hauls – Asmat, with 4-28, hit the Hook top order and Roughley, in a miserly ten-over spell of 4-12, the lower order – as the visitors collapsed to 79-8 before mounting a late rearguard action.
Scott Dyer, Hook’s expensive winter signing from May’s Bounty, hit back with a defiant 50 and shared a last-wicket stand of 54 with James Dovey (14 not out) as Basics rallied to post 149.
Hartley Wintney went on to win by seven wickets, Hugo Hammond (56) and Roy Cockram (55) hitting half-centuries after Oli May had struck twice for Hook.
Fair Oak got their Southern League Division 2 campaign under way at the third time of asking, but never recovered from a poor start against OTs & Romsey at Lapstone Park and finished up on the wrong end of a four-wicket defeat.
Oaks dipped from 39-0 to 48-4 against Vikram Dawson (3-28) and miserly left-armer Matt Bampton (2-15).  They then rallied, but with Joe Vaughan taking 2-25 it was left to lower-order duo Matt White (26* and Ben Smith (20), to give Fair Oak a competitive total of 137-9. 
OTs & Romsey started sluggishly, too, with spinners Lewis Goodyear (2-19) and Monty McKenzie (2-29) keeping the brakes on.  At one stage the visitors were in trouble at 85-6, but opener Charlie King refused to be budged.  Rob Newman shrugged a finger injury and  broke the shackles with the match’s top score, 37 not out off 31 balls, and steered his side to victory at 141-6 with nearly five overs to spare.  King carried his bat for an unbeaten ten.
Joseph Mitchell took four wickets on his delayed SPL debut as Waterlooville defeated Liphook & Ripsley at Rowlands Avenue. After their first two league fixtures of the season were cancelled due to bad weather, Ville won by 22 runs.
Mitchell - who skippered the University of Sussex in 2022 as well as playing club cricket for Belhus in the Essex League - bagged 4-30 as Liphook, asked to chase 158 for victory, were dismissed for 135.
Introduced into the attack as first change, Mitchell struck twice early as Liphook collapsed from 30-0 to 33-4. Sam Hillman (3-49) was second-highest wicket-taker.
Having been put in, Ville had slumped to 36-3 with Kiwi Josh McGregor - back for a second season with the club - third out for a duck.
Jon Hudson (34) and No 6 Alex Shephard (33) were the highest scorers with the bat, while 30 extras (24 wides) were crucial in the final reckoning.

​Sparsholt lost nine wickets for 64 runs after getting themselves in a strong position against Portsmouth & Southsea, last year’s Southern Premier Division 3 champions.
Tom Berzins and Will Berrill both made 39 in an opening stand of 74, which Matt Robins expanded to 105-1 before the innings imploded against the P & S spinners.
Max Goddard took 3-27 and Ewen Mansford and Ben Saunders two wickets each as teenager Tom Ley (26) apart, Sparsholt’s batting fell to pieces and to 169 all out, the last four wickets falling for six runs.
Southampton University student Mansford, who made 74 and later took six wickets in Southsea’s opening day win over Liphook & Ripsley, found that cricket can be a great leveller when Ley bowled him first ball.
That was as good as it got for Sparsholt as Matt Benfield (75 not out) and Shaun Briggs, with an unbeaten 71, peppered the boundary to sweep P & S to a nine-wicket victory at the start of the 24th over. 
The pair hit seven sixes and 18 fours between them.
P & S have won both their opening games - they beat Liphook & Ripsley in round 2 - and host Langley Manor at St James' Park on Saturday, 1230.
* Langley Manor's scheduled match against St Cross Symondians II was cancelled due to a waterlogged Knellers Lane outfield.

Tom Friend marked his Steephill return with a boundary strewn 156 not out as Ventnor crushed Southern Premier Division 1 rivals Calmore Sports by nine wickets, chasing down the visitors' 238-8 with 20 overs to spare.
It was Friend's first competitive appearance in the bowl since August 2018 after which he joined 2019 Premier Division winners Bashley (Rydal).  It was his 11th competitive century, the highest of which came in 2017 when he made an unbeaten 213 for York where he was working at the time.
Friend cleared the Steephill boundary rope on ten occasions and also hit 15 fours, dominating a 183-run opening stand with Sri Lankan Dineth Thimodya, who made 74.
Earlier, Will Brewster (72) and Ben Johns (59) shared a 110-run start for Calmore, who fell away to 238-8 having been 163-1 before Dipenjay Dey (42) propped up the middle-order.

Matt Hooper made his highest SPL score and Charlie Ayres weighed in with a five-wicket haul as Andover beat Portsmouth by 26 runs on Southsea seafront to record a second consecutive Southern Premier Division 1 win. 
Elevated in the batting order, Hooper made an important 66 – an innings which shaped Andover’s 217 and enabled the Lions to nick a single-point lead over Basingstoke & North Hants at the top of the embryo league table. 
Hooper normally bats in Andover’s lower middle order and, as a consequence, has only four fifty-plus scores on his CV, but the former Lions captain played a key role, steering the side to 159-5 with one or two hiccups along the way. 
Glyn Treagus went cheaply, but teenager Oli Williams (39), ‘Richie’ Mutambami (24) and Matt Knight (35) provided invaluable support before Aidan Jansen (17) and Mike Adams made handy runs at the end. 
Jack Marston (33) and Dan Wimble (34) eased Portsmouth to a promising 125-3 when Ayres ripped through the middle order, with a five-wicket spell of 5-25 which sent the hosts crashing to 139-8. 
Steve Warner (26 not out) and Reuben McArdle (18) tried in vain to rescue the situation as Portsmouth were dismissed for 191.  

Lewis Watts and Aniket Divecha ran amok with four wickets each as Hook & Newnham Basics skittled Southern Premier Division 1 hosts New Milton for a meagre 40 at Fernhill.
The pair underlined the importance of bowling a straight line as they hit the Milton stumps five times, trapped another batsmen leg before and a seventh caught behind.
Seamer Watts took 4-12 and Divecha 4-11 as New Milton lost three wickets with the score on ten and another four as they lurched to 25-7.
The seven wides Hook sent down exceeded the amount of runs any New Milton player made with the bat. There were nine extras all told, with Milton skipper George Watts having the dubious honour of being top individual scorer with six not out.
George Watts (2-19) knocked over two Hook batsmen before Harry Warner (16) and Harry Robson (17) completed the formalities of an eight-wicket win.
Nathan Feltham belted five sixes and four boundaries in a quick-fire 59 which put Sarisbury Athletic firmly in the driving seat against Rowledge at School Road.
Sarisbury were already going quite nicely through Chris Sanders (40), Josh Hill (28) and Jack Robson (32) when Feltham launched his firework display, taking the visitors to 223-7.
Rowledge slumped to 32-3 in reply with opener Ricky Yates (3) run out by Josh Hill, Max Martin (0) dismissed by Australian Kegan Holzmann, and Ollie Ryman (0) losing his wicket to Jordan Wright.
Young Australian Connor Cook (52) top scored but brothers Josh Hill (3-13) and Sam Hill (3-34) helped dismiss Rowledge for 142.

Joe Oates held the middle-order together as Basingstoke & North Hants almost allowed a promising position to slip from their grasp at Southern Premier Division 1 newcomers Hambledon.
He made a crucial 75 and shared an important stand with youngster Neil Shelar (35) as they recovered from an uncertain 138-5 to post a match winning 262-8, writes Mike Vimpany.
Basingstoke went on to restrict the Dons to 191-8 and record a second consecutive win by 71 runs.
Matt Deadman (23) and Dubs Wood (22) provided Basingstoke with a solid start after the visitors had surprisingly been put into bat in the Ridge Meadow sun shine.
South African Justin Behrens, who finished with 4-40, made a couple of breakthroughs, bowling Dean Nurse and then Brad Neal (27), who had begun to kick start things alongside Oates.
It was the 83-run partnership between Oates and Shelar that asserted Basingstoke’s position – the teenager, whose unbeaten 59 did much to secure the previous week’s win over Ventnor, dropping a firm hint for a higher slot in the batting order.
The pair perished within one run of each other leaving New Delhi leg spinner Aarav Garg (20) and Laurence Benge (14) to add a precious unbeaten 40 for the ninth wicket.
Hambledon made an encouraging start through the Marshall brothers James (34) and George (22), only to fall away once Wood (3-24) had dismissed the siblings.
Behrens, who enjoyed a splendid winter season for Western Province CC in Cape Town, made 44 but  Jonty Oliver was to all intents and purposes left marooned as he struck an unbeaten 50 in a losing cause.
Basingstoke’s four-pronged spin attack is going to be a handful for opposing sides this summer and both Ash Neal (3-34)and Alistair Brown (2-33) made inroads as Basingstoke clinched their second win.

King Edward VI sixth former Kamran Dhariwal has been named Southern Premier League 'Cricketer of the Week' for Round 3 after scoring a thumping 168 for Lymington against the Hampshire Academy at the Ageas Bowl Nursery Ground.
He celebrated his career best score only days before starting his A-level examinations, after which he plans to go to university and onward to a career in medicine.
The 18-year old certainly let his bat do the talking, hitting eight sixes and 14 fours in his career-best innings, scored off 104 balls. 
Dhariwal shared a double-century fourth-wicket stand with Ryan Scott, who hit an accomplished 101 as Lymington amassed a towering 409-6, the second highest Premier Division total behind 412-6 made by St Cross Symondians against Bashley (Rydal) in 2021.
Hampshire Academy replied with 265 all out, Jude Wright making 88 and Ben Mayes 45.  Asad Abbas and Dan Cox shared six of the wickets.  Lymington won by 144 runs.

​Opening bowlers Richard Jerry and Sonny Reynolds shared six wickets as Havant defeated Totton & Eling at Southern Gardens.
Replying to the visitors’ 267-5 total, Totton lost opener Joe Baker first ball - trapped leg before by Jerry (3–32).  Baker topped the HL Division 2 batting charts with Locks Heath in 2022.
Fellow opener Bothwell Chapungu (9) was caught by Harry Gadd off the bowling of Reynolds.  And the hosts were 26-3 when Reynolds (3-26) tempted former Berkshire all-rounder Harry Stephens (0) to edge behind. 
South African Josh Elliott, who enjoyed a fine summer with Colchester & East Essex last term,  hit 58 at more than a run a ball but Totton were dismissed for 169 to lose by 98 runs.  It was Totton's first SPL match, their round 1 and 2 matches having been cancelled.
The final wicket was taken by Chris Morgan, who was playing his first SPL match since 2021 - having missed all of last season following extensive knee surgery.
George Metzger (54) had earlier top scored for Havant for the second league game running, after skipper Ben Walker (48) and Pete Hopson (22) had opened with a stand of 76.
Harry Gadd hit 41 off 45 balls before evergreen Richard Hindley – who celebrated his 48th birthday last month – struck an unbeaten 44 off 37 balls with six fours.

Ollie Southon [pictured] tore through Alton’s top order as Burridge continued their winning start to the ECB Southern Premier League season.
Back at the Botley Road club after a season playing for Fareham & Crofton in the top flight of the Hampshire League, Southon bagged 4-14 off seven overs as Alton were routed for 77.
Southon - the leading wicket-taker in the HL in 2022 with 42 victims - dismissed the visitors’ top four as Alton, who had produced a surprise win against Havant the week before, dipped to 36-4.
He removed openers Daniel Harris (0) and Tom South (13) before having Sam Ruffell (8) and skipper Scott Myers (0) both caught by Will Donald.
Fit again Sullivan White (3-10) and Donald (2-5) also claimed cheap wickets as Alton were bowled out off the first ball of the 39th over having been put into bat on a damp surface. Extras (29) was their top score.
Alton’s miserable score ensured Burridge’s South African import Mathew Goles wouldn’t produce a repeat of his stunning debut.
A week earlier, Goles had blitzed 147 as Burridge defeated the Hampshire Academy at The Ageas Bowl.  But the Cape Town run gun did dominate the all-South Africa joust with countryman Bash Walters, whose three overs cost 25 runs.
This time Goles struck five fours off 27 balls, ending unbeaten on 35 as his side cantered to an eight-wicket win in only 12.1 overs.  Skipper Joe Collings-Wells (29) helped Goles put on 52 for the opening wicket. Hilio De Abreu (10) was the other batter dismissed in what was his final appearance for Burridge before returning to his native Mother City.

​Hampshire chief executive Rod Bransgrove and his wife Mandy looked on with unbridled joy as their son Jack hit his maiden century to guide St Cross Symondians to a six wicket win over South Wilts and notch a second consecutive ECB Southern Premier Division victory. 
The 28-year old hit a boundary strewn and match winning 122 as St Cross successfully chased down South Wilts’ 222 to win with 13 of the 50 overs to spare. 
“It was a great feeling. The disappointment of being caught on the boundary for 99 at Totton & Eling in my first St Cross season has been bugging me for the past ten years, so I can now put that behind me,” he laughed. 
With pinch hitter Tom Foyle unlikely to be available for a large chunk of the summer, Bransgrove has been elevated from his normal middle-order berth to open the innings – and he certainly cashed in against South Wilts. 
He struck three sixes and 18 fours – 90 of his 122 runs coming in boundaries – and shared a match defining century stand with Charlie Mumford (51), who scored a third successive fifty. 
“Going in at the top gives me a great opportunity to build an innings, may be with more responsibility attached to my game, but my attacking instincts aren’t going to change.  I’m always going to play with positive intent.  
“Having my parents here to see my maiden century was very special,” he added. 
Bowlers are seldom able to contain Bransgrove at the crease and by the time Tom Lewis (2-32) broke through with the St Cross reply at 52, he had already smacked two sixes and seven fours ! 
There was to be no respite as Bransgrove, using his long reach, continually breached the rope and by the time he was dismissed St Cross had posted 194 and were within touching distance of the finish line. 

Simon Woodruff and Charlie Gwynn completed the formalities with 13 overs to spare. 
A calamitous batting collapse in which six wickets fell for 30 runs cost South Wilts the initiative, the visitors plummeting from 128-2 to 158-8.  
Aided by some indifferent bowling and sloppy out-cricket, South Wilts got away to a fine start and were rattling along at almost seven runs an over when opener James Degg (39) gifted Charlie Mumford a stumping off Charlie Gwynn (3-36).  By then South Wilts were 80 without loss after 11 overs. 
Prior to that, Australian Sam Beer and Harry Foyle struggled to find their line, with 17 extras (mainly wides) boosting the scoring rate.  
South Wilts lost Peter Rowe at 110, but it was the departure of Jack Stearman that triggered the collapse.   
The bespectacled left-hander looked in good nick, playing some flowing extra-cover drives in an eye-catching 52 before being trapped leg before wicket by Felix Organ (2-25). 
Symondians’ three-pronged spin attack carved through the South Wilts middle-order – Harry Broderick (18) holing out at deep mid-wicket before Mo Rizvi and Archie Fairfax-Ross departed in successive deliveries. 
Four wickets had fallen for five runs as South Wilts lurched to 158-8 when Matt Burton joined teenager Matt Falconer (15) for a late rally which yielded 47 runs and at least gave the visitors a modest total to defend. 
Burton, now a regular for Hampshire seconds, biffed 38 before Ben Foster (2-9) dismissed both the ninth-wicket pair to leave South Wilts 222 all out.  
After that, Bransgrove took centre stage …. 

Matt Buckingham (left) and Harry Warner (right), who hit half-centuries in Hook & Newnham Basics’ Village Cup win over Hambledon.
 
Hook & Newnham Basics will face Ventnor in the national Village Cup county final at the KGV on Sunday week, June 4 after a nervous two-wicket semi-final win over Hambledon.
It looked as though Hook would cruise past Hambledon’s 223-4 when Harry Warner (81) shared a century opening stand with Tom May (49) then put on 87 with Matt Buckingham (55) but, after reaching 193-2, the innings imploded with five wickets falling for 18 runs.
But from an uneasy 211-7, Hook scrambled across the line, spinner Jonty Oliver taking 3-60.
Hambledon’s total was built around George Marshall (77), who enjoyed partnerships with brother James (22) and Oliver (23) before Henry Glanfield hit an enterprising 49 not out, including two huge sixes.
Ventnor have reached the Hampshire final without playing a single match, all three of their scheduled opponents conceding ties instead of travelling to the Isle of Wight.   

The Bournemouth’s vice presidents early season party raised its glasses to teenager James van Gool (pictured) after his maiden ECB Southern Premier Division fifty set up a 75-run win over neighbours Bashley (Rydal) at Chapel Gate.
The South African raised youngster wasn’t eligible to play Premier League cricket last summer, but he  marked his home debut in style with a patient half-century from which Bournemouth were able to post a match winning 208-8 before bowling Bashley out for 133.
Van Gool batted two hours, hitting only four boundaries in his 51, but by the time he became the first of three victims for George Wilson (3-26) Bournemouth were in control at 141-3.
Fellow opener Tom Willoughby (20) and Chris Park (23) supported Van Gool in the absence of Dorset skipper Luke Webb, while Ben Rogers (29), Rob Pack (22) and Conor Smith (21) raised the total beyond 200.
Bashley were playing their first game of the season, so were consequently rusty.  At 36-3 they were facing defeat and really only Michael Porter (30) and Josh Digby (45) made their mark.
The visitors tottered to 89-8 but Digby and Wilson (17 not out) lifted the total to a more respectable 133 before Dan Conway (3-23) finished things off.

ECB SOUTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE
ROUND 3 - 20 MAY 2023
ECB PREMIER DIVISION

Alton 77 (Southon 4-14, S White 3-10) Burridge 78-1 (Goles 32*). Burridge won by nine wickets.
Bournemouth 208-8 (Van Gool 51, Rogers 29) Bashley (Rydal) 133 (Digby 45, Porter 30, Conway 3-33). Bournemouth won by 75 runs.  
Havant 267-5 (Metzger 54, Walker 48, Hindley 44*, H Gadd 41) Totton & Eling 169 (Elliott 58, S Reynolds 3-26, Jerry 3-32) Havant won by 98 runs.
Lymington 409-6 (K Dhariwal 168, Scott 101, M Abbas 38, Crabb 36) Hampshire Academy 265 (Wright 88, Mayes 45, Cheater 35, La Fontaine Jackson 33, Cox 3-49, A Abbas 3-51). Lymington won by 144 runs.
South Wilts 222 (Stearman 52, Degg 39, Burton 38, Gwynn 3-36) St Cross Symondians 224-4 (Bransgrove 121, Mumford 53. St CrossSymondians won by six wickets.

DIVISION 1
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Andover 217 (Hooper 66, O Williams 39, Knight 35, Rao 3-22) Portsmouth 191 (Wimble 34, Marston 33, Warner 26*, Ayres 5-25, Veetil 3-31).  Andover won by 26 runs.
Basingstoke & North Hants 262-8 (Oates 75, Shelar 35, Behrens 4-40) Hambledon 191-8 (Oliver 50*, Behrens 44, J Marshall 34, Wood 3-24, A Neal 3-34). Basingstoke & North Hants won by 71 runs.  
 Calmore Sports 238-8 (Brewster 72, Johns 59, Day 42) Ventnor 241-1 (Friend 156*, Thimodya 74). Ventnor won by nine wickets.
New Milton 40 (Divecha 4-11, Watts 4-12) Hook & Newnham Basics 41-2 (Robson 17, Warner 16*, Watts 2-19). Hook & Newnham Basics won by eight wickets.
Sarisbury Athletic 223-7 (Feltham 59, Sanders 40, Robson 32, J Hill 28) Rowledge 142 (Cook 51, Sebborn 35, J Hill 3-13, S Hill 3-34). Sarisbury Athletic won by 81 runs.

DIVISION 2

Fair Oak 137-9 (White 26, Dawson 3-28) OTs & Romsey 141-6 (R Newman 39*). OTs & Romsey won by four wickets.
Hook & Newnham Basics II 149 (Dyer 50, Light 24, Roughley 4-12) Hartley Wintney 155-3 (Hammond 56*, Cockram 55). Hartley Wintney won by seven wickets.
Sparsholt 169 (Burrell 39, Berzins 39, Ley 26, Goddard 3-27) Portsmouth & Southsea 170-1 (M Benfield 75*, Briggs 71*). Portsmouth & Southsea won by nine wickets.
Waterlooville 157 (Hudson 34, Shephard 33, Worman 4-30, Neave 3-29) Liphook & Ripsley 135 (Neave 32, Nelson-Esch 21, Mitchell 4-20, Hillman 3-49). Waterlooville won by 22 runs.
Match cancelled: Langley Manor v St Cross Symondians II.

DIVISION 3

Fareham & Crofton 229-4 (Bulled 98*, Kent 60) Fawley 233-5 (Merritt 59, Francis 51*, Jeffery 3-44) Fawley won by five wickets.
Gosport Borough 183 (A Adams 53, King 37, Anderson-Emm 6-20) South Wilts II 139 (Hayward 34, Taylor 3-36). Gosport Borough won by 44 runs.
Havant II 191 (Hayward 55*, Feeney 46, Barton 5-35) Paultons 132 (Barton 68, Gardner 4-25). Havant II won by 69 runs.
Sway 259-6 (Bernard 64, Crossley 52, Hall 34, Grasham 25) Bashley (Rydal) II 152 (A Turner 35, Scott 28, Morris 27, Waller 4-38, Grasham 3-21).  Sway won by 107 runs.
Trojans 118 (Boyd 41, Ahmad 25, Green 3-7) Parley 121-7 (Powell 18*, Dimmick 4-19). Parley won by three wickets.

​South African pair Mat Goles and Bash Walters are set to go head-to-head when Burridge face ECB Southern Premier Division rivals Alton at Botley Road, 12.30. 
They have shaped up several times before in the Western Province Premier League – Goles for Cape Town CC and Walters for WPCC – so pride will be at stake, alongside producing a decisive performance for their side. 
Goles certainly did that, hitting 147 in Burridge’s big win over the Hampshire Academy last week, while Walters is always a major influence for the Brewers. 
Burridge are without opener Jack Paskins and have a back injury worry over Nathan Schoultz, whose role may be limited to just batting, but seamer Sully White is back.  Alton name the side which won by two wickets at Havant. 
Burridge: Matthew Goles, Joe Collings-Wells, Hilio de Abreu, Nathan Schoultz, Shu Chowdhury, Chris Blake, Inayat Ullah, Ollie Southon, Will Donald, Ben White, Sully White. 
Alton: Harris, South, Ruffell, Myers, MP Heffernan, MJ Heffernan, Gadsby, Andrews, Sumner, Walters, Varney 
Charlie Gwynn will skipper in-form St Cross Symondians in the absence of Ed Ellis against South Wilts at the Green Jackets. 
St Cross are off to a storming start with wins over WEPL opponents Corsham and Bedminster in the ECB national club championship either side of an SPL victory at Lymington.  South Wilts trimmed Bournemouth last week and will probably be unchanged. 
St Cross Symondians: Gwynn, Organ, Ayling, Foyle, Trussler, Bransgrove, Mumford, Haworth, Lewis, Woodruff, Beer. 
Beaten by St Cross last week, Lymington are boosted by Gareth Berg, Kamran Dhariwal and Conor Moors against the Hampshire Academy on the Ageas Bowl nursery ground. 
Lymington: Ben Rogers, Mo Abbas, Ryan Scott, Conor Moors, Gareth Berg, Terry Crabb, Kamran Dhariwal, Dan Cox, Josh Royan, Lewis Martin, Asad Abbas 
The Pimms will be flowing at Bournemouth’s vice president’s day at Chapel Gate, where Dan Conway is expected back against visiting Bashlery (Rydal), whose first two matches have been washed out. 
Bashley (Rydal): J.Digby D.Goodey W. Tripcony B. Francis M. Porter F Gordon P. Holly L. Mortimore O. Webber. G. Wilson J. Huns. 
Similarly, Totton & Eling have yet to get going but will do when Havant – with Peter Hopson and Chris Morgan back – visit Southern Gardens. 
Basingstoke & North Hants look to build on last week’s win over Ventnor when they make a first ever visit to Hambledon, the promoted village team having been battered and bruised by Rowledge last week.  Stoke are unchanged. 
Basingstoke: Joe Oates, Dubs Wood, Ashley Neal, Mathew Deadman, Bradley Neal, Neil Shelar, Laurence Benge, Alistair Brown, Matt Donaldson, Arav Garg. 
Hook & Newnham Basics are without Josh Buckingham at New Milton, so Tom May will be behind the sticks. 
New Milton: Watts, Adams, Bartlett, Nicholls, Beck, Loader, Edwards, Cook, Griffiths, Hall, Naylor. 
Hook & Newnham Basics: Lockwoood, Warner, Robson, M Buckingham, May, James, Armstrong, Murrell, Gardner, Watts, Divecha. 
With several players still away at Durham University, Rowledge give a crack to Joe Ryman, the youngest of the three siblings, against Sarisbury Athletic at School Lane. 
Sam Floyd, Jack Lovett and Ricky Rawlins all miss the trip.
Rowledge: Ben Wish, David Lloyd, Olly Ryman, Joe Ryman, Ricky Yates, Hugh Croft, Jonty Seeborn, Max Martin, Ollie Baker, Connor Cook, Richard Forbes. 
Sarisbury Athletic:  J Hill, Holzmann, Grierson, Orr, Sanders, Wright, Franklin, Robson, Mills, S Hill, Feltham.
Portsmouth City Council have been busy putting up warning signs - ‘watch out for flying cricket balls’  along Southsea seafront ahead of Babu Veetil’s arrival at St Helen’s with the Andover team. 
Veetil smashed 40 off eight balls – mainly straight – against Sarisbury Athletic last week, so the adjoining promenade could come under fire. 
Andover: Nyumbu, Mutumbami, Knight, Hooper, Adams, Treagus, Ayers, O Banks-Williams, Banks-Williams, Jansen, Veettil. 
Ventnor host Calmore Sports at Steephill. 
Portsmouth & Southsea, last year’s runaway SPL3 champions, visit Sparsholt with an unchanged side, viz M Benfield, T Benfield, J Davies, E Mansford, S Briggs, C Bollom, D Lee, M Goddard, B Saunders, J Willey, K Dunstan. 
Hook & Newnham Basics II (v Hartley Wintney):  Light, Willcocks, Moore, Dyer T, Neville, Allnutt B, Allnutt J, Wyatt, Dyer S, Dovey, May O. 
Other SPL2 matches: Fair Oak v OTs & Romsey, Langley Manor v St Cross Symondians II, Waterlooville v Liophook & Ripsley. 

James Hayward and Tom Morton are emerging from semi-retirement to play for South Wilts seconds against opening day Southern Premier Division 3 winners Gosport Borough at Bemerton, 12.30. 
The pair, hugely influential members of South Wilts past Premier Division title winning side, have retired from regular first team action, but plan to play a number of games for the club’s seconds in the coming weeks. 
South Wilts were beaten by two wickets at Sway last week, while Gosport thrashed newcomers Fareham & Crofton by nine wickets. 
South Wilts II: Cranch, Falconer, Morton, Hayward, Pittman, Bolam, Pittman, Pascoe, Partridge, Brewer, Anderson-Emm. 
Gosport Borough:  J Richards, Lunt, King, V Richards, Parris, A Adams, Harris, Taylor, Kitchin, Regan, Prathapsinghe, Pennicott. 
Sway have selected a full strength side for the Fagan Ground derby against near neighbours Bashley (Rydal) II. 
Hugh Bernard and Jon Grasham are back, while opening batsman John Walter makes his Sway debut. Sway: Tim Noble, John Walter, Will Crossley, Alex Hall, Dave Steadman, Hugh Bernard, Greg Jones, Jon Grasham, Richard Thomas, Steve How, Jon Waller. 
Parley, who thrashed Havant seconds in their opening match, give a debt to 16 year old pace bowler Harry Avoth against Trojans at West Parley. 
Parley: Jacques, Collins, Bragginton, Barber, Laird, Embalagama, Green, Powell, Savage, Nicholls, Avoth. 
Fareham & Crofton are unchanged against Fawley despite their heavy beating at Gosport, since which the side has undergone some serious midweek training. 
Fareham & Crofton: Tom Kent, Angus Southon, Jez Bulled, Craig Jeffery, Morgan Frost, Ben Kissane, Sam Stoddart, James Headen, Pete Briggs, Dan Reader, Andrew Martin 
Havant seconds host Paultons.