For those wondering why the 'Crease' website has not been updated for a while, it is due to Mike Vimpany being readmitted to hospital with further complications from his leg infection.

We all wish Vimps well and further updates will be posted here when known.

Winchester College all-rounder Sebastian Morgan and Hampshire Academy prospect Ben Mayes helped England beat Ireland by nine-wickets in the opening Under-19 Tri-Series international at Loughborough.
Morgan (1-13)  bowled Irish opener Ben Dunphy in a five-over opening spell, while the 16-year old Mayes hit an unbeaten 30 as England chased down 141 to win by nine-wickets.

​Losing on the toss of a coin after a mid-afternoon thunderstorm put paid to Hampshire Under-16 reaching ECB county age group final.
They had progressed to the semi-finals by virtue of finishing runners-up to Cricket Wales in the south-west group and then pulling off a splendid five-wicket win over Middlesex.
Ventnor's Sam Mills (42) anchored the Hampshire innings in semi-final against Surrey at Ashtead, Ned Brown's opening six-over spell having reduced the county to 23-3.
Seb Rowland (19), Ayanin Ramanan (22) and Jensen Mogridge (22) provided the support for Mills before Hampshire were dismissed for 134.
But any prospect Surrey had of chasing down the 35-over target or Hampshire making inroads into their batting line-up were dashed by a heavy rain storm which left the Ashsted ground flooded.
Surrey play Cheshire in the ECB Under-16 County final.

Lymington shook off the effects of three early losses to post 193 and beat already relegated ECB Southern Premier League visitors Havant by 49 runs at the Sports Ground.
Warren Turners's spell of 3-29 accounted for the Dhariwal brothers and Mo Abbas for a fifth ball duck to leave Lymington 23-3.
But a maiden and patient 50 by Robbie Hemmings began to turn the tide, Ryan Scott weighing in with a splendid 88 before Lymington's last five wckets fell for seven runs, spinner Chris Stone (3-22) profitting.
Havant guggled their batting order and were 71-7 when Stu Ransley added some beef to their final Premier total of 144, Peter Hopson bowing out with 25.  

​Free at last from the pressures of relegation, seventh placed Alton successfully defended 243-6 at Chapel Gate, where spin duo Ben Rolfs and Tom South combined to bowl Bournemouth out for 153.
Alton's tidy total owed much to Aarav Rajnikanth (41) and Rolfs (32), who took his season's tally on to 544 before he was one of three batters to fall in quick succession before teenagers Sam Ruffell (37) and Jude Wright added 52 runs.  A late spree by Tom South (31*) and Mark Heffernan (25*) aw the Brewers to 243-6.
Alton were without seasoned South African seamer Bash Walters, but once South African Aiden Meyer (38) and Ben Rogers (28) departed (81-1) within one run of each other, they were on their way. 
Rolfs, with 4-12 and an 18-wicket haul, and left-arm slow South (3-36) rolled them out for 153. It was Alton's fifth win.

Opener Freddie Gillett and batter/keeper Seb Rowland hit half-centuries as Hampshire chased down a Middlesex total of 245-9 to reach the ECB Under-16 Cup semi-final, in which they will play Surrey at Malden Wanderers on Wednesday. 
Gillett (68) and Ollie Webster (35) set up the successful run chase, which Rowland (50) and Abdullah Abid (41) completed with eight balls to spare.  

Basingstoke & North Hants will re-host the washed out Hampshire Under-17 and Under-19 T20 Cup finals at May's Bounty which were cancelled earlier today.
Next Sunday morning (15 September), Portsmouth play Yateley in U17 final before Hambledon and Rowledge lock horns in the U19 Kerry Cup final at 2.30pm.
Full bar and catering facilities will be open throughout the day.

Hambledon, Chichester Priory Park and Sussex cricket has been devastated by the sudden death highly respected administrator and former player Daniel Oliver, who collapsed whilst showering at his mother's home in Weybridge, Surrey last weekend.
Aged 50, Daniel, left, had been vice-chairman of the Sussex League for the past five years, prior to which he was a prominent player and captain of Chichester Priory Park and Stirlands.  He was  selected for several prestigious Club Cricket Conference tours to Australia.
Daniel died from a blood clot to his brain but also undiagnosed leukaemia. His family were with him when he died.
Priory Park's Mark Bamforth said: "As a club we have been left devastated by Dan's sudden passing. A fine player, teammate and friend of so many both at our club and across Sussex. Our love and thoughts go to his family and loved ones at this deeply sad time.
"Daniel Oliver opened the batting as vice captain in the undefeated team that won the Sussex Premier League in 2005, having already played in the golden nineties when Chichester took three league titles. Daniel led the team through a period of transition after 2005, taking us to the Division 1 title in 2007, ensuring our return to the top flight of Sussex cricket.
"We recall Daniel fondly as a cricketer, as an enthusiast for the game, but most of all he will be remembered at Chichester as a respected club captain, a valued team mate and as a thoroughly decent man. His loss will be felt more widely across Sussex as Daniel after 2007, when he left Chichester, became closely involved in the running of the Sussex League. But it is at Chichester PPCC that his loss will be felt most acutely.
In recent seasons, Dan became involved with Hambledon, where his son Jonty played as a spin all-rounder in the club's 2022 Premier Division 3 title winning side and again in 2023, before playing for Shepshed Charterhouse (near his studies at Loughborough University) this past summer.
He was a skilled hockey player too, playing for Havant in the National League but it was as an outstanding administrator that Daniel made his most important contributions to Sussex cricket in the county.

​St Cross Symondians finished the season with five straight wins, but the impressive finale came to little too late for them to make an impact on the ECB Southern Premier League championship.
They finished a disappointing fourth, well behind the Hampshire Academy, who lifted the title for the first time with a tense two-wicket victory over South Wilts in a winner-take-all final match.
Burridge, whose second from bottom 2024 finish was in complete contrast to the heady 'double' of a summer earlier, lost their first four wickets for 19 at the Green Jackets, two each to Matt Howarth and South African Kyle Pluke.
They needed all-rounder Oli Southon (35), Dan Stancliffe (30) and Inayat  Ullah (28) to bail them out of trouble but the visitors were eventually bowled out for 171 with Charlie Gwynn contributing a miserly 2-22 from his 9 overs.
As usual, Gregor McKenzie [pictured] went off like a train, smashing 58 off 38 balls, backed up by Jack Bransgrove with 53. The pair had posted an opening stand of 91 before the end of the 14th over. Ben Foster added 29 runs, but a mini-wobble meant that St Cross lost five wickets in pursuit, but had the game wrapped up in 33 overs.

Jacob Gordon and Jack Stearman hit unbeaten centuries as Bashley (Rydal) enjoyed a  286-run fest against ECB Southern Premier Division rivals Basingstoke & North Hants at the Fagan/BCG.
Will Tripcony (32) missed out before Gordon's 103 took his season's SPL run tally to 639, while Steadman's 109 was his first hundred in Bashley colours. His last hundred came in August 2022 for South Wilts against Havant.
Bashley, who finished second to champions Hampshire Academy, had Basingstoke toiling in the field before making 198. Ali Brown top scored with 41 after George Metzger and Matt Deadman had each made 35. James Trodd celebrate his return from injury with 4-23 while Michael Porter teased out 3-50.

​Australia legend Jeff Thomson, one of the greatest and most feared fast bowlers of all time, will be speaking at the Hampshire Cricket Society at the Romsey Golf Club on Wednesday afternoon, 2pm.
With an unusual slinging action, and an aggressive approach, he was a fearsome sight to batsmen. He will recount stories from his career and iconic partnership with Dennis Lillee that terrorised international batsmen in the 1970s.  At his height Thomson was regarded as the quickest bowler of his era and took 200 wickets in 51 Test matches.  Now 74, he will share memories from his time at the top of cricket with Hampshire cricket followers.
The event is open to the public at a cost of £10 per head. Lunches and full bar facilities will be available.  Please contact HCS secretary John Hooper -  [email protected] - to book your seat.

Standing (from left): Dom Kelly, Ethan Baker, Eddie Jack, Ben Mayes, Ethan Martin, Connor Lamsdale.  Front: Finn Gordon, Sam Ashman, Andrew MacEwen, Freddie Gillett, Sam Davis.

South Wilts put up a heroic bowling performance only to see their ECB Southern Premier League championship prospects dashed by an equally gallant late-order fightback by the Hampshire Academy.
The Bemerton bowlers defended a modest 110 to the hilt and, late on, were favourites in the 'winner take all' title showdown on the Utilita Bowl Nursery ground.
The Academy lurched to 86-8 - a sizeable 25 runs off the victory target - when England Under-19 all-rounder Eddie Jack joined spinner Sam Davis for an unbroken ninth-wicket partnership, which turned the match - and the title race - on its head.
Fingers gnawed to the bone, the Academy won a pulsating match by two wickets to win the Premier League championship for the first time.  Across the board, batting standards didn't match those with the ball.
South Wilts, nine-points ahead going into the final match, finished third behind Bashley (Rydal).

​South Wilts began comfortably enough with Jack Mynott (20) easing the score to 37-1 - only for Dom Kelly (3-14) and the impressive Ethan Martin (3-30) to strike a series of blows and reduce the visitors to 46-5.
Andrew MacEwen held on to four catches as James Degg (31) battled solo to keep South Wilts' heads above water - the opener eventually becoming a third victim of leggie Finn Gordon (3-10) having lost eight separate partners during his 60-ball stay the crease.
At 89-9, South Wilts looked set to be dismissed for less than 100, but last pair Henry Dunlop (16) and Ryan Freeman added a priceless 26 - and boost tea-time morale in the visitors' changing room.

​Low targets can often prove difficult to chase, though opener Sam Ashman and Kelly, each with 16, found the boundary rope six times as the Academy advanced to 56-3.
A double strike by the lanky Dunlop (2-35), followed by a four-wicket haul by left-armer Tom Grant (4-25), plunged the Academy into deep trouble at 86-8.
The match had swayed dramatically towards South Wilts, but was due one final twist courtesy of Canford School's Eddie Jack and Sam Davis, the teenage Teddington spinner, who got the Hampshire youngsters across the line.
Jack relieved the pressure by twice hitting Archie Fairfax-Ross for boundaries before Davis did likewise to Rob Pitman, his two fours sealed the win - and the Premier League championship for the Academy.

ECB SOUTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE
Results: Round 18- 31 August 2024
ECB Premier Division

Alton 243-6 (Rajnikahth 41, Ruffell 37, Rolfs 32, South 31*, M Heffernan 25*) Bournemouth 153 (Meyer 38, Rogers 28, Rolfs 4-12, South 3-36). Alton won by 90 runs.

Bashley (Rydal) 286-2 (Stearman 109*, Gordon 103*, Tripcony 32) Basingstoke & North Hants 198 (Brown 41, Deadman 35, Metzger 35, Trodd 4-23, Porter 3-50). Bashley (Rydal) won by  188 runs.

Burridge 171 (Southon 35, Stancliffe 30, Ullah 28, Chowdhury 28, Howarth 3-30) St Cross Symondians 172-5 (McKenzie 58, Bransgrove 53, Foster 29). St Cross Symondians won by five wickets.

Lymington 193 (Scott 88, Hemmings 50, Stone 3-22, Turner 3-29) Havant 144 (Ransley 42, Hopson 29). Lymington won by 49 runs.
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South Wilts 110 (Degg 31, Mynott 20, Gordon 3-10, Kelly 3-13, Martin 3-30) Hampshire Academy 111-8 (Jack 16*, Kelly 16, Lansdale 14, Grant 4-25). Hampshire Academy won by two wickets.

DIVISION 1

Andover 154 (Binns 62*, Treagus 26, Wood 5-26, Davies 3-27) Old Tauntonians & Romsey 158-6 (Wood 57, Tulk 36). Old Tauntonians & Romsey won by four wickets.

Calmore Sports 184-8 (Brewster 31, Lavelle 28, Taylor 28, Diston 26, Cookson 4-46) Sarisbury Athletic 185-9 (Cookson 61, Rawlins 37). Sarisbry Athletic won by one wicket.

Rowledge 186 (Felsch 80, Lloyd 47*, Kooner-Evans 3-32) Portsmouth 188-2 (Duggan 60, Ashraful 60*, Joy 36). Portsmouth won by eight wickets. 

Totton & Eling 223-8 (Blyghton 50, Mugochi 38*, Josh Taylor 31, Mutumbami 28, Thimodya 3-31). Ventnor 209 (Thimodya 49, Noyes 38*, Edwards 31, Chapangu 3-25, Lightfoot 3-34, Nyamariwata 3-34). Totton & Eling won by 14 runs.

Waterlooville 271-6 (McGregor 125, Robinson 33, Reynolds 26, Neville 4-47) Hook & Newham Basics 271 (Lockwood 68, Webster 45, M Buckingham 38, J Buckingham 36, Parker 3-45). Match tied.

DIVISION 2

Langley Manor 135 (Doubell 37, Campbell 32, Behrens 4-35, Pratt 3-35) Hambledon 137-2 (Pratt 71*, Behrens 29, Parvin 26). Hambledon won by eight wickets.

Liphook & Ripsley 343-6 (Nicklin 142, Zadowa 79) Gosport Borough 238 (Lunt 98, Kitchin 35, A Adams 34, Zadowa 3-36, O Amis 3-38). Liphook & Ripsley won by 95 runs.

New Milton 142 (Shrubsole 31, Adams 30, M McKenzie 3-26, Smith 3-27, Goodyear 3-27) Fair Oak 146-9 (McKenzie 28, Oxley 26, Bennett 3-18, Denham 3-19). Fair Oak won by one wicket.

Portsmouth & Southsea 215-8 (Davies 53, Rockett 27) St Cross Symondians II 217-4 (Trussler 127*, Overy 44). St Cross Symondians II won by six wickets.
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Sway 304-5 (Steadman 76, Bernard 73, Pickering 64, Bailey 47) Hartley Wintney 209 (Kirk 38, Philpott 29, Mulvey 25, Thomas 5-65). Sway won by 95 runs.

DIVISION 3

Fareham & Crofton 237-7 (Kent 89, Sahu 43, Bulled 34). Trojans 240-8 (Sureth 86, Bhome 36, Rowlands 30). Trojans won by two wickets.

Havant II 154 (M Hayward 32, Perkins 27, Matthews 26, Powell 4-33, Green 3-32) Parley 155-3 (Nippard 50*, Laird 38*, Savage 30). Parley won by seven wickets.

Hook & Newnham Basics II 109 (Watterson 28, Rizwan 24, McNamara 4-39, Bishops 3-19) Hursley Park 113-2 (McNamara 39, O'Brien 29, Spink 21). Hursley Park won by eight wickets.

Paultons 201-8 (Dawes 81, Ray 27, B Parratt 3-29) Fawley 193 (Munir 32, B Parratt 31, Gibson 28, Lamb 3-47). Paultons won by eight runs.
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Sparsholt 236 (Ley 61, M Robbins 58, Merlino 36, Pearce 4-31) South Wilts II 215 (Yeo 76, S Pittman 28*). Sparsholt won by 21 runs.

Mike Vimpany's popular recreational cricket website, www.vimpsathcrease, was forced 'off air' this past weekend when a leg infection and blood disorder led to the seasoned writer being admitted to and detained in Portsmouth's QA Hospital for seven days.  
Vimps has subsequently been discharged and is working slowly from home, but says updating the website will take far longer than usual. ​Cellulitis is NOT recommended.

Teenage Chichester Priory Park talent Freddie Gillett has been named this website's ECB Southern Premier League Cricketer of the Week after his match winning six-wicket bowling return for Hampshire Academy against Alton.
The 16-year old, who is coached by Chris Adams at Seaford College, took 6-59  including the wicket top scorer Sam Ruffell (82) as the Academy comfortably defended 309-8 to win by 45 runs.
Freddie's father Stuart previously played for Lymington, while the teenager, despite living and being schooled in West Sussex, has been on the Hampshire Pathway system since he was six years of age.
Gillett, left, who made a handy 25 before tea, had plenty of time to sit back and watch Finn Gordon (68), Andrew MacEwen (58), Connor Lamsdale (50), Sanjeet Garood (30) and Ethan Martin (26) rack up the bulk of the Academy's 300-plus score.
Bash Walters (3-41) bowled well for Alton, who slipped to 55-3 before Scott Myers (61) and Sam Ruffell (82) got them in the contest.
But the pair were dismissed within two runs of each other, leaving the door ajar for Gillett to carve out his six-wicket haul and leave Alton 264 all out.

Talk about snatching victory from the jaws of defeat !
With Lymington 141-2 chasing 206-9, there appeared little prospect of South Wilts' remaining top of the ECB Southern Premier League.
But in the final hour at the town sports ground, Lymington contrived to lose eight wickets for 64 runs and finish one-run losers.
The last two dismissals saw Lymington tailenders caught on the boundary rope with the vastly experienced Gareth Berg marooned on 39 not out at the non-striker's end.
The result enabled South Wilts to retain a nine-point lead over the Hampshire Academy, with everything pointing towards a head-to-head championship decider on the Nursery Ground on Saturday week.
South Wilts found themselves in early trouble at 20-3 - Berg striking twice with the new ball - but rallied in middle-order through Ben Draper (52), Harry Broderick (31) and Archie Fairfax-Ross (36).
But a four-wicket spell by Alvin Cameron (4-45) plunged South Wilts back into trouble at 160-9, leaving Australian Ryan Freeman to make an unbeaten 43.
Freeman added a crucial 46 with Henry Dunlop for the tenth wicket to lift South Wilts towards a competitive 206-9.
Jovan Dhariwal (55) and Mo Abbas (42) were instrumental in taking Lymington's reply to 141-2, when Tom Pearce (3-34) began to make inroads with his left-arm spin.
Lymington wobbled, but while Berg remained at the crease they appeared favourites.  Alas, some of his teammates decided to go for their own glory shots.
At 192-8 and with plenty of time to spare, Adelaide left-armer Liam Thompson picked out Fairfax-Ross on the boundary and, with Berg still there and now only two runs to win, Cameron repeated the shot and was caught by the same fielder.  Lymington 205 all out. Berg's thought unprintable ...

St Cross Symondians put a serious dent in the ECB Southern Premier League title ambitions of Bashley (Rydal), whom they beat by 64 runs at the Fagan/BCG.
Symondians' success was built around a 138-run further wicket partnership between Wilf La Fontaine Jackson (93) and Gaz Schreuder (84), who hit three sixes and 19 fours between them a stand which batted Bashley out of the contest.
Jack Bransgrove weighed in with a quick-fire 27 as St Cross closed at 273-7.
Bashley needed a similar top score but no one got 40 - Saif Achalzai (39), Michael Porter (36), Will Tripcony (35) and Dan Goodey all making positive starts.
Teen Ben Foster (3-45) played a decisive role with his off-spin removing three of Bashley's top four before Dan Goodey (31) hit him out of the attack. His previous eight overs cost only 27 runs.
Organ, with a tidy 3-19, dismissed three of the last four Bashley batters as the hosts closed 209-9.
A second only defeat leaves Bashley in third spot, 15 points adrift of leaders South Wilts with two to play.  

​Dorset captain Luke Webb hit a polished 127 not out to point Bournemouth to a 12-run win over Burridge and towards an eventual fifth placed finish in the ECB Southern Premier League.
It was Webb's second SPL hundred of the season and his eighth overall for the Chapel Gate club.
His century contained three sixes and ten fours and was played alongside fruitful early partnerships with James Van Gool (34) and Ben Rogers (27) as Bournemouth moved towards 250-6.
The season has been an anti-climax for Burridge after last year's dizzy Premier league and cup double triumph.
Dan Conway (4-36) nipped out openers Mat Goles and Jack Paskins, leaving Joe Collings-Wells (63) to pilot the ship.  

​​Connor Smith (4-33) took four middle-order scalps to reduce the visitors to 167-8 before Inayat Ullah sparked life into the proceedings with a cameo 48.
The Burridge all-rounder had taken a blistering 70 off the South Wilts attack a week earlier and kept the Bournemouth fielders alert with three big sixes alongside four boundaries before being stumped.  Burridge made 238 all out.

ECB SOUTHERN PREMIER CRICKET LEAGUE
RESULTS - ROUND 16 - 17 AUGUST 2024

ECB PREMIER DIVISION

Bournemouth 250-6 (Webb 127*, Van Gool 34, Rogers 27) Burridge 238 (Collings-Wells 63, Ullah 48, Conway 4-36, Smith 4-33). Bournemouth won by 12 runs.

Hampshire Academy 309-8 (F Gordon 68, MacEwen 58, Lamsdale 50, Garood 30, Gillett 29, Martin 26) Alton 264 (Ruffell 82, Myers 61, Gillett 6-59). Hampshire Academy won by 45 runs.

Havant 206-7 (Morgan 38, Hindley 29, Woolley 28) Basingstoke & North Hants 210-7 (Wood 39, Donaldson 32*, Oates 25*, Whitfield 4-26). Basingstoke & North Hants won by three wickets.

South Wilts 206-9 (Draper 52, Freeman 43, Fairfax-Ross 36, Broderick 31, Cameron 4-45) Lymington 205 (J Dhariwal 55, M Abbas 42, Berg 39*, Pearce 3-34). South Wilts won by one run.
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St Cross Symondians 273-7 (La Fontaine Jackson 93, Schreuder 84, Tripcony 3-28) Bashley (Rydal) 209-9 (Achalzai 39, Porter 36, Tipcony 35, Goodey 31, Organ 3-19, Foster 3-48). St Cross Symondians won by 64 runs.

DIVISION 1

Calmore Sports 227-6 (Brewster 91*, Moss 55) Andover 230-6 (Treagus 116*, Corbett 32, O Hibberd 5-36). Andover won by four wickets.

Hook & Newnham Basics 322-8 (j Buckingham 106, James 85, Wyatt 40, Armstrong 36) Totton & Eling 221 (Mutumbami 77, Blyghton 53, Chapungu 49, Wyatt 4-33, Divecha 3-3). Hook & Newnham Basics won by 101 runs.

Rowledge 148-8 (LeRoux 60*, Martin 39, Wathen 3-30) Old Tauntonians & Romsey 129 (Tulk 63, King 29, Felsch 4-31, O Ryman 3-25). Rowledge won by 19 runs.

Sarisbury Athletic 246-9 (Feltham 60, Cookson 47, Rawlins 34, Snell 3-56) Ventnor 207 (Thimodya 66, Cox 59, Edwards 40, Clark 4-26, Pascoe 3-38). Sarisbury Athletic won by 39 runs.
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Waterlooville 221-8 (Hudson 66*, McGregor 44, Lewis 3-42) Portsmouth 162 (Ashrafal 38, Gadd 31, Shephard 6-33). Waterlooville won by 59 runs.

DIVISION 2

Fair Oak 279-8 (Nicholls 85, Clark 52, S Reed 38) Hartley Wintney 144 (Ramsay 26, J Kerr 26, McKenzie 4-52, Goodyear 4-13). Fair Oak won by 135 runs.

Liphook & Ripsley 171-9 (Harvey 40, Farndale 38, Nicklin 25, Green 3-28) Langley Manor 174-3 (Ervine 54*, Campbell 31*, Budd 25). Langley Manor won by seven wickets.

Hambledon 241- 7 (Behrens 72, Pratt 40, Moger 37, Glanfield 26)  New Milton 141 (Davids 43, Bembridge 4-13, Behrens 3-27). Hambledoo won by 100 runs.

Gosport Borough 191-9 (Lunt 43, Harris 38, Royle 32, Willey 3-44) Portsmouth & Southsea 195-5 (Rockett 60*, M Benfield 42, Stanley 38). Portsmouth & Southsea won by five wickets.
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St Cross Symnondians II 246-4 (Clarke 93*, Trussler 57, Orchard 53*) Sway 247-4 (Steadman 53, Burton 50*, Hudson 37, Grasham 34*). Sway won by six wickets.

DIVISION 3

Hursley Park 212-5 (T Flynn 87, Bacon 75, Berzins 3-42) Sparsholt 200 (Berzins 64, Gurney 34, M Robbins 26, Holden 3-25). Hursley Park won by 12 runs.

Paultons 156 (Dawes 59, P Longland 30, Fisher 4-29) Hook & Newnham Basics II 157-3 (M Buckingham 81*, May 43*). Hook & Newnham Basics II won by seven wickets.

Parley 189-9 (Cooke 47, Saunders 30, Huns 28, Rook 26, Rajeshirke 3-37) Fareham & Crofton 193-8 (Kent 41, Sahu 33). Fareham & Crofton won by two wickets.

Trojans 218 (Suresh 64, Syed Agha 4, Bhome 26, Davies 4-48, Singh 3-59) Fawley 187-9 (Muniir 51, B Parratt C Earl 30, Syed Agha 3-32). Trojans won by 31 runs.

Postponed: South Wilts II v Havant II, latter unable to raise a side.

Leaders South Wilts defend a slender two-point lead at the top of the Southern Premier League when they visit Lymington at the Sports Ground, 12.30.
Consistent opener James Degg [above] is missing as is Lymington captain Ben Rogers
Lymington: Kam Dhariwal, Jovan Dhariwal, R Scott, G Berg, M Abbas, C Moores, R Hemmings,  A Abbas, A Cameron, G Layman, L Thompson.
South Wilts: Cheater, Mynott, Pearce, Broderick, Draper, Fairfax-Ross, Howgrave-Graham, Pittman, Freeman, Grant , Dunlop
Second placed Bashley (Rydal) recall experienced all-rounder Ben Walker against St Cross Symondians, who will probably have Hampshire's Felix Organ knocking on their dressing room door for a game.
Bashley (Rydal): Achakzai, Tripcony, Stearman, Gordon, Porter, Walker, Goodey, Digby, Prichard, Wilson, Harris.
Narrowly beaten by Bashley (Rydal) last weekend, Bournemouth name an unchanged side against Burridge at Chapel Gate.
Bournemouth: Woodruff, Webb, Van Gool, Rogers, Meyer, Robinson, Guirdham, Smith, Rushforth, Breckon, Conway.
Havant, ravaged by the unavailabity of a staggering 23 players leading to the cancellation of their SPL3 visit to South Wilts, host Basingstoke & North Hants at The Park.
Alton are without Tom South and Zac Gadsby against the Hampshire Academy, but Jude Wright is back.
Alton: Harris, Gonella, Rolfs, Myers, Ruffell, Wright, Rajnikanth, Heffernan, Walters, Sumner, Varney.
Premier One title favourites Portsmouth host Waterlooville at St Helen's, where Joe Smitherman returns. The Ville need a win to keep distance between themselves and safety.
Portsmouth: Duggan, Joy, Ashraful, H Gadd, Daini, Wimble, J Smitherman, Kooner-Evans, Collins, Lewis, Rao.
Second placed Sarisbury Athletic host Ventnor at Allotment Road, with a sizeable 23-point gap between themselves and Portsmouth.
Sarisbury Athletic: Franklin, Morton, Cookson, Robson, Rawlins, Feltham, Bolton, Williams, Clark, Parsons, S Hill.
Calmore Sports chase a third successive win at Andover, who will be relegated if they are beaten, while Rowledge look to regain some consistency at OTs & Romsey. 
Rowledge: Ben Wish, Max Martin, Will Ryman, Olly Ryman, Ryan Littlewood, David Lloyd, Jonty Sebborn, Zac Le Roux, Ollie Baker, Justin Felsch, Ferdy Marshall.
Hambledon need three points to clinch promotion and 11 from their visit to New Milton to secure the Premier Division 2 championship.
But skipper Spencer LeClercq was warned his table toppers that New Milton still have an outside chance of promotion themselves and possess arguably the best bowling attack in the division.
George Marshall is absent, but medical student Ed Moger is called up.  
New Milton: Adams, Shrubsole, Davids, Parsons, L Beck, Pugh, Griffiths, Bartlett, Gawler, Denham, Hall.
Hambledon: Chris Pratt, Will Parvin, Justin Behrens, Ed Moger, Henry Glanfield, Spencer Leclercq, Dan Mugford, Mark Butcher, Ollie Bembridge, James Restell, George Harding.
​Having beaten and subsequently overtaken Portsmouth & Southsea, Langley Manor have a sniff of promotion in their nostrils. They take a strong side to Liphook & Ripsley, where Sussex prospect Jack Campbell dipped his toes into SPL cricket.
Langley Manor: Conor Browne, Jack Budd, Sean Ervine, Steve Harris, Jack Campbell, Nick Doubell, Max/Marc Bignell, Will Budd, Kaine Stanton, Little Tommy Spencer, Toby Green.
Portsmouth & Southsea receive lowly Gosport Borough, with both sides needing a win.
Fawley host Trojans in a crucial top Division 3 match on Waterside, with Fawley currently enjoying the advantage.  Parley ​go to Fareham & Crofton.

​Jack Murrell's remarkable nine-wicket return for Hook & Newnham Basics against relegation threatened Division 1 rivals Andover last month puts him third in the all-time list of Southern Premier League bowling performances.
Murrell took 9-29 at the KGV, where Hook skittled Andover for 66 to rack up a thumping 149-run win.
His spell on July 27 has only previously been bettered by Richard Pineo, who took 9-16 for Havant against Liphook & Ripsley in 2004 and Bashley (Rydal) left-armer Brad Currie, with 9-28 against Lymington last season.
Lymington pair Matt Mixer (9-32) and Matt Metcalfe (9-51) performed nine-wicket shows in 2011 and 2013, respectively, while Aussie Ryan Duffield took 9-65 against Sarisbury Athletic in South Wilts' 2015 championship winning season.

​Laurence Yeo [pictured] and Jasper Blackwood have given South Wilts seconds a glimmer of hope in their quest to avoid the drop into Hampshire League cricket next summer.
Yeo's 90, underpinned a critical 55-run win over fellow strugglers Fareham & Crofton, who fell apart against Blackwood's six-wicket haul.
The victory has given the seconds hope of survival, though the cancellation of tomorrow's scheduled Wilton Road match with already relegated Havant II has thrown up problems.
Havant, skittled for 37 by Hook & Newnham Basics last week, cannot raise a side. Normally that would simply be dealt with by Havant being registered a game played with a defeat, and the match itself declared a 'no result'.
But that does no favours to South Wilts, who might reasonably expect a decent points haul and improve their shallow points average. A win would put the cat amongst the proverbial pigeons at Fareham and Hook.
The Premier League may have to insist on the match being rescheduled early next month. What else can they do ?
Back on the field at Bemerton, Yeo hit two sixes and 12 fours in his 90 and, with South Wilts wobbling at 46-3, shared a recovery with James Hayward (22). Jasper Blackwood (19) and Kit Blomfield (16) added useful runs as South Wilts reached 193 all out.
Jon Tucker (33) and Jez Bulled (33) had Fareham going nicely only for them to collapse from 74-0 to 138 all out - Blackwood tearing their lower order apart with figures of 6-35.  To added to Fareham's woes, Cape Town leg spin all-rounder Craig Jeffery (26) hobbled around with a damaged hamstring. 

Consecutive defeats by Paultons and leaders Fawley have dealt a serious blow to Sparsholt's Southern Premier Division 3 promotion ambitions.
They are 25 points behind second placed Trojans going into the round 16 derby at Hursley Park, a match they must win (to continue to compete) in  the last two games against relegation strugglers Fareham & Crofton and South Wilts II.
It was the day the two Aussies from Newcastle NSW went head to head - Connor Gibson, Fawley's leg spin all-rounder, emerging victorious.  He made 36 and was among the support roles for Kieron Earl's whose unbeaten 16-boundary 83 was a match winner.  
He was also backed by Bradley Parratt (35) and Sufian Munir (33) as Fawley chased down Sparsholt's 203 with time to spare.  Losing Oz Joe Merlino (48) and, way later, Mark (37) and Will Robbins (34) made runs for the Winchester club.
Fawley are effectively 13 points ahead of second placed Trojans, whose match against Paultons was abandoned soon after tea due to a serious injury to teen Liam Longland, now happily on the road to recovery. The top two meet at Holbury on Saturday.
Parley's prospects didn't look too clever either after a new-ball assault by Hursley Park pair Tom James (3-30) and Ben Holden (2-30) left them reeling at 46-5.
Tom Morris ABOVE (50) and Marcus Braggington (34) turned the tide with a near century stand which put Parley back on track at 200-8.  Tom Flynn struck a superb 85 of our Hursley's 156 all out.