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Rowledge opener Zack Le Roux [left] struck his second 70-plus score of the summer before heavy rain led to the Southern Premier Division 1 match against Totton & Eling at School Lane being abandoned.
The Durham university physics graduate hit 78 and shared handy partnerships with fellow opener Max Martin (40) and sibling Ethan (30*) as Rowledge moved to 168-3 before play halted after 41 overs.
Matt Buckingham's unbeaten 30 led Hook & Newnham Basics out of strife at 78-4 against OTs & Romsey.
​Hambledon's derby with Waterlooville fell to the weather, as did Sarisbury Athletic's long haul trip to Ventnor.
The top SPL2 match between Portsmouth & Southsea and Langley Manor was another faller.  Sway were in difficulty at 91-6 against Calmore Sports, while Andover awaited a breakthrough as Liphook & Ripsley advanced to 26-0.
It transpires Fawley's overseas recruit Saif-Ul-Islam is an international having made four appearances for Norway.  He was 61 not out and Fawley 168-4 when the rains came against Trojans.  Brendan Streather (32) and Bailey  Parratt (31) also made starts.

Ben Duggan struck his tenth Southern Premier League century before Portsmouth's ECB Division match against St Cross Symondians at St Helen's was abandoned due to heavy rain.
The tall left-hander hit a six and 11 fours in his 115 as Portsmouth reached 269-5. St Cross managed only five overs and scored 25 without loss when the heavens opened.
Isle of Wight based opener had scored only four runs his previous two SPL knocks, but added 92 with Mohammed Ashraful (49) before Melville's Ewen Neilson trapped him leg before.
Dan Wimble (29) and Sujeeth Daini, with a breezy, quick time 35, sent the total rocketing to 269-5.
At Bemerton, South Wilts' vice presidents were tucking merrily into their roast beef lunches and, with 128-2 on the board and James Degg (54) going nicely, Trevor Hayward was busy restocking the chilled white.
But Burridge pair Ben White (4-41) and Dan Stancliffe (2-26) halted the cork popping as four wickets fell for three runs. South Wilts were 156-7 when rain swept in across Salisbury Plain.
It was a similar story down the Forest. No chilled white wine, but eye catching knocks from Jacob Gordon (53*) and Jack Stearman (36) sent Bashley (Rydal) to 140-3 before Bournemouth's soaked fielders ran for cover. 

​Leadership challengers Lymington plunged to a pre-lunch 51-6 before rallying to reach 144 against Alton, who lost a wicket themselves fore heavy rain led to the 'time' pennant game being abandoned.
Evergreen South African Bash Walters (3-51) and Jude Wright (3-41) did the damage in the morning session as Lymington lost six wickets before left-hand opener Terry Crabb (79) found a reliable partner in Josh Royan (38*), the pair adding 89 for the sixth wicket.
Crabb hit 13 fours and a six before becoming a victim of Tom South (3-22) and keeper Mark Heffernan, who snared three catches and a stumping.      
For the fifth time on six games Aussie Eddie Withington took a wicket in his first over - Wright being picked up at slip by Ryan Scott. In the ninth over play was abandoned. 

​Hambledon will host Didcot-based Moreton in the opening National round of Village Cup on Sunday week (June 22) after beating Sparsholt by 81 runs in the Hampshire county final at Ridge Meadow.
Top order pair Chris Pratt (55) and Henry Glanfield (47) eased Hambledon into a strong position before Sparsholt hit back to reduce their hosts to 159-6.
But Hambledon wrestled back the initiative with seventh wicket pair Mark Butcher (36 not out) and Oli Whittle (26) taking 41 runs off the last three overs to lift the total to 224-7.
Ricky Skeates (41) and Tom Berzins (29) provided Sparsholt with a positive 70-run start - only for Glanfield (4-37) and Whittle (2-10) to carve deep inroads into their reply.
Callum Doran (23) and Tom Ley (20) responded only for Sparsholt to lose their last four wickets for three runs and fall to 143 all out.   Harry Graham finished with 3-16.

Teenage Fareham & Crofton left-hand opener Robbie Blakewell got in a spot of run scoring ahead of his  GCSE maths paper this week by making an, as yet, highest Southern Premier League score against Division 3 rivals St Cross Symondians II at the Green Jackets.  
Having featured in a century opening partnership with Tom Kent (54), Blakewell was 77 not out (ten fours) when the match was abandoned with Fareham handily placed at 153-1. 
It was the third time this season Blakewell has made a mark with his bat. He hit a half-century in the curtain raising win at Gosport Borough and then 41 against high flying Sparsholt.  With 15 overs still to bat, Blakewell might easily have made another 23 runs and been celebrating a maiden SPL hundred come tea-time.  But the season is still young and he'll have plenty more opportunities to make runs.  That's after Wednesday's maths exam ...
Fifteen years or so ago Alex Styles was a rising star at Gosport Borough before moving on to play for Burridge in the Premier Division. He hadn't played any SPL cricket since 2016 - until last weekend when he answered an SOS from the depleted Borough. But he dusted off his kit and marked his comeback with 78 at Paultons. He was largely responsible for Borough's rain cut 143-6 at Whitemoor Lane.
Alton II were washed out after making 130-7 against Odiham & Greywell, while Oli Spink toasted a maiden 50 as Hursley Park made 177 v Hook & Newnham Basics II.

​Heavy overnight rain, followed by the subsequent torrential mid-afternoon downpours, washed out the entire Southern Premier Cricket League programme, with all 20 scheduled matches across the region washed out.
It was the first time this season the cricket had been interrupted, five games being called off in the morning without a single ball bowled.
The inclement weather didn't stop two batsmen making centuries - left-hander Ben Duggan scoring 115 for Portsmouth before the Premier Division match against St Cross Symondians at St Helen's was halted five overs into the Winchester club's response to a formidable 260-5.
Hampshire's Fletcha Middleton hammered the Havant attack for a classy 142 not out for promoted Division 1 side Fair Oak, where he spent his formative years.
He hit five sixes, one of which landed on the roof of a train pulling out of the adjoining Havant railway station.   No one was injured.  Fair Oak posted 250-4 before the rains came.

This (Sunday) afternoon's National Village Cup county final tie between Hambledon and Sparsholt at Ridge Meadow is definitely ON, despite yesterday's torrential rain.  Full catering and bar facilities available, along with ample car parking.
Today's fixtures -
National Village Cup Hampshire final
Hambledon v Sparsholt (1pm)
Southern Premier League T20
Basingstoke & North Hants v Hook & Newnham Basics
Langley Manor v Totton & Eling
Rowledge v Andover - definitely on
Sarisbury Athletic v Gosport Borough
St Cross Symondians v South Wilts
Sway v Fawley
(please check start times with home clubs)

HAMBLEDON WON COMFORTABLY TO CLINCH A PLACE IN THE LAST 64.  DETAILS WILL FOLLOW ON MONDAY MORNING.

ECB SOUTHERN PREMIER CRICKET LEAGUE
RESULTS - ROUND SIX - 7 June 2025

ECB PREMIER DIVISION

Bashley (Rydal) 140-3 (42.2 overs)(Gordon 53*, Stearman 36) v Bournemouth.  Match abandoned. No result.

Basingstoke & North Hants 99-1 (23 overs)(Bovill 56*, O’Donoghue 24*) v Hampshire Academy. Match abandoned. No result.

Lymington 144 (Crabb 79, Royan 38*, South 3-22, Wright 3-41, Walters 3-51)  Alton 15.1 (8.2 overs). Match abandoned. No result.

Portsmouth 260-5 (Duggan 115, Ashraful 49, Daini 35*, Wimble 29) St Cross Symondians 25-0 (4.1 overs). Match abandoned. No result.

South Wilts 156-7 (36.2 overs)(Degg 54, B White 4-41) v Burridge.   Match abandoned. No result.

DIVISION 1 

Fair Oak 250-4 (Middleton 142*, H Reed 44) v Havant.  Match abandoned at tea. No result.

Hook & Newnham Basics 78-4 (30 overs)(M Buckingham 26*, Dyer 22) v Old Tauntonians & Romsey. Match abandoned. No result.

Rowledge 168-3 (41 overs)(Le Roux 78, M Martin 40, E Martin 30*) v Totton & Eling.  Match abandoned. No result.

Cancelled: Hambledon v Waterlooville, Ventnor Sarisbury Athletic.

DIVISION 2

Fawley 168-4 (38.1 overs)(Saif-Ul-Islam 61*, Streather 32, B Parratt 31) v Trojans. Match abandoned. No result. 

Liphook & Ripsley 26-0 (R Covey 21*)(10 overs) v Andover. Match abandoned. No result.

Sway 91-6 (32.2overs) v Calmore Sports. Match abandoned. No result.

Cancelled: Hartley Wintney v New Milton, Portsmouth & Southsea v Langley Manor..

DIVISION 3

Alton II 130-7 (42 overs)(W Bridger 30*) v Odiham & Greywell. Match abandoned. No result.

Fareham & Crofton 153-1 (35 overs)(R Blakewell 77*, Kent 54) v St Cross Symondians II.  Match abandoned. No result. 

Gosport Borough 143-4 (36 overs)(Styles 78, Campbell 27) v Paultons. Match abandoned. No result.

Hursley Park 177 (O Spink 50, Bishop 44, Burgess 4-21) v Hook & Newnham Basics II. Match abandoned. No result.

Cancelled: Parley v Sparsholt, 

​Southern Premier League run gun Tom Morton, who has scored over 10,000 competitive runs in his career locally, has been selected for play for England Over-40s against Ireland at High Wycombe on Sunday, 11.

​Michael Heffernan's first Southern Premier League century since 2002 when Alton were a Division 3 club came to no avail as Aussie Joe Merlino smashed 15 sixes in an unbeaten 157 at Locks Lane.
Heffernan made 116 and Merlino 157 not out.  Sparsholt, chasing 310-2, won by eight wickets.
Sparsholt can expect a sterner test at West Parley when they face fellow unbeaten SPL3 side Parley, who bowled Gosport Borough out for 101 to win by nine wickets, Kieran Laird hitting 56*.
Third placed Fareham & Crofton posted 215 (Joneil Richards 71) and bowled Hook & Newnham Basics out for 147.  Will Wyatt took 4-42 before making 50.  Kevin Light scored is 3,000th run in Hook colours.
Paulton scored their first win by overhauling Hursley Park's 145 and winning by two wickets, Rob Pike's 55 proving key.

​It rained fours and sixes at Steephill in midweek when Ventnor took on a Hampshire XI as part of the island club's 175th anniversary celebrations.
A bumper crowd lined the bowl and saw over 400 runs scored, 25 sixes hit and the audience treated to an exciting finish with Ventnor's Dan Cox bringing up a century off the last ball and his side finishing only two runs behind Hampshire's 206-6.
Cox, who hit four sixes and 13 fours, finished 101 not out as Ventnor closed 202-4, with Henry Edwards (32 off 14 balls) and Ben Attrill also enjoying the fun. 
Earlier, emerging spin all-rounder Zack Basey hit 50, captain Dom Kelly an enterprising 49*, Fletcha Middleton 31 and academy starlet Sam Ashman 26*.
All in all it was a hugely enjoyable afternoon, with Ventnor raising vital funds for pavilion and clubhouse upkeep.

​Langley Manor defend their five-match unbeaten Southern Premier Division 2 start against second placed Portsmouth & Southsea at St James's Park on Saturday (1230) - that's if the forecasters have got the weather wrong.  It's due to rain - but who knows ? 
The Manor took little time to brush Fawley aside - the oilmen collapsing from 56-3 to 72 all against spin twins Kaine Stanton (4-8) and Toby Green (4-23).  The Budd brothers Jack (44) and Will (20) wrapped things up in ten overs.
Matt Benfield hit a half-century as P & S trimmed New Milton (114) by four wickets after dismissing their hosts for 114.  
Past Hythe & Dibden skipper Tom Richards played an influential role in Sway's single-wicket win over Hartley Wintney (191). He took 3-49 before scoring a decisive 64.
Zimbabwe 'reserve' gloveman Nyasha Mayavo [left] kick started Andover's Southern Premier Division 2 survival bid with a telling display in the eight-run win over fellow strugglers Trojans at Stoneham Lane.
Andover were in deep trouble at 36-5 after a spell by Indian Ashmit Khaneja, but Mayavo (61) and Matt Knight (52) lifted them out of trouble and to a winning 176.  Trojans were dismissed for 168.
Ryan Covey's 92 led Liphook & Ripsley to a five-wicket win over Calmore Sports (178) 

​South African left-hander 'ALVIN' Shepang Dittole [above] and Sri Lankan Dineth Thimodya went head to head in an individual run scoring joust in Totton & Eling's high scoring Southern Premier Division 1 victory over Ventnor at Southern Gardens.
Totton won by 30 runs - Ditole winning the 'batting contest' by 111 runs to 98 - and the outcome of the match with it.
The 32-years old South African pitched up Totton last month having made a whopping 157 for the Durban-based Dolphins against the Lions at the Wanderers in late March. He hit 11 fours and sixes in his 111 against Ventnor, sharing a sizeable 181-run stand with James Taylor (74) before Jim's eldest son Ethan cracked 40 off 15 deliveries, all bar eight of which came in boundaries.
Totton's towering 318-5 didn't deter Ventnor from a post team run chase - Thimodya (98) and later Ben Woodhouse (80) leading the way before the visitors lost their last four wickets for 11 runs and were 289 all out.
Despite their win, Totton remain bottom of SPL1, four points behind OTs & Romsey, who lost by 14 runs at Waterlooville.
Ville's 192-8 was largely built around a partnership between Jon Hudson (52) and young Ray Reynolds (45). Ian Tulk took 3-41 for OTR, who were in a good position at 116-3 through Lewis Allen (53) and Aussie Will Blitz (30) only to collapse against teen spin twins Charlie Whitfield and Reynolds, who shared six wickets. OTs closed 178 all out.

SARISBURY ATHLETIC
Standing (from left): Tom Morton, Richard Logan, Archie Pascoe, Josh Williams, Mat Fourie, Nathan Feltham. Kneeling: Ricky Rawlins, Jack Robson, Rob Franklin, Josh Hill, Sam Hill.

Sarisbury Athletic outplayed Havant in every department to seize the Southern Premier League Division 1 leadership.  They bowled the unbeaten overnight leaders out for 133 to win by seven wickets and take a four-point lead into Saturday's scheduled visit to Ventnor.
On the evidence of the afternoon session at Allotment Road, Sarisbury's refreshed new-ball attack of former county professional Richard Logan and South African Mathew Fourie are going to be testing opposition.  
Logan is well known in these parts, while at 22 years of age all-rounder Fourie is already gaining respect in domestic Eastern Cape CSA cricket.  Bowling outswing, he's already made almost 20 appearances for Border, for whom he made scores of 70 and 42 against Easterns before Christmas.
Fourie had been due play for Sarisbury Athletic two summers ago, but registration complications meant an early flight hope.
Sarisbury's four-pronged seam attack prospered on a two-paced pitch with variable bounce. Havant's West Australian import Kieran Abrams (27) was the only batsman to equip himself as Archie Pascoe turned in a 3-28 return.  Pete Hayward (22) fought hard at the tail-end of the Havant innings.
Unlike Sarisbury, Havant aren't blessed with seam options and their spin attack offered little threat as Josh Hill (38), Tom Morton (38) and Jack Robson (38) completed the formalities with 13 overs to spare.

​Hambledon opener Chris Pratt celebrated his third Southern Premier League century as last season's  runaway Division 2 champions whipped Fair Oak by eight wickets at Lapstone Park.
He hit a six and 16 fours as the Dons chased down Oaks' 195-9 with 15 overs to spare.
Pratt [left] shared a 61-run start with Will Berrill (22) and 81 with Henry Glanfield (37).
Glanfield fell to Tom Merrill but Justin Behrens was 23 not out when Pratt hit the winning runs.
Oaks, who will be boosted by Hampshire opener Fletcha Middleton in Saturday's visit to Havant,  were earlier two down with just 13 on the board but brothers Harry (44) and Sam (34) Reed put together a fifty partnership to haul their side out of the mire. 
After that, the Hambledon bowlers steadily chipped their way through the Oaks order, ten Olly Whittle their most effective performer with three wickets at a personal cost of just 29 runs.
Dan Wheble made 16, Ben Smith 21 and Tom Merrill a spectacular 32 not out at the end.  But a final total of 195 for 9 from fifty overs was definitely below par on the excellent Lapstone surface.

​A dominant Bashley (Rydal) stormed to a massive seven-wicket win over Alton keeping themselves on top of the ECB Southern Premier League by three points from neighbours Lymington.
They dismissed the Brewers for 193 and polished off the target with 14 overs to spare, Will Tripcony [pictured] hitting a boundary strewn 94. 
Bashley spokesman Jacob Gordon, whose four wickets accounted Alton's lower middle-order,  explained: “We won the toss and bowled as it looked pretty green and soft on one end. However, it ended up playing flat when we batted.
“Alton were strong up top and batted nicely until the drinks break, but spin from both ends and some boring fields allowed us to dry up runs quickly, making them play rash shots and throwing their wickets away on what seemed a 270-run plus pitch.”
Left-armer James Trodd (2-26) made the early inroads, clean bowling both openers – first Dan Harris (19) at 38-1 and then Fred Egleston (17) at 66-2.
Ben Rolfs (45) fired off seven fours to help his side, but besides a 23-run contribution from wicketkeeper Mark Heffernan, only Scott Myers (16) broke double figures.

​In the field, Gordon was inspired, taking a catch to dismiss Rolfs, after Louis Prichard’s (1-34) delivery, securing the run-out of Jude Wright (9) and taking four wickets for just 21 runs. 
He took four of the final five wickets, with Tripcony’s run-out of Dan Sumner the penultimate dismissal.  What a player !
“Ethan Baker (28) and Alex Turner got us off to a decent start, and then Jack Stearman (48*), typical as ever, got close to 50, which seems to be every game at the moment,” added Gordon.
“Tripcony came in and did what he does when he gets going – he literally took their bowlers to all parts! He batted very fluidly and just had plenty of time."
Tripcony struck 14 four and three sixes, narrowly pipping Gordon to the MVP award. 

​A sound opening partnership of 66 by in-form Charlie Neville (48) and Stuart Lockwood (42) set Hook up for a charge at the target, but wickets fell just as Basics seemed to be taking control.
The Rowledge fielding added the pressure to the increasing scoring rate.
Rupert Armstrong (51) joined Thomas Dyer (46) at 155-4 and their big hitting seemed to be taking the game away from Rowledge. Dyer fell to the left-arm spin of Ollie Baker (3-44) and then Armstrong went to Australian spinner Justin Felsch. The visitors' tails were up and the run rate was up to 10 an over required.
The Hook tailers batsmen collapsed and from 240-6 the last four batters went to the spin of Felsch and Baker with 3 wickets falling in the last 2 overs and a final total of 256 all out.
Once again the Rowledge fielding was the key difference in the sides and produced an excellent win at a hard place to go.

​Radley College teen Rory Acheson-Gray hit a boundary off the first ball of the final over to secure a two-wicket win for St Cross Symondians over South Wilts, who remain in the bottom three of the ECB Southern Premier League.
St Cross had been asked to chase 246 for victory in the last of the initial batch of five 'white ball' 50-over matches and achieved their target in comfortable style.
A third win in five leaves St Cross in third place in the log but South Wilts in difficulty having won only once so far.
Batting continues to be South Wilts' problem.  Not once in their five limited overs matches have they managed to bat the full 50-overs though they did manage 49 overs at the Green Jackets Ground.

​Harry Broderick (41) and Archie Fairfax-Ross (25) nudged the South Wilts score past the 20-run mark before Michael Haworth's late spell of 4-55 sent wickets tumbling.
Fielding a powerful top seven, St Cross raced away through Greg McKenzie (33) and Felix Organ (49) and by the 12th over when the Hampshire all-rounder was dismissed they had 95 runs on the board.
Kamran Dhariwal (44), Ed Ellis (23) and Michael Howarth (29) kept the clock ticking before a three-wicket spell by James Degg (3-30) kept South Wilts interested, but they didn't quite have a sufficient number of runs to play with. Rory Acheson-Gray ended it with five balls to spare.​

Half-centuries by Aussie Toby Snell and Sachin Suresh carried Burridge to a comfortable six-wicket haul over the Hampshire Academy, whose lower-order was blown away by Oli Southon.
Southon returned figures of 5-41 after the Academy had tumbled from 153-4 to 214 all out at Botley Road, the last five wickets (all bagged by the Burridge captain) falling for 21 runs.
The Academy lost opening pair Sam Ashman and Finn Gordon in the space of three deliveries at the start of their innings, leaving England Under-19 batsman Ben Mayes (56) and Andrew MacEwen (55) a rebuilding exercise.
The pair both departed soon after reaching fifty, leaving the onus on Charterhouse raised Ollie Webster (32) to keep the scoreboard ticking.  Manny Lumsden and Zach Basey provided support before  the late collapse.
Burridge lost an early wicket before Joe Collings-Wells (44) and Snell put the 2023 champions on top.  Sachin Suresh (58), an SPL3 title winner with Trojans, and Inayat Ullah (28 not out) tidied up the win.

Five of Hampshire's County Championship squad will play a 175th anniversary year T20 celebration match against Ventnor at Steephill on Wednesday, 3pm.
Entry is free of charge with full catering available from 2 o'clock onwards. Spectators are recommended to bring a fold-up chair.
Weather forecast is for the current rain to have cleared for a fine sunny day.
Hampshire: Nick Gubbins, Fletcha Middleton, Sam Ashman, Joseph Eckland, Ben Brown, Zack Basey, Felix Organ, Dom Kelly, Kyle Abbott, Brad Taylor, Ibrahim Zafar.

Basingstoke & North Hants lie nailed to the ECB Southern Premier League basement, five adrift of the nearest safety rung, after the initial rounds of 50-over 'white ball' cricket.
They suffered a fourth defeat in five outings, losing by six wickets to second placed Lymington, who bowled Stoke out for a modest 147.  An unbeaten half-century by Gareth Berg saw Lymington home.
Basingstoke were three wickets down inside four overs, with opening pair Abilash Nanthakumar and Abdullah Abid out for ducks and teenage Kiwi Ethan O’Donohue dismissed for one. Basingstoke 8-3.

​George Metzger (26) and captain Matt Deadman (19), last season’s leading run scorers for Basingstoke, steadied the ship for a while putting on 32 for the fourth wicket before Metzger was out lbw to South African Ed Withington.
Deadman was then joined by Matt Donaldson who top scored with 32 and they put on 41 for the fifth wicket before they were both out to Monam Abbas (3-21) with his left arm spin.
Dean Nurse was caught as Basingstoke wickets continued to tumble, the side finally succumbed in the 35 over despite Joe Oates (27).
When Lymington slipped to 60-4, Basingstoke eyed a chance - opener Monam Abbas (14 off 7 balls) hit a massive six that landed well outside the ground but was then caught off a skier three balls later, bowled by Matt Deadman (2-35) but whose spell only lasted 4.1 overs before injuring himself.

​Fellow opener Ben Shoare (20) lasted somewhat longer before he was also out to left-armer Deadman.
Cambridge Blue Jovan Dhariwal (30 not out), with an eye-catching batting technique, was then joined by Gareth Berg (54 not out).
After a slow and slightly shaky start to the 88-run partnership, the pair played responsibly and saw Lymington home. The last 44 runs took little more than four overs with Berg striking nine fours.
The Premier League reverts to its traditional 'red ball' format this Saturday with Basingstoke playing the first of nine rounds of 'time' cricket against the Hampshire Academy at the Utility Bowl nursery ground.

South African talent Matt De Villiers, who made 1295 runs for Hambledon several seasons ago, is playing for Horsham and making life uneasy for bowlers in the ECB Sussex Premier League, none more so than Three Bridges at the weekend.  He scored 168 not out, his fourth ton of the season, hitting nine sixes and ten fours. Horsham won by 127 runs.