Joe Collings-Wells, who led Burridge to a maiden ECB Southern Premier League title, has topped the 'eligible' Premier Division batting charts.
His 449 runs tally, which included a mid-season century off the Hampshire Academy, was well below the 822 chalked up by South African run gun and team-mate Mat Goles, but with overseas cricketers not eligible for awards, JCW takes first prize, albeit by a mere two runs.
South Wilts' left-armer Tom Grant, whose 37 poles included four separate five-wicket returns, won the Premier bowling award.
Batting
* Mat Goles (Burridge) 822, Joe Collings-Wells (Burridge) 449, George Metzger (Havant) 447, James Degg (South Wilts) 434, Joe Eckland (Academy) 402, Ryan Scott (Lymington) 382, * Josh Elliott (Totton & Eling) 373, Harry Gadd (Havant) 358.
Best: Kamran Dharlwal (Lymington) 168 v Hampshire Academy, * Mat Goles 164* v Havant, 147 v Hampshire Academy, 146 v St Cross Symondians, Ryan Scott 143 v Totton & Eling & 101 v Hampshire Academy, Luke Webb (Bournemouth) 124 v Alton, Jack Bransgrove (St Cross Symondians) 121 v Hampshire Academy, Joe Collings-Wells 117 v Hampshire Academy, Sam Ruffell (Alton) 115 v Totton & Eling, Conor Moors (ILymington) 106 v  Havant, Harry Gadd 106 v Bashley (Rydal), Joe Eckland 104* v South Wilts, Tom Cheater 101* v Havant.
Bowling
Tom Grant (South Wilts) 37, Inayat Ullah (Burridge) 31, Charlie Gwynn (St Cross Symondians) 26, Brighton Mugochi (Totton & Eling) 25, * Sam Beer (St Cross Symondians) 25, Ollie Southon (Burridge) 24, Matt Burton (South Wilts) 24, Scott Myers (Alton) 24, * Bash Walters (Alton) 24.
Best: Brad Currie (Bashley Rydal) 9-28 v Lymington, Brighton Mugochi 7-40 v St Cross Symondians, Sam Beer 6-19 v Totton & Eling, Tom Grant 6-32 v  Alton, * Sam Beer 6-33 v Bashley (Rydal), * Bash Walters 6-38 v Hampshire Academy.
Wicketkeeping
George Metzger (Havant) 25, Nathan Schoultz (Burridge) 25, Ben Draper (South Wilts) 21. 

Paultons have begun to replace their pavilion at Whitemoor Lane which was ravaged by fire two years ago. 
​The old pavilion has been pulled down and groundwork started to provide a concrete base for a brand new building, the shell of which Paultons hope to have erected by the 2024 season. The New Forest club is appealing for any local trades people and/or companies who may be able to assist with the project.

Teenage Bournemouth pair Connor Smith (left above) and Lions team-mate Ben Rogers are preparing to spend the coming winter months playing in Australia - left-arm spin all-rounder Smith for Altona North in west Melbourne - and batsman/gloveman Rogers for Sydney-based Albion Park Rangers.  Competitive cricket begins next weekend.    ​Pictures Tim Rogers.
Lymington youngsters Dan Cox and Jude Tollerfield are also headed to Melbourne to play for Middle Park, where Cox spent a rainy last winter.  Little Tommy Spencer is one of three Langley Manor youngsters headed for New Zealand.

Overseas players dominated the Southern Premier League Division 1 battng and bowling charts leaving Calmore Sports left-hand opener Ben Johns the highest 'home grown' and eligible award winner for the second consecutive year.
The Calmore caprain, who led his sider to a third successive third place SPL1 finish, made 606 runs, with Hambledon's Chris Pratt and Sarisbury Athletic hard hitter Nathan Feltham also passing the 500-mark.
Andover's Zimbabwe Test playing batsman/gloveman Richmond Mutambami topped the SPL1 batting and wicketkeeping charts, with South African leg spinner Justin Behrens top bowler.
Batting:
* Richmond Mutambami (Andover) 872, * Fraser Hay (Portsmouth) 654, Ben Johns (Calmore Sports) 606, * Dinesh Thimodya (Ventnor) 589, * Justin Behrens (Hambledon) 568, Chris Pratt (Hambledon) 558, Nathan Feltham (Sarisbury Athletic) 502, * Liam O'Connor (Calmore Sports) 477, Tom Morton (Sarisbury Athletic) 420, 
Best: Fraser Hay (163* v Hambledon), Tom Friend (Ventnor) 156* v Calmore Sports, Chris Pratt (151 v Ventnor), Dinesh Thimodya (146 v  Hook & Newnham Basics & 113 v Ventnor), *Richmond Mutambami (135 v Hambledon and 121 v Hook & Newnham Basics), Henry Bartlett (123 v Andover), *Justin Behrens (120 v Ventnor), Nathan Feltham (114 v Basingstoke & North Hants), Tom Morton (108 v Andover and 101* v Hambledon), Matt Deadman (Basingstoke & North Hants) 106 v Hook & Newnham Basics, Harry Robson (Hook & Newnham Basics) 106 v Ventnor, Glyn Treagus (Andover) 106 v Calmore Sports, Jack Marston (Portsmouth) 105 v Sarisbury Athletic, Dan Wimble (Portsmouth) 100* v New Milton, Ben Johns (100 v New Milton).
Bowling
* Justin Behrens (Hambledon) 32, John Nyumbu (Andover) 27, Adam Carty (Calmore Sports) 26, Aiden Jansen (Andover) 26, * Connor Cook (Rowledge) 26, * Fraser Hay (Portsmouth) 25, Ollie Baker (Rowledge) 25.
Best: Steve Warner (Portsmouth) 6-14 v Hook & Newnham Basics, Charlie Neville (Hook & Newnham Basics) 5-7 v Rowledge, Justin Behrens 5-12 v  Sarisbury Athletic, Jonty Oliver (Hambledon) 5-14 v Andover, Aiden Jansen 5-16 v Basingstoke & North Hants, Reuben McArdle (Portsmouth) 5-16 v New Milton, Brad Neal (Basingstoke & North Hants) 5-24 v New Milton,  Charlie Ayers (Andover) 5-27 v Portsmouth, Liam Carty 5-30 v Rowledge, Will Gardner (Hook & Newnham Basics) 5-38 v Hambledon.
Wicketkeeping
* Richmond Mutambami 26, Sujeeth Daini (Portsmouth) 25, Ben Wish (Rowledge) 22, Lawrence Benge (Basingstoke & North Hants) 20.

Hampshire Seniors raised over £2,000 from a three-mile walk to help raise money for The Bob Willis Fund for research into prostate cancer treatment.
​Walks are being done by many of the UK’s Seniors Clubs and, in Hampshire's case, culminated in a circuit of the Ageas Bowl at lunchtime during the second day of the final County Championship match of the season against title winners Surrey. The walkers were warmly received by a larger than normal crowd.
​Former England fast bowler Bob Willis died from prostate cancer in December 2019 at the age of 70 years.
He is best remembered for his heroic performance in the 1981 Ashes series, when he took 8 wickets for 43 runs to help England win the third Test at Headingley. He played 90 Tests and 64 ODIs for England, taking 325 and 80 wickets respectively. He was also a respected commentator and pundit for Sky Sports after his retirement1.

Hambledon leg-spin all-rounder Justin Behrens was among the young aspiring cricketers listed among the rookie options for South Africa's Betway 2014 SA20 player auctions.
​He was among several Cape cricketers, under 22 years of age, not capped at professional level to be included in the list for next January's six-franchise tournament.
Behrens headed the Southern Premier Division 1 bowling averages with 32 wickets this past summer, in addition to scoring 568 runs. He finished second in the Western Province CA bowling charts in Cape Town last winter.
But, like Burridge run gun Mat Goles, Behrens had had his start to Cape Town's domestic season delayed by bad weather. Due to the excessive September rainfall in the Cape, the WPCA league programme has been delayed until October 14.

​Gareth Berg has retired from professional cricket, ending a career that has spanned 16 years, but is expected to continue to play ECB Southern Premier League cricket for Lymington, where he has spent the past two club seasons.
Berg, who doubles up as Italy's head player coach, was a latecomer to first-class cricket, making his debut for Middlesex in 2008 and going on to take 321 wickets and score 5,565 runs in the longest format.   He ends his career, aged 42, played 374 matches across formats.
"Started hitting sixes over the neighbour's fence aged three, scored my first hundred at the age of nine, maiden first-class century and five-wicket haul on the hallowed turf at Lord's. At age 42, my county cricket playing days are done," he summarised.
Berg spent the final four years of his career at Northamptonshire, with a successful spell at Hampshire in between.
He spent five seasons with Hampshire after arriving from Middlesex in 2015, playing 57 first-class games. He helped them win the Bob Willis Trophy One-Day Cup and reach another  final. 
Head coach John Sadler said: "Bergy has been an excellent cricketer and top pro for a long time.
"You always know what you get from Bergy, 100% effort and contributions in every discipline. He's had a fantastic playing career and I have no doubt he will go on to have a successful coaching career."

​Old Tauntonians & Romsey pair Harry Tulk and left-arm spinner Matt Bampton topped the individual Southern Premier League Division 2 batting and bowling charts, helping their side to promotion as runners-up in the process.
Left-hander Tulk's 561-run tally included a boundary strewn 130 at Portsmouth & Southsea and 90-plus scores against Hook & Newnham Basics II and champions Waterlooville.
Matt Bampton won the SPL2 bowling award for a second consecutive season, taking 29 wickets (34 in 2022) and is approaching 200 league wickets for the Romsey club.
Fair Oak gloveman Matt White nabbed the wicketkeeping prize.
Batting
Harry Tulk (OTs & Romsey) 561, Tom Berzins (Sparsholt) 480, Charlie King (OTs & Romsey) 434, Will Berrill (Sparsholt) 412, Ryan Covey (Liphook & Ripsley) 396, George Neave (Liphook & Ripsley) 387, Dan Moore (Hook & Newnham Basics) 363, Hugo Hammond (Hartley Wintney) 359, Matt Benfield (Portsmouth & Southsea) 357, Joe Vaughan (OTs & Romsey) 354.
Best: Harry Trussler (St Cross Symondians II) 193 v Hook & Newnham Basics II, Harry Tulk (130 v Portsmouth & Southsea)  Tom Berzins (124 v Fair Oak), Dan Moore (124 v Sparsholt), Joe Vaughan (117*v Sparsholt), Will Berrill (114* v Liphook & Ripsley).
Bowling
Matt Bampton (OTs & Romsey) 29, Dave Orchard (St Cross Symondians II) 27, Toby Green Langley Manor) 27, Joe Mitchell (Waterlooville) 27, Max Goddard (Portsmouth & Southsesa) 26, George Neave (Liphook & Ripsley) 26, Monty McKenzie (Fair Oak) 25.
Best: Joe Mitchell 6-18 v Langley Manor, Ewan Mansford (Portsmouth & Southsea) 6-23 v Liphook & Risley)  Matt Bampton 6-31 v Liphook & Ripsley.
Wicketkeeping
Matt White (Fair Oak) 18, Tom George (OTs & Romsey) 16, Dan Birch (Waterlooville) 14.

Exprienced Fareham & Crofton batsman/wicketkeeper Jez Bulled and Gosport Borough seamer Scott Taylor have carried off the principal Southern Premier League Division 3 performance awards.
With overseas players ineligible and Queenslander Oli Lunt and South African Craig Jeffery consequently ruled out, Bulled 'topped' the batting charts with 423 runs - four more than Fawley all-rounder Sufian Munir.   Only three batsmen made hundreds.
Taylor's 37-wicket haul included 'sixes' against Fareham & Crofton and Fawley, though oilmen's Wayne Smith produced the best 7-14 return against South Wilts II.
Batting
* Oli Lunt (Gosport Borough) 573, * Craig Jeffery (Fareham & Crofton) 540, Jez Bulled (Fareham & Crofton) 423, Sufian Munir (Fawley) 419, Tom Jacques (Parley) 383, Tom Kent (Fareham & Crofton) 376, Tim Noble (Sway) 341, * Callum Barton (Paultons) 336, Andrew Galliers (Havant II) 313, Will Crossley (Sway) 297.
Best: Andrew Galliers (104 v South Wilts II), Oli Lunt (102 v Bashley Rydal II), Will Crossley (100* v Trojans).
Bowling
Scott Taylor (Gosport Borough) 37, Dave Steadman (Sway) 27, Jack Nicholls (Parley) 24, Dan Reader (Fareham & Crofton) 24, Oli Green (Parley) 23, * Craig Jeffery (Fareham & Crofton) 23, Conor Clark (Fareham & Crofton) 22, Luke Dimmick (Trojans) 22, Mo Ali (Gosport Borough) 21, Ali Gardner (Havant II) 21.
Best: Wayne Smith (Fawley)(7-14 v South Wilts II), Scott Taylor (6-9 v Fareham & Crofton), Scott Taylor (6-19 v Fawley), Mark Anderson-Emm (6-20 v Gosport Borough), Raminder Singh (Fawley)(6-31 v Trojans), Peter Lamb (Paultons)(6-34 v Bashley Rydal II).
Wicketkeeping
Tom Jacques (Parley) 23, Jez Bulled (Fareham & Crofton) 19, Alex Hall (Sway) 13, Andrew Smith (Paultons) 12, Nigel le Bas (Trojans) 12, Sam Pittman (South Wilts II) 11.

Exciting teenage Hampshire prospect Dom Kelly brought a taste of Bazball to Wantage Road, Northampton, with an explosive and best yet knock of 88 on day three of England Under-19s second youth Test Match against Australia.
He and Essex's Noah Thain hit 12 fours as England fought back brilliantly from the depths of 145-5 the previous evening. With the tail also firing and Australia gifting 52 runs in extras, it was enough to earn England a slender first innings lead of 12.  Earlier, Australia had made 396 all out.
Kelly, left, who has produced several noteworthy performances for the U19s in recent weeks, extended his overnight rearguard partnership with keeper Jack Carney (41) to 110, the pair doing an excellent job in steadying the ship before pushing on this Monday morning. 
Left-handed Kelly, who earlier took 3-67 off 19 overs, was offside dominant, exquisite cover drives a feature of his innings, although when Australia packed the off-side field, he happily smashed Harjas Singh over mid-on for four.
Kelly and Thain then joined forces in an enterprising partnership of 62 in 12 overs which brought England’s deficit down into double figures. Kelly eventually fell to the new ball  when the Winchester-based all-rounder hooked a short ball to the boundary fielder.
After England had been dismissed, Kelly bowled a lively spell with some well-directed short balls, but Australia closed 152-4, a lead of 140 going into Tuesday's final day's play.  Australia went on to post 279, with England closing at 163-2. Kelly made three 50-plus scores against Australia U19s, an unbeaten ODI 50 followed by scores of 74* and 88 in the Tests.

​Hursley Park are gearing up for a potential return to Southern Premier League cricket in 2024 by installing electronic scoreboards on their two grounds at The Quarters.
​This £20k project has been supported by a very generous donation from Jack Stone, an avid supporter of HPCC and ladies and girls cricket in Hampshire and the work carried out by LED Synergy of Andover.
Hursley finished runners-up in the Hampshire League this past season, winning their opening nine matches, but then losing three of their last five.  The Flynn brothers, Tom (536) and Will (406), each scoring centuries, headed the run scoring charts, with spinner Oli Green [left] topping the overall CD1 bowling averages with 27 wickets.  They were last in the SPL in 2017.

Andover cricket stalwart Keith Williams has called time on a noteworthy career as a player and umpire spanning six decades.
A fast medium-pace bowler - until his knees gave up and he reverted to off-spin – Williams played for 38 years for Andover before hanging his boots up and retiring to become a prominent umpire on the Hampshire club cricket scene.
At 79 years of age, he brought his umpiring career to a close by officiating the Southern Premier League’s T20 Plate final between Bashley (Rydal) and Sarisbury Athletic.
Players and officials from both clubs formed a guard of honour as Williams left the field for the last time.
Williams vividly recalls his Andover debut back in the Sixties.
“I played cricket at school and then Penton. I was asked to guest for Andover at two hours notice one midweek afternoon against Southampton Wednesday and took four wickets, John Wolfe being my first victim,” he smiled.
Almost 40 years later Williams was still at it, opening the bowling for Andover in the Hampshire League before dropping down to the fourths in his twilight years.
“I still have the scorecard of my best bowling in County 1, July 1982, 8 for 42 in 16.4 overs against Calmore Sports at London Road.  
Those were the good old days before individual bowling restrictions were introduced,” he chuckled. 
Keith’s son Ian was a decent cricketer, playing for Hampshire Schools through the age groups as a batsman/wicketkeeper for Andover and later Longparish.
“We had plenty of back yard Test matches over the years, but when we played against each other in the old Southern League, Longparish won," he laughed. 
When his knee injury eventually prompted his retirement, Keith swapped his bowling boots for an umpire's coat - and spent 20 years or more becoming one of the most respected officials on the club circuit.
Having trained to become an umpire, Williams stood in a Hampshire benefit match with Denis Emery – ironically, his partner in his farewell Southern Premier League match at Sparsholt – and then went on to ‘debut’ at Tichborne Park alongside the late David Kirk.  
                                                                                       Honour
At the end of his second season ‘ in the middle’ Keith Williams was elevated to officiate in the Premier Division – and so began two decades of umpiring games galore from league matches, county age group, seniors and visually impaired cricket et al.
He's umpired for the Club Cricket Conference and had the honour of standing in the Sovereign Trophy Final with Huw Evans (South Coast Panel chairman) and this season the Semi Final of the Bertie Joel Trophy between Walton on Thames and Sandwich Town.
He was also one of three SPL officials at the ECB Vitality Blast T20 south finals at Basingstoke, which Wimbledon won before going on to lift the national trophy for a third time.
Among his highlights are umpiring a Hampshire v Middlesex pre-season friendly, meeting Courtney Walsh when he was coach to West Indies U16’s, standing in an England v Australia Over 70’s 'Ashes' Test Match and three SPL T20 Finals. 
Keith Williams certainly won't be lost to cricket. He'll be at London Road most days in the summer months helping prepare Andover's pitches and, on Saturdays, watching on from the sidelines.,
"Umpiring is a  wonderful way to be involved in cricket and I would say to anyone interested, give it a go, the training available in Hampshire is second to none and you will meet some fabulous people," he concluded.
"I would like to thank all my colleagues, players and clubs who have made the past 20 odd years so special."  

Wimbledon, who beat Havant in the south-east play-off final at Hove and went on to emerge victorious in the South final at May's Bounty, Basingstoke, beat Derbyshire County League side Sandiacre Town by 15 runs at Derby yesterday to win the national ECB Vitality Blast T20 Cup for a third time.
Boosted by a typically fast start by Nick Welch (35) and Jon Webb (28), Wimbledon posted 140-4 with Dorset's David Scott making 25.  Sandiacre, beaten by Wimbledon in two previous finals, dropped from 82-3 to 125 all out.
Former Calmore Sports and Hursley Park batsman/wicketkeeper Martin Kellaway umpired the ECB T20 final, having officiated the Yorkshire Premier League final the previous day.
Worcester-based Old Elizabethians lost by five wickets to Wellington [Shropshire] in the morning Plate final 

​Leicestershire won their first one-day final for 38 years, beating Hampshire by two runs to lift the Metro Bank One-Day Cup in a thrilling finish at Trent Bridge after wicket-keeper Harry Swindells had marked his first appearance in this season’s competition with a magnificent unbeaten 117 - his first century in limited-overs cricket.
Swindells and Sam Evans, both Leicester-born, were the Foxes’ unlikely heroes, sharing a seventh-wicket partnership of 151 with Evans posting a maiden List A half-century in only his third appearance of the campaign.
They rescued Leicestershire from 19 for four and 89 for six after opting to bat first to set the 2018 champions a target of 268 to win. 
Hampshire, for whom Keith Barker and Poole-raised Scott Currie took three wickets each, ran them close, with half-centuries from Tom Prest and Liam Dawson, but ultimately came up short after needing eight off the last over.
At that point, 19-year-old left-arm pace bowler Josh Hull - Leicestershire’s most expensive bowler on the day -  holding his nerve when it mattered to concede just five runs and take his second wicket to see the Foxes home.
It is Leicestershire’s first trophy since lifting the 2011 Twenty20 Cup and their first in List A cricket since David Gower’s side beat Essex to win the Benson and Hedges Cup in 1985.
Man of the moment Swindells, 24, was called up only because Australia international Peter Handscomb, the Foxes’ preferred glove man in this year’s 50-over competition, had to return home after the semi-final to prepare for his own domestic season. 
                                                                                           Overcast
After appearing in just two group matches, 25-year-old Evans replaced injured seam bowler Matt Salisbury in the XI after the Foxes opted to stick with the squad who had helped them reach the final rather than draft in 19-year-old England all-rounder Rehan Ahmed, who was available.
The Foxes’ calamitous start came after Barker and Ian Holland had put their all into exploiting early overcast conditions.
Rishi Patel prodded nervously outside off stump to be caught behind in the opening over before Sol Budinger, unable to contain his aggressive instincts even with the new ball consistently beating his bat, skied one to be caught at cover.
Colin Ackermann, whose unbeaten 93 was the match-winning innings as the Foxes beat Hampshire at the Ageas Bowl in the group stages, was caught low down at midwicket, before South African all-rounder Wiaan Mulder, with five half-centuries to his name in the competition, was beaten on the inside to be leg before without scoring as Barker claimed his third scalp. 
Hints of a recovery were extinguished when Louis Kimber swung with anchored feet at a ball from Currie and was caught behind. Hill, having played nicely for his 42, departed after an injudicious slash at Currie - currently a team-mate in red-ball cricket on loan to Leicestershire - gave ‘keeper Ben Brown a third catch. 
At 89 for six, it was hard to see the Foxes posting anything like a competitive score - until Swindells and Evans stepped up in their county’s hour of need.
                                                                                             Squeeze
After pushing ones and twos to ensure that spinners Mason Crane and Liam Dawson did not impose a mid-innings squeeze on top of the earlier carnage, they loosened their to score at above eight an over before Evans, a maiden half-century under his belt in only the sixth List A match of his career, miscued to deep point for an 84-ball 60.
Swindells, who had twice cleared the rope at wide long on off Barker, kept up that momentum in the last couple of overs, completing his 90-ball hundred by hoisting one over Barker’s head for his seventh four, finishing off with an uppercut over backward point for his third six and a four over long-off as Currie conceded 17 off the final over.
Hampshire lost openers Fletcha Middleton and Nick Gubbins in posting 41 for two from their opening powerplay, Mulder executing a smart run-out from mid-off as Gubbins chanced a single off Chris Wright before bowling Middleton off an inside edge, but luck seemed to be with them as Ben Brown was spared when Ackermann missed a run-out chance and two lbw reviews went in their favour.
Three overs of Ackermann’s off-spin could not dislodge the third-wicket pair but when Wright returned in his place at the pavilion end a double breakthrough came. Brown pulled straight to short midwicket, he and Tom Prest having added 79, before Aneurin Donald fell victim to the same bowler-fielder combination off a top-edge.
                                                                                           Monstrous 
Prest, the 20-year-old batter whose impressive season had included a hundred and two fifties before this match, hammered Josh Hull for a monstrous six over long-off before completing another half-century off 61 balls but when he then offered a simple return catch in the same over the outcome was in the balance at 136 for five.
Yet sixth-wicket pair Dawson and Joe Weatherley were able to head off this mini-crisis for Hampshire so that the last 10 overs arrived with 73 needed. Leicestershire appeared to have only five bowling options, and while none was leaking runs heavily, it took an excellent diving catch by sub fielder Will Davis at deep backward square as Weatherley slog-swept Ackermann to crank up the pressure again, leaving Hampshire 218 for six, needing 50 more from 40 balls. 
Holland’s improvisation brought him 16 from 13 balls but he too fell to a brilliant catch by Hull running round from long leg as he ramped Mulder, leaving 25 needed from 18.
Dawson eased the pressure with a maximum off Hull to leave 11 needed off two before a tight over from Wright conceded just three, leaving Hull to have the final word. Three singles preceded the end of Dawson, caught at long leg off a paddle-sweep. New man Currie took a single, leaving Barker needing a four off the final delivery, which he squirted towards the off-side boundary but with insufficient power to beat the fielder as Leicestershire’s celebrations began.

​Winchester teenager George O'Connor played a major role with the ball as Sunbury won the prestigious ECB Surrey Championship title on the final day of the season.
They chased down a daunting Guildford total of 283-8 to win by three wickets with 11 balls to spare, Hilton College schooled Colby Dyer smacking eight sixes in a blistering century.
O'Connor spent his formative years at Radley College, playing second team cricket for St Cross Symondians during the school holidays, but after a successful winter at the Darren Lehmann Academy in Adelaide, decided to try his luck at Sunbury, where he opened the bowling regularly.
It was a move that paid handsome dividends for the 19-year old pace bowler, who was Sunbury's joint leading wicket taker, alongside the Surrey spinner Amar Virdi, each with 28 victims.
O'Connor's haul included a career-best 7-30 against Ashtead and five-wicket returns against 2022 champions Wimbledon and Weybridge.   He is shortly to return for a second winter season in Adelaide.

St Cross Symondians batsman Jason Laney cracked his second consecutive century as Hampshire Seniors won the National 50-plus County Championship Second XI Plate with an 18-run win over Somerset in the final at North Perrott.
The former Hampshire opener, who made 100 on debut against Buckinghamshire last month, hit 144 (17 fours) of the Seniors' 285-6 and shared a significant partnership with Jim Stokes-Edwards (62) after three wickets had fallen for 12 runs, including Andy Giles run out for 27.  
The pair put on 97, with Laney batting almost to the end of the Hampshire innings.
Sparsholt paceman Rae Lockyer accounted for both openers before Mike Hanniford (78) and Clive Hamblin (57*) took them close.  Andover's Stuart Summers took 3-46, but Hampshire conceded 2=31 wides. Somerset closed 267-7.

Hampshire Academy pair Dom Kelly (pictured above) and Eddie Jack produced notable individual performances despite England's eight-wicket loss to Australia in the opening Under-19 'Test' at Worcester.
England were on the back foot after being dismissed for a first innings 174, but a four-wicket spell by Canford's Eddie Jack (4-62) kept Australia down to 348 and a lead of 164.  
England trimmed the deficit with a second innings opening stand of 138, only to collapse to 246-8 and a narrow lead of 82.  But left-hander Kelly, who also did well in the recent ODI series, seized the opportunity to strike a 13-boundary 74 not out and share a late stand with 15-year old Notts spinner Farhan Ahmed (31) and lift England to 363 all out. Australia got the 191 runs they required for the loss of two wickets, 
​The second Youth 'Test' begins at Northampton on Saturday.

Burridge are celebrating an ECB Southern Premier League and T20 Cup double.
A week after  being crowned Premier Division champions for the first time, they lifted the T20 Cup with a 15-run win over Alton at South Wilts, who hosted the finals superbly.
Burridge were soon into their stride with Mat Goles taking 15 off spinner Dan Sumner's opening over. They lost Inayat Ullah in the second over, but regained control with the Cape Town opener soon into his stride.
The Premier League champions had 51 runs on the board in the sixth over when Goles (35), having struck two sixes and four boundaries, was superbly run out by a Freddie Egleton direct hit.

Cape Town team-mate Nathan Schoultz took up the challenge, shelving his disappointing SPL summer - he made 210 only runs in 11 knocks and didn't score 20 in July or August - to make a match winning  56.
Employing his favoured sweep shot, Schoultz launched four maximums in a 36-ball knock which had Burridge rattling along at almost ten runs an over.  
A 200-total looked a real possibility - until the emerging Zac Gadsby (3-21) clean bowled three batsmen in a row, including Schoultz, to check progress at 128-5.
Dan Scott (2-21) nipped in with a brace as Alton slowed the run rate, only 21 coming off the last four overs as Burridge closed 165-8.
                                                                                          Boiling
Cup winners in 2019, Alton began confidently and had 38 runs on the board in the sixth over when teen Sam Ruffell holed out.
Dan Harris (27), struggling with an ankle injury, kept the pot boiling - but Brad Griffiths (3-21) took wickets in three successive overs to leave the Brewers 78-4 by the 12th over.

​Scott Myers (31) kept Alton's fading hopes alive but when left-hander Joe Paul (27 not out) lofted Oli Southon for three sixes in the penultimate over, the total reached 145-5.
It gave Alton a sniff, but only three runs came off the final over by the economical Dan Stancliffe (2-16). They closed 148-6.
Burridge became the ninth club to land a Premier League and T20 Cup double.
South Wilts achieved the feat in 2006 and then both trophies three times in a row between 2013 and 2015. Havant also won on three occasions in 2007, 2011 and again five years later, in 2016. BAT Sports were the first back in 2005.
The finals had been moved away from the Ageas Bowl as the Southern Premier League were, unsurprisingly, unwilling (and probably unable) to cough up the near £6,500 stadium hiring fee Hampshire were asking.

​Nathan Feltham cracked a blistering 91 not out - 74 of them in boundaries - to haul Sarisbury Athletic out of the mire  and to an eventual victory over Bashley (Rydal) in the Southern Premier League's T20 Plate cup final.
Sarisbury had lost three wickets for six runs - two of them to Dan Goodey (2-22) - when Feltham launched his boundary blitz, barnstorming the Division 1 side to 174-5 and a 16-run win.
Josh Hill went first ball, with Jack Robson and Tom Morton following soon after. Sarisbury were 6-3 with only 14 balls bowled. 
The left-handed Feltham, pictured with his MVP award, was soon in his stride, striking boundaries off four of the initial six deliveries he received, but by the tenth over Sarisbury were 58-5, with Cameron Grierson (20) a second victim for George Wilson (2-28).
With Goodey essentially their only front line bowler, Bashley saw their back-up attack ruthlessly mauled for 116 off the last ten overs - Feltham plundering five maximums and 11 fours in a brutal 91 not out.   Rob Franklin weighed in with an unbeaten 43, beating the rope six times.
​The first half of Bashley's reply was played in rain - not quite enough to take the players off the field, but sufficient to have a DLS target illuminating the electronic Bemerton scoreboard.
Alex Turner (26) and Saif Achakzai (19) got Bashley off to a flier with 29 runs in quick time. Then, after a two wicket over by Jordan Wright (2-22), Goodey (26) and Michael Porter (19) had 93 on the board with ten overs bowled.
The rain abated, but Bashley were losing wickets - four fell for 17 runs with Tom Kitcher (5-22) cashing in - before Preetpal Singh (23) and Pat Holly (17) trimmed the margin of defeat. Bashley closed 158-9.

Burridge run gun Mat Goles has delayed his return flight to South Africa so he can play in Sunday's potentially historic Southern Premier League T20 Cup final against Alton at South Wilts' ground at Bemerton on the western outskirts of Salisbury.
Goles chalked up a cool 822 runs, including three centuries, and played a major role in Burridge's maiden title success this season.   He had been due to return to Cape Town earlier this week.   Having won a championship medal, Goles now wants a cup winner's medal in his suitcase too !
Burridge's dream of a league and cup double has been affected by the absence of holidaying first team skipper Joe Collings-Wells, pinch hitter Shou Chowdhury and seamer Ben White.
But three of their hugely influential seam attack will be on duty at Wilton Road, 2pm.
Past winners Alton had a major injury concern over batsman Dan Harris, who twisted his ankle on the boundary rope prior to last weekend's final game with South Wilts, but the opening batsman expected to play.  Teenage all-rounder Jude Wright is out.  
Alton: Harris, Ruffell, Myers, Mike Heffernan, Egleton, Mark Heffernan, Paul, Sumner, Verney, Scott, Gadsby.
Burridge: Inayat Ullah, Mathew Goles, Nathan Schoultz, Chris Blake, Brad Griffiths, Francis Moore, Dan Stancliffe, James Hughes, Oli Southon, Jack Paskins, Ollie Creal.

A licensed bar and hot/cold refreshments will be available throughout Sunday, with ample on-site car parking.  Admission is free.
Tomorrow's action begins at 10.30am with Bashley (Rydal) playing Sarisbury Athletic - the tie seeing Bemerton old boys Tom Morton and Rob Franklin making a return to to SP2 9NY.

​Portsmouth & Southsea ended a five-match losing run which threatened their short stay in Southern Premier Division 2 when they trimmed hosts St Cross Symondians II at the Green Jackets ground.
Last year's SPL3 winners posted 175 - Shaun Briggs (46) and Matt Benfield (28) top scoring before Dave Lee hit a brisk 24 - before dismissing St Cross Symondians for 143 (Jason Laney 36).  Spinner Dave Orchard earlier took 5-27 to finish second in the Division 2 bowling charts.

On the face of it, there was little to play for when third placed Langley Manor hosted Fair Oak in the final round of Southern Premnier Division 2 matches - but it didn't prevent the Knellers Lane faithful from being serviedup with a 19-wicket low scoring thriller.
James Gradwell, with his fast medium swing, and Sam Reed were the key players in Fair Oak's one-wicket win. 
Early on it was James Gradwell [top left] who took the lead role.  The fast-medium swing bowler, who started the season in Fair Oak’s 2nd XI but has now nailed down a place at the top table, took five wickets for just 14 in his ten overs to leave the Manor reeling at 43-6. 
The spinners completed the job, Monty McKenzie bagging 3 for 16 and Gregor McKenzie and Lewis Goodyear a wicket apiece as the hosts struggled to 88 all out in the 33rd over.  Only three Langley batsmen reached double figures – Steve Harris (16), Fair Oak old boy Nick Doubell (14) and Charlie Lount (18).
Oaks, in turn, were also in deep trouble at 31-4 (Ben Morgan 3-26) when Harry Reed was joined by his younger brother Sam.  They added 19 for the fifth wicket before the elder sibling was caught off trainee gasman Toby Green for 16.  Left-armer Green took 4-31 and fellow spinner, little Tommy Spencer 1-13 as the Manor applied the brakes.
At 68-5 Oaks were definitely in the driving seat – and then three wickets in a Green over enabled Langley to wrest the initiative back.  But the younger Reed stood firm, quietly mixing watchful defence with punishing back foot stroke play. 
The ninth wicket fell at 71, and Manor skipper Spencer brought back his quicker bowlers in an attempt to polish Oaks off.  But added pace brought with it more opportunities to score, and Ben Smith, who has opened the innings on occasion, showed he was far better than his number eleven status would suggest. 
Smith was unbeaten on five when Reed cracked his fifth boundary to win the match and complete his innings on 39 not out, by far the highest score of the match.  Oaks’ winning total of 89 for 9 was reached in the 33rd over.

​Sparsholt skipper Tom Berzins starred with bat and ball as Sparsholt ended life in Southern Premier League Division 2 on a positive note, beating promoted Old Tauntonians & Roimsey by ten runs to chalk up a second consecutive win.
He followed up his 81 with a four-wicket spell which left OTs adrift at 167 all out in reponse to Sparsholt's 177-7 at the Norman Edwards Ground.  The all-round performance earned Berzins this website's Cricketer of the Week (Round 18) award.
Berzins underpinned the Sparsholt total - increasing his season's SPL2 run aggregate to 480 (second behind Harry Tulk) - and enjoyed a half-century start with Will Berrill (24).
At 152-4 and having struck a six and eight fours, he became left-armer Matt Bampton's 29th victim of the season, enough for Romsey's King of Spin to retain his title.
​Will Robbins (23* and Tom Ley (17) nipped in with some late run before Hakim Peruzi (3-24) closed the Sparsholt innings.

Losing 354-run opener Joe Vaughan for a fourth ball duck didn't give OTR the best start, but Charlie King (25) and Hampshire t20 specialist Chris Wood (40) consolidated their position - until the pair were removed (at 72-1) in quick succession.  King was bamboozled by the hostile Rae Lockyer's pace and guide and Wood the first of three victims for Joel Eastwood.

​Harry Tulk (31) got things back on track before OTR fell from 98-3 to 137-8, Berzins and Eastwood doing the damage.  Ninth-wicket pair Tom George and Bampton rallied, but the visitors only only manage 167.   

Bournemouth raised left-arm spinner Dom Clutterbuck has topped the ECB Hertfordshire Premier Division bowling charts with 35 wickets for Bishops Stortford, who finished fourth in the log.   
He has taken 102 wickets for Stortford in the past three seasons, 43 in 2021 and 24 last year.
Clutterbuck (25) helped Bournemouth to the Southern Premier Division 1 title in 2018, his 35-wicket haul being an individual award winner.  He also had a short spell with Bashley (Rydal).

A seven-wicket win over South Wilts seconds at Bemerton secured third place for Parley, whose prospects of finishing runners-up to Sway, the undefeated Southern Premier Division  champions, were shattered by a surprise round 17 defeat by Fareham & Crofton, whose own victory was key in their successful bid to avoid relegation.
Jack Nicholls' competitive best return of 5-27, which included three of South Wilts top four and two more scalps later on, was key to Parley's success at Wilton Road, where Nick Partridge (30) did his best to lift home spirits.  South Wilts were dismissed for 120.

Parley were home and dry inside 21 overs, Sam Collins (25) and Tom Barber providing a sound start which unbeaten fourth-wicket pair Cardiff & Met University bound Kieran Laird (26*) and Stephen Rook (22*) were able to build upon.
Parley won eight of their 13 completed matches, with chairman Steve Laird commenting: “It's been a hugely successful season for Parley.
​"Two main objective we set at the beginning of the summer were to retain our newly found Premier Division 3 place and for our Hants second team to gain promotion season into County 4. Both were achieved."
Skipper Tom Jacques finished fifth in the SPL3 batting charts with 383 runs and carried off the wicketkeeping award with 23 victims, while Jack Nicholls (24) and Olie Green (23) were third and fifth, respectively, in the bowling averages.

South Wilts left-hander Sam Pittman goes for a mighty mow and is clean bowled - but he's okay as its a free-hit from a no-ball bowled the previous delivery.  He did manage to make 14 before becoming the first of Marcus Bragginton's two victims.   Stephen Nicholls picture.