Kate Barton has been elected chairman of the Isle of Wight Cricket Board and is believed to be the first woman in the country to hold such a county post.
She takes over from Phil Mew, who has stepped down after three years at the helm.
In her inaugural address to the IWCB’s virtual annual meeting, Mrs Barton [pictured] said: “Cricket is my passion and I've been involved at all levels on the Island for over 20 years. As a mother of three children, who all played at school and club, I (like many other parents) fell in love with cricket. 
“I already had a background in sport and coaching so found it easy to transition into coach/manager of the junior section at our local club. I have been a qualified cricket coach for more than fifteen years and have worked at every stage of participation from Kwik Cricket in primary schools to county representative level. 
“This has allowed me the opportunity to work and learn from some of the most skilled and passionate coaches we've seen on the Island. My experience has inspired my ambition to work with the IW Cricket Board which I have done for the last two years. 
“My goal is to improve growth and increase participation in all areas of youth cricket and to strengthen the pathway for school children to join clubs. I am also very keen to raise the profile of women and girls’ cricket on the Island with the eventual aim to return to competing in county competitions. 
“I am very proud to have been elected onto the Isle of Wight Cricket Board and would love to continue to serve it in whatever capacity I can”. 
The IWCB has elected three new Directors - Claire Everard, Newclose supremo Hugh Griffiths and Shanklin all-rounder Ben White, with Kate Barton, Dave Cox, Phil Mew, Duncan Mills, David Pratt, Martyn Richards and Hugh Wells re-elected.

The Hampshire League plans to accommodate 303 teams spread across 17 divisions in 2021 – that’s provided the Covid-19 pandemic threat diminishes and the government gives the green light for recreational cricket to go ahead.
The structure, which was due to have been in force this past summer but had to be put on hold, sees a Division 1 and Division 2 at the summit of the pyramid, and beneath them a third division split into north and south sections.
Division 4 is split into three regional leagues – North, South and West – with five district areas comprising Divisions 5 and 6.
Newly promoted trio Compton & Chandler’s Ford, Bournemouth II and Winton feature in Division 1, which includes seven Southern Premier League second teams and St Cross Symondians’ thirds.
Ryde, who swept the board in Isle of Wight cricket this summer, have Vectis neighbours Shanklin among their Division 2 rivals.  The island pair both face the prospect of long mainland hauls to East Woodhay and Shrewton on the Berkshire and Wiltshire county borders, respectively. 
All being well, the 17-week season will begin on Saturday May 8 and end on August 28 2021.
The Hampshire League structure appears at www.hantscl.play-cricket.com/news.

Littleton & West Hill stalwart Chris Tee won’t bowl a cricket ball in anger for another five months or so, but as the long winter nights rapidly draw in he’s every reason to reflect with a warm glow on the bowling milestone he achieved this past shortened summer.
Bowling his left-arm swingers, the youthful 60-year old chalked up his 1,000th wicket in Winchester club cricket – the magical one thousand’s victim being celebrated against Ashford Hill in mid-September.
Remarkably, Chris has kept a record of every match he has played in since making his debut, as a 13-year old, for Sparsholt in 1973, after which he had a short spell with St Cross Symondians and, since 2002, with Littleton & West Hill, where he combines his bowling duties with that of vice-chairman and secretary.
In a successful career, he took 475 wickets in 15 summers at Sparsholt and, after ten years working abroad, returned to Winchester and bagged another 129 victims in a four-year stint playing for the third and fourth teams at St Cross.
“Since joining Littleton & West Hill in 2002, I have taken 401 wickets, so had cause for a double celebration at the end of the season, by which time I had 1,005 victims to my name” he smiled. 
Tee was at Peter Symonds’ Grammar School when he took to cricket and, under the watchful eye of Jon Player, helped the Winchester team win the Hampshire Schools’ CA Altham Trophy at Northlands Road in 1978, his final year there.
Among his 475 wickets for Sparsholt was a career-best return of 7-12 against Cranbury Park on a wet afternoon in May 1976.   Overall, his wickets came at a tidy 15 apiece.
                                                                                               Loft
“Working abroad in Washington DC and later Germany caused me to miss ten whole seasons from 1988, but when I returned from Europe in 1997 the gear immediately came down out of the loft and I was back playing again, this time for St Cross Symondians,” he explained.
“I played at the Green Jackets from 1998 to 2002, bowling my now slow left-arm swinging and turning deliveries. 
“I took 129 wickets for them at an average of just under 18 playing in their third and fourth elevens, quite often opening the bowling especially for the fourths.
“I decided to move on at the end of the 2002 season to Littleton and West Hill as l had known a lot of the people who played there for some time and felt it was a better fit for me personally to play there and so it has proved.
“I have mainly played for the second eleven at Littleton and, again to this day, l am still most often opening the bowling with my slow left arm deliveries. 
 “As at the end of this latest truncated season, l have taken a total of 401 wickets for them at an average of 16.5, with two seven-wicket hauls – 7-56 against Hampton Park in 2008 and 7-21 at Hungerford four seasons ago.
Tee’s 1,005 wickets, which include 25 five-wicket hauls, have been taken at an overall average of 15.2.  
He has bowled 5,151 overs, with 1,021 maidens – and can’t wait for next April to come around so he can don the whites again and bowl a bit more !

The Isle of Wight suffered a triple defeat by Herefordshire’s National Counties side, losing a 50-over affair by seven wickets at Newclose and back-to-back T20 losses in the subsequent T20 matches at Ryde.
The IWCB slumped to 18-3 by the midway point of the 12th over at Newclose, but consolidation and recovery was led by Freshwater’s Tom Turney (above) who scored 62 and Newport’s Henry Edwards (41), with some useful late order contributions from Ali Wheble (28) and Lymington guest teenager Cameron Robertson (16).  The Island rallied to post 186-8 a total Herefordshire polished off inside 36 overs.
The Island gave a good account of themselves in the opening T20 match on Sunday, scoring 163-4 before taking five Hereford wickets.  The second match was one sided, the IWCB replying with 115-7 after the Herefordshire openers had put on 163 without being parted.

Ryde out-scored Ventnor in a hastily convened Super Over to win the IWCB’s inaugural September Cup after a dramatic Newclose final descended into chaos with the scores tied – and no rule in place to decide an outright winner !
Responding to Ryde’s 154-6, Ventnor faced potential defeat at 129-8, but scored 12 runs off Ben Shannon’s last over to finish with 154-9, teenager Freddie Gurney being run out off the last ball.
Normally, the side losing least wickets would be declared the winner, but with no such regulation in place the final was decided by a Super Over, possibly the first in island cricket history.
Ventnor’s Ross Whyte surprisingly took responsibility – the first of his eight-ball over (which included two wides) disappearing high over square-leg for six off Stuart Robertson’s bat. Ryde got 20 off Whyte’s protracted over.
Hugh Calloway smacked the first ball of Ollie Morgan’s super over to the cover boundary, but was run out off the next.  Ventnor closed with 14-1.
Ryde, who won the Super Over by six runs, squandered the initiative several times during the showpiece 30-over final, and had to reply on 16-year old Man of the Match Ollie Morgan to swing the tie in their favour, initially with the bat then then ball.
His quick-fire 37 off 25 balls, which included three big sixes over mid-wicket and two fours, lifted the undefeated  All Wight League champions from 74-3 (Chris Tait 25) – teenage spinner Gurney taking 3-28 before Morgan, Shannon (26) and young Will Mew doubled the score with 80 runs off the last ten overs.  

​Robertson’s wayward new ball bowling gifted Ventnor 12 of their initial 17 runs in extras and at 44-0 off eight overs, the Steephill gang were in the driving seat.
Cue Morgan bowled Mark Fletcher (14) and, three runs later, had Rob Snell (17) caught mis-cuing a hook shot.  
Three quick wickets by Robertson (3-20) - which saw Hugh Calloway trapped lbw either side of Whyte (16) being bowled and teenage keeper Oscar Vandecastelle being castled first ball - left Ventnor 71-5.
When Martin Blackman fell to Mew (2-17) for a patient 24 (99-6), Ventnor required 48 off seven overs. 
Gurney (26) and Zeph Wells (10) got the target down to 22 off two and 13 off what proved a chaotic last over – Gurney and Dan Charge, aided by some clumsy fielding, managing to tie the scores, with Ventnor 154-9 after 30 overs.
Then followed the Super Over which provided a bizarre climax to a most bizarre half-summer … but one which a good sized Newclose crowd, basking in the late September sunshine, thoroughly enjoyed. 

​All photographs by Dave Reynolds, whose superb action pictures throughout the season have been greatly appreciated.

Ryde and Ventnor have announced their line-ups ahead of Sunday’s Isle of Wight Cup final at Newclose – with the 30-overs per side white ball showdown set to get underway at 1 o’clock.
A win for Ryde will complete a ‘Wight-wash’ Stuart Robertson’s side having put last year’s relegation from Hampshire League Division 1 behind them by sweeping the floor in the successful All Wight League, hurriedly formed by the IWCB when the government gave the go-ahead for recreational cricket to resume after lockdown.
But Ventnor, similarly relegated in the Southern Premier League, gave Ryde their closest call of the truncated late summer season in the AWL, Robertson’s batting getting the eventual champions across the line by two wickets in a low scoring affair.
Ryde: Stuart Robertson, Steve Tait, Ben Baker, Ben Shannon, Ollie Morgan, Julion Jayerajah, Tom Morgan, Will Mew, Frank Gumley, Fred Boyce, Mark Tuckwell.
Ventnor: Ross Whyte, Mark Fletcher, Hugh Calloway, George Willis, Fred Gurney, Oscar Vandecasteele, Martin Blackman, Rob Snell, Zeph Wells, Charlie Calloway, Dan Charge.
It’s a busy weekend for Newclose, with the IWCB hosting Herefordshire in another white ball match on Saturday, 10.30am.
Full bar and refreshment facilities will be available at Newclose, with strict Covid SD regulations in place.

​The Isle of Wight Cricket Board host Herefordshire in two representative matches this weekend, with the sides going head-to-head at Newclose on Saturday (10.30) and then Ryde's Harding's Shute ground on Sunday.
The IWCB has chosen a squad of 13 for Saturday's match, with changes to be made for Sunday to take account of the eagerly awaited Ryde-Ventnor Island Cup final showdown at Newclose on Sunday, 1pm.
IWCB squad: Henry Edwards, Ali Wheble, Ben Duggan, Ben Attrill, Oscar Vandecasteele, Dan Cox, Ross Whyte, Tom Turney, Fred Gurney, Zeph Wells, George Willis, Stuart Robertson, Will Robbins.

Ryde will be aiming for a ‘Wight-wash’ when they face Ventnor in the Isle of Wight Cup final at Newclose on Sunday, 1pm.
The seaside town has already won the All Wight League – formed in July when the government gave recreational cricket the go-ahead after lockdown – but it was Ventnor who gave them their closest call, being bowled out for 121, but then taking eight Ryde wickets before Stuart Robertson’s 43 not out got them across the line.
Both Ryde and Ventnor were relegated in their respective mainland leagues at the end of 2019, Ryde into Hampshire League Division 2 and Ventnor slithering into the third tier of the Premier League.
Ryde continued their good form in the All Wight League by winning all three qualifying matches in the IWCB’s 30-over September Cup, accounting for an all-star Carisbrooke Old Boys and St Helen’s before Robertson (64) eased them to a six-wicket win over Portchfield (153) for whom George Hatt struck a stylish 45.
Ventnor warmed  up for their Newclose cup final date with an oven-ready nine-wicket cooking of Island Bakeries (120-4), an unbroken stand between the promising Mark Fletcher (67) and young Sam Mills (53) bringing the bread home for the Steephill boys.  
Kev Wrigley hit an unbeaten 105 as CHOB blasted the St Helen's attack for 238-3 (Summers 68) at Goose Green. The Saints responded with 197, Mark Watson hitting a typically forceful 76.
Seb Egerton-Read (62) and james Allen (44) led Shanklin & Godshill to a six-wicket win over Freshwater with an over to spare at Westhill, where the visitors earlier posted 190-7, with Scadgee (63), Priddle (43) and Turney (41) top scoring.
Shanklin bring the curtain down on the season against island champions Ryde at Hardings Shute on Saturday, 12.30. 

Shanklin all-rounder Ben White didn’t only suffer the pain of a nine-wicket September Cup defeat by Ventnor – he also ended up in the island’s St Mary’s hospital with a broken thumb !
He will return to Chichester university next week with his thumb in plaster after trying in vain to stop a fierce return drive in the cup match at Westhill.  His thumb is broken in two places.
White (20) at least had the consolation of top scoring as Shanklin were rolled out for 103, Rob Snell wrecking their top order with a spell of 5-14. He was supported by  Dan Cox (2-6) and Zeph Wells (2-16).

Ventnor got their runs in 20 overs, with Martin Blackman (51 not out) and Mark Fletcher (41) top scoring.
In the other cup games, Island Bakeries lost to Freshwater (Sam Scadgell 44 not out) by nine wickets, while All Wight League champions Ryde (Ben Shannon 39 and 4-7) beat St Helens (Lee Brown 48) by 53 runs.

The top three Isle of Wight Development XI batsmen made significant contributions, but were unable to wrest the Keith Newbery Memorial Trophy away from the MCC in the annual 40-over match at Newclose.
The IWCB were chasing 248-6 – George Grace (great, great, great grandson of WG, making 72 not out – but Ventnor pair Dan Cox (40) and Oscar Vandecasteele (54) put on 80, after which Tom Turney late of Bryanston School, hit 57 off 41 balls. The island side closed at 216.

Whilst the Marylebone Cricket Club is widely recognised for its ownership of Lord’s Cricket Ground and cricketing traditions, a lesser known aspect of the Club’s activities is the work of the MCC Foundation in developing cricket for girls (and youngsters in general) - as described in this short video: https://youtu.be/qRIpd7Bh7q0 
At 9.30am on Sunday (13 September) there’ll be an ECB Women’s Big Cricket Weekend event with Girls cricket back on the Isle of Wight after an absence of 8 years. This will allow the girls to showcase their development and enthusiasm. 
At 12.00 noon there’ll be a 40 overs-a-side match between an Isle of Wight XI and the MCC, for the Keith Newbery Memorial Trophy. 
The Newclose pavilion will be open for members and guests from 9am serving eggs and bacon et al.

Ventnor finished a disappointing third place in the All Island League after suffering a 19-run defeat by arch rivals Shanklin & Godshill at Steephill - their third successive defeat.
Shanklin took a grip of the oldest rivalry in island cricket through openers Mark Ringer (top left)(38) and James Lucy (29)(right). Spin pair Ben Attrill and 15-year old Fred Gurney checked Shanklin's progress, but some handy contributions from the lower middle-order saw the visitors to a winning 158-8.
Four of Ventnor's top five made starts but with only Hugh Calloway (32) managing to get more than 25, the innings fell away to 139 all out, with Calum Wright taking 3-24 and the evergreen Andy White 2-27.

It's no wonder Lymington have come knocking on Josh Proctor's door after the Chichester University ace wrecked the St Helen's top order with a 4-9 spell.  The Saints were shout out for 29 (Nathan Goldsmith 4-1) and beaten by ten wickets by rampant Newport.

de 2020 All Island League Champions.
Standing (from left): Frank Gumley, Matt Webb, Ben Gregory, Ellis Ridett, Steve Tait and Ollie Morgan. Front: Tom Morgan, Mark Tuckwell, Stuart Robertson, Ben Baker and Julion Jayerajah.

Ryde are inaugural All Wight League champions, clinching the title - and maintaining their 100 per cent record - with a 37-run win over Newport, their triumph coming exactly 12 months to the day they were relegated from Hampshire League County Division One.
A 75-run opening stand between Julion Jayerajah (44) and Steven Tait (31) set the tone for Ryde, for whom Stuart Robertson (25), Tom Morgan (26) and young Frank Gumley (20) chipped in down the order.
​Newport slumped to 15-3 before Harry Dye (72) hit out. They closed at 167-7, with Jayerajah, Ollie Morgan and Mark Tuckwell each taking two wickets.

Ben Howgrave-Graham (above left) blazed a boundary strewn 104 and Miles Kantolinna 93 as South Wilts III moved joint top of the HCB County C table with a five-wicket win over OTs & Romsey II at Bemerton.
Chasing OTs 211, were in trouble at 20-3, but Howgrave-Graham took complete control, the Bath rugby prospect smashing four huge sixes and 11 fours, his 104 coming off 88 deliveries.  
Kantolinna, who shared six of the OTs wickets with Jayden Atkinson, played a superb support role as South Wilts romped to victory.
Rightly proud of their colts set up, South Wilts turned out over 80 per cent of home grown players last weekend, winning all four SPL and HCB mini-league games.
The fourths bowled Shrewton out for 122 (Chris Newbury 42) and won by six wickets on the back of an unbroken fifth-wicket stand between Oli Hill (44) (top right) and Max Allen (41). Tom Morton tip toed back in action for the first time this season following surgery, but was caught for 11. His time will come ...

It’s all change at the top of the Winchester Clubs Championship with Compton & Chandler’s Ford taking full advantage of defeats for Fair Oak and Longparish to take a two-point lead going into this weekend’s seventh round of matches.
While 15-year old Kam Dhariwal was toasting his maiden century (115) against Hursley Park (see separate story), Fair Oak were suffering their first defeat of the season against Easton & MW and Longparish were being steamrollered by Alton.
At start of play on Saturday, Compton (18 points) lead the field from Fair Oak (16), Alton, Easton & Martyr Worthy and Longparish, all on 14 points.
Beach blonde Winchester College teen Wilf la Fontaine-Jackson was Easton’s star with the bat, anchoring his side’s innings with a steady 65 after early wickets for Freddie Eley (2-37) and James Gradwell (2-23)
Useful contributions from the Easton middle order took their 40-over total to 182-6, a good effort given the slow Lapstone Park outfield.
A lively third-wicket partnership between Harry Reed (30) and the consistent Charlie Kemp (47) gave Oaks hope, but scoring quickly was difficult against an accurate Easton attack.  
Three wickets each for pacemen Ethan Brackstone and Sky Mitchell put the hosts on the back foot.  A few big hits by Greig Stewart (16) were the nearest Oaks came to challenging the required rate, and they finished 17 runs short at 165-8.
Longparish suffered a crushing 162-run defeat by Alton, whose 236-6 was based around Michael Heffernan (56), Freddie Egleston (46) and Ryan Hale (42).  Parish rolled over for 74.
A solitary run separated St Cross Symondians’ 244-7 from the 243-8 IBM Hursley made in reply.
Brad Aldridge smashed three sixes and 11 fours in his 94, while Charlie Bowden (45) and Ben Foster (38) chipped in.  Max Cullen took 4-39 for IBM, Sri Raman hitting 62, but his side finished one run light.
RAM totalled 220-9 (Mahmood 67) and beat Sparsholt II by 16 runs, Jamie Skeoch hitting 62.
Compton & Chandler’s Ford moved alongside Hursley Park at the top of Division 2 after beating the overnight leaders by six wickets. They each have 18 points.
Hursley Park’s 159-7 was effectively blown away by a century second-wicket stand between Zac Williams (64) and Gary Scallen (55).
Fair Oak’s 3rd XI lost their 100 per cent record with a two-wicket defeat at Cockets Mead that was largely engineered by Easton & Martyr Worthy opener Spencer Lee.  
18-year-old Lee, who wintered as an overseas player in South Africa, opened both the bowling and the batting for his side and cracked an unbeaten 113 as his side inched past Oaks’ total of 195 with seven balls to spare.  
He got good support from Neil Rose (41) in the face of aggressive new ball bowling by Tom Merrill, whose return of 3 for 33 included clean bowling two batsmen with consecutive yorkers.  The economical Dave Nevin (2-23) and Shaun Buttle (2-45) also impressed with the ball.
Earlier,in-form 14-year-old Tom Clark had been the mainstay of the Fair Oak innings with 60 not out.  Buttle (28), Sam Reed (24) and Jake Salmon (30) also featured with the bat while ultra-slow spinner Sam Dickety took two wickets for Easton.
Jake Curtis (50), Alex Reidy (47) and Dan Watson (45) eased Twyford to 213-8 and into a winning position (by 135 runs) against Sparsholt III.
Evergreen Alan Whitman celebrated his first St Cross Symondians century in ten years as the Winchester club’s fourth team successfully chased down IBM Hursley’s 198-9 to win by six wickets.
Whitman hit six maximums and 12 boundaries in his 107 as St Cross won with four overs to spare.

Ben Baker was the undoubted man of the match as Ryde wrapped up the inaugural All Wight League title with a resounding 116-run win over Northwood – a victory that sparked scenes of jubilation on Ryde Pierhead, all along the Esplanade and into the King Lud.
Adjudicator George Wickens handed the award to Baker not only for top scoring with 81 for Ryde, and also taking 3-27 and a catch in his normal role as Northwood captain.
Miraculously, according to the scorecard on the www.play-cricket website, Baker even managed to catch himself out – off the bowling of Liam Roberts (2-37).
To confuse readers even more, it was Baker’s first game in Ryde’s colours .. according to the website that is !
Statistics reveal he initially lifted Ryde out of the doldrums of 20-3 in a productive fourth-wicket stand with Stuart Robertson (30) and was still batting near the end of the innings until 176-9 when he was dismissed (or caught by himself ?) for 81, a knock which included four sixes and six fours.
Given that Ben Baker (the Northwood one) took three of the last four Ryde wickets to fall and finished with 3-27 off five overs, there’s a fair chance the Baker boys were bowling to each other as the interval approached !
Ryde’s 212-9 was far too many for Northwood, who keeled over for 96, Robertson and Sam Rockley sharing six of the wickets.
And Ben Baker – how many did he get ?
Clearly exhausted from his endeavours in the afternoon session, he came in at 11 for Northwood – and got a second ball duck !
Just goes to prove that captains can’t do everything …  

FOR the second week running, Ventnor were left stunned by a fellow Isle of Wight club who play several leagues below them.
This time, it was Newport — last year’s Island champions — who caused an upset against the Southern Premier League Division 2 outfit, seven days after Ventnor were beaten by County Division 2 side Ryde, who remain unbeaten in the All Wight League.
Ventnor batted first at Steephill, with 14-year old Oscar Vandecasteele (30) and Martin Blackman (26) after which Ben Attrill (34), Ross Whyte (27 not out) and Rob Snell (19) all pitched in, with Newport bowler Aaron Hartup taking 3-35.
Newport hunted down Ventnor’s 167-7 with an over to spare – the SPL club reflecting on the 33 runs they conceded in extras.  Charlie Calloway (3-23) was the pick of the home bowlers. Newport won by three wickets and lie second in the six-team log behind Ryde.

The owners of properties around the quaint Goose Green cricket ground on the Isle of Wight were preparing to board up their front windows as St Helen's batsman  Mark Watson launched an astonishing six-hit attack on the Shanklin & Goldshill bowling.
Emerging from the pavilion with St Helen's score at 89-3, Watson cleared the boundary ten times as he raced to  an unbeaten 105 off 59 balls (striking two modest fours in between times) as St Helen's rattled up 247-6 (Lee Brown 53) in their All Wight League match.
Still reeling from the onslaught, Shanklin promptly lost Corey Sanderson and Mark Woodhouse for ducks to Oli Stubbings (2-8 off eight overs), but recovered for a while through Mark Ringer (33) and James Lucy (28).
St Helen's couldn't keep Watson out of the action as the all-rounder trapped Ringer lbw when he came on to bowl. Shanklin waved the white flag, reaching 104-8 by stumps, Harry Carkeet taking 3-21.

Fifteen-year old Paultons and Dorset YC’s batsman/wicketkeeper Ben Rogers had a weekend to remember after smashing consecutive centuries
First up was an unbeaten 102 against his former club Langley Manor as Paultons racked up 275-2 before celebrating a 111-run victory at Whitemoor Lane.  The young left-hander shared century partnerships with Lee Wateridge (58) and skipper Andrew Collins (62).
Rogers was back at the crease 24 hours later, this time hitting a boundary strewn 121 before Dorset U15s suffered a 33-run defeat against Wiltshire (242-5) for whom South Wilts batsman Ben Howgrove-Graham hit an unbeaten 78.

Fifteen-year old Kam Dhariwal had double cause for celebration after his maiden club century laid the foundations to Compton & Chandler’s Ford’s 65-run victory over Hursley Park at the Memorial Playing Fields.
The win put CCF in top spot in the Winchester Club Championship, two points clear of Fair Oak (who lost their unbeaten record to Easton & Martyr Worthy) and four ahead of Longparish, who crashed heavily to Alton.
Dhariwal, a King Edward VI School student, carried his bat for 112, hitting a six and 13 fours as Compton piled up 246-8.  He shared a third-wicket stand of 114 with Liam Palmer (55).
Hursley Park replied with 181-8, William Flynn hitting 52.

Teenage off-spinner Zac Allen belied his tender age to take 5-24 as Longparish successfully defended 149 to beat Winchester Club Championship rivals Easton & Martyr Worthy by one run.
Supported by Harry Martin (3-20), the 14-year old ripped through Easton, leaving Winchester College prospect Casper Byers (74) to fight a lone battle for the visitors, who were dismissed for 148 – one run short of the Parish total.
Will de Cani (45), making a welcome return to the Longparish side, praised Allen saying: “He bowls very energetic off-spin, spins it big but, most of all, thinks a lot about what he is doing.”
Michael Taplin (26) and Ben Gardner (28) helped Parish reach 149 all out.
The Southern Premier League Cup match between St Cross Symondians and the Hampshire Academy my was called off – but that didn’t deter the Winchester club’s third team from playing on the No 2 pitch.
It was worth their efforts as well – the rain trimmed 30-over affair against Alton II ending in a tie both sides making 217.
Left-hander James Burridge (63) and Charlie Preston (46) thrived in a second wicket stand, which Graham Barrett (27) and Charlie Bowden (39) subsequently enhanced.  217-4 was competitive.
Alton gave chase with Andy Postles (42) and Michael Heffernan (38), a position which Joe Paul (58) and Ryan Hale (41) consolidated.   Jaimie Cork’s 4-18 clawed St Cross back into it.
It came down to Alton requiring eight runs off the last over with Freddie Egleston and Toby Fuller at the crease. 
Alton’s Julian Ballinger takes up the story. “Fred scored one off the first ball, but Fuller then missed the next two deliveries.
“Fuller run out by the wicketkeeper (Burridge) off the next, which brought Gemma Porter to the crease.
“The next ball was a wide and they ran a bye, so five runs needed off the last two balls of the match. “Freddie clipped one into mid-wicket. They ran two and then got an overthrow, leaving us requiring two to win off the last ball.
“Gemma clipped it to mid-wicket, but too close to the fielder so we only got one run and finished 217-7 – a great game !”
IBM chased down RAM’s 185 to win by five wickets, leaving Fair Oak (16) top by two points from Compton & Chandler’s Ford and Longparish, both with 14.   The season ends on September 12.  

KEEP an eye out for the name Henry Amis – we could be hearing quite a bit about him on the cricket scene over the next few years...
The talented 13-year-old, who plays for his Hampshire junior age group side, underlined his potential when he smashed an unbeaten 123 as Liphook & Ripsley’s second team piled up 234-6 in the 125-run friendly match victory over against Portchester, who were dismissed for 109, Steve Saycell taking 4-13.
Henry, who starts at Winchester College next month, hit 18 fours in his unbeaten century.  He will be at Eaton Socon on Sunday supporting his spin bowling elder brother Oscar in Liphook & Ripsley’s Village Cup fifth round tie.

Ryde are on course to become the inaugural All Wight League champions after beating Ventnor – but, as the two-wicket margin of their victory suggests, it was a close run affair.
In fact, they owed everything to their captain Stuart Robertson, whose unbeaten 43 dragged Ryde across the line chasing Ventnor’s 121 all out.   Ryde were 22-4 (George Willis 1-14) when he arrived at the crease and in deeper trouble at 39-5 not long after.
But his patient knock, aid by several boundary hits by team-mates down the order, clawed Ryde closer to the target. His 20-odd run partnerships with Ollie and Tom Morgan were significant after Freddie Gurney (3-14) had made inroads for Ventnor.  Even then, there was work to do as Ben Gregory and Sam Rockley gave support.
Earlier, Ventnor appeared comfortably placed at 63-2 (Martin Blackman 27), but lost wickets at regular intervals to Gregory (3-25), Robertson (2-27), Ollie Morgan (2-37) and Rockley (2-3).
The other two All Wight League fixtures between Newport and St Helen’s and Northwood v Shanklin & Godshill were washed out.
Saturday’s fixtures (1.30): Northwood v Ryde, St Helen’s v Shanklin & Godshill, Ventnor v Newport.

Fourteen-year old Oscar Vandecstelle hit 60 opening for Ventnor in the thumping All Wight League victory over winless St Helen’s on The Green.
He underpinned a demanding total of 257-5 and shared early order partnerships with Martin Blackman (38) and Hugh Calloway (37) before Ben Attrill smashed a rapid 69 not out.
St Helen’s were rushed out for 91, Dan Cox taking 3-34 and Attrill (4-12) four of the last five wickets to fall.  Ventnor won by 164 runs.
Ben Baker (58) and Steve Tait (52) hit unbeaten half-centuries as Ryde thrashed Shanklin & Godshill by nine wickets at Westhill to secure back-to-back All Wight League victories.
Fresh from beating St Helen’s the previous week, Ryde bowled Shanklin out for 152 (Jack Powell 28), with Simon Wratten (4-20) infiltrating the lower-order.
Baker and Tait then shared an unbeaten century stand to sweep Ryde to victory – one they’ll hope to repeat in Saturday’s top showdown against Ventnor at Hardings Shute, 1.30.
Fingernails were being bitten at Victoria Park, where Newport scrambled past Northwood’s 127 with their last pair at the crease.
Chris Williams played an influential role for Northwood, scoring 26 and later creating inroads into Newport’s middle-order with a 4-31 return.
The roaming Josh Procter (26) helped Northwood’s cause, as did a late innings contribution from John Butt (40).
Procter (2-16) and Williams bowled the Cowes side into the box seat, but after Trevor Dye (32) had gone, Gareth Bricknell made 41 to set up a thrilling and nervy finish.

Fair Oaks’ second string maintained their 100 per cent win record in the Winchester & District Club Championship thanks to a consistent performance in the field and with the ball, capped by a nerveless unbeaten partnership between captain James Todd and tailender Toby Wolverson.
The Longparish batsmen had mixed powerful attack with suspect defence, Callum Giles (43) leading the way. Nick Bass took 4-37 and Freddie Eley and James Featherstone two apiece as the visitors were left to rue being bowled out for 150 with more than seven overs to spare.
After the break Oaks were reduced to 0 for 2 and then 57 for 7, Harry Martin (2-24) and Ben Gardner impressing with the new ball.  Spinner Nathan Smith (4-28) skittled the Oaks middle order, but the backup bowling let ‘Parish down by conceding 39 in wides, giving Todd and Bass (17) the chance to launch a recovery.
When the eighth wicket fell at 101 Fair Oak’s chances of victory looked slim, but Todd produced a real captain’s innings to finish the match 49 not out.  Wolverson (23no) mixed canny defence with some good stroke play as the hosts edged home in the 37th over.
Hampshire Under-15 starlet Wilf La Fontaine-Jackson hit an unbeaten 85 as Easton & Martyr Worthy chased down St Cross Symondians’ 175 (Graham Barrett 57) to win their derby by six wickets.

​Alton recovered from a dismal 17-3 to piled up 199-3 against RAM, with Joe Paul [pictured above] hitting 94 not out and Ellis Ballinger a best yet 68.  His father Julian then took 4-23 as RAM fell to 182 all out (Khan 63).
Will Robbins hit 61 and shared a key middle-order stand with Isaac Cowdrill (54) to ensure IBM came out on top in the cross-road derby with Hursley Park.  IBM’s 223-9 proved too many for the Park, who were dismissed for 187 (Sharma 56), Dan Rides taking 5-32.
Ash Lovell (5-37) also produced a ‘five-for’ as Compton & Chandler’s Ford (194) bowled Sparsholt out for 165 to win by 29 runs.