Sixes and fours flew all over Hartley Wintney’s historic Cricket Green as the local County Division 3 North side pulled off what is to be believed to be the highest run chase in Hampshire League history by chasing down Steeple Langford’s 364-5 – to win by two wickets with ten balls to spare !  
Tom Kirkpatrick, left, was HW’s hero with a boundary laden 167.
Another teenager hitting a sizeable treble was Fareham & Crofton’s Ryan Fitsell, who smashed the Purbrook III attack for an unbeaten 195 (believed to be the club’s highest individual score) in a one-sided Regional 2 South East affair on the St John’s College playing fields at Farlington.
Purbrook thought they were on a good thing when they snared the prize scalp of XL Club run gun Steve Dean, but spent the remainder of the afternoon fletching the ball from the boundary as Fitsell and hockey starlet Will Raymond (73) cashed in.  Fareham made 342-2 before dismissing a field-jaded Purbrook for 58.

Hursley Park and Ropley will both be without their overseas recruits for the remaining four weeks of the Hampshire League season.
Hursley are believed to have parted company with Queenslander Josh Romer, who is returning to his Brisbane haunts. He contributed a modest 124 runs in ten County Division 1 knocks.
Ropley's Tim Neimand, left, dislocated his shoulder in a recent defeat at Andover and is returning to his native South Africa, having made 551 runs, including a top score of 168.
Both Hursley Park and Ropley have slipped out of the CD1 promotion race in recent weeks.

Sixes and fours flew all over Hartley Wintney’s historic Cricket Green as the local County Division 3 North side pulled off what is to be believed to be the highest run chase in Hampshire League history by chasing down Steeple Langford’s 364-5 – to win by two wickets with ten balls to spare !   Tom Kirkpatrick was HW’s hero with a boundary laden 167.
Another teenager hitting a sizeable treble was Fareham & Crofton’s Ryan Fitsell, who smashed the Purbrook III attack for an unbeaten 195 (believed to be the club’s highest individual score) in a one-sided Regional 2 South East affair on the St John’s College playing fields at Farlington.
Purbrook thought they were on a good thing when they snared the prize scalp of XL Club star Steve Dean, but spent the remainder of the afternoon fletching the ball from the boundary as Fitsell and hockey starlet Will Raymond (73) cashed in.  Fareham made 342-2 before dismissing a field-jaded Purbrook for 58.

With four weeks of the season remaining, it’s developing into a three-horse race for the Hampshire League, County Division 1 title – with Hythe & Dibden looking favourites as they turn into the home straight.
The Waterside club enjoys a 20-point lead over fast rising Parley and 21 over Fareham & Crofton, whom they beat by five wickets a fortnight ago.
All three won their round 13 matches, with individual centuries dominating each of the victories.
Tom Gates led the way with an unbeaten 187 as Hythe ran up a massive 332-3 against relegation threatened Rowledge II at Jones Lane.
The former Fawley and Bashley (Rydal) opener struck 20 fours and nine sixes in a career-best knock and shared a 156-run stand with Matt Howe (53).
Wayne Royan (4-47) and Andy Wakely (3-34) combined to dismiss Rowledge for 191. 

When Parley lost four of their opening five matches, a battle to avoid relegation looked more probable than a title push.
But putting that poor start firmly behind them, Parley have swept to eight successive victories – the latest win at the Green Jackets Ground, where a third wicket stand of 195 between Alex Nippard, pictured left, (133) and Roshan Embalagama (77) pointed them to 316 all out against St Cross Symondians III.
Ollie Green’s 5-32 return sent St Cross tumbling to 125 all out.

Queenslander James Heiniger (pictured above by Chris de Cani) was the hero of Fareham & Crofton’s hefty run chase at Longparish, where the hosts’ 262 all out was trimmed to a manageable 244 by rain.
Fareham’s bowling went around the park as Michael Taplin (64), Dan Bearpark 49) and Ben Gardner (68) put 202-2 on the electronic scoreboard before the innings collapsed.
Longparish had no answer to Fareham’s Australian Heiniger, who oozed class as he hit 18 fours in his match winning 130 not out.
Ropley (119) appear in freefall after a ten-wicket thrashing by Burridge, for whom Chris Blake made 89 not out.
Despite only managing a modest 162 (Paul Marks 46), Hursley Park looked likely winners against Andover II – until Ali Hooper emerged from The Quarters pavilion to turn the game on its head with a key 60.  Andover won by one wicket to boost their prospects of survival.
OTs & Romsey II are just off the pace after a 112-run win over Shrewton, who sit uneasily on the lip of the three-down drop zone.
Australian Matt Giumelli hit an unbeaten 117 as Easton & Martyr Worthy racked up 342-3 at Ryde, who came back with 186, Stuart Robertson making 71. Adam Kite, with 53 and 3-21, was Easton’s key man.
Ben Allnutt (60) top scored as Hook & Newnham Basics II totalled 205-9 to out-score Alton II (149), the promising Kevin Light taking three Brewers' wickets.
Winless United Services are down after a 60-run defeat by Bishops Waltham, who won their fourth successive game.

Hythe & Dibden have taken a firm grip on the Hampshire League, County Division One leadership race.
A comfortable five-wicket win at Fareham & Crofton coincided with Hursley Park, Longparish and Ropley all losing – and the Watersiders opening up a 21-point gap at the top.
Despite an unbeaten 53 by Luke Cornish and a resolute knock from skipper Tom Kent (46), Fareham were unable to recover from early setbacks and could not defend a modest 175-9 at Bath lane.  Andy Wakely’s unbeaten 72 carried Hythe to victory.
Hursley Park stumbled to an unexpected defeat at relegation threatened Rowledge II, while Longparish found themselves on the receiving end of a 270-run grilling at Bishops Waltham.
Openers Ian Budd (64) and Haider Khan (54) provided the platform for Simon Culmer (45) to hit out.   Sam Trinder (64) responded in LP’s 148 all out.
Ropley, whose South African’s run gun Tim Niemand is sidelined with a dislocated shoulder, crashed to a third defeat in four weeks when OTs & Romsey (182) beat them by 18 runs.
Those losses have enabled Parley, last season CD2 winners, to leapfrog into second spot and become Hythe’s chief championship challengers during the run-in.
Parley hammered Burridge II by 159 runs after Ollie Green (85) [pictured left by John Beasley] and Alex Nippard (77) had shared a 141-run stand to guide the Dorset side to 280.
St Cross Symondians III made round 12’s highest total, 290-5 off the Hook & Newnham Basics II attack at the KGV, where Tom Fay (74), the promising Graham Barrett (63) and Harry Trussler (42) led the way.  Ben Allnutt (52) and Harry Robson (45) helped Basics to 174 all out.
Ryde made hay at Burnaby Road, where Cam Mitchell (84) and Julion Jayerjah (81) led the islanders’ to 277-7 before Sam Mallinson (70) top scored in United Services’ 221 reply. Ben Wadmore took 4-40.
Andover II boosted their survival hopes with a Harry Blackburn (80) inspired four-wicket win over visiting Shrewton (215), while Alton II’s 204-9 proved enough as hosts Easton & Martyr Worthy fell 17 runs short on 187.

Seventeen points separate the top five teams in Hampshire League County Division 1 after an amazing sequence of results which saw the leading three sides crash to defeat.
The race for the title and potential promotion into the Southern Premier League for the top two took a significant twist as –

• overnight leaders Fareham & Crofton were shot out for 138 and beaten by eight wickets by Hursley Park;
• lowly Bishop’s Waltham upset the apple cart by beating second placed Hythe & Dibden; and
• Ropley were smashed for a massive 305-5 and resoundingly beaten by Andover seconds, who had lost eight of their previous ten games.

Fareham & Crofton paraded transfer deadline day signing Steve Berryman (St Cross Symondians) at The Quarters.
He was among five top-order batsmen to make double figures before Fareham collapsed to 138 all out, losing their last six wickets for 33 runs, Scott Hills taking 3-13.
Paul Marks hit an accomplished 60 to see Hursley Park home and into a threatening fourth place.
To add to Fareham’s woe, Australian James Heiniger injured his forearm sliding into a sightscreen and was unable to field. He expects to be fit for the Hythe & Dibden showdown on Saturday.
Sam Medhurst was the star of Bishop’s Waltham’s surprise 25-run win on Waterside, top scoring with 75 before taking 3-47.
Medhurst and Phil Baldock (51) guided Bishop’s to 268 all out – a total Hythe & Dibden were unable to match, despite Tom Gates (63), Matt Howe (46) and Tom Richards (41).
Andover’s crushing 192-run win over Ropley was unquestionably the shock result of the season, so far.
Cardiff University economics student Harri Williams, pictured, went on a number crunching spree, hitting three sixes and 19 fours in a stunning 152 not out at London Road.
Babu Veetil (88) gave support as Andover piled up 305-5 before shooting Ropley out for 113.
Longparish and Parley are in the top six after wins – Michael Taplin (57) and Dan Bearpark (39) putting on 116 for the first wicket before Jack Levy (40) saw them to 262-7 against winless US Portsmouth.
John Brazier (55) dug in for US, but Sam Trinder (6-27), pictured above, and Chris Clarke (3-31) took wickets as the other end as the visitors subsided to 117 all out and a 145-run defeat.
Alex Nippard and Sam Ayres each made 44 as Parley posted 234 (Stu Shapland 5-38) at OTs & Romsey before bowling their hosts out for 168 (Ian Woodall 78). Dave Elrick and Spencer Savage shared six of the wickets.
Easton & Martyr Worthy and Ryde both posted 300-plus totals, while Archie Ayling, teenager son of former Hampshire all-rounder Jon Ayling, took 5-22 for Burridge II against Hook & Newnham Basics, who were shot out for 98.
Suman Shreshtra (101) and Matt Giumelli (96) got two-thirds of EMW’s runs. Hosts St Cross Symondians were dismissed for 112, Brad Hole taking 3-14.
Julian Jayerajah (66), Cam Mitchell (60) and Ben Gregory (43) led Ryde to 303-9 against visiting Alton II, who came back with 257-5, Dave Evans (75) and Alex Hughes (59) both unbeaten.

County Division 1 leaders Fareham & Crofton have swooped to sign St Cross Symondians’ batsman Steve Berryman, who will make his debut against Hursley Park at the Quarters today.
Berryman, left, has scored over 2,000 runs for St Cross in the past five seasons and won the CD1 batting prize with 709 runs in 2016.
Fareham captain Tom Kent explained: “Steve phoned me last weekend to say he’d left St Cross and enquired about coming to Fareham.
“Conveniently, we had a space in the top order for a batsman. With holidays coming up player availability is certain to be affected, so having a player of Steve’s experience join in mid-season is an enormous boost.”
His new team-mates at Bath Lane were busy completing car insurance damage claim forms after Chris Davey ended the CD1 win over Shrewton with a volley of sixes.
Three times he launched the ball high over the long-on boundary rope – and each time he picked out a parked car.
“I managed to take out a car windscreen, break a wing mirror and also dented another car,” the Fareham hockey and cricketer admitted.
“I’m not sure who the cars belonged to, but they were all people involved in cricket at the ground.”
Luke Cornish, one of Davey’s Fareham hockey  playing team-mates, watched on from the non-striker’s end, content with his 56 not out which helped the County 1 leaders to a six-wicket win.
Shrewton collapsed to 225 all out after Rich Barnett (56) and Stu Cruse (42) had put the visitors in a promising position.
Four points separate the top three clubs in Hampshire League, County Division 1 after ten rounds of matches.
Fareham & Crofton (186) take a narrow lead over Ropley (183) into today's testing visit to Hursley Park, while Hythe & Dibden are lurking only just behind.
Beaten by Fareham a week earlier, Ropley ran up 255 before beating Rowledge II (196) by 59 runs.
Matt Young (62) and Tom Gates (53) pointed Hythe & Dibden to a six-wicket win over United Services, who made 200-9 at Burnaby Road.
Paul Marks (61) and Lee Wateridge (41) combined to guide improving Hursley Park to victory over lowly Bishops Waltham (194), where Jan Solanki and Tom Burns each took four wickets.
Longparish went down by three wickets on the Isle of Wight, where teenager Will Samways (60) and Martin Bearpark (58) shared a century opening partnership.
But with Cam Mitchell (71) at the helm, Ryde calmed the wicket-taking influence of Harry Martin (4-34) to win the game.
Easton & Martyr Worthy’s 294-6 against Burridge II (150) was the highest total of the day, while Harry Trussler was able to celebrate a maiden 116 as St Cross Symondians III ran up 261-5 at Alton.
Steve Fryer was influential with bat and ball scoring 61 before taking 4-27 with his left-arm swing.
Teen Jack Robson fired 80 as Hook & Newnham Basics posted 281-8 before Kevin Light’s 5-40 return saw Alton II dismissed for 194.

It may be Wimbledon fortnight and sweltering hot, but the forward thinking Winchester & District CA is already planning for the winter months ahead by organising the popular River Park Sunday evening indoor six-a-side indoor league, which runs from early October to March 2019. 
If you (or more specifically your club) is interested in participating, then Steve Vear (steve@vear.co.uk) is the chap to contact - but don't leave it too long because places are being snapped up already ...

Hythe & Dibden’s stay at the top of Hampshire League County Division 1 ended almost as quickly as it began.
Seven days after leapfrogging to the CD1 summit for the first time in 42 years, they were rushed out for 95 and roundly beaten by 135 runs at fourth-placed Longparish.
Harry Martin, pictured, returned from a school teaching assignment in China to wreck the Watersiders with a spell of 6-17 – Jack Levy (91) and Barry Blackmore (55) having earlier helped Longparish to 230-5.
Hythe’s first defeat of the summer enabled Fareham & Crofton to take over the leader’s yellow jersey.
A week after being bowled out for an all-time low 40 at Parley, Fareham bounced back to post 308-9, a total which proved 21 runs too many for visiting Ropley.
Australian James Heiniger (83), Dan Wimble (75) and Tom Kent (47) led the way for Fareham, who were in danger of being beaten while South African Tim Niemand (81) and Robert Smith (64) were together.
Later it was the run out of Chris Rait (39) that tipped the scales, Fareham’s Ben White (pictured) finishing their innings at 287 with a hat-trick.
Hursley Park snatched a thrilling one-wicket win at United Services (193-7), while teenage duo Josh Balcombe (5-17) and Jack Robson, with an unbeaten 57, led Hook & Newnham Basics II to a nine-wicket win over Andover II.
Parley’s rise continued with a five-wicket win at Rowledge (203-9), where Sam Ayres (67) and Alex Nippard (47) saw the long distance travellers home.  The inspirational Sam Collins (broken finger) remains sidelined for Parley.
Morgan Smith (69), Steve Fryer (50) and Steve Berryman (49) paved the way as St Cross Symondians III posted 273-9 before seeing off Ryde for 273-9, Cameron Mitchell scoring 84.
Shrewton were architects of their own demise at Bishops Waltham, gifting their hosts a staggering 74 extras, 38 wides and 24 byes !
Gratefully received, Bishops piled up 285-8 (Suhaib Ahmad 61) and then bowled Shrewton out for 214, Will Harries top scoring with 62.
Alton II’s 256-6 (Tommy Green 65, Howard Gadsby 62) proved to many for Burridge 180 (Dam Damley-Jones 50, Andy Field 40), while Easton & Martyr Worthy (175) bowled OTs & Romsey out for 129 (Matt Easton 47*) to win by 46 runs.  

The historic Bemerton village churchyard and the adjoining Salisbury Golf Centre driving range came under fire as Adam Prescott, pictured, rained a non-stop bombardment of sixes and fours off the Sarisbury Athletic bowlers from South Wilts’ academy ground.
He hit six maximums and 17 fours on his way to a career-best 177 as South Wilts’ undefeated third team piled up a massive 350-7 before winning their County Division 2 match by 114 runs.
Birthday boy Edward Wade (31) and Ben Richards (60) joined in the run fun, while a sullen faced Darren Sargant sat and watched having been bowled for a second ball duck !
Sarisbury Athletic made 236-9 (Toby Mitcheson 60) before South Wilts celebrated an eighth successive win.
Leaders Bedhampton, meanwhile, remain three points ahead after a tight nine-run win over Ferndown Wayfarers, who made 214 in pursuit of 223-9.
                                                                                    RAM RUN RAID
Opener Inayat Khan smashed an unbeaten 269 as unbeaten County Division 3 North leaders RAM ran up a colossal 443-5 against ten-man Chawton at Winchester’s North Walls.
Khan carried his bat, sharing a double-century third-wicket partnership with Liaquat Hussain (107) as RAM sped to an eventual 286-run victory.
But Khan’s day wasn’t finished.  He took up the ball and in five overs took 5-35 as Chawton were dismissed for 157.

Hythe & Dibden sit proudly at the top of Hampshire League, County Division One – for the first time in 42 years !
They swept to the top with a comfortable six-wicket win over Ryde – a result which coincided with Fareham & Crofton’s calamitous 270-run defeat by Parley.
It left the Watersiders boasting the only unbeaten CD1 record and a nine-point lead over second placed Ropley, who scraped a two-wicket win over Bishops Waltham.
Spinner Wayne Royan (4-60) and Hakim Peruzi (3-12) did the damage as Ryde were dismissed for 165 (Sam Rockley 31).
Opener Matt Young, whose egg sandwich spread is the pride of Jones lane, led Hythe home with an unbeaten 72.
Former King Edward VI batsman Harry McGhee hit 114 as Bishops Waltham posted 248-9 (Ross Bullard 66) at Ropley, whose narrow victory was based around a hefty 154-run stand between South African Tim Neimand (73) and Robert Smith (64).
St Cross Symondians’ III were put to the sword as Burridge II rattled up 296-5 (Chris Blake 53), with Duncan Field (80) and Jeremy Wright (70) sharing an unbroken 120 stand before tea.  St Cross were skittled for 67.
Longparish were bowled out for 101 (Tom Burns 4-21) and thrashed by eight-wickets at Hursley Park, while Shrewton heightened US Portsmouth’s misery by rushing the ten-man visitors out for 86 before easing to an eight wicket win.
County Division 2 pacesetters Bedhampton and South Wilts III each had centurions in their match winning sides.
Harry Hovey, who has played Premier League cricket for Havant and Kent’s Bickley Park for the past two seasons, hit 111 in Bedhampton’s six-wicket win at East Woodhay.
Joe Weld hit all bar 13 of his unbeaten 117 for South Wilts against Portsmouth in boundaries – six sixes and 17 fours ! 

Joe Weld struck his maiden South Wilts century and later chipped in with three wickets as Jody Everett’s third team continued their remarkable unbeaten County Division 2 journey with a 112-run victory over visiting Portsmouth.
The former Wimborne & Colehill all-rounder hit a boundary strewn and undefeated 117 and later took three Portsmouth wickets as the visitors fell well short of South Wilts’ 294-7.
South Wilts were already going well at 91-2 (Adam Prescott 40) when Weld arrived at the crease.
He went on to hit six maximums and 17 fours, with all bar 13 of his runs across the boundary : it was a hot day for running two’s !
With Edward Wade (43) and Robert Crossley (37) in support, Weld led South Wilts to 294-7 (Havell 3-39) before Everett’s young side made it seven wins in a row by restricting Portsmouth to 182-8 (James Mitchell 64).
The win leaves South Wilts three points behind leaders Bedhampton, who won by six wickets at Old Basing, where former Havant Premier League player Harry Hovey hit 111.
South Wilts IV recovered from an uncertain 46-3 to post a towering 275-5 against Amport II, who they beat by 146 runs to stay sixth in Regional 1 North West.
Tom Bolan smashed a quick fire 94 and Oli Hill 69 before Amport were bowled out for 129, Paul Wylie taking 3-33.
 

Parley all-rounder Ollie Green took a staggering 9-15 against previously unbeaten Fareham & Crofton to set a new Hampshire League County Division 1 bowling record.
The 23-year old right-arm seamer took the first eight Fareham wickets and was on for the magical all-ten when team-mate Chris Williams took his third catch of the innings to give Jamie Hicks the ninth.
“He deserved that,” Green said. “Jamie probably bowled better than me, but I kept getting the wickets.”
Fareham were skittled for a dismal 40 – an amazing statistic on its own as the joint overnight  leaders had racked up close on 1,000 runs in winning their previous four CD1 games – and lost by a thumping 270-run margin.
Six Fareham batsmen bagged ducks.
“Ollie bowled extremely well, consistently bowling the perfect length hitting the top of the stumps, swinging in to the right-hander and away from lefties, like myself,” praised Fareham skipper Tom Kent, who was among his victims.
“I think the term 'rabbit caught in the headlights' about sums up our batting performance, wickets just kept tumbling.”
Green's contribution wasn't confined to the ball either, as he was among three Parley batsmen to hit a half-century, joining Alex Nippard (75) and Shane Green (53) in the run stakes as last year’s County Division 2 champions posted a towering 310-9.
“It wasn’t a bad day – but it cost me big time afterwards,” he confessed.
Bowling quick and straight, Green clean bowled four of his victims, had another trapped leg before wickets and the other four caught.
“It’s been quite amusing to find out since that Ian Limb, from Purbrook, who held the previously record, took his 9-27 in 1993 – before I was even born,” Green chuckled.
Parley's colossal 270-run win (the heaviest defeat in Fareham's history) leaves Hythe & Dibden as the only undefeated County Division 1 team.
* Ollie Green is the fourth County Division 1 cricketer to take nine wickets in an innings, behind Gerry Jeftha (9-29, Cormorants, 1976), Ian Limb (9-27, Purbrook, 1993) and Aaron Dean (9-30, Purbrook, 2016).

the & Dibden and Fareham & Crofton go into the Hampshire League’s round 8 fixtures neck and neck at the top of County Division One, with 133 points each.
While the Watersiders were chalking up a 64-run win over Hursley Park, Fareham won by 75-runs at Hook & Newnham Basics, where Dan Reader (pictured) was busy buying the beers after a career-best 6-20 return.
A century stand between Tom Gates (66) and local policeman Andy Wakely (57) set up Hythe for a decent total against Hursley Park.
But it was Hakim Perusi’s (left) long handle which pointed Hythe to 277-7 (Scott Hills 3-34) – the former Lymington and OTs & Romsey all-rounder hitting a boundary strewn 79 including one spectacular six that crashed into the parish centre.
Scott Hills (41) and Paul Marks (36) eased Hursley’s reply to 94-1, but it needed Jai Solanki’s 44 to get the visitors to 213 all out. 
Fareham lost two early wickets at the KGV, but Australian James Heiniger (66) and Tom Kent (38) took the score to 139-2 before hockey starlet Luke Cornish weighed in with a brisk 48.
Lanky left-armer Liam Shore was back in the Hook side after his predictably brief stay at Lymington and took 2-58.
Jack Robson (44) and Colin Lye (37) gave Hook a steady start before Fareham unleashed Dan Reader, whose best ever six-wicket spell had the cash tills ringing in the Bath Lane bar later.  Hook made 182-9.
Bishops Waltham found themselves snookered behind a pair of Green’s when Parley visited the Albany and won by seven wickets.
Ian Budd (49) and Simon Culmer (39) top scored in Waltham’s 206-8, but Shane (91) and namesake Ollie Green (49) blasted four sixes and 19 fours between them in an unbroken Parley stand.
Will Gabb’s 5-23 spell broke the back of the United Services batting and set Ropley on the way to a comfortable eight-wicket win at Burnaby Road.
Winless US saw their 152 effectively polished off by former Hampshire spin all-rounder Shaun Udal (68) and Jimmy Hawkings (50).
At 66-6 chasing a Burridge total of 195 (Will Candy 56), Ryde looked set for defeat – but a half-century by Sam Rockley (61) turned the match around.
Key stands with Tom Morgan(33) and Ryan Hall (25) carried Ryde home by two wickets with ten overs to spare.
Batting with the aid of a runner, Raj Niak turned back the years by scoring 86 as St Cross Symondians III posted 237-8 (Steve Berryman 54) at the Green Jackets Ground.
But with teenager Rhys Wathen hitting a maiden 109, OTs & Romsey cruised to a four-wicket win.
Ollie Coetzee (3-20) staked a claim for a more permanent place in the Longparish side with early wickets, but Shrewton recovered to reach 167 through Dan Bingley (38), Sam Gillott (28) and Joe Plant (32).
Michael Taplin (54) dominated from the start for Parish, but George Plant and Chris Brewer chipped away with three wickets each before LP eventually got home.
Mike Salmon took 4-7 as ten-man Andover II were rushed out for 68 (Shaun Attwood 31) and beaten by nine wickets by Alton II at the Jubilee Ground.

Traditions die hard at Fareham & Crofton, where fifties, hundreds and five-wicket hauls are always celebrated.  Dan Reader ensured his team-mates didn't go thirsty after his career-best 6-20 spell set up a win at Hook & Newnham Basics.

Shrewton are through to the last 32 of The Cricketer National Village Cup for the first time in their recent history – but are being forced to play their first round tie against Marshfield on Sunday close on 20 miles away at Westbury !
“The village recreation ground is pre-booked for a six-a-side football tournament,” explains Shrewton’s Jamie Mitchell.
Marshfield won the Gloucestershire group and currently lie third in the West of England Premier Wiltshire Division, with five wins from their seven 50-over games.
Shrewton trimmed Lacock by 51 runs to win the Wiltshire county group, their victory owing much to  Sam Gillott (42) and Stu Cruise (42), whose fourth-wicket stand masked a disappointing start and laid the platform for a competitive 179 all out.
Lacock threatened at 100-3 (Adam Mitchell 58), but collapsed against the spin of Chris Brewer (3-23),  James Cash (4-18) and Gillot (2-2), the last seven wickets falling for 28 runs and the hosts to 128 all out.
Shrewton host winless United Services on Saturday (1pm) looking to boost their two wins in seven County Division 1 record.

 

Respected Isle of Wight cricket all-rounder Andrew White is celebrating his 1,500th wicket for his home town club, Shanklin.
The right-arm medium-pace bowler reached the milestone moment in his career during last week’s seven-wicket Hampshire League County Division 3 South victory over Woodgreen at Westhill, where White, now 52, began playing as a 13-year old.
A stalwart Shanklin cricketer for close on 40 years, White has also got a batting target in view.
“I need about 250 runs to complete an aggregate 20,000 for Shanklin,” he confirmed.
White, who boasts former Hampshire & England legend Robin Smith as his most notable scalp, says that Shanklin’s decision to join the Hampshire League four years ago has prolonged his career.
“I’m enjoying it as much as ever and hope to continue playing so I can play in the same Shanklin league side as my two sons,” he says.
His remarkable loyalty to Shanklin sport also includes 600-plus appearances for the town’s Island League soccer team, besides short spells at Cowes Sports and West Wight.

Its nosebleed time at Bath Lane as Fareham & Crofton find themselves top of Hampshire League County Division 1 for the first time in nine years.
The 38-run win over Easton & Martyr Worthy was their fifth on the spin and gives them a slender one- point lead over Hythe & Dibden, who inched a 558-run thriller at Shrewton.
Fareham lost in-form pair Tom Kent and Sam Stoddart for ducks before Australian James Heiniger (68), Dan Wimble (44) and James Headen (42) secured a competitive 242-8.
Wimble (3-17) and Ben White (3-36) got into Easton’s top order before Ben Stanbrook (74) put Fareham under pressure.  A tidy left-arm spell by Morgan Frost (2-31) reduced the visitors to 203 all out.
Hythe & Dibden narrowly defended 271 (Hakin Perusi 53) at Shrewton, who mounted a thrilling run chase, with Rich Barnett (60), Dan Bingley (49) and Will Harries (65) taking the Wiltshire side to 267-9 (Tom Richards 4-56) and within a boundary of a victory.
Beaten by Hythe the previous week, Ropley bounced back with skipper Rob Smith (82) pointing his side to 268 against Longparish, who were dismissed for 186.
One-time Southampton University skipper Jamie Richards returned to the Burridge scene – and dropped first team selectors a firm hint – by hitting 120 in his comeback match at OTs & Romsey.
His century paved the way to a Burridge total of 216-7, to which OTs could manage only 157 in reply (Wathen 71).
But the highest CD1 score was by Jack Middleton, pictured, who struck a career-best 154, including 27 boundaries, as St Cross Symondians III posted 293 at Andover, who have lost all five games.
Andy Sale (68) and Rob Liney (51) hit back for the Lions, who replied with 251-9.
Oli Green (4-7) had United Services reeling at 16-6 and eventually 89 all out after Parley had put 243 runs on the board.
Harry Medhurst (60), Harry McGhee (47) and Don Quincey (40) were to the fore as Bishops Waltham chased down a target score of 232 to give the visitors a four-wicket win at Hook & Newnham Basics.
It was their first win of the season. Teenager Jack Robson (72) and Kevin Light (70) shone for Hook.
A Rowledge total of 158 (Richard Fulham 36) proved too many for Alton II (79), Jack Powell taking 3-14.

Jamie Skeoch pictured in front of the Norman Edwards Ground pavilion after scoring a career-best 151 as Sparsholt seconds ran amok, with 259-2 against visiting County Division 4 West rivals Whiteparish.
The Horndean College PE head, one of the few remaining Preston North End supporters living locally, struck six maximums and 17 fours, sharing partnerships of 138 with former Meridan ITV legend Andy Steggall (52) and 121 alongside Chris Mitchell (121).
Whiteparish were skittled for 80, with Mike Doubell's 7-20 return a lesson in flight and guile to his watching teenage son, who didn't get a bowl in the club's Premier League win at Paultons.

Hythe & Dibden could be a force to be reckoned with in Hampshire League County Division 1 cricket this season.
They underlined their potential with a 48-run win over Ropley, the side regarded by many as title favourites.
Hythe were in difficulty at 47-3 at Jones Lane, but a 78-run partnership between the influential Hakim Peruzi, whose 64 included seven sixes, and Wayne Royan (38) steered the Watersiders to a healthy 184.
Peruzi (2-37) and Ahmadzai (2-25) had Ropley rocking at 54-4 before Royan (3-27) emerged with his left-arm spin to reduce the visitors to 136 all out.
Hythe are among four sides to emerge unscathed from the opening month of the season with an unbeaten record.
Longparish and Fareham & Crofton have won all four matches, while OTs & Romsey II kept their unbeaten start intact in a thrilling 274-run apiece tie at Ryde.
Parish recovered from 12-3 to post a respectable 208-7 before going on to beat promoted Parley by ten runs.
They rallied from Ollie Green’s opening blast, initially through Paul Blackmore (38) and Tom Trinder (33), and then former Locks Heath all-rounder Jack Levy (50), who hit a decisive fifty.
Mark Stutter (62) provided a solid response for Parley, but James Bevan (3-33) and Chris Clarke (2-26) got the Dorset side behind the rate. They closed 198 all out, ten runs adrift.
Fareham & Crofton’s top order batsmen are in good nick, with Sam Stoddart (98) and Tom Kent (84) pointing the Bath Lane club to 280-6 against Alton II at the Jubilee Ground.  Relegated Alton replied with 216-8, Andy Pearce hitting 64.
A leg bye off the final ball earned Ryde a last gasp tie against OTs & Romsey at Hardings Shute, where King Edward VI School all-rounder Jovan Dhariwal shone on debut.
The teenager hit an accomplished 87 and along with Iain Woodhall (58) and Colin Morris (41) pointed put-in OTs to 274 all out.
Stuart Robertson (70), who earlier took 4-54, and latterly Tom Morgan (76) led Ryde’s run chase which culminated in a thrilling finale, with seven required off the last over.
Stu Shapland (4-35) took an eighth wicket, was slogged for four through mid-wicket and then took a ninth scalp off the penultimate ball to leave Ryde needing two runs to win.  The leg bye tied it.
County Village Cup finalists Easton & Martyr Worthy crushed Bishops Waltham by 119 runs, while Tom Flynn, with 3-3 and an unbeaten 43, played an important role in Hursley Park’s six-wicket win over Shrewton (160).
Burridge II (233-6) powered to a massive 163-run win over Andover (70), Rowledge wewre skittled for 74 and beaten by nine wickets by St Cross Symondians III and teenager Josh Balcombe took 5-18 as Hook & Newnham Basics successfully defended a modest 104 by bowling winless United Services out for 80 (Sam Mallinson 40).

Sam Stoddart (left) and Australian James Heiniger shared a double-century opening partnership as Fareham & Crofton chased down a St Cross Symondians III score of 253-6 to win by eight wickets at Bath Lane.
It was Fareham’s third straight Hampshire League County Division 1 victory and puts them among five sides to have made an unbeaten start to the season.
Steve Berryman (69) top scored for St Cross, whose bowling was blown away by Fareham’s boundary laden 209-run stand – Stoddart and Heiniger breaching the boundary with 32 fours and two sixes.
Stoddart (105) brought up his maiden CD1 hundred with a six shortly after Heiniger (101) had made treble figures.
It was only the second 200-plus century in Fareham's history - Nigel Raymond and Richie Webb having been double-centurions at Penton some years ago.
Four Ropley batsmen made half-centuries as the County 1 title favourites ran up 271-9 against Hursley Park at Vicarage Lane.
South African Tim Neimand (62), Robert Smith (55) and Mark Donaldson (54) all past fifty before Martin Peters added a 4-42 return to his 53 with the bat.  Matt Branford (78) replied in Hursley’s 226 all out.
Second placed Longparish trimmed Hook & Newnham Basics II by 50 runs at the KGV, where Ben Gardner (53), Michael Taplin (40) and Scott Sturt (34) underpinned their 235 total. 
George Halfhide took 4-40 on debut as Hook replied with 185-9 (Andy Darmody 50).
Andy Wakely is making quite an impact on Waterside and was Hythe & Dibden’s star man against Parley.
The local policeman struck 113 and shared a handsome 147-run stand with Matt Howe (52) and followed it up with a 5-40 return with the ball.   Shane Green made 88 of Parley’s 214-9.
 

The Holden dynasty lives on at Hursley Park, where the sons of the late Dave and Geoff Holden are in good early season Hampshire League form.
Miles, son of past Old Tauntonians batsman Dave, captains Hursley’s third team and cracked 110 in the handsome 125-run win over Amesbury.
Cousin Phil, whose father Geoff was a decent left-arm spin bowler, then weighed in, scoring a blistering 94 not out as Hursley Park romped to a nine-wicket win over Mottisfont.
Hursley Park IIIs have won three of their four games so far and top County Division 4 West.

Its been quite a fortnight for South Wilts’ teenager batsman Jack Stearman with back-to-back Hampshire League centuries.
He followed up his unbeaten 145 against Old Tauntonians & Romsey IVs with an equally impressive 117 at County Division 2 rivals East Woodhay, where South Wilts celebrated a 38-run win.
The 17-year old struck a six and 17 fours, enjoying a century stand with Darren Sargent (45) as South Wilts posted 239-6.
He later weighed in with a 2-26 return with the ball, including the prize scalp of former Hungerford Southern Premier League title winner Duncan Johnson (72) as East Woodhay replied with 201-9.

South African Tim Niemand, who topped the Hampshire League batting averages two seasons ago, plundered a highest yet 163 as Ropley went on a County Division 1 run spree at Shrewton.
He peppered the boundary of the Wiltshire club’s ground high up on Salisbury Plain as Ropley, skippered by former Hampshire off-spinner Shaun Udal, piled up a massive 325 (Will Harries 4-54).
They went on to bowl Shrewton out for 163 to celebrate a thumping 162-run victory.
Harry McGhee hit 125, but finished a loser as Bishops Waltham fell 14 runs short chasing St Cross Symondians’ 233-8 (Graham Barrett 67).  Evergreen left-arm seamer Steve Fryer took 6-43.
Andover’s Andy Sale suffered a similar fate, scoring 101, only to see Ryde polish the Lions’ 236-9 off with three wickets in hand.
Hursley Park won for the first time since their relegation from Southern Premier League Division 3 when Australian teenager Josh Romer (58 not out) led a successful 187-run chase against visiting Parley.
Longparish won by five wickets after Chris Clark (4-27) and teenage left-armer Scott Sturt (4-20) had combined to bowl Easton & Martyr Worthy out for 74.
OTs & Romsey totted up a cool 261-7 to set up a convincing 77-run win over visiting Rowledge II, while Hythe & Dibden chased down Hook & Newnham Basics’ 219-9 to win by three wickets.
Fareham & Crofton, who scraped a one wicket win at Andover in their opening match, found themselves involved in another dramatic finish, losing eight wickets before edging past an all out Burridge total of 173 (Cam White 55).

Hampshire League County Division 2 club Bedhampton are through to the West Sussex group final of the national Village Cup without bowling a ball after scheduled third round opponents Chidham pulled out.
It gives the Mariners a home tie against either Balcombe or past Lord's finalists Findon in two weeks time.
Four local ties will, however, go ahead as planned, with another CD2 side, Bramshaw set to host Liphook & Ropsley and Rowledge go to Blackheath in the Surrey group semi-final.
The Dorset/Wilts semi-final features Shrewton v Parley, while in the other half of the Hampshire group, Easton & Martyr Worthy receive Tichborne Park.  All matches start at 1300.

Jamie Meredith hit an unbeaten double century as Hythe & Dibden seconds rattled up a club record score of 366-6 against Hampshire League County Division 4 West rivals IBM Hursley.
He cracked 22 fours and seven sixes, sharing a massive stand of 248 with Luca Roberts (76), also a Hythe record.
Meredith, who won the County 4 batting award with the now defunct Peartree in 2014, became the third double centurion in Hythe’s history.
South African Adrian Greyvenstein made an unbeaten 239 against Amport in 2003 and Mel Hussain, then on the Hampshire county staff at Northlands Road, 205 not out against Southampton University, back in 1983.
Hythe’s previous highest total came two seasons ago when they scored 354 against Bramshaw.
Meredith’s run fest climaxed a fine day for the Jones Lane based Waterside club, who celebrated a four-team Hampshire League win triumph.
Hakim Peruzi hit an unbeaten 76 in the first team’s three-wicket win over Hook & Newnham Basics II, Luke Mills struck a maiden 111 for the thirds against Brockenhurst, while an undefeated 98 from Paul Toon got the fourth’s home against Burley II.