​With the season at the halfway point, five points separate unbeaten pair Parley and Sway at the top of Division 1.
Leaders Parley have played only five times (and won them all) three less than Sway, who romped to an eighth successive victory Burridge.
Once again HCL fixture secretary Stewart Frazier has written a perfect script – the potential title decider all set for the penultimate weekend of the season !
Parley’s latest success was a six-wicket win over Old Basing, who suffered a third successive defeat in the process, that after making such a fine start.
Nick Willcock (50) rattled off his fifth half-century of the season – and took his run aggregate to 375 from seven knocks – as Old Basing posted 161-8.
But an unbeaten 56 by Tom Saunders, aided by skipper Shane Green (40), eased Parley home with time to spare.
Tim Noble (63) took his season’s tally to 298 and with middle-order support from Dave Steadman (35) and Will Crossley (46) took Sway to a winning 223-5 against Burridge II, who were pegged to 154-9, Dan Bailey taking 4-19 after a miserly opening spell by Jon Waller (2-19).
Ben Walker was unable to travel to Chapel Gate for Havant’s Southern Premier Division defeat by Bournemouth, but he turned out for the club’s second team with devastating effect.
He made 90 of Havant’s 205-5 and alter took 4-13 as Bournemouth, given a great lift by Ollie Shrubsole (62) and Freddie Oldfield (44) tumbled from 124-1 to 186 all out and a 19-run defeat. 
Winton, promoted from CD2 in 2019, were badly hindered by the weather early doors, but are now fifth after Matt Clark’s unbeaten 88 inspired a 63-run win over Portsmouth II.
Jamie Mitchell (60) responded for Portsmouth, who were rolled out for 124, Charlie May taking 4-18 and former Bashley (Rydal) offie Sam Thomson 3-20.
Free from teaching commitments, Alan Whitman inspired St Cross Symondians’ 40-run victory over Andover, initially with the bat then the ball.
His 91 rescued St Cross from a tricky 85-5 (Aiden Jansen 3-18) and guided them to 196 – a total Andover looked like passing after Max Godson’s 66 had taken their reply to 111-3.
But triple wicket returns by Steve Fryer (3-22) and magic man Whitman (3-13) saw seven poles go over for 45 runs and Alton collapse to 156 all out.
Tom Sykes hit a league best 82 and shared a 110-opening stand with Axel Deen 54 as Lymington II chased down Alton’s 220-6 (Joe Paul 89*) to win by five wickets.
Compton & Chandler’s Ford and Hursley Park both celebrated their first wins.
CCF dropped from 117-4 to 138 all out before skittling Easton & Martyr Worthy for a meagre 59, Matt Scorey taking 4-9 and Andy Gorty 3-19.
It didn’t look as though Hurley Park’s 178-6 would be enough when Longparish advanced to 116-2,  but the Test Valley visitors lost their way and finished 12 runs adrift at 166-7.
Hursley’s total was based around Paul Davies (66) and Matt Branford (42), with Tom Trinder (37), Ben Gardner (34*) and Scott Sturt (32) unable to do enough to get Parish across the line.   

This is the catch they've been talking about all week in Bournemouth - and probably miles beyond - the one where the club's evergreen opening batsman and specialist first slip Martin Miller takes a stunning one-hander to bring the socially distanced Chapel Gate 'crowd' to its feet.
It happened in the first over after tea as Portsmouth set out in pursuit of Bournemouth's 185-9, a total that owed much to fifth-wicket pair Freddie Oldfield (49) and Sarang Urankar (40) who lifted the score from 45-4 after a four-wicket burst from Joe Eales (4-19).
Fit-again Tom Robinson (2-19), who has earned a call-up for Bournemouth's Premier Division match with Havant tomorrow, quickly nipped out prolific Portsmouth opener Matt Shaw, the scalp the lions really wanted, then produced an unplayable delivery which Eales was good enough to get a touch to. It flew high to Miller's right, but the silver fox leapt like Emiliano Martinez (he's a Villa fan) to pluck a wonder catch out of the sky.  Portsmouth collapsed to 86 all out with first team hopeful Robbie Pack and Tom Stannard sharing six wickets.

Sway are stacking up the points in a relentless push for Division 1 honours – a seventh straight win at near neighbours Lymington taking their tally to 148 in all.
That’s 50 more than Havant (98 from five) and defending champions Parley (87 from four), who have both played less games.
Sway captain Tim Noble returned to haunt his former club, hitting an accomplished 61 on a damp Sports Centre track and helping the visitors make it seven wins from seven. 
Having had to wait for an hour for the pitch to dry and been invited to bat first on a tricky surface, Noble (left) and Alex Hall (29) gave the visitors an excellent start.  
Striking seven balls in his 114-ball knock, Noble was aided by cameos from Dave Steadman (11) and a fine 30 from Oscar Marshall before Hugh Bernard crushed two huge sixes on his merry way to a quick 16 and Will Crossley struck a maximum on his brief, unbeaten debut as Sway racked up 184-7, a decent total on the challenging surface but one that was not out of reach. 
Sway soon set about Lymington’s top order, with Steadman (2-20) and Jon Waller (2-21) making early inroads.  
Hugh Bernard (2-23) struck two important blows with two absolute beauties and Lymington looked out of it at 81-6, only for some uncharacteristically sloppy fielding and bowling – not helped by a wet ball – meaning the hosts got an outside sniff. 
However, Dan Bailey (3-44) firmly shut the door on that, aided by a Hall stumping that removed top scorer Guy Layman (28), and Josh Bailey bowled nicely and claimed the last wicket as Sway ran out winners by 34 runs.  Lymington were 152 all out.
Parley appeared on course for a fifth straight win when heavy drizzle caused their match with Fareham & Crofton to be called off at the 18-over break, with the visitors struggling at 57-4 and way behind a 155-run target.
Teen Marcus Bragginton (27) and Shane Green (28) provided a sound base for Parley, with Alex Nippard (31) and later Chris Williams (25) pushing the total towards 155, left-arm spinner Morgan Frost returning 3-19.
With the dangerous Dan Wimble gone for a second ball duck and three others back in the tent, Fareham were wobbling at 57-4 when the rains came. On paper, they didn’t appear to have the clout to chase down the target.
Although they were two overs away from a fifth win, Parley weren’t entirely unhappy as their average would have dropped – but the more points you get, the better your chances of taking titles.
Havant II are clearly a major threat to Sway and Parley, though pencil in July 24 and August 7 when they go head-to-head with the top two, significantly perhaps at Havant Park.
They made short work of duffing up St Cross Symondians III, whose team changes so frequently skipper Graham Barrett must be contemplating a pre-match bonding session.
With left-arm spinner Steven Matthews (4-14) and Mark Martin (3-23) doing the damage, St Cross fell to 74 all out (Kevin Neave 25) and an eventual seven-wicket defeat, Southern Premier League regular Harry Gadd helping himself to an unbeaten 40 after elated Kiwi Stephen Fryer had struck two early blows.
Old Basing, who surrendered their unbeaten start at Sway a week earlier, were rushed out for a meagre 47 by Alton II, for whom Derek Footit took 5-21.
Alton were earlier rocking at 47-5, but Andrew Pearce (41) and Michael Salmon (38) ensured the Brewers would make 152-6.
Longparish successfully defended 116 in rolling winless Compton & Chandler’s Ford out for 97, the visitors having been 51-2 at one stage.  Chris Clarke (5-25) and young spinner Zac Allen (3-13) did the damage.

Shanklin crashed to a massive 201-run defeat against  Hampshire League Division 2 leaders Bramshaw at Westhill - probably the heaviest loss in their long history - after losing their first NINE wickets for only THIRTEEN runs !
Skipper Benji White could hardly have anticipated such a post tea horror show after an unbeaten 101 by former Hartley Wintney cricketer cricketer Danny Plume (pictured by Dave Vokes) had piloted Bramshaw to 238-8.
But then bit by bit and wicket by wicket Shanklin fell to pieces, with Michael Kingston (whose figures of 5-9 included four wides) taking his first wicket with two runs on the board.
Shanklin then lost three more wickets with the score at 7, compounded by another five wickets for one run (Joe Coombes 4-5) to stagger to 13 for nine !  Six batsmen made ducks.
Evergreen all-rounder Andy White, who has seen a thing or two in his long and creditable island career, emerged from the smart, fully renovated Westhill pavilion to almost double the Shanklin total himself by making 12, including one of the two boundaries his side hit.  
White and last man Nathan Moore denied Bramshaw for a combined total of 94 balls, adding 24 before the the New Forest visitors clinched their double-century victory in the 29th over.
To compound island misery (and there was plenty of that with car ferries breaking down), much fancied Ryde suffered a thumping eight-wicket defeat by Bishop's Waltham at Hardings Shute.
Ryde sank to 51-6 before Ben Gregory (50) and Julion Jayerajah (44) took them to 155 - a total Bishop's Waltham polished off with Luke Carvey hitting 75 not out.

Old Tauntonians & Romsey had egg on their faces after sticking five of their regular Southern Premier League Division 2 table topping side into their second team at Ferndown Wayfarers.  They lost by 16 runs.
The early postponement of the scheduled SPL2 match with Hartley Wintney at the Romsey Sports Centre enabled OTs to send Harry Tulk, Joe Vaughan (pictured), lead left-arm spinner Matt Bampton and opening bowlers Lewis Allen and Ed Davies off down the A31 and across the Dorset county boundary to Dolman’s Farm.
The trip began well enough when Ferndown, third in Hampshire League Division 2, lost two early wickets and were restricted to 169-8, Jordan Ponting taking 3-21 and Liam Poolman snapping up four victims behind the stumps.
The strengthened OTs team began their reply well enough but having reached 41 without loss promptly lost three wickets for one and never really recovered.
It was left to first team regular Joe Vaughan (53) to glue the innings together but when he became one of Freddie Pittway’s four victims at 127, OTs lost another three wickets for one run and were eventually all out for 153.  Pittway finished with 4-21.
OTs expect their normal first team to reassemble at Paultons for a 12.30pm derby against their near neighbours, who are bottom of SPL2.

The Island has lost one of its legends after the death of Shanklin’s Bill Jenkins, the Godfather of Isle of Wight cricket, at the age of 101.
Club players and officials paid tribute to the club president, who had been a member of the Westhill club for 61 years. During that time he served as player, captain, committee member, chairman and, latterly president.
‘Jenks’ had been a Portsmouth schoolboy footballer and went on to be on Aston Villa’s books in his native Birmingham before the Second World War intervened.
After the war, when he served in the Army Rifle Brigade, he had a trial for Southend but played non-league football for Hampshire, Havant, Newport and Ryde before breaking a leg in a Boxing Day charity game.
It didn’t stop him playing cricket though and he scored more than 10,000 runs for Havant Rovers in between working for the Inland Revenue on the mainland. 
He chose Shanklin as his Island club and he was quickly made captain, playing alongside fellow greats of the Island game such as Bob Welch and Bill Palmer.
He scored more than 13,000 runs for Shanklin and always relished the encounters with big rivals Ventnor.  Bill was made president of the club in 1996 and continued in the role until his death.  He was also captain of the IW county side at the age of 50.  Alan Marriott, Editor, IOW County Press.

Hursley Park and Winchester neighbours Easton & Martyr Worthy share bottom spot in Division 1 after losing their opening three matches.
Alongside Lymington seconds, who tied 219 runs each with Alton, they are the only sides yet to get off the mark.
Defending champions Parley are back in a familiar top spot an emphatic 135-run win over Hursley Park at The Quarters.
Alex Nippard (60), supported by Rosh Embalagama (35), teenager Marcus Bragginton (32), Jack Rowett (26) before a breezy 37 not out from Alex Cridland (37) eased Parley to 255-8. Ollie Green (4-16) and Rowatt (4-33) rushed Hursley out for 120.
The sight of Hursley Park joint bottom of the table must be a sore one for the stalwarts who recall the glory days of Lord’s and lifting the National Village Cup and subsequent success in the old Southern League.
The club boasts one of the nicest, if not the nicest, ground in the Hampshire League at The Quarters (top left) and pre-season spent a small fortune on constructing new practice facilities.

Easton & Martyr Worthy were dismissed for 130 and beaten by four wickets by Longparish at Cockets Mead, with Scott Sturt hitting an unbeaten half-century for the visitors.
Easton collapsed once Jamie Fox (58) and Seb Byers (27) were parted. The other nine batsmen mustered 35 runs between them, Chris Clarke taking 4-25.
Old Basing surrendered their unbeaten start in the scorching New Forest sunshine – but skipper Darren Turner will be pleased with the fighting spirit his side showed before table topping Sway clinched a three wicket victory.
Basing had won all four of their previous games, but found themselves rocking at 14-4 after a three wicket blast by Dave Steadman (3-29) and a fine run out by Dan Bailey.
Nick Willcock, who had made 91 and 95 in his previous knocks and now has a season’s aggregate of 315, struck ten fours as he kept Old Basing afloat, but was largely kept in check by the Sway bowlers, as wickets tumbled at the other end.  
Jon Grasham (1-34), and Hugh Bernard (2-29) bowled nicely in tandem to restrict the visitors before Dan Bailey (3-29), ushered out the lower order as Old Basing closed on 156.  
Sway’s Tim Noble (34) and Alex Hall (12) gave the hosts a 55-run head start and all seemed well. However, when both perished in quick succession and the in-form Steadman was out to a good ball Sway’s good start went to 69-3, Cameron Hall (3-21) creating inroads. 
Dan Bailey (42) crushed a few boundaries to asset his authority alongside Oscar Marshall (13), but both fell in quick succession, followed by Neil Prince, and after Hugo Chandler went for seven, Sway needed some calm thinking.  That came from Grasham (12*) and was aided by some brutal hitting by former England Under-19 international Hugh Bernard, who smacked 16 off six balls to ensure Sway won a keenly contested game.

Dan Wimble and Dan Reader were the standout performers as Fareham & Crofton recorded back-to-back victories.  Wimble top scored with 76 and Reader returned his second best set of league bowling figures as Fareham handed Alton seconds a 114-run drubbing at Bath Lane.
Wimble - who had scored 103 and 73 in pre-season friendlies against Hook 2nds and Gosport Borough respectively - was involved in two half-century stands. 
He put on 51 for the first wicket with Morgan Frost (19) and 55 for the third with Steve Berryman (16) before he was second man out at 116 - having scored 76.
Sam Stoddart (23) and Angus Southon (52) - his third highest league innings - added another 55 for the fourth wicket. Past Winchester College captain Freddie Egleston collected 4-45 as F & C slid from 200-4 to 208-8.
That was a total way beyond Alton’s scope as Reader bagged 4-28 to send them crashing to 94 all out in 26.2 overs.
They were his second best league figures - his career best remains the 6-20 against Hook 2nds three years ago.  Opening bowler Ben White (back from a broken hand) took 2-20 and Wimble completed a fine afternoon’s work by coming on as his side’s fifth and final bowler and claiming 2-12 in 20 balls.
Burridge II lost nine wickets for 63 runs as they collapsed from 103-1 to 221-6 against Havant II, who continue to go well in third spot, with three wins from four.
Jack Slaughter (48) and Jack Paskins (39) got the visitors into a challenging position at 103-1, but the chase went horribly wrong as Ali Gardner, Faizan Tahsin and Steve Matthews took three wickets each in demolishing them for 166.
Havant’s total had been built around a maiden league half-century by Charlie Whitfield (61), Tahsin (40), Stu Ransley (31) and Oli Jones (28).
Portsmouth's Ishafaque Ahmad and Lee Hungerford combined to skittle a much depleted St Cross Symondians thirds for just 59 at St Helens.
Six of the last eight visiting batsmen failed to score with last man Gavin Buckle going down in the scoreboard as ‘timed out’.
Portchester raised Hungerford bagged new league best figures for the second time in three games. After taking 3-17 against Lymington II on May 29, he took 4-8. Ahmed dismissed four of the top five in his 4-23 haul as St Cross were all out in the 23rd over.
In reply, the hosts won by eight wickets in just 7.4 overs, with Matt Walton belted seven fours in his unbeaten 29.
Sam Ashman carried his bat through the Andover innings, making an unbeaten 107, but wasn’t quite able to get his side across the line in a tied match with Lymington II, who defended 219-8 (Jack Morris 72).  Andover were five down on the same score.

Back in the day, a teenage Paul Garlick opened the bowling for Cambridge University, shaping his right-arm medium pace deliveries at the likes of Graham Gooch, Javed Miandad, Alvin Kallicharran and Alex Stewart (his prize dismissal) before bowing out with a Blue in the 1984 Varsity Match defeat by Oxford at Lord’s.
Hundreds of overs later, close on 90 victims for Dorset in Minor Counties cricket and loads more for his home town club, Garlick skippers Bournemouth thirds in Hampshire League Division 4 West.
He may be in the twilight of his career of 56 years of age, but Garlick still knows how to bowl line and length – and take wickets, as Redlynch & Hale seconds found to their considerable cost.
Although they lost a wicket without a run on the board, Redlynch were going along quite nicely at 52-1 when Garlick brought himself into the attack.
His impact was sensational to say the least.
In the space of 34 deliveries (5.4 overs), Garlick ripped through the Redlynch middle-order, taking six wickets – without conceding a single run !
He clean bowled four batsmen and had two others caught as Redlynch capitulated to 61 all out – their last nine wickets crashing for just nine runs. Bournemouth went on to win by nine wickets.
“At the start of the game my main aim was to come through without getting injured and be sidelined for a few weeks, but I found a nice rhythm and hit a perfect length, with quite amazing effect,” he smiled.
“Earlier in my career I took 7-20 and another six wickets for three runs, but to not concede a single run off 34 balls was remarkable.”

One of the Division One’s unbeaten records will end on Saturday, when leaders Sway go head-to-head against Old Basing in the heart of the New Forest.
Sway have mirrored their their start to 2019 with five straight wins, while Old Basing have won all four of theirs.  Defending champions Parley, with three wins, visit winless Hursley Park.
An excellent 69 from the talismanic David Steadman and a four-wicket burst from Hugh Bernard helped Sway make it five wins from five with a win over Fareham & Crofton. 
Sway had to battle hard to their total of 217 with several batsmen getting starts before Steadman, with six fours and a six, took centre stage. His mixture of patience and the odd big shot paid off, helped by cameos from Neil Prince (14) and Bernard, before Steadman was finally caught.
Towards the end of the innings the visitors appeared a little frayed, with Jon Grasham (25*) and Sam Nailor adding vital runs and Fareham suffering a huge blow when their key opener Tom Kent dislocated his left ring finger and finished in A & E. He is out for five weeks. 
Fareham never got going, with a beauty from Steadman claiming a wicket and the visitors struggling against the disciplined and accurate Jon Waller, whose 2-13 off eight overs included the key wicket of pinch hitting Dan Wimble.  
When former England U19 seamer Bernard (4-27) entered the fray he did instant damage, his return including an incredible grab by Noble in the gully before Fareham subsided to 106 all out (James Headen 33). 
Grandad Rob Willcocks can take a lot of credit for the way his sons Richard (at Hook & Newnham Basics) and Nick have developed as batsmen; alas, in the latter’s case he’s clearly not taught Nick how to get through the nervous nineties and get to that jug buying 100.
For the second consecutive week Nick was dismissed in the 90s, though his 95 against Andover II (which took his run tally to 251) did played a key part in Old Basing’s 58-run win. They were 57-3 when Willcock joined Darren Turner (44) for a century stand which carried OB to 233-7.  Ben Ungaretti took 4-29 as Andover made 175-8.

Alton’s Ryan Hale and Hursley Park captain Tom Flynn (left) traded centuries in a drama packed affair at the Jubilee Ground, where a run out off the last ball decided it for the Brewers.
Hale smacked six maximums and 11 fours in his 118 (Alton made 221-9) while HP were in the box seat at 186-3 after a stand between Flynn (109) and Matt Branford (55).  It went down to the last ball, with Tommy Docherty run out with HP 220-8.
Andrew Galliers and Graham Burns were the heroes of Havant’s 95-run win over Lymington – the pair sharing a ninth wicket stand of 68 as the visitors recovered from 151-8 to make 233-9. Galliers was last man out for 73.
Teenager Axel Deem (64) propped up Lymington’s reply, but after Steve Matthews had taken 3-41, fellow left-arm spinner Graham Burns took five wickets in eight balls to send the hosts to 128 all out.
Five middle-order batsmen bagged ducks as Ollie Green and young Joe Huns rolled Compton & Chandler’s Ford out for 106. Parley won by six wickets.
An unbroken century-plus stand between Chris Blake (79) and James Hughes (52) eased a strengthened Burridge II past Portsmouth’s 170-9 (James Palmer-Goddard 72).
Callum Giles (82) underpinned a Longparish total of 197-8 which proved too many for visitors Winton, who made 157, teenager Zac Allen taking 3-40.

St Cross Symondians 300-8. Bournemouth 296-8 – one ball to go.  All three results are possible !
No pressure then on King Edward VI fifth former Hamish Croft, who has already been handed the responsibility of bowling a tense final over, at the start of which Bournemouth require 15 more runs to win a Hampshire League Division 1 thriller.
The ‘academy’ pitch at the Green Jackets Ground is idyllic and small – 13 sixes and 62 fours were hit in the game – and there’s a large crowd on the boundary edge, duly refreshed, so nothing really for young Crofty to get worried about.
Come the final ball of a match that sees close on 600 runs scored, Bournemouth need four to tie and a six to win.  Matt King (roughly the same age) has already hit a six and a four, so bowling a dot ball won’t be straightforward.
But the Croft family know all about pressure. His parents fly aeroplanes, so landing the ball in the right spot on the 22-yard ‘runway’ shouldn’t be that difficult.
Hamish does it with perfection – pitching a 'yorker' length delivery straight on King’s right boot and all Bournemouth can do is scamper a leg-bye.  They close 297-8, an agonizing three-run defeat for Lions skipper Jonny Coombs to swallow …
With St Cross three down for 30, Bournemouth held the early initiative – but 182 runs later after a handsome stand between young Ben Foster (51) and Ben Gould, the game has turned.
Gould played for Durham University before taking up an economics teaching appointment at Winchester College, as his 143, which contained 18 fours and five sixes, underlined.
Coombs (67) and Tom West (62) led Bournemouth’s huge response. Freddie Oldfield’s rapid 39 took the Lions to 265-6, but Croft’s final spell (he finished with 3-46)) produced two more wickets.
Lusty hitting from Connor Smith and Matt King took it to the last ball, but ice cool Croft had it all in hand ….  unlike the nerve racked crowd, who had to retreat to the bar to replenish their glasses !!

If Basingstoke & North Hants’ picturesque May’s Bounty wasn’t previously one of Kingsclere batsman Ed Lyle’s favourite grounds, it certainly is now !
Playing twice there in the space of 48 hours, he rattled up an astonishing tally of 425 runs in league and cup matches – without once getting out.
Basingstoke’s fourth team were the first to come under fire as Lyle led Kingsclere to a record massive 437-3 in a one-sided Hampshire League Division 4 North affair on the Castle Field.
Smacking boundaries to all parts of the ground, Lyle pillaged a career-best and unbeaten 263, striking 19 fours and 20 sixes - and having the inconvenience of running all bar 67 of his runs.
He shared a 194-run opening partnership with skipper Ross Andrews (78), but later took a relatively low profile role in the field, taking a solitary catch as Keith Harsham’s Basingstoke IVs, having been battered in the heat, were rushed out for 108 to give Kingsclere their fourth victory, by 329 runs.
Two days later Lyle was back at May’s Bounty – this time putting the Rotherwick ITW attack to the sword in an 18-over evening match for the Cyril Thompson Memorial Trophy.
Seeing the red cherry like the proverbial beach ball, Lyle smashed 11 sixes and 17 fours in an unbeaten 162 as Kingsclere ran up 224-3 in 18 overs before going on to win by 124 runs.
His century came off 34 deliveries, three of his six hits sailing out of the ground with the umpires signaling ‘lost ball’.
Anoraks corner: Kingsclere’s score in a new record for Division 4 cricket, surpassing Ventnor’s 366-4 in 1999, while Lyle’s 263 is a new individual high, beating Christian Pain’s 226 for Hyde two seasons ago.

Left-hand opener Tom Kent is set to miss Fareham & Crofton’s next five or six Hampshire League matches after suffering a painful hand injury in his side’s 111-run defeat by unbeaten Division 1 leaders Sway.
Sway were in the closing overs of their innings when wicketkeeper Kent went to take a leg-side wide, didn’t take the ball as cleanly as he would have liked – and ended up in hospital with the ring finger on his left-hand dislocated.
“Having the finger put back in place was very painful. Simultaneously, while I was in A & E Sway’s bowlers ripped through our top order,” he explained.
Kent, who made 97 in Fareham’s opening league win at Andover the previous week and had been in good nick in the pre-season games, added: “I’m so gutted about it. I put in a lot of effort in pre-season to get everything right, started the season well and then this happens.
“The doctor estimates it takes six weeks to heal, but hopefully will be a bit shorter. I have a follow-up appointment next week, when I should find out a bit more.
“I really can’t thank Sway enough. They were very supportive, offering ice packs and lifts to the hospital etc.” 
Fareham’s ten men were bowled out for a disappointing 106 (James Headen 33) – former Kent and England Under-19 seamer Hugh Bernard taking 4-27, 14 of which were wides.
Table topping Sway earlier recovered from 88-5 to make 217-8, Dave Steadman hitting 69.

​Captain James Turner arrived at the crease with his West Sussex Compton side rocking at 19-3 in the Hampshire League Division 5 South East match against Railway Triangle seconds – but went on to score 214 before being trapped leg before wicket !
Turner slapped sixes and fours all around Drayton Park as Compton’s score soared to 336-9, Railway Triangle using nine bowlers in a desperate bid to get him out.
He cleared the boundary rope ten times and hit 24 fours in a career-best knock, having never previously scored a league century.
Ben Jones (57), who eventually got Turner out, top scored in Triangle’s 113 all out before being run out - predictably by James Turner !

Stuart Ransley hit a century for Havant seconds but they lost a Hampshire League thriller off the last ball to Old Basing. Picture: Roy Honeybone. 
After posting 245-5 off their 40 overs, the hosts appeared favourites when Old Basing were reduced to 229-8.  But ninth wicket pair Joe Belcher (30 not out) and Max Elward (8 not out) kept their nerve to give their side a two-wicket victory.
Ransley, who added 106 for the second wicket with Andrew Galliers (49), 14 boundaries and a six before his 110-ball visit to the crease was only ended in the final over when he was caught at cover.
It was Ransley’s ninth league century for Havant and came 17 years after first one for the 2nds against Hambledon.
The innings was helped along with a timely 45 off 39 balls from young Olly Perkins, who helped Ransley add 99 for the fifth wicket as the hosts posted a challenging target.
Old Basing’s reply was measured and the game was in the balance early on as Havant looked to control the run rate.  Some very good middle overs from Steve Matthews (2-47) and the ever economical Pete Hayward (2-21 off eight overs) ensured the game was always going the distance.
Havant were really in the driving seat at 93-4 but Nick Willcock (91) and former Academy hopeful Ryan Murray (52) wrestled the initiative from them with a fifth wicket stand of 96.  When Willcock’s 84-ball innings was finally over, Old Basing were 206-6 and it was anyone’s match.
Some heavy blows from Belcher swung the game in the visitors’ favour and they started the final over needing five for victory. In the end, they scrambled the winning run off the final delivery.
Old Basing’s third straight win put them on the 60-point mark – 25 behind Sway, who are looking to make it five in a row when Fareham & Crofton visit the New Forest today.
Sway captain Tim Noble hit a battling 47 before some brutal late order hitting from Dan Bailey helped the visitors get over the line against Hursley Park (116) on what was a difficult surface.  
On a damp, green Quarters pitch, Sway were forced to work hard to overcome an accurate Hursley attack having got bogged down to the extent they were 23 off 21 overs and needing to up the rate. 
A 54-run partnership between Noble and Oscar Marshall (23) had the pair scampering between the wickets to up the ante, and gave Bailey licence to play freely when he came to the crease – as he smacked two crushing blows and Sway got over the line with more than four overs to spare. 
Noble hit four boundaries in his innings, which was ended just before the total was reached, enabling Dave Steadman to crack the winning runs.  
Sway produced a good all-round bowling performance setting up a modest chase.  
Hursley had ambled to 34 off 15 overs before Hugh Bernard produced a superb catch off Steadman (1-19) to get the first scalp, and in the next over Prince took a smart grab to get Jon Waller (1-15) a wicket. 
Jon Grasham (2-21) and Bernard (2-23), made inroads into the middle order, before Dan Bailey (2-12) and Josh Bailey (2-22), wrapped up proceedings, the brothers aided by two very smart slip catches by Grasham.  
Patience was rewarded for both Fareham & Crofton and promoted Winton, whose first three May matches had been washed out.
Fareham pulled off a 54-run at London Road, where Andover II slipped from a threatening 105-2 to 176 all out once Thanura Watts Waduge (57) and Max Souter had fallen to visitors’ gloveman and man-of-the-match Tom Kent.
The left-hand opener earlier hit 97 before being dismissed three short of buying the team drinks at 215-5.  Left-arm teenager Andrew Martin a strapping 16-year old, had a memorable debut with a 4-19 return.
Matt Clark’s partnerships with Sam Thomson (41) and Joe May (40) underpinned a competitive 232-5 by Winton against visiting St Cross Symondians III.  Clark made 79 not out.
Led by Blair Brown (66 not out) and Matt Swann (52), St Cross made a decent fist of their reply but, as happened against Old Basing a few weeks ago, they fell narrowly short with 220-8.
Defending champions Parley ran into early trouble at 24-3 against Ethan Brackstone (3-39) at Cockets Mead, but were revived by the promising Roshan Embalagama (55), Tom Saunders (35) and Sam Rook (33), the trio lifted the visiting score to 202-9.
Steve Poole hit a gallant 84 not out, but Easton & Martyr Worthy at 96-6 were always playing catch-up after Andy Cooke’s spell of 3-34.  EMW closed at 164-6.
Andy Gorty and Matt Storey shared six wickets as Alton were dismissed for 136 (Michael Heffernan 45), Alex Spearing’s 48 driving Compton & Chandler’s Ford to a comfortable win.
Openers Jamie Mitchell (60) and Nick Wyatt (45) set up Portsmouth’s 203, which proved too many for Lymington II, who made 165 after a bright start by Liam McCurdy (40) and Axel Deem (32), who earlier took three wickets.
Tom Robinson marked his comeback from injury with a match winning 82 as Bournemouth recovered from 44-4 to make 176-7 against Burridge at Chapel Gate.
Ebullient Lions captain Jonny Coombs made 25 before being caught by Srujith Wickramasinghe off the bowling of Sampath Prathapashinghe, the Sri Lanka duo being too good for him …
Burridge collapsed to 82-7 before rallying to make 136-8.