Longparish, who were third in County Division 1 going into this weekend’s final round of matches.
Standing (from left): Alex Coetzee, Tom Trinder, Jack Levy, Scott Sturt, Matt Jackman, Ben Gardner.
Seated: Michael Taplin, William Samways, William de Cani, Jonnie Wahid, James Bevan.

Portsmouth & Southsea will be County Division 1 champions if they beat St Cross Symondians in their final match at St James’ Park.
They took a handy bonus points lead - eight over Lymington II and 11 over Longparish – into the game.
Realistically, P & S will have to lose and their two title rivals win if the championship race is to have a late twist.
Both Portsmouth & Southsea and Lymington enjoyed round 16 wins, while Longparish suffered the cruel misfortune of having their match at Sarisbury Athletic washed out by a lunchtime cloudburst.
P & S chased down a Burridge total of 193 (Suji Wickramasinghe 61) to win by eight wickets – Steve Clements (62) and Jack Davies (52) scoring the runs.
Lymington proved too strong for Fareham & Crofton’s young side, which had won nine of its previous 11 matches and were sixth before the start.
Billy Quigley (52) raised his run tally for the season to 767 and enjoyed a fruitful stand with Jack Roberts (44) as Lymington took control.
Teens Josh Royan (33), Harry Fisher (22) and Kieron Moors (23) all chipped in as Lymington batted Fareham out of the contest at 247-9.
Fareham lost four cheap wickets before Luke Cornish (46) gave their final 155 an air of respectability.
With Sarisbury already relegated, Longparish could reasonably have anticipated a significant point haul from their Allotment Road visit – but a lunchtime rain storm up paid to that.
“The postponement felt like a loss,” sighed Parish’s Will de Cani, who also missed out on a chance to overhaul Ryde’s Ben Wadmore in the County 1 run stakes.
De Cani had scored 627 runs compared with Wadmore’s 666 going into the final round of matches.
Longparish trailed Lymington by three points - but Oli Kelly’s side faced a stern challenge at fourth-placed Hook & Newnham Basics II, who rolled relegation threatened New Milton by 48 runs last time out, with teenager Jack Robson’s 55 the highest score of the match.
Ropley dropped to seventh spot after a 97-run defeat by Ryde, who ended a five-match losing streak by celebrating their first win since July 1.
Ropley enjoyed an early success when Ed Stennett (2-52) trapped opener Ellis Ridett leg before, but the Ryde innings gradually gained momentum, initially through Joe Martin (38), but more specifically Cam Mitchell, on teaching leave from Yorkshire and making his first appearance of the season.
Mitchell cracked four sixes and seven fours in a 62-ball 74, which set the platform for Stuart Robertson (54) and Ashley Goldsmith (47) to apply the long handle and hoist Ryde’s total to 281-8.
Australian Jack Ireland (66) and Chris Rait (35) progressed Ropley’s response to 110-2 at drinks, but Mitchell (3-6) and Goldsmith (4-42) carved through the remainder of the hosts batting to leave Ropley 97 runs short at 184 all out.
Opener Paul Longland (88 not out) batted throughout OTR’s 235 at Shrewton, where his ninth wicket stand with Mike Trodd (42) gave the visitors’ attack something to bowl at.
Dan Bingley (32) and Stu Cruse (33) overcame two early Shrewton losses, but after a handy knock by Jason Plant (27), it needed Chris Brewer (47) and Marcus Jenkins (45) to get their heads down and secure a home victory with only three balls of a rain trimmed 45-over encounter left.
Bishops Waltham ended their recent lean run with a 102-run win over Ventnor II, who will be relegated tonight if results go the wrong way.
United Services will send them packing if they win last match against already doomed Sarisbury Athletic and Ventnor fail to beat Fareham & Crofton at Steephill.
Phil Baldock (60) held BW together after three wickets fell for eight runs after a near century stand with Andy Wakeley (39).  Sam Medhurst (49) and Adam Wymbs (38) helped the Albany hosts on to 255-6 off a run trimmed 45 overs.
Mark Fletcher used his experience, batting the length of Ventnor’s 153 reply with an unbeaten 71.
But US didn’t do themselves any favours by filing to defend 192-9 (John Parker 59) and losing by five-wickets to St Cross Symondians III, for whom Morgan Smith and Stephen Fryer hit unbeaten half-centuries.
If the Hampshire League made a team of the month award (which they don’t and never have), Rowledge seconds would be near certain winners.
A month ago and ten successive losses, they were doomed – but they’ve since put three straight wins on the board and have moved out of immediate danger.
Sam Marshall’s maiden 120 took Rowledge to a winning 256-8 against visiting Hythe & Dibden, whose 237-8 response was well served by Zac Millar’s 83 and a fifty by James Page.
Parley were on the brink of becoming Hampshire League, County Division 2 champions going into this weekend’s final round of matches.
A win at Redlynch & Hale would ensure Parley finished above Easton & Martyr Worthy and Ferndown Wayfarers, who were going head-to-head at Dolmans Farm for the probable runners-up spot.
Long term pacemakers Bedhampton, who have suffered three successive defeats of late, were hanging on to a slender possibility of finishing third.

Ringwood were bowled out for 16 by Fawley seconds – before four of their players had even arrived !
They pitched up on Waterside for the Hampshire League Regional 2 South West match with only seven players – the missing four having been delayed en route from Birmingham, where they had stayed after watching the second day of the ‘pink ball’ Test between England and the West Indies.
Fortunately, Ringwood won the toss and batted, but with Dean Godden taking 5-5 they lost six wickets in ten overs and were dismissed for a meagre 16 – with still no sign of the Edgbaston Four.
Ironically, a few balls into Fawley’s innings, Ringwood’s missing players arrived – just in time to do a spot of fielding and watch the oilmen canter to a ten-wicket win.

Seven points separate the top three clubs in the Hampshire League going into Saturday’s penultimate round of County Division 1 matches.
Pre-season favourites Portsmouth & Southsea saw their lead significantly trimmed when they struggled to overcome OTs & Romsey.
They are looking anxiously over their shoulders as Longparish and Lymington II step up their own title bids.
P & S, who host Burridge II, so nearly came a cropper at Romsey, where they suffered a six-wicket collapse in a bid to chase down OTs’ 116.
Ben Saunders spun OTs out with a 6-17 return, but then seasoned pro Stu Shapland (6-8) weighed in with a six wicket haul of his own as P & S capitulated.
All looked well when Jack Davies and Steve Clements took their reply to 60-0, but then Shapland turned the tables and reduced the Southsea visitors to 100-6.
“Fortunately, Jonno Willey came in with 15 needed and whacked it around a bit,” said a relieved P & S al-rounder Tom Benfield.
A solitary point separated Longparish (at Sarisbury Athletic) and Lymington II (Fareham & Crofton) going into Saturday’s matches.
With their second and third team matches called off, Longparish attracted a rare treble figure crowd for the visit of St Cross Symondians III, who ground out 144-9 after being put in on a damp top.
Steve Berryman hit a patient 50 off 107 balls as Longparish thrived – James Bevan taking 2-13 from his ten overs
With the pitch drying in the sun, batting conditions improved and the Longparish reply rattled along at around a run a ball. 
Openers Will de Cani (55), closing in on Ryde’s Ben Wadmore for the County Division 1 batting prize, and Ben Gardner (pictured above) put on 124 before the Cardiff University graduate holed out.
Gardner batted superbly and was unbeaten on 73 as Longparish passed the target in the 25th over.
Longparish, who host relegated Rowledge II in their final match, had their facilities inspected by the HCB’s accreditation gurus this week.
Lymington II, rather unluckily relegated when rain wiped out the final session of the 2016 SPL calendar, dented New Milton’s fading survival prospects with a seven-wicket win.
Kieran Moors and Billy Quigley took four wickets each – and took their respective totals to 22 scalps each for the summer – as NM were whisked out for 103.
Quigley (31) raised his season’s tally to 779 runs before Oli Kelly (31 not out) completed the formalities.
Fareham & Crofton are in nosebleed territory – a ninth win in 11 matches sending the Bath Lane club soaring to fourth place, their highest for a decade.
Highspot of their latest nine-wicket trouncing of sliding Bishops Waltham was a maiden century by 16-year old left-hand opener Viraat Sahu, pictured left above.
The youngster was particularly severe on anything pitched short and smashed 20 boundaries in his 117 not out which swept Fareham past Bishops’ 223-9 (Ben White 3-56) with 12 overs to spare.
His first 40 runs all came in boundaries.
Sahu shared a 163-run opening stand with Ben Kissane (58) before helping Reece Abrams (28) complete the formalities.
Earlier, Dom Quincey (48) and Rob Kops (40) provided BW with a sound start, which Sam Medhurst (32) later improved.
Ropley repaired the damage from their 110-run defeat by thrashing Ventnor II by 73 runs at Steephill.
Ed Stennett’s 85 underpinned Ropley’s 215 – a score Ventnor were never likely to threaten. Martin Blackman made 66 of their 142 all out.
Will Harries is a bowler on fire – his 5-17 return against Ryde taking his Shrewton return to 12 wickets in the past fortnight.
Ryde were skittled for 63 and beaten by 102 runs by the Wiltshire visitors, who posted 167.
Former Lymington & BAT Sports left-hander Damian Shirazi has joined Hythe & Dibden and shared a century partnership with New Zealander Tarin Mason in the 71-run win over Sarisbury Athletic at Jones lane.
Hythe were in a spot of bother at 104-6 before Shirazi (55) and Mason (60) lifted their total to 219-6.  Sarisbury replied with 148.
All but relegated Rowledge II (160) pulled off a shock 13 run win at Hook & Newnham Basics II, while United Services inched out of the three-down drop zone with a four-wicket win over Burridge (168-8).
It left New Milton (108 points), Rowledge (102) and Sarisbury Athletic (82) facing the immediate prospect of County Division 2 cricket in 2018.

The Guy Jewell T20 knockout at Basingstoke’s May’s Bounty is reaching its climax with two rain delayed last eight ties and the two semi-finals set to be played next week.
East Woodhay and Hartley Wintley play their quarter-final on Monday, with the winners facing Hook & Newnham Basics on Wednesday.
Then, on Tuesday evening, Odiham & Greywell tackle Yateley for the right to face Basingstoke & North Hants in Thursday’s second semi-final.
The final is at May’s Bounty on Sunday afternoon, August 27.

Six County Division 1 sides were shot out for less than 100 as the Hampshire League spluttered back into action after an unwanted and untimely wet weather break.
Among them were Ropley and Ryde, whose outside hopes of promotion into the Southern Premier League all but disappeared.
Ropley sank to 93 all out against a buoyant Fareham & Crofton, while Ryde were skittled for 96 and thrashed by nine wickets by Portsmouth & Southsea, who went to Old Tauntonians & Romsey II today eight points clear at the top.
P & S (238 points) lead the field from Longparish (230), who scraped a one-wicket win at Burridge, and Lymington seconds (229), who nailed Bishops Waltham.
With left-arm spinner Kieran Dunstan taking 4-9, Ryde were bundled out for 90 – a rain interruption making the trimmed P & S target of 76 even easier for Jack Davies (36) and Matt Benfield (27).
Longparish always anticipated Burridge might be a banana skin – and so it proved !
Suji Wickramasinghe proved a real handful, scoring 68 and later taking 3-28 as Burridge desperately defended 178 (James Bevan 4-21).
The Longparish reply ebbed and flowed, their response looking promising while Will de Cani (27) and Ben Gardner (37) were together, but not so after Wickramasinghe had checked their progress.
Jack Levy (32) enlivened things, but an anxious finale saw Alex Coetzee and James Bevan squeeze 20 runs off ten overs to get Parish home with seven balls to spare.
Lymington took on neighbours New Milton today one point behind Longparish.
Australian Billy Quigley (44) and Bryn Darbyshire (43) top scored as Lymington posted 162 against fading Bishops Waltham, who were asked to chase an adjusted 121 off 28 overs.
They seldom looked like making it after early inroads by Kieran Moors (4-36).
Quigley (3-8) and Ed Freeman (3-34) shared the remaining six wickets as Bishops Waltham dipped to 90 all out.
Fourth placed Hook & Newnham Basics made short work of all but relegated Sarisbury Athletic II, ripping their County 2 bound hosts out for 90 before Harry Warner blasted them to a ten-wicket victory.
Andy Oliphant (40) and Chris Mottola (29) stood alone as Kish Parmar, Oli May and Will Gee took three wickets each. Harry Warner blasted a quick fire 65 not out to get Hook home in 24 overs.
St Cross Symondians III were going nicely at 127-3 through Kevin Lockwood (44), Tom Fay (30) and Kevin Neave (26) – only to collapse to 173-8, with New Zealander Tarin Mason taking 4-33 for Hythe & Dibden.
The Watersiders sank to 78 all out.
United Services remain in a huge pickle at the bottom – a seven-wicket defeat by OTs & Romsey II compounding their relegation fears.
US managed 185 (Jon Parker 71), but OTs chased down an abridged 146, with former Saints skipper Jason Dodd hitting an unbeaten 59.
Ventnor could only cobble together eight players to fulfil the long haul trip to Shrewton, where they mustered 53 (Mark Woodhouse 24) and lost by ten wickets in no time at all.
Will Harries (6-15) took six of the seven wickets Shrewton needed before Will Sleeman’s 43 not out completed the formalities.
These are difficult times for Ventnor and Island cricket in general and one wonders if it would make more logical and practical sense if second (and third) teams from across the water were to remain ‘at home’ and play in their own domestic competition.
It would save mainland clubs a small fortune in ferry fares, not to mention expenditure incurred by the island clubs themselves who have to fork out and set sail very other Saturday.
One for Tony Oxley and his Think Tank to ponder, perhaps ...

oulti-talented Luke Cornish made quite an impression in his first Fareham & Crofton appearance for over a year.
Putting his Loughborough University text books to one side and taking a break from Fareham's pre-season hockey preparations, Cornish played a star role in the 126-run County Division 1 victory at Ropley.
Arriving at the crease with Fareham & Crofton an uncertain 74-4, Cornish smacked 60 (including one outrageous six over extra-cover) and shared close on a century partnership with Tom Kent (54) as the visitors posted a healthy 236 (Jimmy Hawkins 4-22).
Cornish didn't finish there, taking a spectacular cover catch off Oli Southon (3-13) as Ropley crashed to 93 all out, with Ben White taking three wickets amid a plethora of wides.
Home grown Cornish is back on the Fareham patch, enjoying a year long accountancy work placement in nearby Whiteley, part of his three-year business degree course at Loughbrough.
Cornish has also rejoined the town's hockey club - he was a star goalscoring turn for Loughborough - and is set to play a full part in Fareham's upcoming Western Conference challenge.

If the weathermen have got it right, the County Division 1 promotion race – stalled by rain for the past fortnight – should be headed into the home straight tomorrow.
Five clubs are set for a sprint to the tape – with a mere 13 points separating them going into the final month of the season.
Favourites all along, Portsmouth & Southsea led with 219 points, ten ahead of Longparish and Lymington (both 209), and 13 clear of fourth placed Ryde. Outsiders Ropley are tucked in behind.
Remaining games - 
Portsmouth & Southsea (219 points): Ryde (h), OTs & Romsey II (a), Burridge II (h), St Cross Symondians III (h).
Longparish (209): Burridge II (a), St Cross Symondians III (h), Sarisbury Athletic II (a), Rowledge II (h).
Lymington II (209): Bishops Waltham (h), New Milton II (a), Fareham & Crofton (h), Hook & Newnham Basics II (a).
Ryde (206): Portsmouth & Southsea (a), Shrewton (h), Ropley (a), Bishops Waltham (h).
Ropley (194): Fareham & Crofton (h), Ventnor II (a), Ryde (h), OTs & Romsey II (a).
Longparish opener Will de Cani is optimistic the Test Valley village club can achieve a remarkable third successive promotion which began from County Division 3 North.
“But I think it’s Portsmouth & Southsea’s title to lose,” he believes.
“We thrashed them earlier in the season, but they are ten points ahead going into tomorrow’s match and if they beat Ryde it will be difficult for anyone to catch them.”
De Cani also thinks Lymington II, with their high powered batting line-up, are a major threat.
“They’ve got some really strong players and if someone like Billy Quigley or Terry Crabb comes off, they are going to score a lot of runs,” he forecast.
Whether Lymington want to go up – and reclaim the Southern Premier League Division 3 spot they lost on the final day of last season – remains to be seen
Alongside making big scores and taking wickets, Quigley, their influential Melbourne based all-rounder, is hugely involved in coaching Lymington’s youngsters.
If Lymington seconds were to go up, current SPL regulations would preclude them re-hiring Quigley – or any other overseas player – to the detriment of their thriving colts section.
Ryde, in fourth spot prior to visiting Portsmouth & Southsea, may also be reluctant to dip their toes into Premier League cricket so soon after their 2016 debacle.
They managed to win only one of their 15 SPL3 matches last season and, with much the same squad of players, something similar could easily happen again.
Fifth placed Ropley, with Ryde still to play, may need the lead pack to experience a few unexpected results if they are to gate crash the promotion party.
Ropley are scheduled to host Fareham & Crofton tomorrow, with Western Australian teen Reece Abrams desperate for a return to action for the visitors.
He broke a bone in his right hand at Hythe four weeks ago and, despite being fit again, hasn’t  been able to play due to the wet weather.
At least the 17-year old has been able to put his free time to good use – by learning to bake cakes !
Meanwhile, the bottom of County 1 doesn’t make pleasant reading for a plethora of second teams struggling for survival.
Rowledge and Sarisbury Athletic, with only one win each, look goners – and United Services could go with them.  They too have only one win and have points to make up on New Milton, who can pull clear of the danger zone by beating Rowledge tomorrow.

Wickham, Igglesden Trophy winners
Back (from left): Toby Mitcheson, Nick Doubell, Alex Reidy, Greg McKenzie, Nick Moreland, Jimmy Hawkings.  Front: Peter Gwynn, Chris Martin, Charlie Gwynn, Andy Gwynn, and James Martin.
 
A half-century by Charlie Gwynne set up Wickham’s 16-run win over Hursley Park in the Winchester & District CA Igglesden Trophy T20 final at The Quarters.
Wickham slipped to 15-2, but Gwynn (50) and Nick Doubell (39) steadied things with a near century stand as Wickham’s 142-7 proved too many for Hursley Park.
The hosts responded with a 56-run start by Joe Theobald (30) and Australian Jack Gilbert (21), but despite being 81-1 at one point gradually fell behind the clock.
Zimbabwean left-hander Boswell Chapungu (29) gambled on going for the big hit instead of working one’s and two’s as Hursley fell short at 126-3, Charlie Gwynn clinching his MVP award by taking 2-23.