Ferndown Wayfarers Hampshire League champions 2025.
Back (from left): Enam Koshalkil, Alex Sansom, Tom Munnings, Daryl Baines, Regan Norman, Freddie Pittaway, Craig McLean. Front: Miles Lewis, Ryan Norman, Eric Linge, Robbie Stammas, James Stephenson.
Ferndown Wayfarers are quietly confident their second Hampshire League championship triumph in three years will be climaxed by promotion to the Southern Premier League next season.
They failed to meet the Premier League’s accreditation criteria when they won it in 2023, but the club is hopeful improved ground markings at Dolman’s Farm and work carried to the pavilion and showers should give them the nod this time around.
Ferndown dominated the Hampshire League this summer, winning 14 of their 17 completed games and finishing well above Sarisbury Athletic seconds, whom they thrashed in their penultimate match.
James Stephenson led the batting charts with 535 runs, with skipper Eric Linge and Tom Mullings, who made 135 against Sarisbury, each scoring 453.
Miles Lewis (28 wickets), Daryl Baines (27) and Freddie Pittaway (26) all featured strongly in the HL bowling charts.
They failed to meet the Premier League’s accreditation criteria when they won it in 2023, but the club is hopeful improved ground markings at Dolman’s Farm and work carried to the pavilion and showers should give them the nod this time around.
Ferndown dominated the Hampshire League this summer, winning 14 of their 17 completed games and finishing well above Sarisbury Athletic seconds, whom they thrashed in their penultimate match.
James Stephenson led the batting charts with 535 runs, with skipper Eric Linge and Tom Mullings, who made 135 against Sarisbury, each scoring 453.
Miles Lewis (28 wickets), Daryl Baines (27) and Freddie Pittaway (26) all featured strongly in the HL bowling charts.
Tom Munnings, signed from Bere Regis pre-season, hit 135 against Sarisbury Athletic.
 |  Left, James Stephenson, Ferndown's leading runscorer, and (above) team-mate Alex Sampson |
Photography by Stephen Nicholls
