Run gun Tom Morton [Dave Reynolds]
Tom Morton added another century to his increasingly large collection as Sarisbury Athletic maintained the pressure on Portsmouth at the top of the Southern Premier League’s second tier.
The record breaking former South Wilts opener struck 102 off 132 balls as Sarisbury posted 250-6 off 50 overs against Rowledge, who made a rain trimmed 136-9 in reply.
It was Morton’s fifth SPL century for Sarisbury in 16 innings, and his third in nine outings in 2024. Those hundreds go alongside the 29 he plundered in 16 run-filled seasons with Salisbury-based South Wilts.
And there were also four centuries scored across two seasons playing for Ealing in the Middlesex County League, one of which took the west London club to the championship.
Morton’s latest ton followed his 109 against Rowledge on the opening day of this season.
He was just five runs short of sharing a 200-run opening stand with Fremantle's Kaiden Cookson (76) when he was dismissed by 18-year old Loughborough University biology student Ollie Ryman (5-46), refreshed after holiday in Nigel Farage's Clacton.
Rowledge were set a rain revised target of 203 from 33 overs, but never looked like getting near it once Archie Pascoe (3-21) had helped reduce them from 43-0 to 49-5. Ollie Baker (30) and Ryman (25) top scored as Rowledge finished on 136-9 to lose by 68 runs.
Sarisbury’s seventh win in nine completed games has given them a points-per-match average of 18.11 - but Portsmouth, whose game at OTs & Romsey was rained off, still lead on 19.44. The top two meet at Allotment Road on July 27.
Four Portsmouth first teamers ensured their Saturday wasn't rain wasted by turning out in a Hampshire League match against Hythe & Dibden. Harry Gadd made 174 of Portsmouth's 368-3. The News
The record breaking former South Wilts opener struck 102 off 132 balls as Sarisbury posted 250-6 off 50 overs against Rowledge, who made a rain trimmed 136-9 in reply.
It was Morton’s fifth SPL century for Sarisbury in 16 innings, and his third in nine outings in 2024. Those hundreds go alongside the 29 he plundered in 16 run-filled seasons with Salisbury-based South Wilts.
And there were also four centuries scored across two seasons playing for Ealing in the Middlesex County League, one of which took the west London club to the championship.
Morton’s latest ton followed his 109 against Rowledge on the opening day of this season.
He was just five runs short of sharing a 200-run opening stand with Fremantle's Kaiden Cookson (76) when he was dismissed by 18-year old Loughborough University biology student Ollie Ryman (5-46), refreshed after holiday in Nigel Farage's Clacton.
Rowledge were set a rain revised target of 203 from 33 overs, but never looked like getting near it once Archie Pascoe (3-21) had helped reduce them from 43-0 to 49-5. Ollie Baker (30) and Ryman (25) top scored as Rowledge finished on 136-9 to lose by 68 runs.
Sarisbury’s seventh win in nine completed games has given them a points-per-match average of 18.11 - but Portsmouth, whose game at OTs & Romsey was rained off, still lead on 19.44. The top two meet at Allotment Road on July 27.
Four Portsmouth first teamers ensured their Saturday wasn't rain wasted by turning out in a Hampshire League match against Hythe & Dibden. Harry Gadd made 174 of Portsmouth's 368-3. The News
