Bournemouth’s lower order batsmen had to keep calm to ensure that an eventual two-wicket win over ECB Southern Premier Division neighbours Bashley (Rydal) didn’t elude them.
They got home with four balls of Mitch Wilson’s final over to spare, having been 132-8 chasing down Bashley’s modest 154 and the outcome in the balance.
But while nerves jangled in the visitors’ BCG dressing room, Robbie Pak and man-of-the-match Oli Breckon eked out the 23 runs Bournemouth required for victory.
Fortunes fluctuated throughout with Bashley wobbling at 31-3 after an impressive new-ball spell by Breckon (4-27) and sinking deeper into trouble at 62-5 after Michael Porter and Harry Broderick had perished to the left-arm spin of Pack, who finished with 3-27.
Five of Bashley’s middle order made starts, but none of the batsmen reached 20 until Dan Goodey emerged from the pavilion at 119-8 to clout an unbeaten 34 and lift the score to 154.
It appeared as it might be a stroll in the park for Bournemouth when Tasmanian left-hander Tom Willoughby (36) and Oli Shrubsole (19) eased the Lions to 64-0.
But then four wickets fell for ten runs – two each to Broderick (3-15) and Goodey (2-26) – and Bashley were back in it.
Simon Woodruff (36) and Jake Hurley rallied, but at 121-4 Josh Digby (3-23) triggered another collapse and Bournemouth slipped to 132-8.
But Pack, with a patient yet crucial 17 not out, and Breckon, unbeaten with nine, denied Bashley any further breakthroughs and earned Bournemouth their first league win.

South Wilts are the sole remaining Southern Premier League in the ECB Royal London national club championship after the first round exits of Havant, Hook & Newnham Basics and St Cross Symondians.
Havant were knocked out by High Wycombe, Hook & Newnham exited after a brave fight at Richmond, while St Cross Symondians gave powerful Bridgwater a massive scare at the Green Jackets.   South Wilts host WEPL giants Potterne in the second round at Bemerton this Sunday, 1pm.
Openers Teddie Casteton (97) and Eliot Callis, with four sixes and ten fours in his no nonsense 75, set the tone for High Wycombe with a century start. They closed 267-6 before reducing Havant to 113-8. Richard Jerry (46) and Freddie Gadd (21) rallied as Havant finished 201 all out.
Josh Buckingham (57) hit a battling half-century at the top of the innings as Hook made 134 - recent Middlesex Premier Division champions Richmond losing seven wickets before they got home.
Bridgwater piled up 227-7 (Charlie Gwynn 3-20) but got a nasty shock as teen duo Wilf Fontaine-Jackson (74) and Ben Foster (67) sent the ​St Cross response racing to 142-1. Alas, the last nine St Cross wickets fell for 57 and the side to 199 all out.

​Ash Neal (pictured) began his role as interim captain with an impressive all-round performance as Basingstoke & North Hants shattered Portsmouth’s 100 per cent start to the new Southern Premier League Division 1 season with a 78-run win at May’s Bounty.
The Bournemouth University business studies student will captain Basingstoke until late June, when he goes off travelling.
He has taken over from Dan Belcher who, relieved of the pressure captaincy can often bring, top scored as Basingstoke racked up a match winning 236-9.
Neal, who played in Basingstoke’s woeful early season defeats by Sarisbury Athletic and Rowledge, hit 37 and later took 4-26 as Portsmouth were bowled out for 158.
His performance won the Stoke stand-in captain this website's prestigious Cricketer of the Week award.
“After those two early losses, this was a great win for us against a strong Portsmouth outfit we fully expect to be right up there come the end of the season,” he smiled.
“So it was a good way to get our season up and running. It was a real team performance with both bat and ball.
“We were confident we had enough (236-9) on the board at tea, but on what was a good May’s Bounty deck we knew it could go either way, so we had to be disciplined with the ball. Bowling was supported by good fielding.”
With the top five batsmen all making runs, Basingstoke were guaranteed a competitive total.
Openers Belcher (42) and the evergreen Richard Vinn (21) began with a 73-run start which Ash Neal (37) and Joe Oates (25) near enough doubled.
Dan Wimble (4-52) created some inroads, but with Brad Neal making a quick fire 36 and Matt Donaldson (21) and Laurence Benge (20) making handy contributions, Basingstoke closed with a competitive 236-9.
Two early blows by Jake Fincken (2-41), aided by a tight seven-over spell by Brad Neal, kept the pressure firmly on Portsmouth, who lost wickets bat regular intervals, four of them to Ash Neal, who finished with 4-26.  Three wickets fell for nine runs at one point.
Portsmouth were effectively out of the contest at 107-7 (Ben Duggan 28) by the time Sujeeth Daini (34) and Ashan Silva (34) came together to lift the final score to 158 all out.

​Joe Vaughan produced a stunning individual performance as Old Tauntonians & Romsey pulled off a remarkable ten-wicket win over previously unbeaten Southern Premier Division 2 pacemakers Hartley Wintney.
He took 5-58 as Hartley were dismissed for 155 – a total OTs polished off without loss, Vaughan hitting 85 not out.
Farooq Quereshi, an all-rounder who normally plies his trade in the Calgary & District League in Canada, hit a half-century on debut for Hartley Wintney. 
He arrived at the Cricket Field crease with Hartley 77-3 (Ryan Bone 28) and, after skipper Will Ross had gone for 30, smacked eight fours and two sixes in a rapid 50.
His demise – one of five victims for spinner Joe Vaughan (5-58), who ripped through the middle order -  saw Hartley Wintney collapse from 148-4 to 155 all out, six wickets falling for seven runs.
Vaughan (pictured) continued his domination with the bat, hitting 85 not out, including two sixes and 12 fours. Skipper Charlie King made an unbeaten 58 as OTs cruised home inside 28 overs.
Hook & Newnham Basics’ promoted second team are finding life tough in the Southern Premier Division 2, suffering a third successive defeat when visiting Waterlooville beat them by seven wickets at the KGV.
Rhodes Franklin struck a battling 50, but Hook had little prospect of defending 123 – a total the Ville eased past despite a three-wicket blast by Richard Willcock (3-22).
Kiwi Josh McGregor (3-16) ripped through the HNB tail before in-form Archie Reynolds hit an unbeaten 52 and continue his fine early season form. 
Fair Oak chalked up their second SPL2 victory, beating winless Fawley by six wickets at Holbury.
Fresh from his previous week's five-wicket haul against St Cross Symondians II, Ben Smith (3-33) was again in good form with the ball reducing the hosts to an early 48-3.
Sufian Munir (52) held the Fawley top order together, while late runs came from Brendan Streather (33) and Callum Earl (19). Freddie Eley did well with the ball, taking 3 for 51, and Phil Smith 2 for 12, to restrict the home side to a below-par total of 165 all out.
A typical whirlwind start from Gregor McKenzie – 28, including 3 sixes, in 13 balls – put Oaks in good shape. Opening partner Harry Reed was, by contrast, in more restrained mood. He carried his bat for 53, his maiden SPL fifty, in spite of the best efforts of Sean Williams (2 for 45). A rapid unbeaten 42 from Nick Doubell at better than a-run-a-ball took Fair Oak to a six-wicket victory at 168-4.

 

South Wilts climbed into second place in the ECB Southern Premier League with a comprehensive victory over basement side Hook & Newnham Basics – but their eight-wicket win came at a cost !
Playing-wise, the influential James Hayward faces a spell on the side-lines after he pulled a hamstring trying to turn sharply in the field.
The club has also been hit in the pocket as Jack Stearman and Peter Rowe, who shared a decisive second-wicket stand, each hoofed a six on to the roof of the terraced houses standing back from the Bemerton leg-side boundary, breaking several tiles.
South Wilts have to foot the repair bill which could run up to as much as £250 !
South Wilts chased down Hook’s modest 143 to win with 22 overs to spare and move within 15 points of the Hampshire Academy, who boast the only unbeaten record after winning all three matches.
Once he got his radar right Matt Burton (2-25), running down the Wilton Road slope, proved a handful and nipped out Hook openers Sam Lockwood and Matt Love (both for eight) in quick succession.
Matt Buckingham (20) and Harry Robson steadied the ship by easing Hook to 61-2, but once again the visitors lost two wickets in quick succession and slipped to 63-4.
Josh Buckingham (25) hit two on-side sixes before falling to a sprawling one-handed return catch by Indian leg spinner Aaryan Sen, who finished with 3-24.
                                                                                     Verdict
Robson (28) showed the value of occupying the crease and got stuck in - but he lost four partners before Josh Croom (4-42) got a leg-side caught behind verdict against him at 125-5 to leave Hook’s lower order exposed.
Jack Murrell (21) staged a late comeback of sorts, but Hook’s last five wickets fell for 18 runs, the final three adding just two runs to the total before the innings closed at 143 in the 35th over. 
Sen, the Mumbai left-arm spinner, took two of the last three wickets to fall – he now has eight victims in two SPL appearances – and will clearly be a handful for opposing batsmen when the all-day ‘time’ cricket begins on Saturday week.
Tom Morton (18) promptly pumped two fours to get South Wilts away to a flier as Max Simpson bore the brunt of the batting assault, conceding 44 runs off 27 deliveries.
The more economical Murrell had Morton caught by Sam Lockwood, but that was the only joy Hook had as Stearman and Rowe picked off the bowling and added 98, hitting 19 boundaries between them.
Stearman, with 12 fours in an unbeaten 67, chalked up his second 60-plus score in three knocks and is looking more positive the longer he stays at the crease.
Rowe was disappointed to have lost his wicket with 50 under his belt, especially with South Wilts within touching distance of victory.
It was Hook’s second consecutive defeat in what has been a demanding start for the 2019 Division 1 champions.

First Harry Foyle, then later Australian Sam Beer were the influential players as St Cross Symondians pulled off a dramatic one-wicket win over eight-time ECB Southern Premier League champions Havant at The Park.
Set to overhaul Havant’s 203-9, St Cross had half their batsmen back in the pavilion at 106-5 and still had work to do at 156-7 when Harry Foyle (47) became a second spin victim for Chris Stone.
But Beer, who hails from Melbourne and joined St Cross on the recommendation of Hampshire all-rounder Ian Holland, galvanized the tail, adding a precious 30 with Aidan Hawkesworth and then another 15 with Matt Howarth before the ninth wicket fell at 201.
Rookie St Cross fifth teamer Zac Farooq had to defend two balls before Beer regained the strike to make an unbeaten 28 and get the Winchester side across the line with ten balls to spare.
Earlier, Beer had a hand in the dismissal of Havant openers Ben Walker and Charlie Whitfield before Stone (74) and Harry Gadd (54) featured in the 75-run stand which lifted the hosts from 49-3.
But from 129-4, it was unlikely Havant would bat St Cross out of the game – though their 203-9 was almost enough !
Richard Jerry (3-42) and Sony Reynolds reduced St Cross to 45-4 before Jack Bransgrove (24) and Foyle put on 61 to take their reply to 106-5.
It ebbed and flowed after that, with Foyle reigning in his normal attacking instincts and batting a patient 89 balls for 47, an innings which proved so decisive.

Hampshire IIs have been involved in some thrilling Second XI Championship T20 South Group affairs in recent days, losing by four runs after a stunning run chase against Essex and off the penultimate ball to the full Sussex county side. They then beat Essex in a return match.
Results -
Essex 232-7 (Pepper 117) Hampshire 228-6 (Albert 63, Prest 51, Mumford 39, Kelly 32, Whiteley 29).
Hampshire 179-6 (Prest 80, Albert 36, Middleton 30) Sussex 180-5 (Rizwan 60, Bopara 35, Ward 24)
Hampshire 168 (Whiteley 73, Wood 36, Kelly 22) Essex 151 (Richards 43, Das 35, Kelly 3-31)
Hampshire host Middlesex on the Ageas Bowl Nursery Ground on Monday and play Sussex at Horsham on Tuesday, both 1400 starts.

Seven  local clubs are involved in Voneus national Village Cup county semi-final ties this Sunday afternoon (1300), as follows -
Chalke Valley v Winsley
Findon v Liphook & Ripsley​
​Rowledge v Blackheath
Sparsholt v Bramshaw
Ventnor v Calmore Sports

HAMPSHIRE ACADEMY boast the only unbeaten ECB Southern Premier Division unbeaten record after chasing down a Burridge total of 266 to win by four wickets with five balls to spare at Botley Road.  
This is arguably the youngest Academy side Hampshire have fielded and only three of the unchanged team - Tom Cheater, Jude Wright and Ethan Baker - that has recorded back-to-back wins over Bournemouth and Burridge are permanent Academy scholars. 
Back (from left): Tom Cheater, Sam Ruffell, Jude Wright, Ethan Martin, Dubs Wood, Ethan Baker. Kneeling: James Tomlinson, Louis Pritchard, Archie Fairfax-Ross, Oli Cordery, Oli Spink.

​ECB SOUTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE
RESULTS - ROUND 3 - MAY 21 2022

ECB PREMIER DIVISION

Bashley (Rydal) 154 (Goodey 34*, Breckon 4-27, Pack 3-27) Bournemouth 157-8 (Willoughby 36, Woodruff 36, Broderick 3-15, Digby 3-23). Bournemouth won by two wickets.
Burridge 262 (D Abreu 70, Collings-Wells 68 , Chowdhury 36, Stancliffe 30, Martin 3-50, Pritchard 3-50)          Hampshire Academy 266-6 (Cheater 79, Ruffell 66, Fairfax-Ross 45*, Martin 24). Hampshire Academy won by four wickets.
Havant 203-9 (Stone 74, Gadd 54) St Cross Symondians 205-9 (H Foyle 47, Beer 28*, Trussler 25, Bransgrove 24, Jerry 3-42). St Cross Symondians won by one wicket. 
Hook & Newnham Basics 143 (Robson 28, J Buckingham 25 Croom 4-42, Sen 3-24) South Wilts 145-2 (Stearman 67*, Rowe 50). South Wilts won by eight wickets.
Lymington 167 (Royan 46, Attrill 21, Rogers 21, Mugochi 4-32, Richrdson 3-17) Totton & Eling 145 (Mugochi 41*, Richardson 32, Bracey 27, Cox 4-37, Layman 3-18). Lymington won by 22 runs. 

DIVISION 1

Rowledge 146 (Littlewood 46, Appavoo 4-31) Alton 147-2 (Harris 83, Gonella 57*). Alton won by eight wickets.
Basingstoke & North Hants 236-9 (Belcher 43, A Neal 37, B Neal 36, Oates 25, Wimble 4-52, McArdle 3-49) Portsmouth 158 (Daini 34, Silva 34, Duggan 28, Neal 4-26). Basingstoke & North Hants won by 78 runs.   
Ventnor 259-4 (Blackman 118*, Snell 69, Whyte 35*) Liphook & Ripsley 260-7(Covey 65, Neave 65, Munt 45, Barnes 36*). Liphook & Ripsley won by three wickets. 
Sarisbury Athletic 212-8 (Feltham 69, Harris 44*, Franklin 37, Fisher 5-37) Calmore Sports 213-5 (Johns 78, Johnson 41). Calmore Sports won by five wickets. 
Sparsholt 218-8 (Frith 59, Ley 39, O Williams 32) New Milton New Milton 213-5 (Adams 69, Edwards 59*, Griffiths 29, Hall 24*). New Milton won by five wickets.

DIVISION 2

Andover 214-9 (Treagus 59, Ashman 46, Ayers 32, Crisp 4-46) Bashley (Rydal) II 157 (Morris 62*, Stroud 25, Ayers 4-26, Veettil 3-29). Andover won by 57 runs.
Fawley165 (Munir 52, B Streather 33, B Smith 3-33, Eley 3-51) Fair Oak 168-4 (Reed53*, Doubell 42*). Fair Oak won by six wickets.   
Hartley Wintney 155 (Querehi 50, Ross 30, Bone 28, Vaughan 5-58) Old Tauntonians & Romsey 156-0 (Vaughan 85*, King 58*). Old Tauntonians & Romsey won by ten wickets.
Hook & Newnham Basics 123 (Franklin 50, McGregor 3-16) Waterlooville 124-3 (A Reynolds52*, Broadhurst 32. Willcock 3-22). Waterlooville won by seven wickets.       
St Cross Symondians II 253-6 (Haworth 73, Hirst 61, Swann 27) Hambledon 257-5 (De Villiers 63*, Marshall 51, Glanfield 47, Pratt 37). Hambledon won by five wickets.  

DIVISION 3

Basingstoke & North Hants II 129 (C Coombs 48, Karippal 4-20, Chilcot 3-40) Gosport Borough 133-6 (James 44, Richards 27, Thankachan 4-18). Gosport Borough won by four wickets.
Havant II 207-6 (Feeney 70, Bernard 32*, Jones 31, Turk 27, Felstead 3-32) Trojans 185 (Agha 49, Le Bas 42*, M Hayward 3-32). Havant II won by 22 runs. 
Paultons 242-9 (Collins 55*, Longland 50, Pike 30) Langley Manor 233 (Purnell 52, Budd 47, Peters 37, Harris 27). Paultons won by nine runs. 
South Wilts 176 (R Pittman 55, Bolam 26, Habib 3-33) Purbrook 148 (Figgins 30, Dean 30, Langdown 3-11). South Wilts II won by 28 runs.
Sway 197-8 (Noble 56, Bernard 35, Goddard 3-34, Dunstan 3-40) Portsmouth & Southsea 199-9 (Davies 91*, Davidson 39, Grasham 4-43). Portsmouth & Southsea won by one wicket.

Ventnor look to make it three wins on the spin at Liphook & Ripsley, with whom they were promoted last season.
Fit again Ben Thane plays his first match of the season for Hook & Newnham Basics, who look to put their first Division 2 win  on the board and dent Waterlooville's unbeaten start at the KGV.
Tom May returns, while the Ville give a debut to 16-year old Stan, the latest of the cricketing Reynolds family to roll off the production line.  
Hook & Newnham Basics II: Thane, Bruin, Willcock, Light, Franklin, Neville, Doran, T May,  Moore, Watts, O May. 
Waterlooville: Birch D, Broadhurst G, Hillman S, Hudson J, Jackson C+, Jackson T, McCoy J, McGregor J, Reynolds A*, Reynolds S, Shephard A.
Fair Oak have former skiper Ed Kemp on duty at Fawley, where big hitting skipper Gregor McKenzie will test his poer hitting prowess against the deep Holbury boundary.
Fair Oak: Gregor Mckenzie, Sam Reed, Joe McNeeney, Ed Kemp, Nick Doubell, Harry Reed,  Asad Abbas, Rhys Oxley, Rich Featherstone, Ben Smith, Freddie Eley.
With two wins already under their belts, Bashley (Rydal) sconds have made an encouraging start, one which skipper Sean Read hopes to extend at London Road.
Andover: Hooper, Knight, Ashman, Treagus, Williams, Roberts, Nyumbu, Adams, Veettil, Jansen, Ayers.
Bashley (Rydal) II: Turner, Anstee, Anstee, Morris, Parsons, Stroud, Wilson, Harris, Crisp, Edmunds, Read.
Hartley Wintney look for a third win when OTs & Romsey, so far with success, go to the Cricket Field, while Hambledon are able to a batch of sixth form college students against St Cross Symondians II at the Green Jackets Ground.. 
Hambledon: George Marshall, Daniel McGovern, Henry Glanfield, Matthew De Villiers, Chris Pratt, Spencer Leclercq, Mark Butcher, Jonty Oliver, James Restall, George Harding, Ben Harding.​Teenager Will Tripcony is preparing himself for a daunting ECB Southern Premier League debut against his Clayesmore School coach when he makes his Bashley (Rydal) bow in the Bournemouth derby at the BCG tomorrow, 12.30.
Batting at three, the Dorset prospect is almost certain to face sports master Dan Conway (left) in an intriguing side how to the main event.
Bashley are without Hampshire teen Tom Prest and left-armer Bradley Currie, who is flying to the USA with Scotland for the next round of ICC qualifiers.
Besides having Conway back, Bournemouth are boosted by the return of Robbie Pack. They both missed last week's 300-run mauling by the Hampshire Academy.
Bashley (Rydal): Digby, Francis, Tripcony, Porter, Broderick, Gordon, Jacques, Saif, Goodey, Wilson,  Fletcher.
Bournemouth: C Park, Shrubsole, Webb, Willoughby, Woodruff, Freak, Hurley, Pack, Smith, Breckon, Conway.
Fresh from consecutive wins, the Academy are unchanged for their visit to Burridge, whose teenage batsman/wicketkeeper Nathan Schultz is just back from a flying visit to his Cape Toiwn home - and the Rondebosch school dance !
Burridge: De Abreu, Chowdhury, Collings-Wells, Hughes, Blake, Donald, Schultz, Stancliffe, O Creal, Abbas, White.
Academy: Tomlinson, Cheater, Wright, Wood, Ruffell, Fairfax-Ross, Martin, Baker, Pritchard, Spink, Cordery.
Havant are without Richard Hindley, but have Harry Gadd back from suspension for the home match with St Cross Symondians, who were beaten by Totton & Eling last weekend.
Havant: Walker, C Whitfield, Hopson, H Gadd, Stone, Mtzger, Reynolds, Jerry, F Gadd, Wilkinson, A Whitfield.
Champions South Wilts celebrate Paul Draper's 50th birthday when they entertain Hook & Newnham Basics, who have Josh Balcombe back in the spin department. 
Hook & Newnham Basics: Lockwood, Love, Robson, M Buckingham, Warner, J Buckingham, Balcombe, Murrell, Simpson, Gardner, Divecha.
Past championship winners from BAT Sports and Totton & Eling will enjoy an old boys reunion day on the sidelines of Lymington's visit to Southern Gardens.
Hampshire's Fletcha Middleton returns for Totton, but Lymington left-hander Terry Crabb is injured and Conor Moors working. 
Totton & Eling: S Bracey, J Taylor, Chapungu, Middleton, Griffiths, Stephens, J Bracey, Mugochi, Richardson, E Thaylor, Varney. 
Lymington: Rogers, Dhariwal, Wheble, Royan, Hartshorn, Cox, Attrill, Cowley, Layman, K Moors, Morgan.
Alton's meeting with Rowledge at the Jubilee is probably the first time the relatively close neighbours have met in a Southern Premier League match.
The two-mafch winning start Rowledge have made will come under close scrutiny as Alton will be anxious to boune back from last week's defeat by Sarisbury Athletic.
But Hampshire women's spin bowler Gemma Porter has broken her wrist. Richard Forbes faces a late fitness test for Rowledge, who are in Voneus Village Cup action against Blackheath in the Surrey county semi-final at Church Road on Sunday, 1pm. 
Alton: Harris, Gonella, MJ Heffernan (wk), Myers MP Heffernan, South, Blyghton, Crane, Walters, Salmon, Appavoo.
Rowledge: Ben Wish, Ricky Yates, Ian Metcalfe, Ollie Baker, Olly Ryman, Ryan Littlewood, Ash Harvey, Max Martin, Jake Wish, David Lloyd, Richard Forbes.
But the top match in Division 1 is arguably at Allotment Road, where Sarisbury Athletic for a third straight win against Calmore Sports.
Tom Mills is back behind the stumps and may open the batting for Sarisbury, while Ben Fisher takes a break from his studies at Oxford University and takes up an all-rounder's role for Calmore.
Like Rowledge, Calmore are also in Village Cup action on Sunday against Ventnor at Steephill. The island side has enjoyed two walkovers to far. 
Sarisbury Athletic: J Hill, Mills, Grierson, Floyd, Rawlins, Feltham, Franklin, Harris, Wright Degrussa, S Hill.
Calmore Sports: Bailey, Brewster, Bound, Carty, Fisher, Johns, Johnson, Lavelle, Manning, Perry, Wright.
A broken toe continues to keep Richard Warner out of the table topping Portsmouth side at May's Bounty, where there's speculation about a change in captaincy for Basingstoke & North Hants.
Portsmouth: Duggan, Christian, Mitchell, Marston, Wimble, Daini, S Warner, Woolf, Silva, McArdle, Rao.  
Winlesss pair Sparsholt and New Milton look to break their respective ducks at the Morman Edwards Ground, another Village Cup venue with Bramshaw visiting on the Sabbath.
New Milton: Watts, Edwards, Adams, L Beck, Griffiths, R Beck, Bartlett, Loader, Wooster, Tomkins, Hall.
Ventnor look to make it three wins on the spin at Liphook & Ripsley, with whom they were promoted last season.
                                                                                   Ben's back
Fit again Ben Thane plays his first match of the season for Hook & Newnham Basics, who look to put their first Division 2 win  on the board and dent Waterlooville's unbeaten start at the KGV.
Tom May returns, while the Ville give a debut to 16-year old Stan, the latest of the cricketing Reynolds family to roll off the production line.  
Hook & Newnham Basics II: Thane, Bruin, Willcock, Light, Franklin, Neville, Doran, T May,  Moore, Watts, O May. 
Waterlooville: Birch D, Broadhurst G, Hillman S, Hudson J, Jackson C+, Jackson T, McCoy J, McGregor J, Reynolds A*, Reynolds S, Shephard A.
Fair Oak have former skiper Ed Kemp on duty at Fawley, where big hitting skipper Gregor McKenzie will test his power hitting prowess against the deep Holbury boundary.
Fair Oak: Gregor Mckenzie, Sam Reed, Joe McNeeney, Ed Kemp, Nick Doubell, Harry Reed,  Asad Abbas, Rhys Oxley, Rich Featherstone, Ben Smith, Freddie Eley.
                                                                                 Success
With two wins already under their belts, Bashley (Rydal) sconds have made an encouraging start, one which skipper Sean Read hopes to extend at London Road.
Andover: Hooper, Knight, Ashman, Treagus, Williams, Roberts, Nyumbu, Adams, Veettil, Jansen, Ayers.
Bashley (Rydal) II: Turner, Anstee, Anstee, Morris, Parsons, Stroud, Wilson, Harris, Crisp, Edmunds, Read.
Hartley Wintney look for a third win when OTs & Romsey, so far with success, go to the Cricket Field, while Hambledon are able to a batch of sixth form college students against St Cross Symondians II at the Green Jackets Ground.. 
Hambledon: George Marshall, Daniel McGovern, Henry Glanfield, Matthew De Villiers, Chris Pratt, Spencer Leclercq, Mark Butcher, Jonty Oliver, James Restall, George Harding, Ben Harding.
Two of the four undefeated clubs in Division 3 go head to head at St James's Park, where Portsmouth & Southsea host promoted Sway.  P & S batsman Jack Davies is in peak form with a spate of unbeaten half-centuries.
Sway: Tim Noble (Capt), Neil Prince, Will Crossley, Alex Hall, Hugh Bernard, Oscar Marshall, David Steadman, Jon Grasham, Toby Ramwell, Steve How, Jon Waller.









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Hampshire Seniors got their ECB 50-plus County Championship challenge off to a winning start with an 11-run win over Devon at Fawley.
Hampshire climbed into the driver's seat with Charles Forward (69) and Darren McBride (34) easing them to 101-1, a position Stuart Shapland (30) improved to raise the total to 196-6 after 45 overs.
Jamie Donaldson, Chris Russell and Matt Vickery each took two wickets as Devon fell short at 185-8 (Rich Ayers 51).
But Hampshire Sixties were beaten by six wickets by Surrey at Valley End, despite posting 260-5, Gosport Borough talent John Adams making 108, Geoff Beale (53) and Dave Simpson (38). Surrey won with 14 balls to spare.

​Evergreen Gosport sportsman John Adams scored his maiden century for Hampshire Seniors in the National Sixties Championships in midweek - only to have his celebrations muted when he found he hadn't been picked for Borough's basement battle Southern Premier Division 3 duel with Basingstoke & North Hants this Saturday !
Always a lively character on and off the field, Adams had a distinct spring in his step after scoring 108 of the Seniors' 260-5 against Surrey at Valley End.
It transpired Hampshire's total wasn't enough as Surrey won by six wickets with 14 balls to spare - but that disappointment was nothing to compare with the one that came when Adams checked the incoming text messages on his mobile phone.
Gosport's team was listed, but the only Adams in the  Borough side was John's son Alex  - that despite him opening the batting against Sway on May 7 and making top score of 20.
Adams senior, meanwhile, will probably have to content himself with a nice ride through the New Forest .. to Mudeford for a Hampshire League Division 3 South match.
That's unless Borough selectors have a rethink ...

​Something must give when Portsmouth & Southsea and promoted Sway, two of the four unbeaten Southern Premier Division 3 sides, go head-to-head at St James's Park on Saturday, 1230.
P & S have so far beaten Havant II and Trojans, while Sway have dusted up Gosport Borough and Purbrook.
Shaun Briggs and the in-form Jack Davies shared an unbroken century stand as Portsmouth & Southsea maintained their winning start, Briggs striking his highest 1st XI score, just a six hit away from bringing up his century as his side romped to an eight-wicket over Trojans at Stoneham Lane.
And Davies is now averaging a remarkable 372 in league and friendly cricket this year after his fourth not out in a row.
Asked to chase 198 for victory, P & S were 39-2 when Briggs was joined  in the middle by Davies, who entered the game on the back of scores of 112 not out (v Purbrook, friendly), 101 not out (v Locks Heath, midweek league) and 50 not out (v Havant 2nds, league).
Davies proceeded to compile an unbeaten 73 this time, putting on an unbroken 161 as P & S - top of the embryonic fourth tier table - scorched to victory in the 33rd of a possible 50 overs. The last 81 of those 161 runs came in fewer than six overs, including 27 off one over. 
Just as well then the ultra reliable statsman Malcolm Clarke was Trojans notcher, though even his mathematical prowess was tested by the rate the runs were being scored !

​In contrast to Sway's two-win start, Purbrook have started the Division 3 season with back-to-back losses. They were bowled out for 142 and beaten by seven wickets by the New Forest club.
Alex Cox, whose 51 was his second SPL half-century, was one of only three Purbrook batters in double figures. Second highest was 37 extras, including 28 wides, something Sway will want to work on.
Sean Figgins departed first ball, dismissed by Jon Waller (4-26). Next man in, Brad Mengham, didn’t last much longer - also dismissed by Waller for a three-ball duck.
Sway, promoted from the Hampshire League in 2021, followed up their first-day win over Gosport by romping to a seven-wicket success. Purbrook reduced them to 11-2 but keeper Alex Hall struck 12 boundaries in his unbeaten 71 off 77 deliveries.

Teenage left-hander Matt Falconer (pictured) celebrated his maiden competitive century as South Wilts seconds pulled off a potentially important 27-run win over Gosport Borogh at Bemerton.
After the previous week's 280-run mauling at Langley Manor, it was essential Rob Pittman's side got an early Premier Division 3 win under their belts - and Falconer's hundred ensured they did just that.
The 16-year old, about to sit his GCSE's at Stonehenge School, struck an unbeaten 108, including ten boundaries, and shared an 86-run stand wth Henry Smith (34) as South Wilts built a strong platform.
Another useful 48-run partnership with Owain Phillips (21) plus handy contributions from the Pitman brothers pointed South Wilts to 229-5.
Nick Partridge (3-43) struck two early blows to put Gosport Borough firmly on the back foot.
Viv Richards (64) kept Gosport in the picture, but his dismissal at 144-6 - caught by Falconer- effectively ended any hopes they had.  
Greg Kitchin (33) and Scott Taylor (26 not out) got additional batting bonus points on the board before the visitors closed at 202-9.

Bashley (Rydal) II, Hambledon, Hartley Wintney and Waterlooville remain undefeated after the opening two rounds of matches in Southern Premier Division 2.
Spinner James Edmunds (left) celebrated his Bashley (Rydal) second team debut with a five-wicket haul which set up an emphatic victory over promoted Hook & Newnham Basics II, who await their first success.
His 5-23 return triggered a mass collapse by Hook, who crashed from 42-0 to 63-7, with Sean Read and the evergreen Neil Taylor taking two wickets each.
Rhodes Franklin (29), who spent the 2021 season at the BCG, and Rups Armstrong (21) gave Hook’s 119 an air of respectability and encouragement, especially when Bash openers James Turner and Charlie Anstee went cheaply.
But Harry Anstee, with an unbeaten 50, and Alex Turner (45) ended any faint hopes the visitors had.
Matt De Villiers continued his fine start to life in the Southern Premier League as Hambledon claimed a second successive second tier win.
The 21-year-old from Cape Town had been run out for 89 on debut in the previous week’s curtain-raising victory over Fawley and followed that up second top scoring with 67 in a 93-run success against Old Tauntonians & Romsey.
De Villiers helped opener Dan McGovern add 140 for the third wicket after George Marshall (11) and Henry Glanfield (4) had departed.
McGovern (78) was third out at 163 after hitting nine fours in a 109-ball innings, with De Villiers dismissed after a 86-ball knock containing six fours.
Chris Pratt, out for a duck against Fawley, struck nine boundaries in an almost run a ball 56 as Hambledon posted 268-5 - a total boosted by 20 wides.
When OTs replied, first change bowler Glanfield (3-26) made the breakthrough, removing openers Joe Vaughan and Charlie King.
Middle order pair Nick Newman (39) and Rhys Wathan (30) top scored before George Harding - the sixth and final Hambledon bowler used - dismissed both en route to 3-28.
Fleet Town soccer goalkeeper Ryan Bone (77) has joined Hartley Wintney and featured in two top order partnerships, initially with opener Jon Kerr (40) and then Love Island mega star Hugo Hammond (55) as Hartley piled up 259-9 against visitors Andover, enough to secure a 79-run win.
The Lions began comfortably enough, but only Charlie Ayers (51) made a real contribution before they fell to 180 all out, Dan Reynaldo taking 4-29.
St Cross Symondians II, relegated from the second tier in 2021, suffered a second straight loss when they went down by seven wickets to Fair Oak at Lapstone Park.
Ben Smith bagged 5-36 as St Cross were restricted to 182-9 (Michael Haworth 83) - instigating a collapse from 144-4 to 160-8.
The game was as good as over when skipper Gregor Mackenzie (81) and Sam Reed (66) added 117 for the second Fair Oak wicket.
Jon Hudson impressed with ball and bat as Waterlooville rattled off a second consecutive victory.
Opening the bowling, he took two early wickets as Fawley slumped to 7-3 in a Division 2 fixture at Rowlands Avenue.
He finished with 3-30 as the visitors were restricted to 155-8, Sufin Munir (476), Brendon Streather (35) and skipper Callum Earl, with 31 not out, top scoring.. 
Ville were tottering on 67-5, when Hudson shared a vital stand of 67 for the sixth wicket with skipper and opener Archie Reynolds (42).
When Reynolds was sixth out, Ville still required 39 for victory. But Sam Hillman (24 not out) helped Hudson knock off the runs without further alarm.

Portsmouth are one point ahead of Sarisbury Athletic and Ventnor and two clear of Rowledge after securing a second consecutive 'maximum' with a Ben Duggan inspired seven wicket win over promoted Liphook & Ripsley at St Helen's.
Duggan hit an unbeaten 96 and share an unbroken century partnership with Sujeeth Daini (51*) as Portsmouth eased past Liphook's 182 - a total built almost entirely around Harry Munt (70) and George Neave (57) who had the visitors well placed at 141-2 at one stage. They crumbled against ex-South Wilts seamer Steve Warner (4-26), Dan Wimble and Reuben McArdle. 
Portsmouth lost three cheap wickets on their way to 60, but a 16-boundary knock by Duggan and seven from stand-in gloveman Daini eased them home.

Ben Johns sent his Southern Premier League run tally for Calmore Sports past the 4,000 mark with an unbeaten 62 which secured a five-wicket victory over winless New Milton at Loperwood Park.
Remarkably, the chunky left-hand opener hasn't missed a single SPL game since announcing his arrival on the scene with a teenage 122 out out against  Tichborne Park back in May 2013.
Johns must have been worried that sequence might end prior to last weekend when he limped out of Calmore's Village Cup victory over Sarisbury Athletic, having suffered a groin injury in scoring his latest VC half-century.  
Just as at Lord's last September, Johns (alongside Shawn Johnson) had a key role to play as Calmore stuttered losing two early wickets as New Milton sought to defend 124.  But his 62 not out, aided by Johnson's 37, paved the way for victory, though Calmore contrived to lose three wickets for two runs before Johns got them across the line.
New Milton's collapse earlier in the day will take some beating. Coasting at 73-0 through Ryan Beck (42) and James Adams (28), they lost all ten wickets for the addition of 51 runs and were all out for 124. Ben Perry (3-36) kick started collapse. The later batsmen could barely lay a bat on the emerging Liam Carty (4-10) and Mark Lavelle (3-7). 

Nathan Feltham continued his impressive start to life at Sarisbury Athletic with an unbeaten Southern Premier Division 1 half-century against Alton.
The close season recruit from Paultons struck 64 not out off 52 balls as his side raced to a 215 victory target in the 39th over a Allotment Road.
Feltham dominated an unbroken 83-run stand for the sixth wicket with Rob Franklin, who scored just 16.  He has yet to be dismissed in the league in 2022, having compiled an undefeated 40 on debut in a Southern Premier League second tier victory against Basingstoke & North Hants.  He had also scored an unbeaten 46 against Hambledon in Sarisbury’s final pre-season friendly.
Feltham’s record shows he is a very handy player to have in the middle order. In his first innings of 2020 - after lockdown restrictions were lifted to allow recreational cricket to return - he smashed a whirlwind 137 against South Wilts 2nds. He only faced 73 balls, smashing 14 sixes and nine fours.
Ricky Rawlins (45) and skipper Josh Hill (33) had earlier got Sarisbury back on track after South African seamer Bash Walters (2-44) had reduced them to 50-3.
The fact Alton had recovered from 82-4 to post 213-8 was mainly down to former Hampshire Academy all-rounder Tom South, who finished unbeaten on 75 with five fours and three sixes in a 100-ball innings.
West Australian Ronan DeGrussa (2-23 off seven overs) had taken the first two wickets, Ryan Hale and Mark Heffernan, before Franklin claimed 3-23 off a tidy 10-over spell.
Basingstoke & North Hants suffered another batting calamity as they were shot out for 107 and comprehensively beaten by 96 runs by Southern Premier Division 1 rivals Rowledge at Church Road.
Unsettled by three early blows by the new ball by Richard Forbes (3-9), Basingstoke collapsed to 66-8 at one stage before Dean Nurse (22) and Jake Fincken (15) added 41 to give the score an air of respectability.
Earlier, the young Rowledge posted 203-9, with teenage trio Oli Ryman (56) taking time off from youth soccer trials with Chelsea to hit a second consecutive half-century following his 68 against Liphook & Ripsley in round one.   South African Ash-Lee Harvey 37) and Jonty Seeborn (29) also made their mark. Matt Donaldson, Brad Neal and Jake Fincken took two wickets each.

Sparsholt’s bowlers came under fire for the second consecutive match as Ventnor piled up a towering 294 to inflict a 43-run Southern Premier Division 1 defeat on the visitors’ at Steephill.
Sri Lankan left-hander Dineth Thimodya (pictured above) led the way for Ventnor with 151, but Jerry Frith responded with 115 to ensure Sparsholt totalled a creditable 251 in reply.
Portsmouth had run up 281-8 against Sparsholt a week earlier and it took the Trees’ 91 runs into the Ventnor innings before Tom Ley achieved a breakthrough.
Ley got a second wicket soon after, but for the best part of a hot afternoon Sparsholt’s fielders were searching for the ball as Thimodya launched eight sixes clean out of the ground, along with 18 fours.
Dan Sumner (4-25) eventually had the Sri Lankan caught, while Josh Williams picked up three late wickets to finish with 3-37.

St Cross Symondians have unveiled their brand new all signing, all dancing electronic scoreboard at the Green Jackets Ground - now all they need is for it to record a home competitive victory !
Neither of the St Cross sides has managed an SPL home win yet this season - but the club is confident a victory won't be long coming.
The five-figure cost of the new scoreboard was covered by a very generous donation by an existing St Cross playing member.

Ben Francis (right) justified his promotion from the seconds by top scoring with 79 as Bashley (Rydal) posted a formidable 269 and inflict a 100-run defeat on ECB Southern Premier Division rivals Hook & Newnham Basics at the KGV.
Francis made 93 in Bashley IIs round one win over SPL2 opponents Fawley and was called up to replace Tom Prest, who played in Hampshire's rain dogged drawn match with a Sri Lanka Development XI at the Ageas Bowl.
Francis certainly did all that was asked of him, sharing in a 100-opening stand with skipper Josh Digby (50) and later enjoying the spoils with Michael Porter (45) before later wickets fell in pursuit of runs, Aniket Divecha taking 3-56.
Hook's batting failed to fire and but for a late rally by Will Gardner (28) and Divecha (22) they would have been hard pressed to make 169-9.

Burridge lost three wickets for nine runs and were six down before they had reached 50, so chasing down Havant’s 224 was always going to a demanding ask for their lower order.
And so it proved, through the later batsmen did rally and put 164 on the board before Burridge conceded a 60-run defeat which gave Havant their first Premier Division win and left the visitors nursing a second consecutive defeat.
Burridge made a promising start, with top 2021 bowler Dan Stancliffe (6-46) removing openers Ben Walker and Charlie Whitfield, but Peter Hopson [left](63) dug in and with support from Stu Ransley (29) and George Metzger (37) consolidated Havant’s position.
Ransley had started the season in the seconds but won a call-up with Harry Gadd serving a one-game suspension for on-field disciplinary issues at The Ageas Bowl the previous weekend.
Sonny Reynolds provided late order impetus and some pre-tea fireworks with a breezy 37 off 23 deliveries, including three sixes, before he was run out by Sullivan White off the last ball of Havant’s 224 all out.
Richard Jerry (3-42) caused Burridge early problems removing Joe Collings-Wells and James Hughes in quick succession. Then Reynolds then had Burridge skipper Hilio De Abreu caught behind fourth ball as the visitors lurched into deep trouble.
The situation worsened as Burridge nosedived to 48-6 with a wicket apiece for Chris Stone and left-arm spinner Freddie Gadd while Will Donald (2) was run out by Richard Hindley.
Stone dismissed opener Azimunnoor Chowdhury with his first delivery after replacing the injured Nick Ward midway through the 11th over. The latter had only delivered three balls, the first of which had been a wide.
Chris Blake (33) and Dan Stancliffe (32) took the hosts into triple figures with a stand of 54 for the seventh wicket.  Ollie Creal - in his second SPL Premier game after joining from three tiers lower Gosport Borough - joint top scored with 33. But the innings was wrapped up on 164 when he became a third wicket for Jerry (3-42). 
Stancliffe had earlier taken his joint-best SPL bowling figures, and his third top flight six-wicket haul.

Bothwell Chapungu produced a stunning all-round performance, following up a half-century with a five-wicket haul, as promoted Totton & Eling stunned St Cross Symondians with a 44-run victory at the Green Jackets Ground.
It was Totton’s second consecutive ECB Southern Premier Division win, following on from their opening day three-wicket success against Burridge.
The outcome was in the balance with Harry Trussler and Jack Bransgrove going well and St Cross  121-3 chasing Totton’s 234-9, but the canny Chapungu dismissed them both to point the game in the visitors’ favour.
Chapungu (59) and former Berkshire Minor Counties cricketer Harry Stephens (51) set things up nicely for Totton with a century opening stand, which Conor Griffiths (26) and later James Taylor (43) enhanced.
St Cross Symondians hadn’t looked so clinical in the field as they were at South Wilts a week earlier and when Solent University all-rounder Jaidel Richardson (3-37) made early inroads they were on the back foot, and even more so when Charlie Gwynn fell cheaply.
But a 76-run stand between Harry Trussler (62) and Jack Bransgrove (59) put St Cross back in the game.
Cue Chapungu to reveal a second string to his bow – that of a wicket taking bowler !
The 34-year old Zimbabwean, who played Pro50 cricket in his native homeland for Rhinos as recently as February 2019, probably wouldn’t consider off-spin bowling to be his strongest suit.
But he had both Trussler and Bransgrove caught in the deep by Ethan Taylor to leave St Cross 159-5 and then took two more. The last five wickets fell for 31 runs, Brighton Mugochi taking 2-36.
The half-century and five-wicket haul has won Chapungu the Cricketer of the Week award for round two.

It’s been a year or two in the making, but South Wilts have at last been able to sign 20-year old Indian left-arm spin talent Aaryan Sen, from Mumbai.
And what an impression he made, taking five Lymington wickets on his ECB Southern Premier League debut for South Wilts, barely 48 hours after touching down at London Heathrow.
He took a wicket with his second ball and went on to clean bowl four of his five victims, finishing with 5-33 as Lymington were dismissed for 153 – a target South Wilts breezed past, with Tom Morton hitting 94 not out in a nine-wicket win.
It was Morton who arranged for the Mumbai university student to spend the summer in Salisbury, the club having kept the deal firmly under wraps until he physically arrived.
Morton was Director of Cricket at the Middlesex Premier League club Ealing when Sen (Left) came across to London on his school holidays.
“He was only 15 or so at the time, but a prodigious talent. He’d train at Ealing during the day and played a few games for the club,” Morton explained.
“We kept in touch as he wanted to come and spend a summer in England once he’d finished school, but the pandemic put a hold on all that as India was on the government’s travel ‘red list’.
“South Wilts have a powerful seam attack, but needed a spinner, so Sen coming to us was the perfect fix.” 
Lymington made a sound enough start after being put into bat at the town’s Sports Ground, but lost both openers at 37 (Ben Rogers 24) leaving Grayshott-based Ali Wheble (27) to glue the top order together.
He and James Hartshorn took Lymington to 97-3 when Sen struck with only his second ball, bowling the New Zealander and then on 125 having Wheble caught by Peter Rowe.
The Mumbai spin magician was too good for a weak Lymington side – they were without Northants all-rounder Gareth Berg, the injured Ryan Scott and the in-form Conor Moors from the previous week’s tie at Bashley (Rydal) – and, bowling with accuracy, triggered a collapse which saw the last five wickets fall for 18 runs.
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Dan Cox (23) was left high and dry, while Lymington benefitted from 38 extras, 27 of them wides, principally sent down by left-armers Josh Croom (3-10) and Tom Grant.
“Sen bowled really nicely,” enthused South Wilts skipper and wicketkeeper Ben Draper.
“An attacking left arm spinner is exactly what we are after and he is definitely that.
“He bowled straight, spinning it away from the right- hander. It was lovely to hear the fizz out of his hand.”
“He will be a great asset for South Wilts this summer complementing our seam attack. He’s a handy bat too, but didn’t get a chance to show off his skills against Lymington.”
Morton and Jack Stearman saw to that – it took South Wilts 26 overs to polish off the target, Morton hitting 17 fours in his 94 not out.
Left-hander Stearman (32) batted with more intent than against St Cross Symondians, but with Morton in full cry at the other end, he was not under the same pressure as a week earlier.
An emphatic eight-wicket win over West of England Premier League side Lansdown completed a successful mid-My weekend for South Wilts, who host Hook & Newnham Basics at Bemerton on Saturday, 1230.
With Grant taking 4-35, Josh Croom 3-7 and Matt Burton 2-22, Lansdown were rushed out for 88.
With rain threatening, Arthur Godsal smacked an unbeaten 43, while Sel showed his forte with four boundaries in making 23.  It was done and dusted inside 13 overs.