Fresh from making his Vitality T20 Bash debut the previous evening, England Under-19 all-rounder Tom Scriven led the Hampshire Academy to a six-wicket win over Alton at the Jubilee Ground.
Scriven bowled only one over in Hampshire’s Ageas Bowl victory over Gloucestershire, but played the lead role against the Brewers.
He struck in his very first over, trapping Alton opener Michael Heffernan leg before for a third ball duck.
He later hit an unbeaten 75 as the Academy comfortably chased down Alton’s 170 to win with nine overs to spare.
Alton rallied after that initial setback with Joe Paul (37) and Scott Myers (31) lifting their score to 105-2.
But a Premier League best spell of 4-28 by Waterlooville’s Sonny Reynolds, aided by some tight support bowling, saw Alton nosedive to 170 all out.
Scriven hit eight boundaries in his steady 75, sharing fruitful partnerships with Felix Organ (20) and Fletcha Middleton (21) as the Academy homed in on victory.

Don’t write us off yet !
That the message coming through loud and clear from Burridge, who maintained their ECB Southern Premier League title challenge with a four-wicket win over Bashley (Rydal).
They go into the last two games of the season – at home to Havant this Saturday and at Alton on September 1 – trailing leaders St Cross Symondians by four points.
But they are going well in the 50-over format – the win at the BCG being their fifth on the bounce in the ‘white ball’ game.
It was also Bashley’s fifth Premier League defeat on the spin.
Joe Collings-Wells (85) and Hilio De Abreu (72 not out), the Cape Town-based South African with the Portuguese passport, batted Burridge to success.
But the real damage was done by Hampshire Under-17 paceman Oli Southon (3-44), who blasted out Bashley’s top three batsmen for a combined total of five runs to leave the Forest side rocking at 14-3.
“Ollie has taken a wicket in his first over in the past four games,” pointed out Burridge skipper Will Steward.
“He loves his cricket and tries to bowl every ball as quick as he can.  That is not a bad thing at his age. He has produced some devastating spells this summer.”
With Hampshire’s Lewis McManus having pulled out of the starting line-up the previous evening, it was left to Bashley skipper Michael Porter (21) to initiate the repairs.
He departed at 44-4, leaving Bournemouth University student Sam Kennett (63) and 16-year old Alex Turner (65 not out) to dig in with an innings-saving 111-run partnership.
Together, they progressed the Bashley total to 155, where-upon three wickets fell for as many runs, leaving the hosts grateful for an eventual 202-8.
Burridge’s run chase didn’t run altogether smoothly, although in the end they won at a breeze, with almost ten overs to spare.
At 62, Sean Read (4-37) nipped out James Richards and the prolific Richard Lock.
But Collings-Wells, one of eight Premier Division batsmen with 500-plus runs to his credit this summer, was in fine form.
In typically aggressive style and with a six and 13 fours, he struck a splendid 85 which largely won the game for the visitors.
He added 92 with De Abreu, whose unbeaten 72 saw Burridge across the line after the lanky Read caused unease in the ranks with two more wickets.
Burridge won with 204-6 to keep the pressure on St Cross Symondians at the top.
Steward insists Burridge won’t give up the chase to catch St Cross.
“We know it’s a tall order, but you never say never,” he said.
“St Cross have two games they might expect to win, but so do we against decent opposition.
“Whatever happens, it has been a terrific season. We always knew we had a decent side and have done well.”

Two matches left and four points effectively separate St Cross Symondians from Burridge as the pair head towards the ECB Southern Premier League winning post.
St Cross knocked South Wilts out of the title race with a crushing 119-run victory at Bemerton, while Burridge continue to snap at their heels after trimming Bashley (Rydal) by four wickets.
The final fortnight of the season sees St Cross playing the bottom two, initially New Milton at the Green Jackets this Saturday, followed by a trip to Lymington.
Second placed Burridge host fading 2016/17 champions Havant before finishing at Alton.
St Cross made light of the absence of Hampshire’s Jimmy Adams, who had plundered 495 runs, including three centuries, in the previous four Premier Division matches.
They overcame a wobble – losing three wickets for 27 runs after being 106-1 – to post a daunting 285-5 before bowling South Wilts out for 166.
Former Hampshire batsman Jason Laney, content to play second team cricket at the Green Jackets Ground these days, underpinned the century start St Cross made.
He lost Tom Foyle at 33-1, but got his head down to graft out an important 59 (seven fours) and shared a decent second wicket partnership with Harry Came (24) which established the visitors’ position.
Laney, of course, played his junior cricket at Bemerton in the Roger Sillence era at the Wilton Road club.
Although South Wilts took three wickets to check Symondians’ progress at 133-4, their bowling was off-line (and often too short) as they struggled to control the swinging ball.
It led to wides galore – a staggering 43 of them out of an incredible 60 sundries they gifted the visitors – and some pretty dismal of out-cricket.
It summed up South Wilts’ overall performance. Poor.

St Cross duly cashed in, with Ed Ellis (48) and man-of-the-match Harry Foyle, with an unbeaten 65, putting together a century stand – and, at 237-5, taking the game completely out of South Wilts’ reach.
The last four overs saw another 48 runs added and St Cross halfway to what could prove a priceless result in the championship race.
Reflecting on Symondians’ recovery, skipper Tom Foyle said: “If we’d lost three quick wickets like that in previous years, we’d have collapsed.
“But there’s enormous confidence and self-belief in the side now and we’ve been posting some heavy scores as a result.”
South Wilts needed major contributions from opening pair Tom Morton and Kenya-bound Jack Mynott if they were going to put St Cross under any pressure.
But it didn’t happen.
Directly Morton holed out at mid-wicket, South Wilts were on the downward slope.
Jack Bransgrove (2-26) struck twice with the new ball to remove both openers either side of teenage left-hander Jack Stearman being run out.
With Harry Foyle (3-19) creating inroads, South Wilts dropped to 84-6 (Ben Draper 24) before James Hibberd (24) and Luke Evans (23) added some respectability to their eventual 166 all out (Raj Naik 2-38).

• Match day photographs by Roy Honeybone.

SOUTHERN PREMIER CRICKET LEAGUE
RESULTS: ROUND 16 – 18 AUGUST 2018

ECB PREMIER DIVISION

Alton 170 (Paul 37, Myers 31, Reynolds 4-28)
Hampshire Academy 172-4 (Scriven 75*, Organ 29)
Hampshire Academy won by six wickets.

Bashley (Rydal) 202-8 (A Turner 65*, Kennett 63, Southon 3-44)
Burridge 204-6 (Collings-Wells 85, De Abreu 72*)
Burridge won by four wickets.

Havant 95 (Prentice 31, Stokes 4-27, James 3-23)
Basingstoke & North Hants 96-8 (Makhanya 36, Hindley 4-13, Jolley 3-30)
Basingstoke & North Hants won by two wickets.

New Milton 161-9 (Arnold 71, R Beck 26, Scott 3-26)
Lymington 97 (Hand 24, Loader 3-18, Gargaro 3-25)
New Milton won by 64 runs.

St Cross Symondians 285-5 (H Foyle 65*, Extras 60, Laney 59, Ellis 48)
South Wilts 166 (Draper 24, Hibberd 24, Evans 23, H Foyle 3-19)
St Cross Symondians won by 119 runs.

DIVISION 1

Hartley Wintney 310-7 (Hyde 98, W Kerr 77, Teale 43*, Covey 3-41)
Liphook & Ripsley 278 (Ganguly 75, Martin 57, Pryce 44, Nicklin 37, Earney 4-37)
Hartley Wintney won by 32 runs.

Calmore Sports 227-7 (Manning 108, Johns 32)
Hook & Newnham Basics 228-7 (R Willcock 62, Love 56, J Buckingham 30*, Lavelle 4-51, West 3-49)
Hook & Newnham Basics won by three wickets.

Portsmouth 191-8 (J Marston 53, Dawson 40)
Andover 131 (Ballentine-Dikes 35, Kooner-Evans 5-29)
Portsmouth won by 60 runs.

Bournemouth 194-7 (J Price 57, C Park 34, West 33, J Hill 3-35)
Sarisbury Athletic 114 (Rawlins 28, Clutterbuck 5-36)
Bournemouth won by 80 runs.
Bournemouth are champions.

OTs & Romsey 160 (King 56, Woodhall 37, Wells 4-33)
Ventnor 165-7 (Cheek 50, Westhorpe 38, Bampton 4-29)
Ventnor won by three wickets.

DIVISION 2

Langley Manor 112 (Brown 31, Hands 3-22)
St Cross Symondians II 116-3 (Hawkins 44, Lunn 31)
St Cross Symondians II won by seven wickets.

Paultons 242-9 (Abel 72, Metcalfe 63)
Waterlooville 98 (Shephard 27, Richman 5-36, Lamb 3-22)
Paultons won by 144 runs.

Rowledge 185 (R Yates 99, Wijesinghe 3-34, Lightfoot 3-42)
Totton & Eling 96 (Chirmuusa 44, E Taylor 25, Keeley 3-22, Forbes 3-23)
Rowledge won by 89 runs.

Tichborne Park 72 (Primmer 23, Banks 5-26, Taylor 3-24)
Sparsholt 73-1 (Mitchard 33*, Frith 29*)
Sparsholt won by nine wickets
Sparsholt are champions

Trojans 213 (Le Bas 103, Truscott 37, Jolley 4-21, Perera 3-58)
Basingstoke & North Hants II 217-3 (Deadman 67*, Jolley 50, Froud 42, Dyer 33)
Basingstoke & North Hants II won by seven wickets.
Trojans are relegated.

DIVISION 3

Fair Oak 323-9 (McKenzie 141, South 45, Gwynn 39, Richards 4-26)
Gosport Borough 206-9 (King 55*, Wood 44, Larner 27, Gwynn 4-41, Abbas 3-17)
Fair Oak won by 117 runs.
Fair Oak are champions.

Hambledon 157 (Glanfield 52, Le Clerq 32, Smith 4-21, Freeman 3-25)
Fawley 160-3 (Munir 60*, Crossley 56*)
Fawley won by seven wickets.

Havant II 203-9 (G Ransley 68, S Ransley 62, Turrell 3-21, Benfield 3-23)
Portsmouth & Southsea 206-5 (Peach 42*, Benfield 34, Wigley 28*, Kanavan 28)
Portsmouth & Southsea  won by five wickets.

Lymington II 228-9 (Barton 90, Pearce 4-42)
South Wilts II 173 (Atkinson 47, S Pittman 36, Layman 3-40)
Lymington II won by 55 runs.

Purbrook 152-9 (Mengham 37, Dean 25, Grierson 3-23, P Morris 3-27)
Bashley (Rydal) II 143 (S Morris 30, Underwood 26, Dean 4-31, McCoy 3-24)
Purbrook won by nine runs.

Hampshire's REAL cricket Golden Oldies, the Over-70s, play Worcestershire in the 70-plus Cup quarter-finals at Cadnam on Monday, 1pm.  They won their south-east group, with ten victories from 14 matches.

Basingstoke & North Hants host the Under-17 Kerry Cup Finals Day at May’s Bounty on Thursday (August 23).
The semi-finals at 10.30 feature Portsmouth & Southsea v St Cross Symondians on the main square, with Hook & Newnham Basics facing South Wilts on the adjoining Castle Field.   The final is at 2.30pm.

Mark Boyns of www.openingupcricket.com – a website which promotes mental well-being & suicide prevention through cricket - talks to South Wilts young left-hand opening batsman Tom Cowley about his life as a groundsman at Hampshire’s Ageas Bowl.

Cricketers, amateur or professional, can live by the weather. The sound or sight of rain on the morning of the game can cause despondency but waking up to blue skies and sunshine sets up the day ahead to be a good one. Then, arriving at a ground- home or away- seeing it look glorious really whets the appetite for what is to come.
We all play at venues we love, some we don't. There's many reasons for our judgements but the playing area itself is a key factor. Whilst there's not much that can be done to alter some surroundings of ground- one place can just happen to look nice because there's a castle overlooking it whilst another suffers from being adjacent to a busy A road- what is inside the boundary rope is impacted by the  hours put in by those responsible for its upkeep.
The pride of being the curator, to borrow the Australian term for the role, of the ground is one that isn't just applicable at clubs. Those charged with preparing county and international grounds feel exactly the same. For South Wilts' Tom Cowley, groundsman at Hampshire's Ageas Bowl, there is great pleasure in seeing elite players make the best use of what he has prepared.
"It’s nice to sit back and watch an England game after weeks of hard work and to hear comments on social media and from players about how good the ground looks. It is very pleasing and rewarding to hear"
He says when asked about what is most satisfying in the role. What he identifies as the biggest challenge will ring true for his counterparts at any level-  the weather.
"The start of this year we had covers all over the ground trying to keep stuff dry and keep the snow off. Recently we've had to keep moisture in everything as it’s so hot so we’re watering constantly to try and combat the weather conditions."
The benefits to mental health of exercise and time outdoors, getting regular vitamin D from sunshine, have the potential to be challenged by the pressures of the job and Tom recognises this.
"From my experience there is quite a bit that could go wrong and if it does it can affect the game being played as well as what people may think of a ground which has an international reputation."
However his outlook is focused on dealing with what comes.
"Any professional sports grounds team will have its own battles with what coaches want and how pitches perform"
Says Tom, something which reveals the delicate balance between the various voices and opinions that vie for attention in getting what they want.
It's nothing new for Tom though, ever since his youngest days he had the preparation of wickets in his mind.
"It all started when I was very young and I’d play cricket in the garden, but I wasn't just happy putting the stumps in and playing. I wanted a cut wicket crease marked and stripes on the rest of the garden. Then through my summer holidays around the age of 12 I’d go to work with my dad (Tim) who used to be the groundsman at South Wilts. I’d spend hours cutting the outfields making all different sorts of patterns. Then as I grew older I started taking on more responsibility at South Wilts then, all of a sudden, I was running the ground side of things and it all snowballed from there to where I am now at the Ageas Bowl."
Most of what goes on is rarely seen, similar to the club stalwarts who spend their spare time sitting on rollers or applying loam to squares. His own work in Southampton is busy and keeps him constantly active.
"On a normal day we will start at 8am and finish at 5pm. Some days we will work on later to cover the cricket being played and there is a few weekends, particularly in the Summer, when we are working either prepping for games or covering games being played.
We have two grounds and three net blocks so there is always something going on. The outfields will be cut every other day. We will be preparing pitches for upcoming games. We will also be repairing pitches once they are finished with so we can use them again later in the season. We pay a huge amount of attention to detail in everything we do so that when it all comes together the ground looks amazing."
                                                                                 Get the water on
All this time at cricket's coalface has equipped him with plenty of knowledge to pass on. For those preparing a wicket or ground for the first time he focuses on some basics.
"My main bit of advice would be get plenty of water into it at the start then roll it for 10-20 minutes a day and slowly take the grass out by brushing and cutting and taking the mower height down slowly every couple of days."
He also has some tips to pass on to player wanting to spot how a wicket might play just from the look of it. Aside from a green one being conducive to seam movement, he identifies the flattest wickets as "normally having a white look about it and feel very hard."
His 'office' is within a stadium that has all the modern features of international venues, looking particularly impressive under the lights during a T20 game. We all give ourselves time to daydream about our ideal circumstances and when asked "If you could work on any ground in the world, which would it be?" there are some interesting answers.
"I love Newlands in Cape Town with Table Mountain over looking the ground.... The MCG stands out but there is more than just cricket there so I’m not sure how I’d find preparing that for AFL."
The number one? "I’d have to say Lords would be the place I’d love to work. It’s the home of cricket and every player wants to play there, and for me to work there would be a dream come true."
Hearing Tom talk on the work of professional ground staff informs not only about the pace and demands of the post but also how it is more a vocation than a job. The gratification of the process, from start to finish, must be significant. Being close to nature, sport and working towards meaningful goals are all features of this area of life that can also be replicated by a few hours help at a local club. Yet another way cricket can contribute to positive mental health.

St Cross Symondians teenage prospect Alex Ayers clocked up a ton – a matter of hours after passing his driving test, first time naturally …
But he wasn’t behind the wheel of his mother’s car speeding around the narrow leafy lanes of Amport, where the cricketing Ayers family live : instead with bat in hand in an ECB Under-17 county match on the Isle of Wight.
Alex was on the car ferry headed for the island when he received the worrying news that the IWCB had lost four wickets for only nine runs after Berkshire had posted a daunting 446-9.
Ayers took his foot off the brake, pressed the accelerator pedal, revved up – and scorched to 135 (21 fours) leading the island to 257 all out. KES all-rounder Jovan Dhariwal (56) shared a 124-run partnership with him.
It was all in a day’s work for Ayers, who has an equally important mission at Bemerton tomorrow, as St Cross Symondians strive to beat South Wilts (and edge out Burridge) in the three-horse race for the Premier Division title.

It’s potentially do or die time for South Wilts and leaders St Cross Symondians, whose head-to-head shoot-out at Bemerton is set to have a major bearing on the outcome of the ECB Southern Premier League title race.
St Cross take a slender four-point lead across Pepperbox Hill, but do so without the prolific Jimmy Adams and his Hampshire team-mate Ian Holland.
Influential all-rounder Matt Stokes, who captained Southampton Solent University this season, is playing (alongside Sarisbury Athletic’s Tom Nightingale) for his native Guernsey against Jersey in the annual Channel Islands Inter-insular showdown.
St Cross knew all along that Adams wouldn’t be available – he will start Hampshire’s County Championship match against Nottinghamshire at the Ageas Bowl – and are certain to miss his runs.
The Hampshire left-hander has scored three centuries in a 425-run glut in Symondians’ last three Premier League games.
The Winchester club call up former Hampshire opener Jason Laney, who ironically played at South Wilts as a colt, and veteran Raj Naik.
Tom Cowley (injured back) and Will Wade are absentees from the home dressing room, while fledgling Wiltshire Under-17 batsman Jack Stearman continues in the top five.
James Hayward continues to sit it out on the boundary, having yet to recover from the hand he broke six weeks ago.
South Wilts: Morton, Mynott, Stearman, Draper, Cranch, Godsal, Hibberd, Weld, Evans, Murray, Warner
St Cross Symondians: T Foyle, Laney, Came, Mead, Ellis, H Foyle, Naik, Bransgrove, Ayres, Merluk, Mitchell.
Watching the outcome with interest will be Burridge, who are hovering dangerously in third place, with a 100 per cent record in white ball cricket this term.
They visit Bashley (Rydal), who have lost their last four Premier Division matches.
Hampshire’s Lewis McManus is named in the Bashley team for his second appearance of the season.
Bashley (Rydal): Thurgood, Jacques, McManus, Porter, Holly, Kennett, A. Turner, J. Turner, Currie, Nash, Read.
The Hampshire Academy, who visit Alton, have three youngsters – Scott Currie, Fletcha Middleton and George Pardoe – in the West selection for next week’s ECB Under-17s Supa4’s at Loughborough.
Currie’s elder brother Bradley, now fit and playing again after a nasty stomach virus, played for the West in last season’s ECB tournament.
Academy: Organ, Metzger, Middleton, Scriven, Currie, Pardoe, Prest, Abass, Dale,  Searle, Reynolds.
Popular South African all-rounder Sibz Makahanya says his Basingstoke & North Hants farewells at Havant.
A popular figure at May’s Bounty this summer, Makahanya is returning for pre-season training with the Dolphins in Durban.
Dan Belcher replaces groundsman Chris Jolley, who plays in the second team.
Basingstoke & North Hants: Thane, Belcher, Williamson, Makahanya, Harsham, Albert, Stokes, Griffiths, Benge, Thankachan, James. 
After 13 successive defeats, New Milton would dearly love to beat arch New Forest rivals Lymington at Fernhill.
New Milton: G Watts, R Hussey, T Arnold, R Beck, J Haggaty, J Adams, N Gargaro, O Wilmore, C Golding, D Loader, J Arnold.

Sarisbury Athletic are set to hand veteran left-armer Dan Goldstraw his first outing of the season in tomorrow’s Southern Premier League Division 1 decider against Bournemouth at Allotment Road.
To all intents and purposes, Goldstraw (pictured above by Roy Honeybone) stopped playing regularly after becoming the third bowler to notch 500 SPL wickets.
But the 507-scalp man makes the occasional appearance – it’s his first game for two seasons - and is expected to join the Sarisbury attack for the ‘must win’ visit of Chris Park’s Lions.
It’s a match Sarisbury must win if they are to trim Bournemouth’s 26-point lead at the top of the table.
If Bournemouth win at Allotment Road – where Tom Webb returns and former Dorset Under-17 batsman Jamie Price makes his first appearance – they will be in an unassailable position at the top.
Sarisbury Athletic: Rawlins, Clouting, Mills, Journeaux, J Hill, Bond, Wright, Haynes, Goldstraw, Kitcher, S Hill.
Bournemouth: C Park, West, N Park, Webb, Price, Denham, Hurley, Pack, Warner, Conway, Clutterbuck.
OTs & Romsey head off to the Isle of Wight to Ventnor’s scenic Steephill bowl minus skipper Jody Brown, but virtually free of the threat of relegation.
A convincing eight-wicket win over Hartley Wintney made them all but mathematically safe, but plunged near rivals Calmore Sports into trouble.
OTs & Romsey: Mitchell-Lee, Vaughan, Woodhall, Tulk, R Newman, Tognarelli, King, P Newman, Mogg, J Trodd, Bampton.
If Village Cup Lord’s finalists Liphook & Ripsley win at all but relegated Hartley Wintney, the losers of the Hook & Newnham Basics-Calmore Sports duel at the KGV will be in serious relegation trouble.
Hook are boosted by the return of Josh Buckingham after a broken hand.
Calmore Sports: Lavelle, Cook, Wright, Johns, Manning, Perry, Proudley, West, Woodhall, Vann, Newton.
Mid-table Andover, still glancing anxiously over their shoulders, face a tough test against Portsmouth at St Helen’s, where Ali Hooper slips into the run scoring shoes of the prolific Will Arnold.
Andover: M Hooper, Hart, Treagus, A Hooper, Ayers, Romer-Lee, Ballantine-Dykes, Knight, Adams, Jansen.
 

It’s crunch time for Tichborne Park and Totton & Eling as to who accompanies Trojans into Southern Premier League Division 3 next season.
The pair are battling neck and neck to avoid the drop, with Totton going into their round 16 match against promotion chasing Rowledge with an eight point lead over Tichborne Park.
The Alresford village club has a similar difficult task as champions designate Sparsholt come looking to clinch the title.  With Tom Allam scoring one of his three centuries of the season, Tichborne gave Sparsholt a real run for their money at Locks Lane earlier in the season.
Nayan Phagami is absent, so Sparsholt bring in former Guernsey batsman Tom Kimber.
Sparsholt: Frith, Haworth, Mitchard, O’Brien, Banks, Taylor, Doran, Doubell, Kimber, Weir, Sankey.
Rowledge are without all rounders Steve Martin and Sam Plater, but Ricky Yates and Sam Moseley return at Southern Gardens.
Rowledge: J Wish, C Yates Jnr, R Yates, Moseley, Lloyd, Wilson, Randall, Baker, Swan, Forbes, Keeley.
All but relegated Trojans, beaten by ten wickets in 38 balls by Tichborne Park last week, go to May’s Bounty where, by public demand, local  Basingstoke & North Hants all-rounder Joe Oates (above) will be giving a catch-coach MasterClass. 
First team calls have weakened St Cross Symondians II against Langley Manor, for whom young Elliot Ponting has scored three 70-plus knocks in the past month.   Paultons host Waterlooville in the other match.

Fair Oak will clinch the Southern Premier League Division 3 championship if they beat Gosport Borough at Lapstone Park.
Eighteen points will secure the crown for Oaks, who have won 12 of the 13 games they’ve played this season, and give young Academy all-rounder Tom South (above) his debut.
But for Gosport it’s an entirely different ball game as they are among the five clubs (half the division) fighting a tense relegation battle.  They lie just outside the two-down drop zone, five-points ahead of Fawley, but with a crunch match with basement side Lymington I on the agenda seven days later.
Any of the bottom five from Portsmouth & Southsea down could find themselves playing Hampshire League cricket in 2019 if results don’t go their way in the final three weeks of the season.
Last season’s County 1 champions P & S host relegation rivals Havant II (who beat Gosport Borough last week) and will be safe with a home win at St James's Park. Fawley (ninth) visit mid-table Hambledon.
Fawley: C Earl, K Earl, A Parratt, B Parratt, Smith, Freeman, K Sharma, K Sharma, Munir, Bryers, Crossley. 
Rock bottom Lymington II expect to be unchanged at home to South Wilts II who lie third, two points behind Purbrook, who face a testing visit from Bashley (Rydal) II, the other side in the four-cornered promotion scrap.
Lymington: Kelly, Agha, Barton, Whyte, Attrill, Layman, Cox, Willis, Smith, Woodward, McCurdy.
South Wilts II: Berzins, Lloyd, Anderson-Emm, Prescott, Pearce, R Pittman, S Pittman, Fisher, J Wade, Atkinson, Burton.
Personnel changes at first team level indicate Bashley (Rydal) II will send a stronger than normal side to second placed Purbrook, where they need to win go bolster their own chances of finishing runners-up behind champions designate Fair Oak.
Bashley (Rydal) II: R Grierson, P Lewis, J Underwood, Z Millar, P Morris, C Vaughan, M Wilson, S Morris, S Ridley, J Eede, G Harris.
 
 
 

Basingstoke & North Hants teen Josh May (left) and promising Lymington all-rounder Josh Royan (right) shared an unbroken 136-run partnership in Hampshire Under-15s ECB Cup quarter-final tie with Middlesex.
But despite their gallant efforts, Hampshire were well beaten by six wickets with 14 balls to spare.
The pair had to pick up the pieces after Hampshire dropped to 104-5 after being put into bat on a damp East Woodhay surface.
Royan hit a six and 12 fours in his unbeaten 98, unfortunately losing the strike as his homed in on a century, while May struck 60 not out, including one lofted drive for six over extra-cover.
Atharua Prasad led Middlesex to victory with an unbeaten 90.

Tom Morton plundered an unbeaten 91 and took over the mantle of leading Southern Premier League run scorer as South Wilts thrashed relegated New Milton by eight wickets at Fernhill.
As South Wilts chased down a rain trimmed 145-run target, so Morton took his SPL run tally for the season to 712, leaving weather marooned Academy captain Felix Organ (649) in his wake.
The win inched South Wilts to within three points of leaders St Cross Symondians, whose visit to Bemerton on Saturday will be a probable make or break affair for both sides.
Morton, who hit 13 fours and two sixes in his seventh fifty-plus score of the summer, led the way as South Wilts romped home with 11 overs to spare.
They initially bowled their winless and relegated hosts out for 176, New Milton losing opener James Adams before Raff Hussey biffed five boundaries in a breezy 25.
Hussey’s departure as the second of three victims for James Hibberd (3-13) triggered a mini-collapse which saw Milton lose three wickets for one run.
Newly wed Lee Beck (42) held things together as the Green & Golds plunged to 110-8 before the tail began to wag.
Nick Gargaro and Dan Loader started the ball rolling before recently appointed skipper George Watts cracked two sixes and four boundaries in a valiant 40, adding 41 for the tenth wicket with Josh Arnold before Arthur Godsal (3-26) ended the fight-back.
Rain trimmed South Wilts’ target to 145 off 38 overs – a task they completed without overdue fuss.
Jack Mynott (21) made half the 42-run opening stand with Morton who, sensing the need to get things done and dusted with more threatening weather about, put bat to ball.
He lost Will Wade cheaply, but had teenage debutant Jack Stearman (20 not out) for company as he fired South Wilts comfortably to their victory target.

Hampshire left-hander Jimmy Adams hit his third century in four matches as St Cross Symondians continued to set the pace at the top of the ECB Southern Premier League with a rain adjusted 76-run win over Alton at the Green Jackets.
He hit a highest yet 144 (to take his four-match run tally to 425) as St Cross ran up a thumping 312-7 off 50 overs.
A succession of rain interruptions led to Alton being asked to chase 256 off 41 overs.
They overcame a disastrous start to post 180-6, with South Cross bowling with the proverbial bar of soap in the gathering gloom.
But the story could have been so different.
Alton had Tom Foyle back in the pavilion, bowled by Ben Mortimer for a third ball duck.
Soon after, teenager Dan Scott misjudged and then spilled a fairly regulation boundary catch when Adams had made only three.
The former Hampshire captain made the Brewers pay dearly, cracking three sixes and 15 fours in the dank, drizzly conditions.
He shared a massive 199-run second wicket partnership with Harry Came (77) before young Scott (3-44) redeemed himself with three wickets in quick succession.
But with Ed Ellis cracking a quick fire 48, St Cross marched on to an unassailable 312-7.
Alton’s reply could hard have begun in a more disastrous fashion.
Hampshire’s Ian Holland and Jack Bransgrove had Alton rocking at 9-3 and then 16-4 before the innings began to take any shape.
Scott Myers, with a nicely struck 65, and Mark Heffernan (40) rescued the situation before Ben Mortimer made another 40 to take the Brewers’ final score to 180-6 in the gloom.

Bashley (Rydal) stumbled to a fourth successive ECB Southern Premier League defeat when a Mitchell Stokes inspired Basingstoke & North Hants beat them by 25 runs in a run affected affair at May’s Bounty.
Stokes took 5-39 – his first five-wicket haul for four seasons – as Bashley slipped to 207-9, having been asked to chase a rain adjusted 233 off 42 overs.
Basingstoke initially posted 277-9 off their full 50-over allocation, having come flying out of the blocks on the back of Chris Jolley’s pinch-hit 40 off 21 balls, which contained two sixes and six fours.
It gave Basingstoke the perfect launch pad from which to post their largest total of the season.
Ben Thane (40) moved Basingstoke into treble figures, but losing three wickets for 19 runs got Bashley back into the game.
Teenager left-arm quick Brad Currie removed former South Africa Under-19 captain Sibz Makhanya as he returned to the SPL scene after a seven-match absence due to a stomach ailment.
From 145-4, Basingstoke were forced to rebuild – but teenage duo Toby Albert (62) and Max Harsham (20) did the trick a treat, steering the Bountymen to 277-9 as Sean Read (4-52) returned to the attack to finish with his best SPL figures.
Unfavourable weather conditions left Bashley to chase 207 in 42 overs – a situation that appeared promising after Michael Porter (63) had built on a steady 55-run start by Tom Jacques (28) and Neil Thurgood (25) and taken the visitors’ reply to 144-3.
But Stokes began to make inroads, taking out the entire Bashley middle-order as five wickets fell for 26 runs and any hope of victory disappeared.
Teenager James Turner hit 21 not out to get Bashley an extra batting bonus point.

Sarisbury Athletic’s prospects of nabbing the Southern Premier League Division One title from Bournemouth’s grasp depend entirely on them beating the perennial leaders in Saturday’s Allotment Road shoot-out.
While Bournemouth were marooned by Friday’s storm which swamped their Chapel Gate ground and led to the scheduled home match with Portsmouth being cancelled, Sarisbury grabbed a vital four-wicket win at Hook & Newnham Basics.
The lead pair will go into Saturday’s crunch match with Sarisbury trailing Bournemouth (252) by 26 points. 
A victory would create a mad scramble for the finish line, with Bournemouth hosting Hook & Newnham Basics and visiting Calmore Sports, and Sarisbury needing to get more points off their final matches with Andover and OTs & Romsey.
Channel Islander Tom Nightingale was Sarisbury’s match winner at the KGV, where the visitors chased down Hook’s 144 in 29 overs.
Opening pair Josh Hill (3-30) and Jordan Wright (3-34) called the tune as Hook wobbled at 32-4 before Matt Love (59) and Rhodes Franklin (40) put together an 82-run stand.
Tom Kitcher (4-25) nipped out the pair before Hook fell to 144 all out, four batsmen bagging ducks and eight players contributing a mere ten runs of the bat between them.
Shane Brewer (2-44) removed Sarisbury opening pair Ricky Rawlins (16) and Sam Floyd (18) and Richie Willcock accounted for third man Dan Clouting.
But Nightingale then took centre stage with a match winning innings, hitting two sixes and 11 fours in his unbeaten 78, even if young Will Gardner took 3-37 on debut.
Hook’s defeat has the alarm bells ringing at the KGV, because if Liphook & Ripsley win at Hartley Wintney on Saturday, either they or 2017 SPL1 champions Calmore Sports could be in the relegation zone going into the last two weeks of the season.
Andover’s scheduled home game with Ventnor was called off.

Liphook & Ripsley’s success in reaching the Lord’s final of the National Village Cup rubbed off on their previously poor Southern Premier League form – the rain adjusted 55-run victory over Calmore Sports at Loperwood Park bringing their first win points for six weeks.
With Suman Ganguly (left) hitting a century, Liphook posted a handsome 290-8 before restricting Calmore (chasing 194 off 26 overs) to 139-4 in near pitch darkness.
Calmore probably set a rather bizarre SPL record for the length of time spent in the field on an unpleasant wet afternoon.
“We started at 12.30 and we went back on the field at 5.45pm for the last eight overs of Liphook’s innings,” explained Calmore captain Mark Lavelle.
“The cut-off time for the game to be rained off was two minutes later, at 5.47pm.”
Calmore did eventually glean nine handy points out of a reduced 26-over affair, whereas the 19 Liphook took was absolutely crucial in their bid to stay up.
Harry Munt and Suman Ganguly shared in a splendid third-wicket double-century partnership which set up Liphook & Ripsley’s vital victory over Calmore at Loperwood Park.
Put into bat, Liphook initially benefitted from a steady opening partnership of 47 between Ryan Covey (25) and Gabe Broadhurst, who pulled a hamstring just before getting out.
They were followed by Harry Munt, whose especially strong on-driving propelled him to 87 in 99 balls. 
Partner in plunder, Ganguly, with a typically explosive 111 off 88 balls, struck 14 hard hitting fours and two sixes. 
The pair were chiefly responsible for the dispiriting target for Calmore of 290-8.
Only Paul Proudley (4-39) and Mark Lavelle (3-49), who reduced Liphook from 264-2, prevented even greater damage.
However, the game was seriously disrupted by showers which threatened to rob the visitors of invaluable winning points.
Calmore were finally set 194 in just 26 overs. In spite of a positive 48 from left hander Ben Johns and skipper Lavelle’s 31 not out, and batting in the near dark the target proved just too great, their innings finishing on 139-4.
Liphook’s long overdue win closes the gap between themselves and third-from-bottom Hook & Newnham Basics to 19 points, whereas Calmore (who go to Hook on Saturday) are only one point better off. 

A crushing eight-wicket win over Hartley Wintney has lifted Old Tauntonians & Romsey out of the Southern Premier League Division 1 danger zone – and left their North Hampshire opponents staring relegation in the face.
Whereas OTs now lie in fifth place, Hartley are anchored to the basement, effectively 56 points adrift with only 66 points (three games) left to play for.
Ironically, the pair fought out a thrilling SPL2 championship battle last season, OTs taking the bounty by virtue of a one-run win in the very last game of the season. Now Hartley Wintney are set for an immediate return to Division 2 cricket in 2019.
They never recovered after losing teenage captain Will Kerr to Danny Mogg (2-33) for an early duck and were soon reeling at 36-4 after a three-wicket blast from emerging left-armer James Trodd (3-20).
Jamie Teale got them up to 61 before Jodey Brown (3-16) and Matt Bampton (2-6) sent six wickets tumbling for 16 runs and Hartley Wintney to 77-9.
Hampshire Under-15 all-rounder Harry Broderick got Hartley up to 97 all out, but such a meagre total was never likely to test OTs, who polished off the target inside 17 overs.
Elliott Mitchell-Lee led the way with 47 not out and completed the formalities alongside Harry Tulk (20).
OTs win has got local rivals Calmore Sports looking anxiously over their shoulders – last year’s Division 1 winners being only 20 points ahead of second-from-bottom Liphook & Ripsley after losing by 55 runs to the Lord’s Village Cup finalists.

• Dave Vokes has snapped a plethora of quality action photographs of this match which can be viewed on his website www.lmiphotography.co.uk/Cricket
  

Teenage Langley Manor all-rounder Elliott Ponting (left) made his third 70-plus score in four Southern Premier League matches, hitting an unbeaten 75 at Rowledge.
Despite his efforts, promotion chasing Rowledge clung on by three runs as the Manor finished at 181-6, chasing their hosts' 184 all out.
Ben Morgan (3-13) and Luke Mooney (3-41) shared six of the wickets as Rowledge recovered from an indifferent start to made 184 (Chris Yates 48),
while Ponting had to carry the baton after the visitors had slipped to 104-5.
Steve Harris (22) and Mooney provided support, but Ponting couldn't quite get Langley Manor over the line.
The narrow three-run win leaves Rowledge 23 points clear of St Cross Symondians II, who come to the village on Saturday week, August 25.
Rowledge’s two other games are against relegation threatened Totton & Eling and Trojans while St Cross Symondians II - rained off at Waterlooville, with the hosts 32-0 – entertain Langley Manor and Paultons.

A reunion of the New Milton side of 1973-75 will take place at Fernhill on Saturday (18th August) to watch the New Milton v Lymington ECB Southern Premier Cricket League Premier Division derby, which starts at 12.30pm.
They are hoping that players such as John Wolfe ( now Hampshire Cricket Board Chairman) alongside Paul Broomfield, Ian Bowie, Billy Paramore, Colin Partridge, Mike Lewis and Steve Moore will be there.
Ex Hampshire & England fast bowler David ‘Butch’ White, Dave Jose, Peter Watts, John Shippey and Dave Billington have all passed on.
New Milton’s Golden era saw the now Green & Golds win the 1973 and 1974 Hampshire Cricket League championship team (they were also runners up in 1975) , with the team winners of the New Forest CCA Sydney Wyatt KO in those three seasons. Milton won the County Ground KO at Northlands Road in 1976.

Sparsholt need a solitary point from Saturday’s visit to Tichborne Park and 25 from the last three matches to win the Southern Premier League Division 2 title outright.
But they weren’t in the best place at Locks Lane, defending 169 and Paultons’ 24-1 when play was abandoned.
Opening pair Jerry Frith (38) and Michael Haworth (21) got Sparsholt off to a bright start, but Dave Banks (39) and Stuart Taylor (30) had to rebuild things after Rob Pike (4-29) had broken through.
But 90-3 became 163-5 before the last five Sparsholt wickets fell for six runs – Josh Metcalfe taking 3-10.
Pike’s fine day ended when he was bowled by Banks for a duck, but Paultons’ prospects of a fourth straight win disappeared when the rain came down.
Neighbours Totton & Eling remain on the lip of the drop zone after a second consecutive win, a four-wicket success against visiting Basingstoke & North Hants.
Richard Vinn (56) and Joe Oates (41) revived Basingstoke from 73-4 (Dan Belcher 33) to 221-9 – but Totton got home with four overs to spare.
Totton were 20-2 before Zimbabwean Gary Chirmuuta (above), with a 17-four 96, and added key runs with Oli Thomas (29) before Kieran Geyle hit a decisive 54 not out.
Totton, who host Rowledge on Saturday and Sparsholt on the final day of the season, lie eight points clear of Tichborne Park, with a visit to Trojans on August 25 critical.

Tichborne Park routed Trojans by ten wickets – and took just 38 balls to do it !
Tom Allam (4-22) and spinner Ed Berry (4-19) skittled the relegation-bound Stoneham side for a meagre 77.
And then took just 6.2 overs to complete the quickest Southern Premier League victory in history.
Only Touqeer Ahmed (36), last out at 77, put up any fight at all as Trojans were carved apart by Allam and Berry – their innings ending in 24.1 overs.
With rain threatening, Allam (left) put bat to ball, clearing the boundary rope four times, along with scoring four other boundaries, in his 47 not out.
Martin Cheyney joined in the boundary spree, hitting an unbeaten 26.
The ten-wicket hiding left Trojans facing almost certain relegation, 54 points adrift at the bottom with three games left.

Fair Oak still need another 18 points to clinch the Southern Premier League Division 3 championship after their top-of-the-table clash with South Wilts II was washed out at tea.
But they will be crowned champions if they beat relegation threatened Gosport Borough at Lapstone Park on Saturday, 12.30.
They probably fancied their chances of a potentially title winning victory after restricting the second placed Salisbury side to 169-9 at tea.
But when rain swept in across Salisbury Plain and soaked Bemerton, play was abandoned.
Earlier, South Wilts were indebted to Rob Franklin’s unbeaten 58 for pulling them out of the mid-afternoon mire.
Struck by two early Nick Bass (2-16) blows, South Wilts were struggling at 61-5 (Tom Berzins 23) when Franklin [Pictured by Roy Honeybone] joined Tom Pearce (23) in a sixth-wicket partnership which effectively doubled the score.
The pair lifted South Wilts to 120 before leggie Rufus Bullough (3-32) took the first of his three wickets which led to the hosts being pegged to 169-9.
South Wilts dropped out of the promotion frame to third after Purbrook beat Portsmouth & Southsea by 44 runs to sneak into second place, albeit by a mere two points.
Purbrook posted 218-7 (Josh McCoy 58) and, despite Matt Benfield’s 70, bowled P & S out for 176, Aaron Dean taking 4-42 and Brad Mengham 3-21.
Benfield, who made 92 the previous week against Hambledon, took his run tally for the season to 400 – a remarkable achievement considering he’s been playing with an Achilles injury – and against medical advice – in recent times.
It’s between Purbrook, and the second teams of Bashley (Rydal) and South Wilts as to who goes up alongside probable champions, Fair Oak.
The situation is quite complex as Purbrook receive Bashley on Saturday and visit South Wilts in the final round of matches on September 1.

Fawley and Lymington seconds remain in the two Southern Premier League Division 3 relegation places after their potentially decisive basement battle was abandoned.
The ‘most win’ affair between the two New Forest ‘perimeter’ clubs was washed out in the 42nd over of the afternoon session, with Lymington handily placed at 181-5.
Skipper Oli Kelly (pictured) had made 54 and Guy Layman was 30 not out when the Holbury rains came.
The washout means Fawley going into their last three matches five points adrift of Gosport Borough, whose 36-run defeat by Havant II has the alarm bells ringing even louder at Privett Park.
Lymington, whose visit to Gosport on Saturday week will surely be crucial, are effectively nine points behind the Borough.
But they also have champions designate Fair Oak and South Wilts II still to play.
Gosport’s loss at Havant came after their hosts had posted 245-5, with Simon Loat hitting 90 and Andy Gorvin 51 not out.  Kiwi teenager Liam Campbell made 74 as the Borough made 209 in reply, Gorvin taking 4-32.
Fourth placed Bashley Rydal’s home match with Hambledon was abandoned with the visitors’ 132-3.