The Hampshire Academy owed much to three of their youngest recruits for what turned out to be a comfortable 75-run win over ring rusty ECB British Gas Southern Division rivals Burridge on the Ageas Bowl Nursery Ground.
Fletcha Middleton, Tom South and Scott Currie top scored with the bat as the Academy hauled themselves from a dicey 54-4 to post a winning 208 before bowling Burridge out for 133.
Three wickets with the new ball by Tom Scriven, pictured, (4-17) helped reduce Burridge to 29-5, after which the visitors limped to 133 all out on the back of a Joe Collings-Wells half-century.
Two early blows inflicted by Nick McMurray helped leave the Academy in trouble at 54-4 (Cole Campbell 22).
But Middleton (36) began the recovery, which saw the left-handed South (45) and Currie (36) raise the Academy total to 208, Dan Stancliffe and Sully White each taking three wickets.
Burridge were playing their first game in three weeks – and it showed, with their batting folding like a pack of cards until Collings-Wells (52) arrested the slide.
But his half-century only delayed the inevitable as Patrick Holly and Zac Organ shared four of the last five wickets to send Burridge tumbling to a 75-run defeat.
* Tom Scriven bowling, pictured by Roy Honeybone.
Fletcha Middleton, Tom South and Scott Currie top scored with the bat as the Academy hauled themselves from a dicey 54-4 to post a winning 208 before bowling Burridge out for 133.
Three wickets with the new ball by Tom Scriven, pictured, (4-17) helped reduce Burridge to 29-5, after which the visitors limped to 133 all out on the back of a Joe Collings-Wells half-century.
Two early blows inflicted by Nick McMurray helped leave the Academy in trouble at 54-4 (Cole Campbell 22).
But Middleton (36) began the recovery, which saw the left-handed South (45) and Currie (36) raise the Academy total to 208, Dan Stancliffe and Sully White each taking three wickets.
Burridge were playing their first game in three weeks – and it showed, with their batting folding like a pack of cards until Collings-Wells (52) arrested the slide.
But his half-century only delayed the inevitable as Patrick Holly and Zac Organ shared four of the last five wickets to send Burridge tumbling to a 75-run defeat.
* Tom Scriven bowling, pictured by Roy Honeybone.
