 Sam Floyd - injured [Rob Franklin] |  Harry Broderick - top scored [Dave Vokes] |
Cross Symondians will retain the Southern League Cup Premier/1 East leadership irrespective of how Alton and the Hamposhire Academy fare in their round six matches.
The Winchester club, flying the flag of Dave Orchard’s promotion winning second team, has won all three of its completed matches, two others against Havant and the Academy having been washed out.
They are without a game tomorrow and will be watching with interest as Alton host Sarisbury Athletic and the Academy take on Sparsholt in the neutral surroundings of Basingstoke’s May’s Bounty.
Alton have won three games on the spin since losing their group opener to the Academy, but will find Sarisbury a tough nut to crack, as the Academy found to their cost a fortnight ago.
Dan Scott returns to lend a cutting edge to Alton’s seam attack, while Tom Paul gets the nod ahead of 11-wicket Xav Bochereau, the joint leading League Cup wicket taker.
Sarisbury’s batting threat has been blunted by the absence of injured left-hand opener Sam Floyd, who hit a battling half-century in last Sunday’s Village Cup defeat at Cookham Dean.
Alton: Covey, Harris, South, S Myers, Wright, Gonella, Heffernan, J Myers, Scott, Ballinger, Paul.
Sarisbury Athletic: Rawlins, Mills, J Hill, Reeves, Wright, S Hill, Jewell, Bradley, Kitcher, Sanders, Franklin.
The Academy dropped to third place in the log after losing a penultimate over thriller at Allotment Road, but have a chance to return to winning ways against Sparsholt, who have yet to taste victory.
The county youngsters played Sussex YCs in midweek, when the latest on the line of cricketing Lenhams pitched up at Blackstone to haunt them. Grandfather Les, now a sprightly 84-year old was a leading NCA/ECB coach in his time and played for Sussex as a top order batsman more than 300 times. He was succeeded by his son Neil, who made over 10,000 runs for the Martlets.
Now grandsons Scott and Archie have arrived on the scene – as the Hampshire Academy youngsters found to their cost, left-hander Scott making 87 (Sussex 190-6) and Archie taking 6-51 with his leg breaks, which only Harry Broderick (60) mastered for any length of time. HA were dismissed for 146.
Academy: T Prest, H Broderick, F Middleton, H Wheeler, G Metzger, C Mumford, D Kelly, J Trodd, B Huntley, K Khanna, H Petrie.
What with the inclement weather and blank days, Havant’s League Cup challenge has barely got under way, but they have a 50 per cent record from the two games they have played, an easy win coming after a defeat at Alton.
Havant host Burridge at the Park and include four of their Under-17 county cup final side alongside Richard Hindley, who would have missed last weekend’s Southsea washout.
Havant: Morgan, Harry Gadd, Hopson, Stone, Hindley, Bulled, Freddie Gadd, Whitfield, Stares, Taw.
Portsmouth and Rowledge complete the East set at St Helen’s, where Ben Duggan returns to open up and the visitors have Chris and Tricky Yates and left-arm all-rounder Jake Wish back in their ranks.
Portsmouth: Duggan, J Marston, T Wallis, Hirani, D Wallis, Christian, Kooner-Evans, Hammond, Woolf, A Marston, Webb.
Rowledge: B Wish, Sebborn, E Martin, Plater, Baker, Lloyd, C Yates Jnr, R Yates, Marshall, Metcalfe, J Wish.
The Winchester club, flying the flag of Dave Orchard’s promotion winning second team, has won all three of its completed matches, two others against Havant and the Academy having been washed out.
They are without a game tomorrow and will be watching with interest as Alton host Sarisbury Athletic and the Academy take on Sparsholt in the neutral surroundings of Basingstoke’s May’s Bounty.
Alton have won three games on the spin since losing their group opener to the Academy, but will find Sarisbury a tough nut to crack, as the Academy found to their cost a fortnight ago.
Dan Scott returns to lend a cutting edge to Alton’s seam attack, while Tom Paul gets the nod ahead of 11-wicket Xav Bochereau, the joint leading League Cup wicket taker.
Sarisbury’s batting threat has been blunted by the absence of injured left-hand opener Sam Floyd, who hit a battling half-century in last Sunday’s Village Cup defeat at Cookham Dean.
Alton: Covey, Harris, South, S Myers, Wright, Gonella, Heffernan, J Myers, Scott, Ballinger, Paul.
Sarisbury Athletic: Rawlins, Mills, J Hill, Reeves, Wright, S Hill, Jewell, Bradley, Kitcher, Sanders, Franklin.
The Academy dropped to third place in the log after losing a penultimate over thriller at Allotment Road, but have a chance to return to winning ways against Sparsholt, who have yet to taste victory.
The county youngsters played Sussex YCs in midweek, when the latest on the line of cricketing Lenhams pitched up at Blackstone to haunt them. Grandfather Les, now a sprightly 84-year old was a leading NCA/ECB coach in his time and played for Sussex as a top order batsman more than 300 times. He was succeeded by his son Neil, who made over 10,000 runs for the Martlets.
Now grandsons Scott and Archie have arrived on the scene – as the Hampshire Academy youngsters found to their cost, left-hander Scott making 87 (Sussex 190-6) and Archie taking 6-51 with his leg breaks, which only Harry Broderick (60) mastered for any length of time. HA were dismissed for 146.
Academy: T Prest, H Broderick, F Middleton, H Wheeler, G Metzger, C Mumford, D Kelly, J Trodd, B Huntley, K Khanna, H Petrie.
What with the inclement weather and blank days, Havant’s League Cup challenge has barely got under way, but they have a 50 per cent record from the two games they have played, an easy win coming after a defeat at Alton.
Havant host Burridge at the Park and include four of their Under-17 county cup final side alongside Richard Hindley, who would have missed last weekend’s Southsea washout.
Havant: Morgan, Harry Gadd, Hopson, Stone, Hindley, Bulled, Freddie Gadd, Whitfield, Stares, Taw.
Portsmouth and Rowledge complete the East set at St Helen’s, where Ben Duggan returns to open up and the visitors have Chris and Tricky Yates and left-arm all-rounder Jake Wish back in their ranks.
Portsmouth: Duggan, J Marston, T Wallis, Hirani, D Wallis, Christian, Kooner-Evans, Hammond, Woolf, A Marston, Webb.
Rowledge: B Wish, Sebborn, E Martin, Plater, Baker, Lloyd, C Yates Jnr, R Yates, Marshall, Metcalfe, J Wish.
