Southern Premier One strugglers Portsmouth have flown in overseas aid as they bid to calm an increasingly worrying situation developing at the foot of the table.
The Southsea seafront club has lost all five games since beating promoted Hartley Wintney on the opening day – a series of calamitous batting collapses (culminating on them being skittled for 59 at Andover last week) has plunged them into second from bottom place.
An SOS down under has brought Melville all-rounder Fraser Hay (above) back from Western Australia and left-arm spinner Andy Moon back from his university studies in Sydney. Both will play against OTs & Romsey at St Helen’s.
OTs & Romsey call up teenage opener Rhys Wathen for the seaside trip, but Danny Mogg, Jake Folkestone and Steve Smith are all missing. Spin all-rounder Rob Newman returns.
OTs & Romsey: Mitchell-Lee, Vaughan, Tulk, Wathen, R Newman, Tognarelli, Brown, Trodd, P Newman, Allen, Bampton.
Calmore Sports’ expect to be without Matt Hardy for the next six weeks after the opening batsman tore the rotator cuff in his shoulder. Hardy’s absence is one of several enforced changes by Calmore ahead of the visit to Division 1’s bottom side Hartley Wintney, where Darren Vann will assume the wicket-keeping gloves. Michael Donovan, back from America for the next seven weeks, is also drafted in.
Calmore Sports: Lavelle, Cook, Johns, Perry, Taylor, Donovan, Vann, West, Newton, Wright, Ducellier
Calmore lie third in the log, 26 points behind leaders Bournemouth, who visit second placed Hook & Newnham Basics, minus opening bowler Dan Conway, but Jake Hurley, David Kidner and Martin Miller are all back.
Assessing Bournemouth’s start to the campaign, Park added: “Two defeats so far this season is not what we planned but we will take them on the chin and learn from them. We have a difficult two or three weeks coming up where we need to hit the ground running and perform well.”
Dangermen Sarisbury Athletic, who rolled Bournemouth last week thanks to Ricky Rawlins’ 95 not out, face Andover at Allotment Road.
Liphook & Ripsley, eyes focussed on Sunday’s Village Cup showdown with Cookham Dean, join the Isle of Wight Festival party goers on the trip to Ventnor.
SPL2 table toppers Rowledge visit stumbling St Cross Symondians II ahead of Sunday’s Village Cup tie at Findon.
Rowledge: B Wish, J Wish, Yates Jnr, Morant, Wilson, Moseley, Lloyd, Randall, Ryman, Baker, S Martin.
Sparsholt are without Australian wicket-keeper Sam O’Brien at off-colour Basingstoke & North Hants II. Dave Banks takes over the gloves.
Sparsholt: Frith, Haworth, Mitchard, Banks, Taylor, Doubell, Foster, Doran, Phagami, Weir, Thornton.
Waterlooville are unchanged for the visit to Tichborne Park, who ran Sparsholt close last week, with skipper Tom Allam hitting a career-best 118.
Waterlooville: Scutt, Smith, Reynolds, Shephard, Hudson, Green, Goddard, Verma, Seve, Regan, Silva.
A key game at the bottom sees improving Totton & Eling take on a Trojans side that has won its last two games.
Despite losing their unbeaten record to Gosport last week, Fair Oak are unchanged against Havant II, while Fawley look to end a worrying five-match losing run at Purbrook.
Fawley: C Earl, K Earl, Leach, Kum Sharma, K Sharma, A Parratt, B Parratt, Bryers, Freeman, Smith, Crossley
Lymington II call up big hitting Bryn Darbyshire for the visit of Gosport Borough to the Sports Ground.
Lymington: Kelly, Agha, Whyte, Barton, C Moors, Darbyshire, Sutherland, Cox, Royan, Wickramasinghe, Layman
The Southsea seafront club has lost all five games since beating promoted Hartley Wintney on the opening day – a series of calamitous batting collapses (culminating on them being skittled for 59 at Andover last week) has plunged them into second from bottom place.
An SOS down under has brought Melville all-rounder Fraser Hay (above) back from Western Australia and left-arm spinner Andy Moon back from his university studies in Sydney. Both will play against OTs & Romsey at St Helen’s.
OTs & Romsey call up teenage opener Rhys Wathen for the seaside trip, but Danny Mogg, Jake Folkestone and Steve Smith are all missing. Spin all-rounder Rob Newman returns.
OTs & Romsey: Mitchell-Lee, Vaughan, Tulk, Wathen, R Newman, Tognarelli, Brown, Trodd, P Newman, Allen, Bampton.
Calmore Sports’ expect to be without Matt Hardy for the next six weeks after the opening batsman tore the rotator cuff in his shoulder. Hardy’s absence is one of several enforced changes by Calmore ahead of the visit to Division 1’s bottom side Hartley Wintney, where Darren Vann will assume the wicket-keeping gloves. Michael Donovan, back from America for the next seven weeks, is also drafted in.
Calmore Sports: Lavelle, Cook, Johns, Perry, Taylor, Donovan, Vann, West, Newton, Wright, Ducellier
Calmore lie third in the log, 26 points behind leaders Bournemouth, who visit second placed Hook & Newnham Basics, minus opening bowler Dan Conway, but Jake Hurley, David Kidner and Martin Miller are all back.
Assessing Bournemouth’s start to the campaign, Park added: “Two defeats so far this season is not what we planned but we will take them on the chin and learn from them. We have a difficult two or three weeks coming up where we need to hit the ground running and perform well.”
Dangermen Sarisbury Athletic, who rolled Bournemouth last week thanks to Ricky Rawlins’ 95 not out, face Andover at Allotment Road.
Liphook & Ripsley, eyes focussed on Sunday’s Village Cup showdown with Cookham Dean, join the Isle of Wight Festival party goers on the trip to Ventnor.
SPL2 table toppers Rowledge visit stumbling St Cross Symondians II ahead of Sunday’s Village Cup tie at Findon.
Rowledge: B Wish, J Wish, Yates Jnr, Morant, Wilson, Moseley, Lloyd, Randall, Ryman, Baker, S Martin.
Sparsholt are without Australian wicket-keeper Sam O’Brien at off-colour Basingstoke & North Hants II. Dave Banks takes over the gloves.
Sparsholt: Frith, Haworth, Mitchard, Banks, Taylor, Doubell, Foster, Doran, Phagami, Weir, Thornton.
Waterlooville are unchanged for the visit to Tichborne Park, who ran Sparsholt close last week, with skipper Tom Allam hitting a career-best 118.
Waterlooville: Scutt, Smith, Reynolds, Shephard, Hudson, Green, Goddard, Verma, Seve, Regan, Silva.
A key game at the bottom sees improving Totton & Eling take on a Trojans side that has won its last two games.
Despite losing their unbeaten record to Gosport last week, Fair Oak are unchanged against Havant II, while Fawley look to end a worrying five-match losing run at Purbrook.
Fawley: C Earl, K Earl, Leach, Kum Sharma, K Sharma, A Parratt, B Parratt, Bryers, Freeman, Smith, Crossley
Lymington II call up big hitting Bryn Darbyshire for the visit of Gosport Borough to the Sports Ground.
Lymington: Kelly, Agha, Whyte, Barton, C Moors, Darbyshire, Sutherland, Cox, Royan, Wickramasinghe, Layman
