Gosport all-rounder Jacob Harris return catches Tom Kent off a leading edge [The News]
Scott Taylor ripped through a fragile Fareham & Crofton lower-order to take six wickets in 25 deliveries as Gosport Borough launched their Southern Premier Division 3 challenge with a crushing victory over their promoted neighbours on a demanding Privett Park surface.
He finished with 6-9 as Fareham, promoted as the third placed club in Hampshire League Division 1 last season when champions Compton & Chandler's Ford were unable to meet SPL ground accreditation requirements, lost their last five wickets for seven runs and were dismissed for 99 having been put into bat.
It began to go wrong for Fareham when London Scottish second row Angus Southon had his stumps rearranged first ball by Jacob Harris (2-12), who then picked up fellow left-hander Tom Kent, above.
Conor Regan (1-8 off eight) was enjoying excessive movement off the damp track and bagged the key wicket of former Havant batsman/keeper Jez Bulled.
It left Craig Jeffery (46), one of a clutch of Cape Town cricketers playing locally this season, to show the technique required, the Wynberg-raised prospect adding important runs with Ben Kissane before Taylor appeared on the scene and sent both batsmen back for an early tea. 92-5 soon became 99 all out and Taylor was sizing up a maiden Borough first team jug.
He was at the Doug Scorey bar inside 20 overs as teenage Queenslander Oli Lunt, who hails from the Northern Districts grade club in Brisbane, struck two sixes and six fours in an unbeaten 52 which swept the Borough home. He shared a half-century start with Gavin King (27).
It was a rude awakening for Fareham who, to their credit, had a full turn out for a midweek training session as they prepared for a round three visit of Fawley to Bath Lane.
He finished with 6-9 as Fareham, promoted as the third placed club in Hampshire League Division 1 last season when champions Compton & Chandler's Ford were unable to meet SPL ground accreditation requirements, lost their last five wickets for seven runs and were dismissed for 99 having been put into bat.
It began to go wrong for Fareham when London Scottish second row Angus Southon had his stumps rearranged first ball by Jacob Harris (2-12), who then picked up fellow left-hander Tom Kent, above.
Conor Regan (1-8 off eight) was enjoying excessive movement off the damp track and bagged the key wicket of former Havant batsman/keeper Jez Bulled.
It left Craig Jeffery (46), one of a clutch of Cape Town cricketers playing locally this season, to show the technique required, the Wynberg-raised prospect adding important runs with Ben Kissane before Taylor appeared on the scene and sent both batsmen back for an early tea. 92-5 soon became 99 all out and Taylor was sizing up a maiden Borough first team jug.
He was at the Doug Scorey bar inside 20 overs as teenage Queenslander Oli Lunt, who hails from the Northern Districts grade club in Brisbane, struck two sixes and six fours in an unbeaten 52 which swept the Borough home. He shared a half-century start with Gavin King (27).
It was a rude awakening for Fareham who, to their credit, had a full turn out for a midweek training session as they prepared for a round three visit of Fawley to Bath Lane.
