Alton-bound Fletcha Middleton snapped by Terry Nash
Alton have swooped to sign former Hampshire Under-17 captain Fletcha Middleton for this summer’s scheduled ECB Southern Premier League campaign.
He will link up with past Hampshire Academy teenage team-mate Tom South and incoming South African pace bowler Matt Arnold ahead of the Brewers’ Premier Division opener against Burridge at the Jubilee Ground on May 1.
Middleton will, though, be dual registered with the Academy, whose own campaign begins against Lymington on the Ageas Bowl Nursery Ground.
The eldest son of former Hampshire opening batsman Tony Middleton who spent his embryo years at Fair Oak, Fletcha has become a formidable run scoring force on the local scene in recent seasons.
A regular in county junior age group cricket since debuting for the Under-10s back in 2012, Middleton has scored over 2,000 runs for the Academy and Hampshire Under-17s.
He was among the leading batsmen in last summer’s Southern League Cup, scoring 333 runs, including an unbeaten 108 against Sparsholt at May’s Bounty.
Middleton is also under England Under-19 consideration for the next ICC Youth World Cup in the West Indies, having skippered the South in last summer’s trial matches at Loughborough.
He will link up with past Hampshire Academy teenage team-mate Tom South and incoming South African pace bowler Matt Arnold ahead of the Brewers’ Premier Division opener against Burridge at the Jubilee Ground on May 1.
Middleton will, though, be dual registered with the Academy, whose own campaign begins against Lymington on the Ageas Bowl Nursery Ground.
The eldest son of former Hampshire opening batsman Tony Middleton who spent his embryo years at Fair Oak, Fletcha has become a formidable run scoring force on the local scene in recent seasons.
A regular in county junior age group cricket since debuting for the Under-10s back in 2012, Middleton has scored over 2,000 runs for the Academy and Hampshire Under-17s.
He was among the leading batsmen in last summer’s Southern League Cup, scoring 333 runs, including an unbeaten 108 against Sparsholt at May’s Bounty.
Middleton is also under England Under-19 consideration for the next ICC Youth World Cup in the West Indies, having skippered the South in last summer’s trial matches at Loughborough.
