Four weeks into the new season and Burridge are the only ECB Southern Premier Division club still able to boast an unbeaten record.
The crushing 142-run victory over Hampshire’s youthful Academy side was their third in the opening tranch of 50-over white ball matches, earlier successes having been achieved against past champions South Wilts and St Cross Symondians.
Burridge pushed Havant all the way to the title two summers ago but, having recruited well in the winter months, look to have a stronger squad available for what is their 50th anniversary season, one which they would dearly like to celebrate with some silverware.
“Over the past years or so, we’ve recruited decent lads who gel together well and it’s paying off,” reflected Burridge skipper Rick Ankers.
“Solent Uni’s Richard Lock, who we signed from Lymington, is what I’d describe as a ‘proper cricketer’ while Cape Town’s Hilio De Abreu is a decent all-round talent.”
It was literally men against boys at Botley Road, where Burridge outmuscled Charlie Freeston’s teenagers, who baked in the afternoon heat before being roasted by a 45-run blitz in the three overs immediately before tea.
Dan Stancliffe’s blistering 74 off 48 balls sent the Burridge total rocketing to 283-6, way beyond reach of the sun scorched Academy, who made 141 in reply.
England Under-19 all-rounder Tom Scriven (3-45) bowled tidily, removing opening pair Sho Chowdhury (20) and Lee Savident (11) during his new ball spell.
Joe Collings-Wells (35) was severe on anything short and square cut at will, enjoying a 56-run partnership with left-hander Richard Lock pictured (68), whose knock proved the backbone of the Burridge innings.
Burridge did wobble briefly at 112-4, but Will Steward hit a handy 31 before the tall, imposing figure of Stancliffe arrived at the crease to cause pre-tea carnage.
He blazed five sixes, mainly over mid-wicket, and another four boundaries in a swashbuckling 74, four of his last 11 scoring shots sailing over the boundary rope for maximums.
Nick McMurray (2-33) struck two early blows for Burridge, but Fletcha Middleton knuckled down and produced a pleasing array of shots in a seven-boundary 44.
But he became the first of four wickets for Ollie Southon, who triggered a collapse which saw the Academy lurch from 74-2 to 85-7.
Southon, who took 4-20, bowled with pace and aggression, and underlined the all round technical improvement in his game – the benefit of the time and effort he has put in, according to James Tomlinson, his Hampshire Under-17 bowling coach.
The Academy fell to 114-9 before last man Zac Organ (22) gave an air of respectability to an eventual 141 all out.
The crushing 142-run victory over Hampshire’s youthful Academy side was their third in the opening tranch of 50-over white ball matches, earlier successes having been achieved against past champions South Wilts and St Cross Symondians.
Burridge pushed Havant all the way to the title two summers ago but, having recruited well in the winter months, look to have a stronger squad available for what is their 50th anniversary season, one which they would dearly like to celebrate with some silverware.
“Over the past years or so, we’ve recruited decent lads who gel together well and it’s paying off,” reflected Burridge skipper Rick Ankers.
“Solent Uni’s Richard Lock, who we signed from Lymington, is what I’d describe as a ‘proper cricketer’ while Cape Town’s Hilio De Abreu is a decent all-round talent.”
It was literally men against boys at Botley Road, where Burridge outmuscled Charlie Freeston’s teenagers, who baked in the afternoon heat before being roasted by a 45-run blitz in the three overs immediately before tea.
Dan Stancliffe’s blistering 74 off 48 balls sent the Burridge total rocketing to 283-6, way beyond reach of the sun scorched Academy, who made 141 in reply.
England Under-19 all-rounder Tom Scriven (3-45) bowled tidily, removing opening pair Sho Chowdhury (20) and Lee Savident (11) during his new ball spell.
Joe Collings-Wells (35) was severe on anything short and square cut at will, enjoying a 56-run partnership with left-hander Richard Lock pictured (68), whose knock proved the backbone of the Burridge innings.
Burridge did wobble briefly at 112-4, but Will Steward hit a handy 31 before the tall, imposing figure of Stancliffe arrived at the crease to cause pre-tea carnage.
He blazed five sixes, mainly over mid-wicket, and another four boundaries in a swashbuckling 74, four of his last 11 scoring shots sailing over the boundary rope for maximums.
Nick McMurray (2-33) struck two early blows for Burridge, but Fletcha Middleton knuckled down and produced a pleasing array of shots in a seven-boundary 44.
But he became the first of four wickets for Ollie Southon, who triggered a collapse which saw the Academy lurch from 74-2 to 85-7.
Southon, who took 4-20, bowled with pace and aggression, and underlined the all round technical improvement in his game – the benefit of the time and effort he has put in, according to James Tomlinson, his Hampshire Under-17 bowling coach.
The Academy fell to 114-9 before last man Zac Organ (22) gave an air of respectability to an eventual 141 all out.
