Ethan Baker [Dave Reynolds picture] Faltering champions Bashley (Rydal) are set to pitch Hampshire Under-15s spinner Ethan Baker into their potentially significant ECB Southern Premier Division red ball visit to Havant, 11.30.
The spin teen took the headlines with an 8-15 return in a Southern League Cup match last season and, according to Bash skipper Michael Porter, is pushing the ball through quicker and with more control this season.
Bashley, who also give a first team debut to Ben Francis, who has scored four second team 50s since arriving from Christchurch, plan to field three spin bowlers in their attack.
Left-hand opener Ben Walker, who picked up a championship winners medal with Bashley in 2019, is an important absentee for Havant who, like Bash and St Cross Symondians, have lost twice in recent weeks and can ill afford a third defeat.
Experienced Hampshire 50s all-rounder Pete Hayward takes Walker’s place and could be a handful in the anticipated damp conditions.
Havant: Simon Loat, Pete Hopson, George Metzger, Harry Gadd, Richard Hindley, Jez Bulled, Chris Morgan, Fred Gadd, Richard Jerry, Pete Hayward, Alf Taw.
Bashley (Rydal): Digby, Gordon, Fisher, Porter, Friend, Jacques, Francis, Rhodes, Stroud, Baker, Fletcher.
With Harry Came gone to Derbyshire, Felix Organ involved with Hampshire’s Vitality T20 Blast and his own availability uncertain due to school coaching commitments in Oxford, Ed Ellis is juggling names for St Cross Symondians’ home match with Burridge.
Three successive wins since being thrashed by nine wickets by Bashley (Rydal) on the opening day of the season have swept South Wilts into third spot, eight points behind the Academy and 12 adrift of leaders Bournemouth, who go head-to-head at Chapel Gate on Sunday.
They are without Devizes farmer Tom Grant against unchanged Alton, so second team skipper Rob Pittman is called up to play an off-spinning role.
Man of the moment Matt Burton, with nine wickets in South Wilts’ last two matches, will share the new ball with Arthur Godsal against a Brewers side on a high after beating St Cross Symondians last week when Julian Ballinger took his 600th SPL wicket.
South Wilts: Morton, Stearman, Rowe, Hayward, Draper, Hussey, Godsal, Pittman, Warner, Lewis, Burton.
Alton: Gonella, South, Middleton, Harris, Myers, Hale, Wright, Heffernan, Walters, Salmon, Ballinger
Islander Ben Attrill, arguably Lymington’s best batsman in last week’s seven-wicket beating by South Wilts, misses the basement battle against Hook & Newnham Basics at the KGV.
Seamer Sean Brewer is back for Hook, who go into the match with a five-point lead over Lymington.
Hook & Newnham Basics: J Buckingham, Lockwood, Robson, M Buckingham, Love, Willcock, Murrell, Divecha, Moore, Brewer, Balcombe.
Lymington: Metcalfe, Crabb, Royan, Mortimore, Rogers, Scott, Du Plooy, Cox, Smith, Proctor, Wade.
The Bournemouth-Academy match will be previewed separately.
Near neighbours Calmore Sports and Totton & Eling feature in the Southern Premier Division 1 lead match at Loperwood Park, 12.30.
The sides lie second and third in the log behind unbeaten leaders New Milton, with Totton five points ahead of their hosts after seven rounds of games. Calmore are without Hampshire media man Will Brewster, who is helping Tom Cowley fork the waterlogged outfield at the Ageas Bowl.
Calmore Sports: Lavelle, Bailey, Johns, Taylor, Moss, Johnson, Manning, Perry, Fisher, Wright, Lepervanche.
Leaders New Milton plans to extend their four-match winning start against Portsmouth on Southsea seafront, where captain George Watts will need to do as he’s told, with his father Steve drafted into the side.
Joe Kooner-Evans, who played the key role in last week’s win at Sparsholt, is expected to feature for Portsmouth.
New Milton: G Watts, Edwards, Hall, Greig, L Beck, Golding, S Watts, Bartlett, Mills, Loader, Humphrey.
Youthful Rowledge have hit a couple of bumps in the road with defeats at Calmore Sports and Basingstoke & North Hants in the past fortnight. They host St Cross Symondians II at Church Road, where all-rounder Jake Wish remains on water boy duty with a hand injury.
Rowledge: Ben Wish, David Lloyd, Sam Plater, Ricky Yates, Jonty Sebborn, Zac Le Roux, Olly Ryman, Ryan Littlewood, Hamish Watson, Ollie Baker, Ethan Martin.
Sarisbury Athletic have won both matches since Josh Hill took over the captaincy, so visiting Sparsholt will be anxious to avoid being the third recent faller at Allotment Road.
He’ll have the experience of the incoming Michael Bond to fall back on. Will Bolton takes the gloves as Simon Orr can’t make it.
Sarisbury Athletic: Hill, Rawlins, Smith, Lovett, Sanders, Franklin, Wright, Bond, S Hill, Bolton, Jewell.
Sparsholt: David Banks, Josh May, Lewis Mitchard, Liam Doran, Dan Sumner, Ashley Collison, Stuart Taylor, Dan Weir, Joshua Banks-Williams, Tom Ley , Greg Whiting.
Vital relegation avoiding points are at stake at London Road, where strugglers Andover and Basingstoke & North Hants collide.
Andover lie bottom following a five point deduction for an administrative slip are and desperate to win having not sampled champagne success since beating Portsmouth on May 8. The lions hand an SPL debut to Sam Ashman as reward for his unbeaten second team century against Lymington II. Inspired by Joe Oates, Basingstoke ended a three-match losing streak by beating Rowledge last week.
Andover: M Hooper, Knight, Adams, Taylor, Ashman, Smith, Veettil, Duckworth, Birks, Ayers, Vanandel.
Last week's emphatic win at Waterlooville has given OTs & Romsey a 13-point advantage at the top of SPL2, one they'll look to expand when Hartley Wintney visit the Romsey Sports Centre.
Second placed Fair Oak host Waterlooville, who go to Lapstone Park minus influential all-rounder Jon Hudson and aiming to put their poor OTR showing behind them.
Director of Cricket Andy Reynolds reflected: "It was a poor performance last Saturday. Our lads just didn’t turn up, made too many mistakes and didn’t get back into the game. We are looking for a response"
Waterlooville: Archie Reynolds*, Alex Shephard, Tim Jackson, Sonny Reynolds, Dan Birch, Haydn Knight, Namish Verma, Sam Robinson, Sam Hillman, Ashan Silva, Harry McBride+
Visitors to Steephill, Liphook & Ripsley will be keeping an anxious eye on whether the Portsmouth-Fishbourne car ferry is fully operational - which it wasn't on Friday morning, with the 0900 sailing cancelled !
Ventnor celebrated their first win on mainland soil since August 2018 when they won at Paultons last week and have ex-Worcestershire seamer Chris Russell back.
Ventnor: R.Whyte, R.Snell; A.Alleyne; B.Woodhouse, M.Fletcher; M.Blackman; C.Russell; C.Calloway; Zeph Wells; Zach Wells; C.Read.
Skittled for 48 by Fair Oak last week, South Wilts II are another side looking for redemption away to Fawley, one of two vital games involving the bottom sides on Southampton Waterside.
Sam Pittman will captain South Wilts, who named a stronger looking side with Joe Cranch back opening the batting.
South Wilts: Cranch, Litchfield, Edwards, Pearce, Falconer, Howgrave-Graham, S Pittman, Partridge, Atkinson, Richards, Brewer.
Like South Wilts II, Paultons will quickly want to forget their 77 all out against Ventnor and have Nigel Feltham and Robbie Pike back for the trip to winless Bashley (Rydal) II, whose ground was swamped by Friday's heavy rain.
Paultons: Simon Ennew, Lee Wateridge, Cameron Grierson, Ben Rogers, Nathan Feltham, Robert Pike, Tony Richman, Darryn Stairs, Liam Longland, Harmon Chadhoke, Andrew Denney.
Undefeated Division 3 top dogs Hambledon face a cross-countryside away day at Tichborne Park, who have a survival battle on their hands after three successive defeats.
Hambledon: Spencer le Clerq, Henry Glanfield, and nine others.
Second placed Gosport Borough, with a tough one at Portsmouth & Southsea, still have a fitness worry over skipper Lee Harrop's hamstring and have Craig Stares unavailable.
But the emerging John Adams plays and P & S will have to work out how to combat three Creals.
Gosport Borough: From: L Harrop, J Adams, C Creal, O Creal, S Creal, J Harris, G Kitchin, C Pennicott, J Richards, V Richards, S Taylor, M Toogood.
Hook & Newnham Basics II visit the bottom club Purbrook and call up Will Wyatt for the injured Kieran Thomson.
Hook II: Light: Warner, Allnutt B, May O, Shore, Gardner, May T, Brown, Watts, Neville, Wyatt.
Hythe & Dibden need to start putting some points on the board after five successive defeats. They host Trojans in a game that can now go ahead following the eviction of unwanted travellers from Jones Lane.
Hythe & Dibden: T Richards, T Gates, M Young, Z Millar, J Stovell, W Royan, D Taylor, N Vaughan, B Holbrook, T Ndowora, L Vaughan.
Langley Manor rose to fourth after a crushing win over Tichborne Park, but can expect Basingstoke & North Hants II to provide tougher opposition at May's Bounty.
The spin teen took the headlines with an 8-15 return in a Southern League Cup match last season and, according to Bash skipper Michael Porter, is pushing the ball through quicker and with more control this season.
Bashley, who also give a first team debut to Ben Francis, who has scored four second team 50s since arriving from Christchurch, plan to field three spin bowlers in their attack.
Left-hand opener Ben Walker, who picked up a championship winners medal with Bashley in 2019, is an important absentee for Havant who, like Bash and St Cross Symondians, have lost twice in recent weeks and can ill afford a third defeat.
Experienced Hampshire 50s all-rounder Pete Hayward takes Walker’s place and could be a handful in the anticipated damp conditions.
Havant: Simon Loat, Pete Hopson, George Metzger, Harry Gadd, Richard Hindley, Jez Bulled, Chris Morgan, Fred Gadd, Richard Jerry, Pete Hayward, Alf Taw.
Bashley (Rydal): Digby, Gordon, Fisher, Porter, Friend, Jacques, Francis, Rhodes, Stroud, Baker, Fletcher.
With Harry Came gone to Derbyshire, Felix Organ involved with Hampshire’s Vitality T20 Blast and his own availability uncertain due to school coaching commitments in Oxford, Ed Ellis is juggling names for St Cross Symondians’ home match with Burridge.
Three successive wins since being thrashed by nine wickets by Bashley (Rydal) on the opening day of the season have swept South Wilts into third spot, eight points behind the Academy and 12 adrift of leaders Bournemouth, who go head-to-head at Chapel Gate on Sunday.
They are without Devizes farmer Tom Grant against unchanged Alton, so second team skipper Rob Pittman is called up to play an off-spinning role.
Man of the moment Matt Burton, with nine wickets in South Wilts’ last two matches, will share the new ball with Arthur Godsal against a Brewers side on a high after beating St Cross Symondians last week when Julian Ballinger took his 600th SPL wicket.
South Wilts: Morton, Stearman, Rowe, Hayward, Draper, Hussey, Godsal, Pittman, Warner, Lewis, Burton.
Alton: Gonella, South, Middleton, Harris, Myers, Hale, Wright, Heffernan, Walters, Salmon, Ballinger
Islander Ben Attrill, arguably Lymington’s best batsman in last week’s seven-wicket beating by South Wilts, misses the basement battle against Hook & Newnham Basics at the KGV.
Seamer Sean Brewer is back for Hook, who go into the match with a five-point lead over Lymington.
Hook & Newnham Basics: J Buckingham, Lockwood, Robson, M Buckingham, Love, Willcock, Murrell, Divecha, Moore, Brewer, Balcombe.
Lymington: Metcalfe, Crabb, Royan, Mortimore, Rogers, Scott, Du Plooy, Cox, Smith, Proctor, Wade.
The Bournemouth-Academy match will be previewed separately.
Near neighbours Calmore Sports and Totton & Eling feature in the Southern Premier Division 1 lead match at Loperwood Park, 12.30.
The sides lie second and third in the log behind unbeaten leaders New Milton, with Totton five points ahead of their hosts after seven rounds of games. Calmore are without Hampshire media man Will Brewster, who is helping Tom Cowley fork the waterlogged outfield at the Ageas Bowl.
Calmore Sports: Lavelle, Bailey, Johns, Taylor, Moss, Johnson, Manning, Perry, Fisher, Wright, Lepervanche.
Leaders New Milton plans to extend their four-match winning start against Portsmouth on Southsea seafront, where captain George Watts will need to do as he’s told, with his father Steve drafted into the side.
Joe Kooner-Evans, who played the key role in last week’s win at Sparsholt, is expected to feature for Portsmouth.
New Milton: G Watts, Edwards, Hall, Greig, L Beck, Golding, S Watts, Bartlett, Mills, Loader, Humphrey.
Youthful Rowledge have hit a couple of bumps in the road with defeats at Calmore Sports and Basingstoke & North Hants in the past fortnight. They host St Cross Symondians II at Church Road, where all-rounder Jake Wish remains on water boy duty with a hand injury.
Rowledge: Ben Wish, David Lloyd, Sam Plater, Ricky Yates, Jonty Sebborn, Zac Le Roux, Olly Ryman, Ryan Littlewood, Hamish Watson, Ollie Baker, Ethan Martin.
Sarisbury Athletic have won both matches since Josh Hill took over the captaincy, so visiting Sparsholt will be anxious to avoid being the third recent faller at Allotment Road.
He’ll have the experience of the incoming Michael Bond to fall back on. Will Bolton takes the gloves as Simon Orr can’t make it.
Sarisbury Athletic: Hill, Rawlins, Smith, Lovett, Sanders, Franklin, Wright, Bond, S Hill, Bolton, Jewell.
Sparsholt: David Banks, Josh May, Lewis Mitchard, Liam Doran, Dan Sumner, Ashley Collison, Stuart Taylor, Dan Weir, Joshua Banks-Williams, Tom Ley , Greg Whiting.
Vital relegation avoiding points are at stake at London Road, where strugglers Andover and Basingstoke & North Hants collide.
Andover lie bottom following a five point deduction for an administrative slip are and desperate to win having not sampled champagne success since beating Portsmouth on May 8. The lions hand an SPL debut to Sam Ashman as reward for his unbeaten second team century against Lymington II. Inspired by Joe Oates, Basingstoke ended a three-match losing streak by beating Rowledge last week.
Andover: M Hooper, Knight, Adams, Taylor, Ashman, Smith, Veettil, Duckworth, Birks, Ayers, Vanandel.
Last week's emphatic win at Waterlooville has given OTs & Romsey a 13-point advantage at the top of SPL2, one they'll look to expand when Hartley Wintney visit the Romsey Sports Centre.
Second placed Fair Oak host Waterlooville, who go to Lapstone Park minus influential all-rounder Jon Hudson and aiming to put their poor OTR showing behind them.
Director of Cricket Andy Reynolds reflected: "It was a poor performance last Saturday. Our lads just didn’t turn up, made too many mistakes and didn’t get back into the game. We are looking for a response"
Waterlooville: Archie Reynolds*, Alex Shephard, Tim Jackson, Sonny Reynolds, Dan Birch, Haydn Knight, Namish Verma, Sam Robinson, Sam Hillman, Ashan Silva, Harry McBride+
Visitors to Steephill, Liphook & Ripsley will be keeping an anxious eye on whether the Portsmouth-Fishbourne car ferry is fully operational - which it wasn't on Friday morning, with the 0900 sailing cancelled !
Ventnor celebrated their first win on mainland soil since August 2018 when they won at Paultons last week and have ex-Worcestershire seamer Chris Russell back.
Ventnor: R.Whyte, R.Snell; A.Alleyne; B.Woodhouse, M.Fletcher; M.Blackman; C.Russell; C.Calloway; Zeph Wells; Zach Wells; C.Read.
Skittled for 48 by Fair Oak last week, South Wilts II are another side looking for redemption away to Fawley, one of two vital games involving the bottom sides on Southampton Waterside.
Sam Pittman will captain South Wilts, who named a stronger looking side with Joe Cranch back opening the batting.
South Wilts: Cranch, Litchfield, Edwards, Pearce, Falconer, Howgrave-Graham, S Pittman, Partridge, Atkinson, Richards, Brewer.
Like South Wilts II, Paultons will quickly want to forget their 77 all out against Ventnor and have Nigel Feltham and Robbie Pike back for the trip to winless Bashley (Rydal) II, whose ground was swamped by Friday's heavy rain.
Paultons: Simon Ennew, Lee Wateridge, Cameron Grierson, Ben Rogers, Nathan Feltham, Robert Pike, Tony Richman, Darryn Stairs, Liam Longland, Harmon Chadhoke, Andrew Denney.
Undefeated Division 3 top dogs Hambledon face a cross-countryside away day at Tichborne Park, who have a survival battle on their hands after three successive defeats.
Hambledon: Spencer le Clerq, Henry Glanfield, and nine others.
Second placed Gosport Borough, with a tough one at Portsmouth & Southsea, still have a fitness worry over skipper Lee Harrop's hamstring and have Craig Stares unavailable.
But the emerging John Adams plays and P & S will have to work out how to combat three Creals.
Gosport Borough: From: L Harrop, J Adams, C Creal, O Creal, S Creal, J Harris, G Kitchin, C Pennicott, J Richards, V Richards, S Taylor, M Toogood.
Hook & Newnham Basics II visit the bottom club Purbrook and call up Will Wyatt for the injured Kieran Thomson.
Hook II: Light: Warner, Allnutt B, May O, Shore, Gardner, May T, Brown, Watts, Neville, Wyatt.
Hythe & Dibden need to start putting some points on the board after five successive defeats. They host Trojans in a game that can now go ahead following the eviction of unwanted travellers from Jones Lane.
Hythe & Dibden: T Richards, T Gates, M Young, Z Millar, J Stovell, W Royan, D Taylor, N Vaughan, B Holbrook, T Ndowora, L Vaughan.
Langley Manor rose to fourth after a crushing win over Tichborne Park, but can expect Basingstoke & North Hants II to provide tougher opposition at May's Bounty.
