Jacob Gordon (left) has tossed his hat into the ring as a potential contender for the Southern Premier League’s prestigious Young Cricketer award after notching his second half-century in three matches and taking his run tally past the 400-run mark.
The 50 he scored in Bashley’s 12-run win over Havant took his season’s tally to 416 – third in the Premier Division log behind Hampshire Academy pair Toby Albert (470) and Harry Broderick (419) – added to which he’s nabbed nine wickets and snaffled six catches.
Gordon’s 74-run third-wicket partnership with Michael Porter (44) largely underpinned Bashley’s 185 (Dan Andrew 27) off a rain cut 45 overs, though Havant put in a decent bowling and fielding display.
Captain Chris Morgan conceded a miserly 20 runs off his eight overs, but was overshadowed by seamer Richard Jerry, whose 5-38 return included Josh Digby’s scalp in the first over.
The Shirley/Southampton based right-armer later two wickets in consecutive balls in his second spell (Ben Francis copped a first baller) and repeated the dose when he came back to mop up the lower end, Bashley losing their last five wickets for 15 runs after Rhodes Franklin (20) had gone.
Havant's weak area this season has been with the bat and so it proved again. Harry Gadd (52) scored his fifth half-century of the summer, but all the other supporting contributions were small and, whilst they kept Havant in the game, Bashley enjoyed control, Digby dismissing memories of his sixth ball duck with a telling 4-33 return.
Possibly Havant champagne moment came when tailender Julian Atkins launched Digby high over the potted plants and into the team rooms of the nearby garden centre, landing on top of a home-made Victoria sponge cake …
Havant fell 12 runs short with 173 all out. Jacob Gordon picture by Terry Nash
The 50 he scored in Bashley’s 12-run win over Havant took his season’s tally to 416 – third in the Premier Division log behind Hampshire Academy pair Toby Albert (470) and Harry Broderick (419) – added to which he’s nabbed nine wickets and snaffled six catches.
Gordon’s 74-run third-wicket partnership with Michael Porter (44) largely underpinned Bashley’s 185 (Dan Andrew 27) off a rain cut 45 overs, though Havant put in a decent bowling and fielding display.
Captain Chris Morgan conceded a miserly 20 runs off his eight overs, but was overshadowed by seamer Richard Jerry, whose 5-38 return included Josh Digby’s scalp in the first over.
The Shirley/Southampton based right-armer later two wickets in consecutive balls in his second spell (Ben Francis copped a first baller) and repeated the dose when he came back to mop up the lower end, Bashley losing their last five wickets for 15 runs after Rhodes Franklin (20) had gone.
Havant's weak area this season has been with the bat and so it proved again. Harry Gadd (52) scored his fifth half-century of the summer, but all the other supporting contributions were small and, whilst they kept Havant in the game, Bashley enjoyed control, Digby dismissing memories of his sixth ball duck with a telling 4-33 return.
Possibly Havant champagne moment came when tailender Julian Atkins launched Digby high over the potted plants and into the team rooms of the nearby garden centre, landing on top of a home-made Victoria sponge cake …
Havant fell 12 runs short with 173 all out. Jacob Gordon picture by Terry Nash
