Dan Conway back in the lions den [James Robinson]
Bournemouth’s lead at the top of the ECB Southern Premier Division has been trimmed to 12 by a five-point deduction, imposed by the league, for a player registration admin slip-up.
It appears they had inadvertently omitted to register one of their second team players for last week’s four-wicket win at South Wilts, nothing more than a simple oversight.
The five-point deduction, which is standard SPL practice, is certain to bump up the team’s efforts for Alton’s visit to Chapel Gate, which sees the return of lead strike bowler Dan Conway.
Alton, six points ahead of Hook & Newnham Basics in the relegation zone, are without Tom South, Jack Myers and wicketkeeper Mark Heffernan.
Bournemouth: C Park, Webb, Matthews, Woodruff, Denham, Pack, N Park, Oldfield, Hurley, Conway, Brecken.
Alton: Janmohamed, Gonella, Middleton, Harris, Myers, Hale, Wright, Egleston, Walters, Salmon, Ballinger.
Hampshire’s academy team make a rare Ageas Bowl appearance when second placed St Cross Symondians come visiting the Nursery Ground.
Like most clubs, skipper Ed Ellis has been juggling covid isolation issues and, coincidentally, Felix Organ, Harry Came and Tom Foyle are all missing. Jason Laney is included and Jack Bransgrove makes a long awaited return.
St Cross Symondians: Haworth, Bransgrove, Ellis, Laney, Woolvine, Braans, Beetham, Acheson-Gray, Foyle, Booth, Trussler.
South Wilts name an unchanged side for the visit to basement side Hook & Newnham Basics, who are boosted by Matt Love’s return, but motorhead Harry Robson has gone to Silverstone.
Hook & Newnham Basics: J Buckingham, Lockwood, M Buckingham, Love, Willcock, Murrell, Divecha, Moore, Brewer, Balcombe, Brown.
South Wilts: Morton, Mynott, Rowe, Hayward, Draper, Hussey, Godsal, Huntley, Warner, Grant, Burton.
Bashley (Rydal) name an unchanged side for the home match with Burridge, which sees Brad Currie make his first BCG appearance of the season.
Currie will probably take the new ball alongside Ben Fletcher, who took seven wickets on his Dorset Minor Counties Championship debut last weekend.
Bashley (Rydal): Gordon, Digby, Fisher, Porter, Andrew, Francis, Stroud, Wilson, Currie, Baker, Fletcher.
The teenage brothers Harry and Freddie Gadd is self-isolating and miss Havant’s home match with Lymington, who are looking for a sixth straight win.
Havant: Ben Walker, Pete Hopson, Simon Loat, Chris Morgan, Richard Hindley, Jeremy Bulled, Richard Jerry, Sid Mutta, Alfie Taw, Sam Woodgate and Julian Atkins.
Lymington: Metcalfe, Mortimore, Crabb, Cox, Scott, Du Plooy, Attrill, Royan, Edwards, Proctor, Wade.
* All of the Southern Premier League will be saddened to hear that Lymington stalwart Tony Wharton was admitted to Southampton General Hospital last weekend suffering chest pains. Equally, everyone will be gladdened to know 'Wharts' is in good spirts and hopes to be discharged on Monday. He even missed last Sunday's Euro 2020 final, although rumours are that he declined to pay £2 for a bedside telly ...
It appears they had inadvertently omitted to register one of their second team players for last week’s four-wicket win at South Wilts, nothing more than a simple oversight.
The five-point deduction, which is standard SPL practice, is certain to bump up the team’s efforts for Alton’s visit to Chapel Gate, which sees the return of lead strike bowler Dan Conway.
Alton, six points ahead of Hook & Newnham Basics in the relegation zone, are without Tom South, Jack Myers and wicketkeeper Mark Heffernan.
Bournemouth: C Park, Webb, Matthews, Woodruff, Denham, Pack, N Park, Oldfield, Hurley, Conway, Brecken.
Alton: Janmohamed, Gonella, Middleton, Harris, Myers, Hale, Wright, Egleston, Walters, Salmon, Ballinger.
Hampshire’s academy team make a rare Ageas Bowl appearance when second placed St Cross Symondians come visiting the Nursery Ground.
Like most clubs, skipper Ed Ellis has been juggling covid isolation issues and, coincidentally, Felix Organ, Harry Came and Tom Foyle are all missing. Jason Laney is included and Jack Bransgrove makes a long awaited return.
St Cross Symondians: Haworth, Bransgrove, Ellis, Laney, Woolvine, Braans, Beetham, Acheson-Gray, Foyle, Booth, Trussler.
South Wilts name an unchanged side for the visit to basement side Hook & Newnham Basics, who are boosted by Matt Love’s return, but motorhead Harry Robson has gone to Silverstone.
Hook & Newnham Basics: J Buckingham, Lockwood, M Buckingham, Love, Willcock, Murrell, Divecha, Moore, Brewer, Balcombe, Brown.
South Wilts: Morton, Mynott, Rowe, Hayward, Draper, Hussey, Godsal, Huntley, Warner, Grant, Burton.
Bashley (Rydal) name an unchanged side for the home match with Burridge, which sees Brad Currie make his first BCG appearance of the season.
Currie will probably take the new ball alongside Ben Fletcher, who took seven wickets on his Dorset Minor Counties Championship debut last weekend.
Bashley (Rydal): Gordon, Digby, Fisher, Porter, Andrew, Francis, Stroud, Wilson, Currie, Baker, Fletcher.
The teenage brothers Harry and Freddie Gadd is self-isolating and miss Havant’s home match with Lymington, who are looking for a sixth straight win.
Havant: Ben Walker, Pete Hopson, Simon Loat, Chris Morgan, Richard Hindley, Jeremy Bulled, Richard Jerry, Sid Mutta, Alfie Taw, Sam Woodgate and Julian Atkins.
Lymington: Metcalfe, Mortimore, Crabb, Cox, Scott, Du Plooy, Attrill, Royan, Edwards, Proctor, Wade.
* All of the Southern Premier League will be saddened to hear that Lymington stalwart Tony Wharton was admitted to Southampton General Hospital last weekend suffering chest pains. Equally, everyone will be gladdened to know 'Wharts' is in good spirts and hopes to be discharged on Monday. He even missed last Sunday's Euro 2020 final, although rumours are that he declined to pay £2 for a bedside telly ...
Joe Kooner-Evans back for Portsmouth (Bob Selly picture)
There’s an interesting scrap evolving in Division 1, where near neighbours Totton & Eling and Calmore Sports (who meet in the penultimate round of fixtures) are only three points apart.
Totton face a testing visit to Sparsholt, whose key all-rounder Jeremy Frith is champing at the bit for a return from isolation in the Channel Islands.
Sparsholt: Banks, Sumner, Mitchard, Doran, Taylor, May, Banks-Williams, Ley, Weir, Collison, Tucker.
Calmore Sports, with a massive Voneus Village Cup quarter-final tie against Gloucestershire’s Rockhampton at Loperwood Park on Sunday (1pm), will be put through their paces by Portsmouth at St Helen’s, Southsea, where Joe Kooner-Evans returns for the city side.
Portsmouth: Christian, Brook, Duggan, Hirani, Kooner-Evans, Marston A, Marston J, McArdle, Smitherman, Walton, Woolf
Calmore Sports: Lavelle, Bailey, Fisher, Lepervanche, Johns, Brewster, Johnson, Taylor, Wright, Moss, Carty.
Third and tearing up the table are Basingstoke & North Hants, who chase a sixth straight win at lowly St Cross Symondians II.
New Milton have fallen off the pace lately, as have Rowledge, who have teenager Zach le Roux back.
New Milton: Watts, Edwards, Golding, Greig, L Beck, Hussey, Wilson, Bartlett, Loader, Humphrey, Hall
Rowledge: Ben Wish, Jake Wish, David Lloyd, Jonty Sebborn, Zac Le Roux, Olly Ryman, Will Ryman, Ryan Littlewood, Ethan Martin, Ollie Baker, Ricky Yates
Sarisbury Athletic’s survival prospects took a hit with a five-point penalty deduction (similar to Bournemouth’s) in midweek, so they will be desperate to win the relegation showdown with Andover at Allotment Road.
Andover: Hooper, Knight, Ashman, Ayers, Taylor, Adams, Veettil, Watta, Branston-Smith, Duckworth, Birks.
Hartley Wintney have strung together four successive wins since suffering their solitary defeat at Ventnor and have opened up a healthy lead at the top over Liphook & Ripsley.
Hartley go to Bemerton to face a youthful but unchanged South Wilts’ second side that enjoys a spot of drama, as a tie at Fawley and last week’s thrilling one-wicket win at OTs & Romsey underlines.
South Wilts II: R Pittman, Cranch, Stearman, Edwards, Pearce, Howgrave-Graham, Falconer, S Pittman, Partridge, Atkinson, Lewis.
Liphook, who took a brutal beating from Scott Baldwin’s 141-run bat last week, go to bottom of the log Paultons, who (like fellow A36ers Fawley) are in desperate trouble at the bottom.
Nathan Feltham takes charge of the P’s and will have the experience of Peter Lamb and Paul Longland to call upon.
Despite their position in the log, skipper Simon Ennew says: “There’s still a lot of confidence within the team, but we really need the batting to click and someone get a horrid 60 or 70.”
Paultons: Feltham, Wateridge, Grierson, Pike, Rogers, Richman, Longlnd, Lamb, Stairs, Chadhoke, Denney.
Key match in SPL2 is at Lapstone Park, where Fair Oak play dethroned leaders Old Tauntonians & Romsey, a match neither side can afford to lose.
Batting is OTs problem. Only Bothwell Chapungu has made a 50 this season and, alongside Rob Newman and skipper Charlie King, is the only player to make chalked up more than 100 league runs.
The OTs wobble has coincided with Ventnor’s rapid rise, the islanders having won heir last three games to move up to fourth place.
Waterlooville cross Spithead with Sam Hillman and Jon Hudson missing and, at the time of writing, influential skipper Archie Reynolds laid up in bed, with flu. His father Andy will be taking his kit on the dawn car ferry.
Waterlooville: A Reynolds, Shephard, Jackson, S Reynolds, Birch, Verma, Knight, Robinson, Silva, McBride, Parker.
Crucial relegation points are at stake on Waterside, where Fawley simply must beat Bashley (Rydal) II if they are to survive.
Match of the Day
Top billing across all four divisions in round 12 is the top of the table Division 3 duel at Ridge Meadow, where Hambledon put their unblemished six-match winning record up against Hook & Newnham Basics II.
Hambledon’s six wins have given them a 23-point lead over Hook and 31 from Langley Manor, the third placed side.
If Hambledon win, one of the two promotion places will be virtually guaranteed – but if Kevin Light’s side emerge victorious one mile from Broadhalfpenny Down, then there’s a potential three-cornered scrap for the last six weeks.
The match throws up a potentially fascinating duel between Hambledon run guns Henry Glanfield and Dan McGovern, and Hook’s left-arm teenage paceman Liam Shore.
Shore’s opening partner Max Simpson is in isolation, but his replacement Oli May will bring plenty of energy to the cause. Harry Warner is back from solitary.
Hambledon: S Le Clerq, Pratt, Butcher, Oliver, Harding, Khan, Hardman, McGovern, Marshall, Nyren or Glanfield.
Hook & Newnham Basics II: Light, Warner, Allnutt, O May, Shore, Gardner, T May, Watts, Neville, James, Bruin.
Ironically, the third and fourth placed sides, Langley and Gosport Borough tee off at Knellers Lane, where Borough’s bowlers will need to contain Jack Budd, Conor Browne and Rob Noble.
There’s a must win affair at Jones Lane, where Hythe & Dibden pits their wits against winless Purbrook, who have lost all six games. Hythe have won once.
Hythe: T Richards, T Gates, J Stovell, Z Millar+, W Mckay, W Royan, D Bynoe, D Taylor, T Jones, B Holbrook, T Ndowora.
Elsewhere, Portsmouth & Southsea visit relegation troubled Tichborne Park, while Trojans go to Basingstoke & North Hants.
Totton face a testing visit to Sparsholt, whose key all-rounder Jeremy Frith is champing at the bit for a return from isolation in the Channel Islands.
Sparsholt: Banks, Sumner, Mitchard, Doran, Taylor, May, Banks-Williams, Ley, Weir, Collison, Tucker.
Calmore Sports, with a massive Voneus Village Cup quarter-final tie against Gloucestershire’s Rockhampton at Loperwood Park on Sunday (1pm), will be put through their paces by Portsmouth at St Helen’s, Southsea, where Joe Kooner-Evans returns for the city side.
Portsmouth: Christian, Brook, Duggan, Hirani, Kooner-Evans, Marston A, Marston J, McArdle, Smitherman, Walton, Woolf
Calmore Sports: Lavelle, Bailey, Fisher, Lepervanche, Johns, Brewster, Johnson, Taylor, Wright, Moss, Carty.
Third and tearing up the table are Basingstoke & North Hants, who chase a sixth straight win at lowly St Cross Symondians II.
New Milton have fallen off the pace lately, as have Rowledge, who have teenager Zach le Roux back.
New Milton: Watts, Edwards, Golding, Greig, L Beck, Hussey, Wilson, Bartlett, Loader, Humphrey, Hall
Rowledge: Ben Wish, Jake Wish, David Lloyd, Jonty Sebborn, Zac Le Roux, Olly Ryman, Will Ryman, Ryan Littlewood, Ethan Martin, Ollie Baker, Ricky Yates
Sarisbury Athletic’s survival prospects took a hit with a five-point penalty deduction (similar to Bournemouth’s) in midweek, so they will be desperate to win the relegation showdown with Andover at Allotment Road.
Andover: Hooper, Knight, Ashman, Ayers, Taylor, Adams, Veettil, Watta, Branston-Smith, Duckworth, Birks.
Hartley Wintney have strung together four successive wins since suffering their solitary defeat at Ventnor and have opened up a healthy lead at the top over Liphook & Ripsley.
Hartley go to Bemerton to face a youthful but unchanged South Wilts’ second side that enjoys a spot of drama, as a tie at Fawley and last week’s thrilling one-wicket win at OTs & Romsey underlines.
South Wilts II: R Pittman, Cranch, Stearman, Edwards, Pearce, Howgrave-Graham, Falconer, S Pittman, Partridge, Atkinson, Lewis.
Liphook, who took a brutal beating from Scott Baldwin’s 141-run bat last week, go to bottom of the log Paultons, who (like fellow A36ers Fawley) are in desperate trouble at the bottom.
Nathan Feltham takes charge of the P’s and will have the experience of Peter Lamb and Paul Longland to call upon.
Despite their position in the log, skipper Simon Ennew says: “There’s still a lot of confidence within the team, but we really need the batting to click and someone get a horrid 60 or 70.”
Paultons: Feltham, Wateridge, Grierson, Pike, Rogers, Richman, Longlnd, Lamb, Stairs, Chadhoke, Denney.
Key match in SPL2 is at Lapstone Park, where Fair Oak play dethroned leaders Old Tauntonians & Romsey, a match neither side can afford to lose.
Batting is OTs problem. Only Bothwell Chapungu has made a 50 this season and, alongside Rob Newman and skipper Charlie King, is the only player to make chalked up more than 100 league runs.
The OTs wobble has coincided with Ventnor’s rapid rise, the islanders having won heir last three games to move up to fourth place.
Waterlooville cross Spithead with Sam Hillman and Jon Hudson missing and, at the time of writing, influential skipper Archie Reynolds laid up in bed, with flu. His father Andy will be taking his kit on the dawn car ferry.
Waterlooville: A Reynolds, Shephard, Jackson, S Reynolds, Birch, Verma, Knight, Robinson, Silva, McBride, Parker.
Crucial relegation points are at stake on Waterside, where Fawley simply must beat Bashley (Rydal) II if they are to survive.
Match of the Day
Top billing across all four divisions in round 12 is the top of the table Division 3 duel at Ridge Meadow, where Hambledon put their unblemished six-match winning record up against Hook & Newnham Basics II.
Hambledon’s six wins have given them a 23-point lead over Hook and 31 from Langley Manor, the third placed side.
If Hambledon win, one of the two promotion places will be virtually guaranteed – but if Kevin Light’s side emerge victorious one mile from Broadhalfpenny Down, then there’s a potential three-cornered scrap for the last six weeks.
The match throws up a potentially fascinating duel between Hambledon run guns Henry Glanfield and Dan McGovern, and Hook’s left-arm teenage paceman Liam Shore.
Shore’s opening partner Max Simpson is in isolation, but his replacement Oli May will bring plenty of energy to the cause. Harry Warner is back from solitary.
Hambledon: S Le Clerq, Pratt, Butcher, Oliver, Harding, Khan, Hardman, McGovern, Marshall, Nyren or Glanfield.
Hook & Newnham Basics II: Light, Warner, Allnutt, O May, Shore, Gardner, T May, Watts, Neville, James, Bruin.
Ironically, the third and fourth placed sides, Langley and Gosport Borough tee off at Knellers Lane, where Borough’s bowlers will need to contain Jack Budd, Conor Browne and Rob Noble.
There’s a must win affair at Jones Lane, where Hythe & Dibden pits their wits against winless Purbrook, who have lost all six games. Hythe have won once.
Hythe: T Richards, T Gates, J Stovell, Z Millar+, W Mckay, W Royan, D Bynoe, D Taylor, T Jones, B Holbrook, T Ndowora.
Elsewhere, Portsmouth & Southsea visit relegation troubled Tichborne Park, while Trojans go to Basingstoke & North Hants.
