Last year’s Hampshire League County Division 1 winners Portsmouth & Southsea look to make a positive start back in Southern Premier League Division 3, but visitors South Wilts II provide them with a testing baptism.
P & S reply largely on last season’s title winning side, with powerful performances from Matt Benfield, left, and skipper Kieran Dunstan, who topped the 2017 CD1 batting and bowling charts. The pair have been honing their skills in Durban during the winter.
South Wilts with all-round depth are eager to reclaim lost ground after last summer’s relegation.
Portsmouth & Southsea: Dunstan, Davies, Briggs, M Benfield, Peach, T Benfield, Kanavan, Wigley, Saunders, Willey, Turrell.
South Wilts II: Rob Pittman, Phillips, Berzins, Cranch, Sam Pittman, Pearce, Wade, Booth, Marc Burton, Fisher, Matt Burton.
Ed Kemp leads Fair Oak into action against relegated Hambledon, for whom one-time Hampshire left-arm spinner Ian Turner comes out of retirement to play .. yet again !
Hambledon: Bond, Marshall, Chakrabarti, Willoughby, Barnard, S Le Clerq, Glanfield, Beagley, Harding, Turner, R Chapman.
Fair Oak: Gwynn, Hughes, Kemp, Hockenhull, Plowman, Gradwell, Oxley, McKenzie, Featherstone, Stewart, Mash
Simon Watkins is a surprise choice in Bashley II’s line-up against Fawley at the BCG, where three sets of brothers will be in action, plus a father-and-son Parratt combination.
Bashley (Rydal) II: Grierson, J Vanwyk, S Ridley, Jacques, A Turner, Anstee, Watkins, P Vanwyk, S Morris, J Turner, Eade.
Fawley: C Earl, S Plunkett, K Sharma, K Sharma, A Parratt, B Parratt, K Earl, W Smith, W Crossley, A Freeman, D Godden.
Lymington II, back in SPL3 as County Division 1 runners-up last term, open against Havant II at the Sports Ground, where Oli Kelly once again leads the troops.
Suji Wickramasinghe has joined Lymington in an odd 'player exchange' deal that has seen Richard Locke go to Burridge.
Lymington II Kelly, Agha, Atkins, Sutherland, Royan, Ward, Wickramasinghe, Moors, Layman, Phillips, Freeman
As previously reported, the Purbrook-Gosport Borough match has been called off due to the still waterlogged state of the Heath.
P & S reply largely on last season’s title winning side, with powerful performances from Matt Benfield, left, and skipper Kieran Dunstan, who topped the 2017 CD1 batting and bowling charts. The pair have been honing their skills in Durban during the winter.
South Wilts with all-round depth are eager to reclaim lost ground after last summer’s relegation.
Portsmouth & Southsea: Dunstan, Davies, Briggs, M Benfield, Peach, T Benfield, Kanavan, Wigley, Saunders, Willey, Turrell.
South Wilts II: Rob Pittman, Phillips, Berzins, Cranch, Sam Pittman, Pearce, Wade, Booth, Marc Burton, Fisher, Matt Burton.
Ed Kemp leads Fair Oak into action against relegated Hambledon, for whom one-time Hampshire left-arm spinner Ian Turner comes out of retirement to play .. yet again !
Hambledon: Bond, Marshall, Chakrabarti, Willoughby, Barnard, S Le Clerq, Glanfield, Beagley, Harding, Turner, R Chapman.
Fair Oak: Gwynn, Hughes, Kemp, Hockenhull, Plowman, Gradwell, Oxley, McKenzie, Featherstone, Stewart, Mash
Simon Watkins is a surprise choice in Bashley II’s line-up against Fawley at the BCG, where three sets of brothers will be in action, plus a father-and-son Parratt combination.
Bashley (Rydal) II: Grierson, J Vanwyk, S Ridley, Jacques, A Turner, Anstee, Watkins, P Vanwyk, S Morris, J Turner, Eade.
Fawley: C Earl, S Plunkett, K Sharma, K Sharma, A Parratt, B Parratt, K Earl, W Smith, W Crossley, A Freeman, D Godden.
Lymington II, back in SPL3 as County Division 1 runners-up last term, open against Havant II at the Sports Ground, where Oli Kelly once again leads the troops.
Suji Wickramasinghe has joined Lymington in an odd 'player exchange' deal that has seen Richard Locke go to Burridge.
Lymington II Kelly, Agha, Atkins, Sutherland, Royan, Ward, Wickramasinghe, Moors, Layman, Phillips, Freeman
As previously reported, the Purbrook-Gosport Borough match has been called off due to the still waterlogged state of the Heath.
