It’s Spring Bank holiday weekend and, right on cue, it pours with rain. Only two of the scheduled 19 Southern Premier League fixtures survive – BAT Sports and OTs & Romsey emerge victorious – while all nine Division 3 matches are washed out.
BAT’s three-wicket win over Burridge at Southern Gardens is far from straightforward as the visitors fight valiantly to defend a modest 137-9, Neil Cunningham (pictured) holding the innings together with an unbeaten 74 while Dan Goldstraw (3-21) and Chris Thomason (3-28) make inroads. Then Paul Jenkins (3-36) roughs up BAT’s top order and it needs the calming influence of Ian Atkins (41), aided by Mark Page, to get the hosts across the line.
BAT’s three-wicket win over Burridge at Southern Gardens is far from straightforward as the visitors fight valiantly to defend a modest 137-9, Neil Cunningham (pictured) holding the innings together with an unbeaten 74 while Dan Goldstraw (3-21) and Chris Thomason (3-28) make inroads. Then Paul Jenkins (3-36) roughs up BAT’s top order and it needs the calming influence of Ian Atkins (41), aided by Mark Page, to get the hosts across the line.
An undefeated half-century by Keith Trodd is the key to OTs & Romsey’s six wicket victory over visiting Trojans, a match that sees two of the original members of the old Southern League back in 1969 (and decades beyond that) lock horns. Trojans post 146-4 (Tim Subnaik 57 and Simon Williams a gritty 31) before Trodd (53*) guided OTs home after early work by Charles Forward (38).