Rob Woolley led Havant fightback
Cameron Prentice, back at Havant after a seven-year absence, was the match winner as the local Southern Premier League side pulled off a surprise one-wicket ECB national club championship win over Guildford.
The talented one-time Portsmouth Grammar all-rounder, who has played second team cricket at Wokingham for the past two summers, hit an unbeaten 36 during two late partnerships after Rob Woolley had triggered a Havant fightback against the Surrey Championship club
Responding to Guildford's 205-6, Havant lost their first three batsmen for 11 runs, but Woolley, with a timely 76, galvanised the middle-order and took the reply to 156- 8.
Eight wickets down, Havant were still 50 runs short of victory, but Prentice found an improbable partner in teenage wicketkeeper Thomas Clarke (14), the pair lifting the score to 190 before last man Warren Turner nudged eight singles to get Havant home with three balls to spare.
The talented one-time Portsmouth Grammar all-rounder, who has played second team cricket at Wokingham for the past two summers, hit an unbeaten 36 during two late partnerships after Rob Woolley had triggered a Havant fightback against the Surrey Championship club
Responding to Guildford's 205-6, Havant lost their first three batsmen for 11 runs, but Woolley, with a timely 76, galvanised the middle-order and took the reply to 156- 8.
Eight wickets down, Havant were still 50 runs short of victory, but Prentice found an improbable partner in teenage wicketkeeper Thomas Clarke (14), the pair lifting the score to 190 before last man Warren Turner nudged eight singles to get Havant home with three balls to spare.
