South African Brad Porteous, who played Southern Premier League cricket for Basingstoke & North Hants several seasons ago, finished as the leading aggregate run scorer in the ECB Royal London Club Championship, helping Bath become national champions in the process.
He twice made 70-plus scores in the lead-up to Sunday's final at the superb John Paul Getty complex at Wormsley, where he made 34 to help Bath post a match winning 220-8 against Derbyshire's Sandiacre Town, who rolled over for 139.
Ironically, Bath's man of the match was Millfield product Sam Young, who made 78, a few days after being released by Somerset. Bath knocked out Bashley (Rydal) in a high scoring second round tie.
He twice made 70-plus scores in the lead-up to Sunday's final at the superb John Paul Getty complex at Wormsley, where he made 34 to help Bath post a match winning 220-8 against Derbyshire's Sandiacre Town, who rolled over for 139.
Ironically, Bath's man of the match was Millfield product Sam Young, who made 78, a few days after being released by Somerset. Bath knocked out Bashley (Rydal) in a high scoring second round tie.
