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EX-HAMPSHIRE CRICKETER FIRES ST CROSS PROMOTION BID

18/7/2017

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Former Hampshire cricketer Jason Laney, now 40, has St Cross Symondians II eyeing a potential second consecutive British Gas Southern League promotion.
He has rattled off four successive fifty-plus scores, the latest helping set up a four-wicket win over Division 2 promotion rivals Hartley Wintney.
St Cross, 11 points behind second placed OTs & Romsey, still have the top two sides left to play, with leaders Totton & Eling visiting the Green Jackets on Saturday week, July 29.
Laney (54) and Paul Hawkins (58) provided St Cross, runners-up in SPL3 last season, with a 121-run start as they chased down Hartley Wintney’s 231-8, built around Kiwi Henry Collier (68) and Will Kerr (54).
Mark Haworth (37) continued the good work, but St Cross had to overcome two wobbles before 15-year old Alex Ayres scored a mature 37 not out to steer them home.
Roly Fowler’s 20 included two big sixes, while earlier teenager Harry Trussler took 3-42.
South Wilts’ IIs bid to claw away from the British Gas Southern League Division 2 relegation zone is gaining momentum.
The three-wicket success against Paultons was their third win in a row, one which takes them to within 12 points of Trojans, who won by 21 runs at Sparsholt.
But at 98-7, chasing Paultons 187-9, it hardly looked as though South Wilts would make it three wins on the spin.
Two new-ball strikes by Australian James Bills (2-40) had SW wobbling at 10-2, but Owain Phillips (45) and Joe Cranch (32) pulled things round to 68-2 before Peter Lamb (2-26) and left-arm spinner Andrew Denney (3-36) sent five wickets tumbling for 29 runs.
But Stephen Booth (47) and Steve Kidd (41) turned the game on its head once again with an unbroken 90-run eighth wicket stand which saw South Wilts home.
Syed Mahmood, with 61 and a 4-39 return with the ball, inspired Trojans’ 21-run victory over Sparsholt at the Norman Edwards Ground.
He scored his runs after Ed Boyd (57) and Nigel le Bas (40) had laid the platform with a century opening stand, but Trojans allowed the promise of 131-1 to slip away and finish with 223-9, Mike Haworth taking 4-46.
Jeremy Frith (55) and David Banks (44) took Sparsholt’s reply to 148-3 when Mahmood struck again with a superb catch to dismiss the former Sarisbury Athletic captain.
Sam Kennett (30) kept Sparsholt in the game, but Mahmood (4-39), Rahul Bhome (3-46) and Anish Joshi (2-39) held the whip hand as the hosts finished 202-9.
Langley Manor’s recent revival was checked by basement boys Hambledon, who piled up 290-3 on the back of openers George Marshall (83), Will Bond (80) and Indie Chakrabarti’s 78 not out.   South African Saulieg Rayned made 75 as the Manor replied with 250.







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