Hands up, who wants to take the new ball ?
That may well be the question Ben Walker will ask in the Bemerton visitors’ dressing room if he loses the toss and Havant are asked to field first against South Wilts, who top the ECB Southern Premier League.
Walker has lost his entire seam bowling unit with Richard Jerry sidelined with a side muscle injury, Sonny Reynolds (left) suffering from a recurrence of back trouble, and Nick Ward having returned to play for Folkestone in the Kent League following the end of his university semester.
Walker himself may have to take the new ball, but he’ll have no shortage of spin options with six potential slow bowlers in his armoury.
Champions South Wilts don’t exactly have a clean bill of health themselves, though with Tom Morton, Peter Rowe and left-hander Jack Stearman in good nick runs aren’t a problem.
Jack Mynott, along with injured duo James Hayward (hamstring) and Ben Huntley (shoulder), miss the Havant match.
With Hayward on wine waiter duty at the Vice President’s lunch, young Indian left-arm spin all-rounder Aaryn Sen has eyed a possible promotion in the South Wilts order, to five where Hayward normally slots.
Sen opens the batting for his club side in Mumbai and in midweek hit a classy half-century on debut for the MCC.
South Wilts: Morton, Stearman, Rowe, Draper, Godsal, Falconer, Sen, Grant, Croom, Lewis, Burton.
Havant: Hopson, C Whitfield, H Gadd, Stone, Metzger, Walker, Hindley, Barnard, A Whitfield, P Hayward, M Hayward.
Second placed Hampshire Academy are unchanged for the visit to Totton & Eling to the Ageas Bowl Nursery Ground, where Fletcha Middleton will be eager to impress.
Whoever loses the toss could be in for a long session in the field !
Several of the academy side were in good form against Kent seconds in midweek, with Joe Eckland, Charlie Mumford and Jude Wright in the runs.
Academy: Eckland, Cheater, Mumford, Wright, Kelly, Fairfax-Ross, Baker, Pritchard, Ruffell, Martin, Cordery.
St Cross Symondians are without Hampshire’s Felix Organ and injured skipper Ed Ellis for the trip to Chapel Gate, where hosts Bournemouth lie bottom, mainly on account of the 25-point deduction the Premier League imposed when the round one match against Hook & Newnham Basics was abandoned due to an ‘unsafe pitch’.
Things are much improved now, though Bournemouth need a win to hoist themselves off the bottom.
St Cross Symondians: T Foyle, Bransgrove, Booth, Connolly, Foster, H Foyle, Trussler, Gwynn, Beetham, Beer, Haworth.
Bashley (Rydal) call up seam all-rounder George Wilson against Burridge at the BCG, where left-armer Brad Currie is resting up ahead of Dorset’s key National Trophy match against Wales MC at Wimborne on Sunday, 11am. He has been playing for Sussex II in midweek.
Ton-up Michael Porter, Jacob Gordon and Tom Friend all made runs at Havant last week.
Bashley (Rydal): Digby, Francis, Jacob Gordon, Porter, Friend, Morris, Tripcony, Goodey, Finn Gordon, G.Wilson, Fletcher.
If last weekend’s results are to be any guide, then Hook & Newnham Basics’ home match with Lymington is unlikely to be a run fest.
Hook were skittled for 58 by St Cross Symondians and Lymington managed only 123 before losing by eight wickets to the academy.
Ollie May and Rhodes Franklin make their seasonal debuts, while Lymington expect Kiwi James Hartshorn to have recovered from a cut shin and Ryan Scott return, provided he gets back from his holiday in Portugal.
Johan Dhariwal also returns after last week’s Cambridge University black tie ball.
Hook & Newnham Basics: Thane, Warner, Robson, Buckingham M, Buckingham J, Simpson M, Watts, Divechi, May O, Doran, Franklin
Lymington: Rogers, Crabb, Scott, Royan, J Dhariwal, L Mcurdy, J Hartshorn, D Cox, A Wheble, G Layman, R Attree.
That may well be the question Ben Walker will ask in the Bemerton visitors’ dressing room if he loses the toss and Havant are asked to field first against South Wilts, who top the ECB Southern Premier League.
Walker has lost his entire seam bowling unit with Richard Jerry sidelined with a side muscle injury, Sonny Reynolds (left) suffering from a recurrence of back trouble, and Nick Ward having returned to play for Folkestone in the Kent League following the end of his university semester.
Walker himself may have to take the new ball, but he’ll have no shortage of spin options with six potential slow bowlers in his armoury.
Champions South Wilts don’t exactly have a clean bill of health themselves, though with Tom Morton, Peter Rowe and left-hander Jack Stearman in good nick runs aren’t a problem.
Jack Mynott, along with injured duo James Hayward (hamstring) and Ben Huntley (shoulder), miss the Havant match.
With Hayward on wine waiter duty at the Vice President’s lunch, young Indian left-arm spin all-rounder Aaryn Sen has eyed a possible promotion in the South Wilts order, to five where Hayward normally slots.
Sen opens the batting for his club side in Mumbai and in midweek hit a classy half-century on debut for the MCC.
South Wilts: Morton, Stearman, Rowe, Draper, Godsal, Falconer, Sen, Grant, Croom, Lewis, Burton.
Havant: Hopson, C Whitfield, H Gadd, Stone, Metzger, Walker, Hindley, Barnard, A Whitfield, P Hayward, M Hayward.
Second placed Hampshire Academy are unchanged for the visit to Totton & Eling to the Ageas Bowl Nursery Ground, where Fletcha Middleton will be eager to impress.
Whoever loses the toss could be in for a long session in the field !
Several of the academy side were in good form against Kent seconds in midweek, with Joe Eckland, Charlie Mumford and Jude Wright in the runs.
Academy: Eckland, Cheater, Mumford, Wright, Kelly, Fairfax-Ross, Baker, Pritchard, Ruffell, Martin, Cordery.
St Cross Symondians are without Hampshire’s Felix Organ and injured skipper Ed Ellis for the trip to Chapel Gate, where hosts Bournemouth lie bottom, mainly on account of the 25-point deduction the Premier League imposed when the round one match against Hook & Newnham Basics was abandoned due to an ‘unsafe pitch’.
Things are much improved now, though Bournemouth need a win to hoist themselves off the bottom.
St Cross Symondians: T Foyle, Bransgrove, Booth, Connolly, Foster, H Foyle, Trussler, Gwynn, Beetham, Beer, Haworth.
Bashley (Rydal) call up seam all-rounder George Wilson against Burridge at the BCG, where left-armer Brad Currie is resting up ahead of Dorset’s key National Trophy match against Wales MC at Wimborne on Sunday, 11am. He has been playing for Sussex II in midweek.
Ton-up Michael Porter, Jacob Gordon and Tom Friend all made runs at Havant last week.
Bashley (Rydal): Digby, Francis, Jacob Gordon, Porter, Friend, Morris, Tripcony, Goodey, Finn Gordon, G.Wilson, Fletcher.
If last weekend’s results are to be any guide, then Hook & Newnham Basics’ home match with Lymington is unlikely to be a run fest.
Hook were skittled for 58 by St Cross Symondians and Lymington managed only 123 before losing by eight wickets to the academy.
Ollie May and Rhodes Franklin make their seasonal debuts, while Lymington expect Kiwi James Hartshorn to have recovered from a cut shin and Ryan Scott return, provided he gets back from his holiday in Portugal.
Johan Dhariwal also returns after last week’s Cambridge University black tie ball.
Hook & Newnham Basics: Thane, Warner, Robson, Buckingham M, Buckingham J, Simpson M, Watts, Divechi, May O, Doran, Franklin
Lymington: Rogers, Crabb, Scott, Royan, J Dhariwal, L Mcurdy, J Hartshorn, D Cox, A Wheble, G Layman, R Attree.
Ryan Scott due back after a nasty groin injury.
