Brad Currie's feet are firmly grounded after recent illness : Terry Nash
Bashley (Rydal) are forced into wholesale changes ahead of their demanding Time pennant visit to ECB Southern Premier League champions, Havant.
Teenage left-arm pace bowler Brad Currie and new-ball partner Dan Goodey are absent, along with wicketkeeper Chris Ridley, who has a long-term knee injury. The reliable Tom Jacques is also unavailable.
Currie is still recovering and rebuilding his body strength after the stomach ailment which led to him spending two days in hospital after last weekend’s drawn match with Lymington, while Bournemouth university student Goodey has returned home to Devon to play for Plymouth.
Captain Michael Porter’s wheeling and dealing in the transfer market has led to one-time Totton & Eling batsman/keeper Zak Millar joining from Bath, where he has been at university for the past three years. Teenager Patrick Lewis will be behind the stumps, with Ross Grierson bolstering the four-pronged spin attack.
Bashley (Rydal) lie third in the table six points behind Havant, Premier Division champions for the past two seasons.
As always, Havant (with three wins and a draw from four Time games) rely heavily on their spin attack, with left-arm spinner Graham Burns having emerged from second team cricket to take 35 wickets in league and cup matches already this summer.
Havant are, though, without his spin partner Chris Morgan and in-form teenage batsman Harry Gadd.
Havant: Stone, Gorvin, Ransley, Hopson, Hindley, Jones, Bulled, Prentice, Jerry, Atkins, Burns.
Bashley (Rydal): Porter, Digby, Kennett, Millar, Morris, T Taylor, Holly, P Lewis, Grierson, Watkins, Reid.
Tom Cowley’s return for South Wilts against Basingstoke & North Hants poses an intriguing batting order problem for the Bemerton table toppers.
Jack Mynott stepped into Cowley’s shoes and made an unbeaten century against the Hampshire Academy last weekend.
Now skipper James Hibberd has a dilemma : does he restore Cowley to open alongside Tom Morton or retain Mynott is the role ?
“It’s something I’ve been sleeping on. It is a tricky one – but what a terrific problem to have,” he smiled.
South Wilts: Morton, Cowley,Wade Mynott, Hayward, Draper, Godsal, Hibberd, Evans, Franklin, Warner, Murray.
Basingstoke, without seamer Graham Porter for the coming weeks, will want to see South African all-rounder Sibz Makhanya start producing the goods.
The Dolphins youngster has made only 111 runs and taken three wickets in his three games so far.
Basingstoke & North Hants: Stokes, Thane, Froud, Albert, Makhanya, B Neal, M Harsham, Griffiths, Benge, A Neal, James.
Hampshire Academy hand Southern Premier League debuts to two schoolboy all-rounder talents against New Milton on the Ageas Bowl Nursery Ground, 11am.
Canford prodigy Tom Prest, a member of Hampshire’s successful Under-15 county championship side, plays alongside Hurstpierpoint School’s Josh Wood, from Sussex Premier League club Middleton.
The pair are both top order batsmen and off–spin bowlers, with Wood having made his county Under-17 debut against Devon last weekend.
Opening bowler Chris Searle has also been pencilled in for a comeback after on-going shoulder problems. Nick Gargaro (knee) is line-up for a New Milton return.
Academy: Organ, Metzger, Wood, Scriven, Middleton, Currie, Prest, Abass, Searle, Reynolds, Trodd.
New Milton: R Beck, G Watts, Golding, L Beck, S Watts, Arnold, Hussey, Gargaro, Lilley, Wilmore, Mortimore.
St Cross Symondians have said their farewells to Andover-bound spin all-rounder Charlie Ayres, but look to extend their good all-day form when lowly Lymington visit the Green Jackets Ground.
Lymington lie second from the bottom of the Premier Division, with their only two wins coming in the Time format.
Alton are boosted by the return of fit-again swing bowler Ben Mortimer, but are without Mark Heffernan and Alex Hammond at Burridge.
Alton: Mike Heffernan, Marais, Harris, Myers, Paul, H Hammond, Mike Salmon, Dan Scott, Mortimer, Toby Salmon, Ballinger.
Teenage left-arm pace bowler Brad Currie and new-ball partner Dan Goodey are absent, along with wicketkeeper Chris Ridley, who has a long-term knee injury. The reliable Tom Jacques is also unavailable.
Currie is still recovering and rebuilding his body strength after the stomach ailment which led to him spending two days in hospital after last weekend’s drawn match with Lymington, while Bournemouth university student Goodey has returned home to Devon to play for Plymouth.
Captain Michael Porter’s wheeling and dealing in the transfer market has led to one-time Totton & Eling batsman/keeper Zak Millar joining from Bath, where he has been at university for the past three years. Teenager Patrick Lewis will be behind the stumps, with Ross Grierson bolstering the four-pronged spin attack.
Bashley (Rydal) lie third in the table six points behind Havant, Premier Division champions for the past two seasons.
As always, Havant (with three wins and a draw from four Time games) rely heavily on their spin attack, with left-arm spinner Graham Burns having emerged from second team cricket to take 35 wickets in league and cup matches already this summer.
Havant are, though, without his spin partner Chris Morgan and in-form teenage batsman Harry Gadd.
Havant: Stone, Gorvin, Ransley, Hopson, Hindley, Jones, Bulled, Prentice, Jerry, Atkins, Burns.
Bashley (Rydal): Porter, Digby, Kennett, Millar, Morris, T Taylor, Holly, P Lewis, Grierson, Watkins, Reid.
Tom Cowley’s return for South Wilts against Basingstoke & North Hants poses an intriguing batting order problem for the Bemerton table toppers.
Jack Mynott stepped into Cowley’s shoes and made an unbeaten century against the Hampshire Academy last weekend.
Now skipper James Hibberd has a dilemma : does he restore Cowley to open alongside Tom Morton or retain Mynott is the role ?
“It’s something I’ve been sleeping on. It is a tricky one – but what a terrific problem to have,” he smiled.
South Wilts: Morton, Cowley,Wade Mynott, Hayward, Draper, Godsal, Hibberd, Evans, Franklin, Warner, Murray.
Basingstoke, without seamer Graham Porter for the coming weeks, will want to see South African all-rounder Sibz Makhanya start producing the goods.
The Dolphins youngster has made only 111 runs and taken three wickets in his three games so far.
Basingstoke & North Hants: Stokes, Thane, Froud, Albert, Makhanya, B Neal, M Harsham, Griffiths, Benge, A Neal, James.
Hampshire Academy hand Southern Premier League debuts to two schoolboy all-rounder talents against New Milton on the Ageas Bowl Nursery Ground, 11am.
Canford prodigy Tom Prest, a member of Hampshire’s successful Under-15 county championship side, plays alongside Hurstpierpoint School’s Josh Wood, from Sussex Premier League club Middleton.
The pair are both top order batsmen and off–spin bowlers, with Wood having made his county Under-17 debut against Devon last weekend.
Opening bowler Chris Searle has also been pencilled in for a comeback after on-going shoulder problems. Nick Gargaro (knee) is line-up for a New Milton return.
Academy: Organ, Metzger, Wood, Scriven, Middleton, Currie, Prest, Abass, Searle, Reynolds, Trodd.
New Milton: R Beck, G Watts, Golding, L Beck, S Watts, Arnold, Hussey, Gargaro, Lilley, Wilmore, Mortimore.
St Cross Symondians have said their farewells to Andover-bound spin all-rounder Charlie Ayres, but look to extend their good all-day form when lowly Lymington visit the Green Jackets Ground.
Lymington lie second from the bottom of the Premier Division, with their only two wins coming in the Time format.
Alton are boosted by the return of fit-again swing bowler Ben Mortimer, but are without Mark Heffernan and Alex Hammond at Burridge.
Alton: Mike Heffernan, Marais, Harris, Myers, Paul, H Hammond, Mike Salmon, Dan Scott, Mortimer, Toby Salmon, Ballinger.
