Teenage left-arm spinner Alastair Brown took 5-13 to carry off the man of the match award as Basingstoke & North Hants beat Andover by five wickets to win the Guy Jewell Cup.
It's been the 70th year of the competition which began in 1952, so perhaps appropriate Basingstoke should have won it on home May's Bounty soil.
Brown, who joined Basingstoke from high flying Home Counties League Division 2 club Wargrave six weeks ago, sent Andover into freefall after 15-year old Sam Ashman (28) and Babu Veettil (25) had moved the Lions to 72-1.
But Brown, who is off to Loughborough University to study quantity surveying shortly, and Greg Donaldson (3-12) sent eight wickets crashing for 22 runs in a spectacular collapse.
Matt Deadman (26), whose first ball of the final was carted for six by Ashman, and Laurence Benge (24) for Basingstoke off to a sound star, before they too lost wickets and had to be helped across the line by Joe Oates's 28 not out.
Left: Ali Brown with his MoM award and the match ball.
It's been the 70th year of the competition which began in 1952, so perhaps appropriate Basingstoke should have won it on home May's Bounty soil.
Brown, who joined Basingstoke from high flying Home Counties League Division 2 club Wargrave six weeks ago, sent Andover into freefall after 15-year old Sam Ashman (28) and Babu Veettil (25) had moved the Lions to 72-1.
But Brown, who is off to Loughborough University to study quantity surveying shortly, and Greg Donaldson (3-12) sent eight wickets crashing for 22 runs in a spectacular collapse.
Matt Deadman (26), whose first ball of the final was carted for six by Ashman, and Laurence Benge (24) for Basingstoke off to a sound star, before they too lost wickets and had to be helped across the line by Joe Oates's 28 not out.
Left: Ali Brown with his MoM award and the match ball.