Nathan Feltham continued his impressive start to life at Sarisbury Athletic with an unbeaten Southern Premier Division 1 half-century against Alton.
The close season recruit from Paultons struck 64 not out off 52 balls as his side raced to a 215 victory target in the 39th over a Allotment Road.
Feltham dominated an unbroken 83-run stand for the sixth wicket with Rob Franklin, who scored just 16. He has yet to be dismissed in the league in 2022, having compiled an undefeated 40 on debut in a Southern Premier League second tier victory against Basingstoke & North Hants. He had also scored an unbeaten 46 against Hambledon in Sarisbury’s final pre-season friendly.
Feltham’s record shows he is a very handy player to have in the middle order. In his first innings of 2020 - after lockdown restrictions were lifted to allow recreational cricket to return - he smashed a whirlwind 137 against South Wilts 2nds. He only faced 73 balls, smashing 14 sixes and nine fours.
Ricky Rawlins (45) and skipper Josh Hill (33) had earlier got Sarisbury back on track after South African seamer Bash Walters (2-44) had reduced them to 50-3.
The fact Alton had recovered from 82-4 to post 213-8 was mainly down to former Hampshire Academy all-rounder Tom South, who finished unbeaten on 75 with five fours and three sixes in a 100-ball innings.
West Australian Ronan DeGrussa (2-23 off seven overs) had taken the first two wickets, Ryan Hale and Mark Heffernan, before Franklin claimed 3-23 off a tidy 10-over spell.
Basingstoke & North Hants suffered another batting calamity as they were shot out for 107 and comprehensively beaten by 96 runs by Southern Premier Division 1 rivals Rowledge at Church Road.
Unsettled by three early blows by the new ball by Richard Forbes (3-9), Basingstoke collapsed to 66-8 at one stage before Dean Nurse (22) and Jake Fincken (15) added 41 to give the score an air of respectability.
Earlier, the young Rowledge posted 203-9, with teenage trio Oli Ryman (56) taking time off from youth soccer trials with Chelsea to hit a second consecutive half-century following his 68 against Liphook & Ripsley in round one. South African Ash-Lee Harvey 37) and Jonty Seeborn (29) also made their mark. Matt Donaldson, Brad Neal and Jake Fincken took two wickets each.
The close season recruit from Paultons struck 64 not out off 52 balls as his side raced to a 215 victory target in the 39th over a Allotment Road.
Feltham dominated an unbroken 83-run stand for the sixth wicket with Rob Franklin, who scored just 16. He has yet to be dismissed in the league in 2022, having compiled an undefeated 40 on debut in a Southern Premier League second tier victory against Basingstoke & North Hants. He had also scored an unbeaten 46 against Hambledon in Sarisbury’s final pre-season friendly.
Feltham’s record shows he is a very handy player to have in the middle order. In his first innings of 2020 - after lockdown restrictions were lifted to allow recreational cricket to return - he smashed a whirlwind 137 against South Wilts 2nds. He only faced 73 balls, smashing 14 sixes and nine fours.
Ricky Rawlins (45) and skipper Josh Hill (33) had earlier got Sarisbury back on track after South African seamer Bash Walters (2-44) had reduced them to 50-3.
The fact Alton had recovered from 82-4 to post 213-8 was mainly down to former Hampshire Academy all-rounder Tom South, who finished unbeaten on 75 with five fours and three sixes in a 100-ball innings.
West Australian Ronan DeGrussa (2-23 off seven overs) had taken the first two wickets, Ryan Hale and Mark Heffernan, before Franklin claimed 3-23 off a tidy 10-over spell.
Basingstoke & North Hants suffered another batting calamity as they were shot out for 107 and comprehensively beaten by 96 runs by Southern Premier Division 1 rivals Rowledge at Church Road.
Unsettled by three early blows by the new ball by Richard Forbes (3-9), Basingstoke collapsed to 66-8 at one stage before Dean Nurse (22) and Jake Fincken (15) added 41 to give the score an air of respectability.
Earlier, the young Rowledge posted 203-9, with teenage trio Oli Ryman (56) taking time off from youth soccer trials with Chelsea to hit a second consecutive half-century following his 68 against Liphook & Ripsley in round one. South African Ash-Lee Harvey 37) and Jonty Seeborn (29) also made their mark. Matt Donaldson, Brad Neal and Jake Fincken took two wickets each.