Sparsholt’s Andy Steggall, a familiar face to many television viewers in the past, is now head of PR at the Ordnance Survey in Southampton, so he was the ideal batsman to route map the Hampshire Seniors’ 28-run victory over Kent in the National Sixties Championships at St Helen’s, Southsea.
Getting his grid references and contours spot on, Steggall produced a polished unbeaten century on his Hampshire Seniors debut, steering his side to a match winning 258-6 with an undefeated 114.
The left-hand opener used to play Kent League cricket for The Mote in Maidstone, so he may have remembered some of the opposition bowlers from his younger days.
He clipped a six over backward square and struck 15 other crisply timed boundaries, pointing Hampshire towards a competitive total after half-century partnerships with Neil Trestrail (40) and Geoff Beale (30).
Kent had only previously lost once to Hampshire and made a decent fist of their response, skipper Chris Tarrant (54) and Chris Swadkin (48) top scoring in their 230-5.
Getting his grid references and contours spot on, Steggall produced a polished unbeaten century on his Hampshire Seniors debut, steering his side to a match winning 258-6 with an undefeated 114.
The left-hand opener used to play Kent League cricket for The Mote in Maidstone, so he may have remembered some of the opposition bowlers from his younger days.
He clipped a six over backward square and struck 15 other crisply timed boundaries, pointing Hampshire towards a competitive total after half-century partnerships with Neil Trestrail (40) and Geoff Beale (30).
Kent had only previously lost once to Hampshire and made a decent fist of their response, skipper Chris Tarrant (54) and Chris Swadkin (48) top scoring in their 230-5.
