Steve Warner, long term injury
Portsmouth’s prospects of clawing their way back into the Southern Premier Division 1 promotion race will hinge on a successful outcome of their trip to Ventnor’s Steephill bowl.
With four defeats (and only three wins) in seven outings, Portsmouth are languishing in seventh place, 38 points adrift of leaders Rowledge.
Returning skipper Ben Duggan knows only too well a fifth loss will leave the city club dangling on the lip of the relegation zone – not something president Arthur Shaw had in his pre-season manifesto.
Portsmouth’s hopes aren’t helped by a long term side muscle injury sustained by player/coach Steve Warner, the ex-South Wilts all-rounder fearing he could be in for a season-long absence.
Similarly, a fourth defeat will seriously dent Ventnor’s title prospects, though with eight of the sides in Division 1 arguably capable of beating each other there is a long way to go yet.
Portsmouth: Duggan, Marston, Mitchell, Jalil, Wimble, Daini, Kooner evans, smitherman, silva, McArdle, Rao.
Table topping Rowledge face their longest trip of the season to lowly New Milton, but have top order batsman Jonty Seeborn available now his term at Exeter has ended.
New Milton, 18 points above the second relegation place, have big hitting Toby Edwards back alongside Lee Beck and, on paper, name a strogner side than the one thrashed by 204 runs at Sarisbury Athletic last week.
New Milton: Watts, Edwards, L Beck, Loader, R Beck, Griffiths, Hall, Mills, Bartlett, Wooster, Freeman.
Rowledge: B Wish, Yates, Harvey Seeborn, J Wish, LeRoux, O Ryman, Littlewood, Lloyd, Baker, Forbes.
Second placed Calmore Sports, now home to Cornwall League side Grampound Road in the next round of the Village Cup on Sunday week (July 3), host Basingstoke & North Hants, who will have influential all-rounder Ash Neal on duty or the final time this season.
Having completed his studies at Bournemouth university, Neal is off travelling and will hand the captain’s armband to Joe Oates.
Calmore have Shaun Johnson and Dan Croft to beef up the seam bowling unit, weakened by left-armer Steve Wright’s absence in Canada, where he is exploring the possibility of joining the Mounties.
Calmore Sports: Bailey, Carty, Croft, Johns, Johnson, Lavelle, Manning, Moss, Parker, Perry, Rose.
Only ten points separate Basingstoke from third placed Sarisbury Athletic, who make a change behind the stumps for Sparsholt’s visit to Allotment Road, with Simon Orr coming in.
Sarisbury smashed the New Milton attack for 313-6 last week with Nathan Feltham hitting George Watts for 28 runs off one over, mainly in the allotments !
Sarisbury Athletic: J Hill, Grierson, Rawlins, Floyd, Orr, Feltham, Franklin, Wright, Degrussa, S Hill, Jewell.
Struggling Liphook & Ripsley entertain Alton at Ripsley Park.
With four defeats (and only three wins) in seven outings, Portsmouth are languishing in seventh place, 38 points adrift of leaders Rowledge.
Returning skipper Ben Duggan knows only too well a fifth loss will leave the city club dangling on the lip of the relegation zone – not something president Arthur Shaw had in his pre-season manifesto.
Portsmouth’s hopes aren’t helped by a long term side muscle injury sustained by player/coach Steve Warner, the ex-South Wilts all-rounder fearing he could be in for a season-long absence.
Similarly, a fourth defeat will seriously dent Ventnor’s title prospects, though with eight of the sides in Division 1 arguably capable of beating each other there is a long way to go yet.
Portsmouth: Duggan, Marston, Mitchell, Jalil, Wimble, Daini, Kooner evans, smitherman, silva, McArdle, Rao.
Table topping Rowledge face their longest trip of the season to lowly New Milton, but have top order batsman Jonty Seeborn available now his term at Exeter has ended.
New Milton, 18 points above the second relegation place, have big hitting Toby Edwards back alongside Lee Beck and, on paper, name a strogner side than the one thrashed by 204 runs at Sarisbury Athletic last week.
New Milton: Watts, Edwards, L Beck, Loader, R Beck, Griffiths, Hall, Mills, Bartlett, Wooster, Freeman.
Rowledge: B Wish, Yates, Harvey Seeborn, J Wish, LeRoux, O Ryman, Littlewood, Lloyd, Baker, Forbes.
Second placed Calmore Sports, now home to Cornwall League side Grampound Road in the next round of the Village Cup on Sunday week (July 3), host Basingstoke & North Hants, who will have influential all-rounder Ash Neal on duty or the final time this season.
Having completed his studies at Bournemouth university, Neal is off travelling and will hand the captain’s armband to Joe Oates.
Calmore have Shaun Johnson and Dan Croft to beef up the seam bowling unit, weakened by left-armer Steve Wright’s absence in Canada, where he is exploring the possibility of joining the Mounties.
Calmore Sports: Bailey, Carty, Croft, Johns, Johnson, Lavelle, Manning, Moss, Parker, Perry, Rose.
Only ten points separate Basingstoke from third placed Sarisbury Athletic, who make a change behind the stumps for Sparsholt’s visit to Allotment Road, with Simon Orr coming in.
Sarisbury smashed the New Milton attack for 313-6 last week with Nathan Feltham hitting George Watts for 28 runs off one over, mainly in the allotments !
Sarisbury Athletic: J Hill, Grierson, Rawlins, Floyd, Orr, Feltham, Franklin, Wright, Degrussa, S Hill, Jewell.
Struggling Liphook & Ripsley entertain Alton at Ripsley Park.
