Local cricketers, freezing in the snow little more than a month ago, could experience temperatures in the mid-Seventies on Saturday when the curtain goes up on the season with a selection of warm-up matches.
Promoted Basingstoke give former Hook & Newnham Basics skipper and all-rounder Ben Thane (left, Dave Vokes) a debut at Sunbury, alongside promising teenage East Woodhay wicket-keeper Toby Albert.
Basingstoke & North Hants: Stokes, Albert, Thane, Taylor, C Coombs, Birch, Griffiths, Jolley, Benge, Thankachan, Connor.
Basingstoke IIs: Chandler, Harris, Parera, Froud, Oates, Vinn, Mathew, Finchen, Nurse, J Coombs, J Belcher
The Hampshire Hogs’ picturesque ground at Warnford is the venue for the Hampshire Academy-Waterlooville match (12.30), while Bashley (Rydal) and Havant have warm up games ahead of Sunday’s opening ECB Royal London national club championship first round ties (see separate story).
Saturday’s fixtures include: Bashley (Rydal) II v Calmore Sports, Bournemouth v Lymington, Fareham & Crofton v Purbrook (noon), Hampshire Academy v Waterlooville (Warnford, 12.30), Havant v Portsmouth, South Wilts v St Cross Symondians, Sunbury v Basingstoke & North Hants, Totton & Eling v Bashley (Rydal).
Promoted Basingstoke give former Hook & Newnham Basics skipper and all-rounder Ben Thane (left, Dave Vokes) a debut at Sunbury, alongside promising teenage East Woodhay wicket-keeper Toby Albert.
Basingstoke & North Hants: Stokes, Albert, Thane, Taylor, C Coombs, Birch, Griffiths, Jolley, Benge, Thankachan, Connor.
Basingstoke IIs: Chandler, Harris, Parera, Froud, Oates, Vinn, Mathew, Finchen, Nurse, J Coombs, J Belcher
The Hampshire Hogs’ picturesque ground at Warnford is the venue for the Hampshire Academy-Waterlooville match (12.30), while Bashley (Rydal) and Havant have warm up games ahead of Sunday’s opening ECB Royal London national club championship first round ties (see separate story).
Saturday’s fixtures include: Bashley (Rydal) II v Calmore Sports, Bournemouth v Lymington, Fareham & Crofton v Purbrook (noon), Hampshire Academy v Waterlooville (Warnford, 12.30), Havant v Portsmouth, South Wilts v St Cross Symondians, Sunbury v Basingstoke & North Hants, Totton & Eling v Bashley (Rydal).
