Three batsmen scored half-centuries as Bashley (Rydal) seconds maintained their fine start to the season with a third straight Southern Premier League Division 3 win by 23 runs over Gosport Borough.
Teenager Alex Turner (52), left, and James Underwood (50) notched their fifties before Mitch Wilson and Ross Grierson plundered 86 runs in a pre-tea assault which saw Bashley reach 244-6 (Sam Prathapasinghe 3-36) .
Wilson hit four sixes in his unbeaten 68 while Grierson made 28 as Gosport paid the price for dropping their catches.
Lee Harrop (46 and New Zealand teen Liam Campbell (32) eased Gosport’s reply to 86-1, but a middle-order wobble, initiated by the evergreen Neil Taylor (4-25), saw four wickets fall for 36.
Greg Kitchen (35), aided by the lower order, took Gosport to 221-9 by stumps.
Fair Oak inflicted a second defeat on last year’s Hampshire League champions Portsmouth & Southsea, beating the County 1 winners by 51 runs.
Although Tom Hockenhull (33) and Philip Smith (25) made starts, Oaks were in trouble at 119-8 (Chris Turrell 3-19) and needed Rhys Oxley (39) to haul them out of the mire.
Fair Oak’s 167 proved too many for P & S as only Jack Davies (39) made a meaningful contribution in their 116 all out.
P & S fell away from 76-2, with the left-arm spin of Charlie Gwynn (4-18), Oxley (2-5) and left-armer Gregor McKenzie (2-39) taking the wickets.
A mid-innings wobble, which saw three wickets fall for nine runs, tended to knock the stuffing out of Fawley’s bid to overhaul South Wilts II’s total of 213-9.
Recovering from the loss of the Earl brothers with only 12 runs on the board, Fawley progressed to 147-3 initially through Australian Stu Plunkett (36) then Kumodak Sharma (58) and Will Crossley (42), who took the score on to 142-3.
Spinner Tom Pearce (3-32) interrupted the flow, dismissing both batsmen, and after a two-wicket break by Rob Pittman, Fawley were left 20 runs short on 193-9.
Ironically, South Wilts rallied after an even poorer start, opening pair Sam Pittman and Owain Phillips being dismissed for ducks.
Half-centuries by Wimborne recruit Joe Weld (54) and Pearce (54) redressed the balance before the artful Wayne Smith (2-43) had them both caught.
Adam Freeman (3-32) made further inroads before Rob Pittman’s timely 47 gave South Wilts a total they were able to defend.
Hambledon made it two wins from three with an easy eight-wicket win over Havant II (92), Henry Glanfield and Ian Turner sharing six of the wickets before Alex Willoughby’s 40 not out saw the Dons home.
Teenager Alex Turner (52), left, and James Underwood (50) notched their fifties before Mitch Wilson and Ross Grierson plundered 86 runs in a pre-tea assault which saw Bashley reach 244-6 (Sam Prathapasinghe 3-36) .
Wilson hit four sixes in his unbeaten 68 while Grierson made 28 as Gosport paid the price for dropping their catches.
Lee Harrop (46 and New Zealand teen Liam Campbell (32) eased Gosport’s reply to 86-1, but a middle-order wobble, initiated by the evergreen Neil Taylor (4-25), saw four wickets fall for 36.
Greg Kitchen (35), aided by the lower order, took Gosport to 221-9 by stumps.
Fair Oak inflicted a second defeat on last year’s Hampshire League champions Portsmouth & Southsea, beating the County 1 winners by 51 runs.
Although Tom Hockenhull (33) and Philip Smith (25) made starts, Oaks were in trouble at 119-8 (Chris Turrell 3-19) and needed Rhys Oxley (39) to haul them out of the mire.
Fair Oak’s 167 proved too many for P & S as only Jack Davies (39) made a meaningful contribution in their 116 all out.
P & S fell away from 76-2, with the left-arm spin of Charlie Gwynn (4-18), Oxley (2-5) and left-armer Gregor McKenzie (2-39) taking the wickets.
A mid-innings wobble, which saw three wickets fall for nine runs, tended to knock the stuffing out of Fawley’s bid to overhaul South Wilts II’s total of 213-9.
Recovering from the loss of the Earl brothers with only 12 runs on the board, Fawley progressed to 147-3 initially through Australian Stu Plunkett (36) then Kumodak Sharma (58) and Will Crossley (42), who took the score on to 142-3.
Spinner Tom Pearce (3-32) interrupted the flow, dismissing both batsmen, and after a two-wicket break by Rob Pittman, Fawley were left 20 runs short on 193-9.
Ironically, South Wilts rallied after an even poorer start, opening pair Sam Pittman and Owain Phillips being dismissed for ducks.
Half-centuries by Wimborne recruit Joe Weld (54) and Pearce (54) redressed the balance before the artful Wayne Smith (2-43) had them both caught.
Adam Freeman (3-32) made further inroads before Rob Pittman’s timely 47 gave South Wilts a total they were able to defend.
Hambledon made it two wins from three with an easy eight-wicket win over Havant II (92), Henry Glanfield and Ian Turner sharing six of the wickets before Alex Willoughby’s 40 not out saw the Dons home.
