​HAMBLEDON, undefeated Southern Premier League Division 3 leaders.
Standing (from left): Ben Harding, Chris Pratt, Henry Glanfield, Dan McGovern, Will Hardman, Shahryar Khan.  Seated: George Marshall, George Harding, Spencer Le-Clerq, Jonty Oliver, Mark Butcher.

​Henry Glanfield was agonisingly stumped on 99, one short of his century, but was content enough to play the match defining innings as Hambledon swept to a seventh straight victory, beating nearest Southern Premier Division 3 rivals Hook & Newnham Basics II by 44 runs at Ridge Meadow.
He hit two sixes and 12 fours – several being exquisite shots off his legs and through the covers – in his 74-ball stay at the crease, which would have ended the ball before his stumping had young Oli James pouched a fiercely struck shot to wide mid-wicket, aka cow corner.
“I just planned to run the ball down through the vacant slip area to bring up my century, but my back foot slipped and I was stumped on 99.  What’s one run ? We won the game,” he smiled.
Glanfield, who looks a level or two above Division 3 standard cricket, shared a decent stand of 87 with Chris Pratt (34) before Jonty Oliver (24), teenage son of Dan (ECB Sussex Premier League vice-chairman), pushed the Hambledon total to 232-7.
Hook, now a significant 36 points adrift of Hambledon, needed one big individual contribution, but having dropped from 52-0 to 82-4, the best they could manage was 30-plus scores from Charlie Neville (38), Tom May (37) and James (32).   
Bowling his seam up stuff, Glanfield (3-32) caused that top order wobble, while spinner Oliver bagged 3-37 as Hook closed at 188-8.
Hook remain in second place - the top two go up - but Gosport Borough closed the gap with victory over Langley Manor, who badly missed the SPL’s lead run maker Jack Budd.
Asked to chase Langley’s 193-9 (Graham Noble 79), Borough openers Lee Harrop (50) and Ollie Creal (51) both made a half-century.  Jacob Harris, with 49 not out, was relieved to avoid jug buying as Gosport got home in the penultimate over. 
Earlier, Scott Taylor had continued his superb bowling form as Langley failed to build on reaching 108-1, Graham Noble (79) taking the lead role.

Fawley's first win since beating Paultons in early June and only their second of the season, significantly against fellow strugglers Bashley (Rydal) II, has put the cat amongst the proverbial pigeons at the foot of Southern Premier Division 2.
Their five-wicket win at Holbury has narrowed the gap between Fawley (82) and Bashley (92) to ten points, with Paultons, in desperate need of some success, two wins from safety. 
Bashley's lack of batting power throughout the top deck at the BCG came home to roost against, with only Sam Kennett (37) and Saif Achakanzi (28 not out) making any sort of impression as the side was bowled out for 115. They found the promising Wayne Smith (4-12) and latterly Sufian Munir (3-29) all too much.
Bashley did manage to take five Fawley wickets, but not Kieron Earl, who opened and held things together with 38 not out.
* The teams will meet again at the BCG on Friday week (July 30) in the New Forest CCA President's Cup final.

Barbados batsman Anthony Alleyne is predictably fuelling Ventnor’s promotion charge in Southern Premier Division 2, having condemned Waterlooville to a six-wicket defeat with an unbeaten 93 at sun kissed Steephill.
The West Indian left-hander, who has made 30 first class appearances in his career, and also represented his country’s under-19s a decade ago.
He has spent recent years amassing runs in local cricket - hitting seven Surrey Championship hundreds for Walton-on-Thames in 2015 and 2016 and four for Paignton in the Devon League in 2019.
This summer (12 months later than originally planned) he is playing for Ventnor and prior to the weekend had compiled successive scores of 101 (v South Wilts II), 51 not out (v Fair Oak) and 51 another against  Fawley.
Asked to chase Ville’s 197-9 total, Alleyne struck an unbeaten 93 off 100 balls - with six fours and four sixes - as the Islanders won in the 37th over by six wickets.
Martin Blackman (51 not out) added an unbroken 128 for the fifth wicket with Alleyne.

Daniel Birch had earlier hit his highest SPL score for Ville, an unbeaten 57 off 67 balls, as the visitors recovered from 80-5.
Openers Archie Reynolds (34) and Alex Shephard (27) put on 70 for the first wicket before five wickets tumbled for 15 runs, Chris Russell (3-22) and Charlie Calloway (2-10 doing the damage.
Last man Chris Parker (9) helped Birch to his first Ville half-century, the pair sharing an unbroken last-wicket stand of 26.
But it was to be in vain thanks to Alleyne, who once hit 186 and 88 in a first class game for Barbados in a team containing Test players Kemar Roach and Roston Chase.
Ventnor are now up to fourth, the top four separated by eight points from leaders Hartley Wintney with eight games to go.  The islanders’ host OTs & Romsey on July 31 before going to Hartley Wintney a week later.     Simon Carter, The News.

Local cricket will be remembering Rick Kellaway at IBM Hursley on Sunday (1pm) at a special memorial match involving the Hampshire Disability team. 
Rick was among Romsey’s best-known sportsmen, both as a footballer and subsequently a manager, and in 1984 played for Hursley Park in the National Village Cricket Cup final at Lord’s.
Rick Kellaway died last January having fought a brave battle against cancer.
He put his heart and soul into local sport, both as a player, coach and manager, and inspiring youngsters either on the field or from the touchline.
In the winter months Rick played soccer for Romsey Town before taking up managerial roles with Nursling and Awbridge. He spent most of his cricket career with Hursley Park before joining Old Tauntonians & Romsey as a successful junior coach.
He was hugely passionate about his sport, none more so than his later involvement with disabled/disadvantaged people and the Hampshire Disability cricket team.
​On Sunday 8 August at Mannyngham Way, Timsbury (next door to Hunts Farm Playing Fields) there is a veterans football match between Michelmersh & Timsbury v Awbridge, 10.30. 

It's a busy week ahead with Basingstoke's Guy Jewell Trophy reaching its semi-final stage and the finals of the Winchester & District and New Forest CCA T20 Cup being played.
The first Guy Jewell semi-final is at May's Bounty on Monday (5.45) when Basingstoke & North Hants face Odiham & Grewell.
​The WDCCA finals are at Hursley Park also on Monday evening, with Pothwar Lions facing Rotherfield Park in the Tichborne Trophy.  The Igglesden final features Fair Oak against Wickham.
On Friday (30 July), Bashley (Rydal) play Fawley in the NFCCA President's Cup final at the BCG.

Fifteen year old Matt Falconer is certainly underlining his versatility as an all-rounder as South Wilts seconds gradually claw their way out of relegation trouble in Southern Premier Division 2.
Seven days after taking 5-18 in South Wilts’ dramatic win over high riding Old Tauntonians & Romsey, Falconer displayed his talents again – this time with the bat, scoring a maiden SPL fifty as the Bemerton side sent Hartley Wintney crashing to a 79-run defeat and almost off the top of the table.
Falconer’s opening partnership of 141 with Joe Cranch (77) provided a perfect launch pad from which South Wilts were able to post 251-8 and effectively bat a sun weary Hartley Wintney out of the game.
The pair both fell to the spin of Angus Brown (3-52) before George Edwards (42) and Tom Pearce (21) pushed on.  Dan Reynaldo took 3-59, dismissing both batsmen.
Grilled under the Salisbury sun, Hartley lost three wickets for eight runs – Nick Partridge and Jayden Atkinson doing the damage - and later crashed to 55-6 before late order contributions from Charlie Puttifant (30), Ed Philpott (38) and Jamie Teale (43) gave their eventual 172-9 an air of respectability.
Tom Lewis weighed in with a 3-12 return for South Wilts, who are now 28 points clear of the drop zone.







                                                                                                                                                                           

​Hampshire Seniors’ comfortable 88-run victory over Wiltshire, which put them top of the ECB 50-plus County Championship south-west group table, was marred by a serious leg injury sustained by South African Brenden Fourie.
The retired Border provincial cricketer, who made almost 140 First Class and List A appearances in South Africa, collapsed at the crease while batting during the latter stages of Hampshire’s 217 all out and was taken to hospital with a ruptured Achilles.   He made 13 before being carried off.
Hampshire’s total was largely underpinned by Basingstoke & North Hants opener Andy Giles (67), who stayed calm when his side slipped to 122-5 (Andy Parratt 33).   Sparsholt’s Andy Worth (27) helped ease the final score to 217.
Having reached 59-2, Wiltshire fell away to 129 all out, opener Dave Ricketts batting through to make 69.  Havant’s Pete Hayward took 3-24.
Hampshire’s next match is a potential group decider against Dorset at Calmore Sports’ Loperwood Park on Tuesday, 1pm.

James Trodd’s return from Hampshire Academy duty gave Old Tauntonians & Romsey the boost they needed to reboot their Southern Premier Division 2 promotion challenge.
He took 5-13 as OTs dismissed challengers Fair Oak for 87 at Lapstone Park – a target the nervy visitors chased down, losing seven wickets in the process. 
With leaders Hartley Wintney losing heavily at South Wilts II, it is become increasingly tight at the top of the table, with effectively only eight points separating the top four sides.  OTs are third, with Ventnor emerging as a rear threat.
A third consecutive reverse, meanwhile, has turned Fair Oak’s fine start to the season into a distant memory.
Left-armer Trodd (5-13), who has produced some good performances for Hampshire’s junior age group sides this summer, and spinner Joe Vaughan (3-17) ripped through the Fair Oak batting, reducing the hosts to 32-5.
Oaks improved in the second half of their innings thanks to the Under-19 contingent, Max Watson making 30, Harry Reed 13 and Monty McKenzie 15.  
But 87 all out in 32.1 overs was never going to be enough on a day when the weather, as well as the OTS & Romsey side, made it too hot for the home side.
It was no cakewalk for the visitors, though, as left-arm spinner Charlie Gwynn (4-10) made survival a major task for OTs & Romsey.  
Opener Jovan Dharival (31), just back from his second year reading law at Cambridge University made the day’s top score, but lost partners regularly and when he was caught off Rufus Bullough at 65 for 6 Fair Oak had a sniff of a chance.  
But Trodd (13 not out) and Lewis Allen (12 not out) put on 20 for the eighth wicket and steered their side to a three-wicket victory at 89-7 in the 37th over.
Jovan’s sibling brother Kamran is pushing for an OTs first team slot against Fawley on Saturday after scoring a senior best 107 in the 2nd XIs emphatic 107-run victory over Emsworth.  Dhariwal junior struck a six and 13 fours in his 107 as OTs outscored Emsworth 209-7 to 102, Phil Wyatt taking 4-37.
Bottom of the pile Paultons fancied their prospects of a shock when, defending a relatively modest 155, they reduced Liphook & Ripsley to 70-5.
But they were unable to separate sixth-wicket pair Rob Nicklin (41) and Grant Rouse (41), who got the last 86 second placed Liphook required.                        
Earlier, Paultons dropped to 18-3 before stand-in skipper Nathan Feltham (76), aided by Cam Grierson and Liam Longland, got them out of trouble. Joe Randall took 4-16.

​Martin Lee struck his maiden 1st XI century as Purbrook finally claimed a first Southern Premier Division 3 win – at the seventh attempt.
Lee (left) hit an unbeaten 102, batting throughout the 40 overs as Purbrook - plagued by low scores all season - amassed 234-3 after winning the toss against Hythe & Dibden, the match at Jones Lane being screened on U-tube to a global audience.
Lee struck 13 fours and two sixes in his 113-ball innings.
He shared stands of 84 for the second wicket with Josh McCoy (46), 51 for the third with captain Sean Figgins (30) and an unbroken 73 for the fourth with Brad Mengham (27 not out).
Tom Amis (2-23) made early inroads into the hosts’ reply, including the dismissal of skipper Tom Gates - caught by John Moller for just a single.
Middle order pair Wayne Royan (32) and Zak Miller (24) put on 47 for the fifth wicket, but the only other stand of note was 28 for the last wicket between Tim Ndowora (17) and Tom Jones (15) that ended when the former was run out by Moller with the score on 174.
The first win of 2021, by a 60-run margin, takes Purbrook off the bottom, replaced by Tichborne Park who suffered a 98-run hammering by Portsmouth & Southsea, whose stars were Jack Davies and skipper Ben Saunders.
Davies top scored with 74 to help his side - 50-4 at one stage - amassed 214-7.  Tom Benfield (37) helped Davies add 79 for the fifth wicket and Dean Lee (26) a further 49 for the sixth wicket.
Tichborne reached 57-2 in reply, before spinner Saunders produced a match-winning spell. He proceeded to bag six wickets in a row, finishing with an SPL best 6-27 as Park slumped to 111-8. His haul included the wicket of top scorer Tom Allam (64), who was persuaded out of premature retirement to play.  Jake Peach finished with 2-14 as Tichborne were dismissed for 116.
After a rain curtailed 12 rounds of matches, Hythe & Dibden (61) are ahead of Purbrook (49) and Tichborne Park (44) in the two-down relegation zone.
Trojans, well clear of the danger zone, pulled off a rare win with a 59-run victory at May's Bounty, where they bowled Basingstoke & North Hants II out for 132.  Nigel le Bas (66) top scored in Trojans' 191-7.

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Greg Donaldson smashed seven sixes in hitting 57 runs off 29 deliveries in a blistering pre-tea assault as Basingstoke & North Hants powered to a 118-run win over Southern Premier Division 1 strugglers St Cross Symondians II at Winchester’s Green Jacket Ground.
It was Stoke’s sixth successive victory and took them up to third place in the log behind Calmore Sports, who enjoy the slenderest of leads over near neighbours Totton & Eling.  
Basingstoke had already built themselves a fine platform through top order stands Dan Belcher (45) enjoyed with fellow opener Matt Deadman (29) and Ash Neal (45).
But they had slipped from 118-1 to 146-5 when Donaldson arrived at the crease.  He took an immediate liking to spinner Dave Orchard (4-71), who took the brunt of his six-hit assault, before the St Cross Symondians skipper got his own way with three late wickets.
Basingstoke’s total of 226 was always going to be far beyond a depleted St Cross, who slumped to 35-6 against teenager Tyler Bradley (4-26) and left-arm spinner Rakitha Perera (3-26), who was on a hat-trick at one point.
Charlie Harden (45) and Orchard (18) added 52 to give Symondians’ 108 an air of respectability.

A fraction of a point separates Calmore Sports and their near neighbours Totton & Eling at the Southern Premier Division 1 summit after 12 rounds of matches.
The pair both enjoyed emphatic wins, with Calmore flexing their muscles for Sunday’s victorious Voneus Village Cup quarter-final tie against Rockingham, and Totton & Eling winning comfortably at Sparsholt.
A double lbw strike by Solent University seamer Yannik de Mezieres Lepervanche (2-27), which tented Portsmouth openers Ben Duggan and James Christian gave Calmore the early impetus at St Helen’s, where only Will Smitherman (37) and Hemanshu Hirani (24) managed to make double figures in a disappointing 138 all out.
Emerging spin talent Liam Carty (2-18) (pictured above by Les Chase) bowled a eye catching eight-over spell, unaware that his famed father Adam was playing a star role for Calmore seconds, scoring 63 and taking 5-43 with his left-arm spin.
Andy Marston (3-24) made subsequent inroads, but a near century stand between wicket-taking Ben Johns (57 not out) and Shaun Johnson (50) swept Calmore to a seven-wicket victory with eight overs to spare.
Although Harrison Clarke top scored with 61, spin all-rounder Brighton Mugochi played the lead role in Totton’s easier than expected 108-run win at Locks Lane.
He made 35 and later took 6-33 as Sparsholt collapsed to 80 all out (Stuart Taylor 40) in response to T & E’s 188 all out.

Teenage Hartley Wintney talent Harry Broderick celebrated his selection for next week's ECB Supa-Four's Regional Tournament at Loughborough with a superb 142 for Hampshire Under-18s against Kent YCs at Winchester College today.
Broderick, who will play for the South & West alongside Academy team-mates Kamran Khanna, Charlie Mountford and Harry Petrie, struck 23 boundaries in his hundred and shared a significant 134-run stand with promising Alton all-rounder Jude Wright (77 not out) as Hampshire posted a formidable 373-6 off 104 overs.
Opener Wilf Fontaine-Jackson (50), who scored his maiden ECB Southern Premier League century against St Cross Symondians last weekend, made a sound fifty to get Hampshire off to a good start.
Hampshire continued batting on day two and finished with 426, Wright being caught for 98, two short of a deserved century. Totton & Eling's Tommy Cheater made 31.
Kent were then whisked out for 151, James Barker and Kamran Khanna sharing six of the wickets before Hampshire batted again, reaching 140-3 by stumps.  Charlie Mumford is 66 not out.

Hampshire Seniors' captain Nic Gargaro has his double-headed coin at the ready and is banking on Richard Gaunt, his Wiltshire opposite number, calling 'tails' ahead of Wednesday's ECB 50-plus County Championship south-west group match at Sparsholt, 1pm.
"Both sides will be clamouring to bat first in the sweltering heat. The toss will be vital, so I'll have my special coin in my pocket," Gargaro joked.
Hampshire lie second in the group table, two points behind Devon whom they thrashed last Wednesday, so a victory over Wiltshire will put them top.
Wiltshire were heavily beaten by 102 runs by Dorset, who Hampshire are due to host in their last zonal match.
Hampshire Seniors: ​Nic Gargaro, Stu Shapland, Keith Harsham, Brendon Fourie, Zane de Monte, Andy Giles, Andy Parratt, Pete Hayward, Matt Thankachan, Darren Vann, Darren McBride.

​Bournemouth’s once powerful lead at the top of the ECB Southern Premier Division has been cut to a fragile two points after relegation threatened Alton beat them by three wickets in a low scoring affair at Chapel Gate.
It was Bournemouth’s second consecutive home defeat – on each occasion they were bowled out for less than 100 – and leaves the Lions clinging on to the leadership by their fingernails.
Curiously, Bournemouth came close to defending their dismal 98 all out and when Robbie Pack’s six-wicket spell had Alton reeling at 51-7, the odds were stacked in their favour.
But two of Alton’s youngest players, Abhay Gonella and Freddie Egerton saw Pack (6-16) out of the attack and sensibly went about their business of scoring the remaining 48 runs without being parted.
Bournemouth’s preparations weren’t helped by news of a five-point deduction imposed by the Premier League for an administrative slip in not registering a second team player for the previous week’s emphatic win at South Wilts.
And when Luke Webb and Nick Park nicked behind off South African Bash Walters (4-18), soon to be followed by Luke Matthews, the Lions were in serious trouble at 28-3.
It became a struggle for runs all day for the batsmen, as Walters and 16-year old prospect Jude Wright (4-24) exploited the damp conditions below the surface.

Only Chris Park (27), Pack (22 not out) and Simon Woodruff got into double figures as Bournemouth stumbled to 98 all out.
Alton, anxious to seize the opportunity of an unexpected victory to aid their relegation survival bit, began confidently at 34 without loss.
But the coming of Pack’s left arm spin created havoc, Alton losing seven wickets for 17 runs – Pack himself bagging six of them and Jake Hurley the other – as the Brewers lurched to 51-7.
Gonella, a fresher year student at the London School of Economics, watched with some trepidation as seven team-mates departed back to the pavilion, but held firm himself, eventually finding a reliable partner in last year’s Winchester College captain Freddie Egerton.
Bit by bit, run by run, they wrestled the initiative away from Bournemouth – Gonella finishing with 38 not out and Egerton 23 not out as Alton pulled off an astonishing three-wicket win.
Its given them what amounts to a 21-point lead over Hook & Newnham Basics at the foot of the table.  The sides square up at the Jubilee Ground on Saturday. 

Burridge skipper Hilio De Abreu and Will Donald spun Bashley (Rydal) into submission on a slow BCG track, taking seven of the wickets to fall as the New Forest club tumbled to 101 all out and an eventual seven wicket ECB Southern Premier Division defeat.
Cape Town raised De Abreu had already used five bowlers when he introduced himself into the attack.  He proceeded to bag 4-12 as Bashley, who started the day in fourth place in the Southern Premier League top flight, collapsed from 69-1 (Josh Digby 23) to 101 all out.
De Abreu’s only two better hauls for Burridge had both been five-fers in 2019.
Will Donald claimed 3-8- his best SPL figures in his first season with the club since joining from the North Yorkshire & South Durham League club, Whitby, where he was captain.
Bashley lost five wickets for eight runs at one point – 25 extras (including 17 wides) top scoring !
Burridge openers Azimunnoor Chowdhury (13) and Joe Collings-Wells (5) didn’t last long, but after the skipper too had gone, Chris Blake (37) and James Hughes (25) eased Burridge to victory with an unbroken 61-run stand.

Debutant Sid Mutta struck the winning run off the only ball he faced as Havant leapt into the top four in the ECB Southern Premier League top flight with a tense one-wicket victory over Lymington.
Third teamer Mutta was only playing due to Havant having to rejig their teams due to player self-isolating.
Coming in last man with the scores ties, Mutta hit his first delivery from Matt Metcalfe through the onside as Havant took their place in a tightly-congested Premier Division top four.
With leaders Bournemouth, Bashley (Rydal) and third-placed St Cross both losing, the top four are now separated by 13 points with six games remaining.
With self-isolations ruling out the partying Freddie and Harry Gadd, new-look Havant also handed a 1st XI debut to Sam Woodgate and called up the ever reliable Julian Atkins.
Lymington got first use of a decent track at a sun-kissed Havant Park, but only opener Terry Crabb (30) and South African Ximus Du Plooy (22) reached double figures among the top six with seamer Richard Jerry (3-32) and spinners Chris Morgan (3-28) and Richard Hindley (2-31) among the wickets.
Crabb, meanwhile, fell caught and bowled to Ben Walker who had to come out of semi bowling retirement to plug a gap in the bowling resources.
Du Plooy fell to a good catch by Mutta at mid-wicket off Jerry as Lymington - who had been chasing a sixth straight win - dipped from 66-2 to 83-6.
Ryde School teacher Henry Edwards (38) top scored but wicket-keeper Jeremy Bulled snaffled five catches as the visitors were bowled out for 157 in the 44th over.
Havant's response mirrored Lymington's. Opener Pete Hopson (44), Simon Loat (13), Morgan (24), Walker (16) and Hindley (12) all got starts but couldn't grab the game by the scruff of the neck.
Havant found themselves 32 runs short with only Bulled of the experienced batters left when Walker departed at 126-5.
Jerry (4) didn’t last long but Atkins (3) helped Bulled add a crucial 22 runs for the seventh wicket before he departed with five runs needed.
Alfie Taw (2) and Woodgate (0) were then dismissed - the latter after Metcalfe had brought the scores level with a wide.  Then came Sid’s match winning moment and Havant were home with 13 balls to spare.

Buckinghamshire club Stoke Green stand between Calmore Sports and a place in the Voneus National Village Cup final at Lord’s in September.
The Slough-based Thames Valley League club are Calmore Sports’ opponents in the semi-finals – their reward for an eventually comfortable 40-run last eight round victory over Gloucestershire side Rockhampton.
Calmore will have home advantage in the semi-finals on Sunday week, August 1 – as will the Pembrokeshire club Neyland, who host either past Lord’s winners Houghton Main or Alvanley.
Calmore’s 205-4, platformed around a century opening partnership between Ben Johns and Will Brewster, proved too many for Rockhampton, who had made it through to the quarter-finals by virtue of a ‘bowl out’ victory in the sixth round.
But after the drinks break and in the 20th over of their reply, the WEPL visitors were looking a good bet at 91-1, with Will Tyler (37) and Gloucestershire Under-17 left-hand talent George Driver-Dickerson (33) in command.
The pair had come together after only four balls of the Rockhampton innings – opener Martin Cropper having been superbly caught in the covers by Shaun Johnson off left-armer Steve Wright (1-20).
They launched their 91-run partnership after Solent University’s Yannick De Mezieres Lepervanche’s solitary over had gone for 21.

​But the drinks break enabled Calmore to refresh and regroup, and in the space of four balls the game (at its mid-point) was turned on its head with Tyler run out and Driver-Dickerson trapped leg before by Liam Carty playing an over-ambitious and suicidal reverse sweep.
Rockampton never recovered. By the 27th over, they were 107-5, with Carty’s off-spin bringing eventual rewards of 3-27 – no mean feat for the 20-year old trainee accountant who has only played twice for Calmore’s Southern Premier Division 1 side.
With James Manning (1-21) bowling tidily at the other end, Calmore applied the perfect squeeze, forcing some of the visiting batsmen into some occasionally suicidal ‘across the line’ shots on a low bouncing track, culminating in five leg before wicket dismissals. 
Rockhampton were dismissed for 165, leaving Calmore to celebrate a place in the semi-finals in their debut Village Cup season.

Calmore’s success was cemented by a no-frills century opening stand between Johns (75) and the watchful Brewster (53), who carefully navigated the slow surface to put a sedate 109 on the board by the 26th over.  The pair hit 15 boundaries between them.
Johns lost Johnson (17) at 150 and, drained and almost out on his feet after scoring a fifty in the Portsmouth heat the previous day, was almost predictably run out at 173, four overs from the end. His 75 proved the match defining knock.
Matt Taylor (15), followed by some lusty blows from Manning (19 off 11 balls) just before tea, took Calmore on to 205-4 – a total few visiting sides chase batting second at Loperwood Park …

South Wilts are back in the thick of the ECB Southern Premier Division title race and go into Saturday’s match against the fifth-placed Hampshire Academy at Bemerton (11.30) only two points behind faltering leaders Bournemouth.
A 64-run win at Hook & Newnham Basics, inspired by James Hayward’s 13th SPL century, which coincided with Bournemouth suffering a shock defeat against Alton, has thrown the title race wide open.
Going into Saturday’s round 13 matches, Bournemouth are effectively two points ahead of South Wilts who, in turn, are eight clear of stumbling St Cross Symondians.  Havant are fourth, 13 points adrift of top spot.
“We said at the outset the team that wins the league will lose four matches and, in the shortened season we’ve had, that’s proved to be the case, with Bournemouth, Havant and ourselves all having lost three already,” Hayward said.
“We’re just watching as things develop. We’re a relatively young side enjoying our cricket, so if we’re involved at the business end of the season, that will be great.”
With lead light Tom Morton (flu) absent, Hayward took the lead role, cracking a superb 113 as South Wilts rattled up 236-6 before dismissing relegation threatened Hook on the first visit to the King George V Ground.
According to onlookers, Hook made the mistake of ‘chirping’ Hayward to the effect that he couldn’t play the sweep shot to any great effect – and paid the penalty !
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“They’d obviously never seen me play hockey,” laughed Hayward, who plundered three sixes and 14 fours – a large percentage reverse sweeps and switch hits to which Hook were unable to set a field.
Hayward, whose last SPL century was in May 2019 when he made 128 against Bournemouth, went to town after opener Jack Mynott made 58 at the top of the innings.
Josh Buckingham followed Hayward’s lead and smashed 62 off only 29 balls – two sixes and 11 fours adding up to 56 of them in boundaries !
Sam Lockwood (32) shared a stand of 101, but Hook collapsed once Mynott (3-46) and Steve Warner (4-25) began to make inroads.  Matty Burton (3-24) cleaned up the tail with an all-bowled hat-trick as Hook were dismissed for 172.
Meanwhile, last chance saloon day dawns for Hook & Newnham Basics, whose immediate future in the ECB Southern Premier Division probably rests on the outcome of Saturday’s visit to Alton.
It’s essentially win or bust for Hook, who trail the Brewers by 21 points after Alton’s back-to-back victories over Burridge and Bournemouth.
If they lose, the survival chord will almost be snapped. But if Josh Buckingham’s side can pull off a second win of the season – their only success so far came at Burridge last month – then may be an August rescue package can be put together.  It’s Hook’s most important game of the season.

John Woodcock OBE, the legendary Cricket Correspondent of The Times from 1954 to 1988, and was Editor of Wisden for six editions between 1981-86, has died at his Longparish home, aged of 94.
He had a lifetime association with Longparish cricket as a player, administrator and a keen supporter.  He regularly assembled sides sprinkled with stars to take on the Longparish side, with Dennis Compton, Richie Benaud, Colin Cowdrey and many more turning out.
Before he passed away Ken Ball, who had a 60-year association of his own with the club, talked of the time he was bowled by Frank ‘Typhoon’ Tyson by a ball that he didn’t see.
More recently Jon hosted a match between Longparish and a touring side of retired state and grade cricketers from New South Wales and Australia Capital Territory, who were all keen to meet the “Sage of Longparish” as he was often described.
John was also present when Longparish twice reached the final of the Village Cup, travelling to Lords on the bus with the rest of the village. 
Up until last year he would drop into the ground for a few hours to see how the game was going, invariably with a copy of the Times before disappearing for a pint at The Plough or The Cricketers. 
He had a fund of tales on cricket and much more besides and loved nothing more than a chat on the boundary. He was as happy talking about the trials of touring test cricket before air travel – he sailed to Australia four times and once to South Africa between 1950 and 1963 - as he was on the performance of the Longparish U11s in their latest match. 
He was a great supporter of the youth teams and delighted in any youngster who demonstrated an ability for the game. 
Often he would arrive at the ground with some visiting friend from the press box in tow, the late West Indies and broadcaster Tony Cozier, Vic Marks, Mike Atherton, Jim Maxwell and many more have parked themselves on a bench at Longparish in recent times to chat with John.
John was also a very keen countryman, a skilled fly fisherman he fished the River Test throughout his life. He also shot and took a great interest in the natural environment and the people who worked in the valley where he spent all his life. He was also a very keen golfer.
John will be greatly missed by everyone at Longparish Cricket Club and everyone who lives in the village, his influence throughout his life on the cricket club and this part of The Text Valley will be remembered for a very long time. 
 
Chris de Cani, Longparish CC.
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A sixth straight win has lifted BASINGSTOKE & NORTH HANTS to third place, 14 points behind lead pair Calmore Sports and Totton & Eling.
Standing (from left): Matt Donaldson, Ash Neal, Matt Deadman, Laurence Benge, Dean Nurse, Greg Donaldson, Brad Neal, Ted Pearson (scorer). Seated: Tyler Bradley, Dan Belcher (Cpt), Joe Oates, Rakitha Perera.     

Greg Donaldson smashed seven sixes in hitting 57 runs off 29 deliveries in a blistering pre-tea assault as Basingstoke & North Hants powered to a 118-run win over Southern Premier Division 1 strugglers St Cross Symondians II at Winchester’s Green Jacket Ground.
It was Stoke’s sixth successive victory and took them up to third place in the log behind Calmore Sports, who enjoy the slenderest of leads over near neighbours Totton & Eling.   
Basingstoke had already built themselves a fine platform through top order stands Dan Belcher (45) enjoyed with fellow opener Matt Deadman (29) and Ash Neal (45).
But they had slipped from 118-1 to 146-5 when Donaldson arrived at the crease.
He took an immediate liking to spinner Dave Orchard (4-71), who took the brunt of his six-hit assault, before the St Cross Symondians skipper got his own way with three late wickets.
Basingstoke’s total of 226 was always going to be far beyond a depleted St Cross, who slumped to 35-6 against teenager Tyler Bradley (4-26) and left-arm spinner Rakitha Perera (3-26), who was on a hat-trick at one point.  Charlie Harden (45) and Orchard (18) added 52 to give Symondians’ 108 an air of respectability.                 

​Winchester College opener Wilf la Fontaine-Jackson scored a maiden century and leg spinner Kamran Khanna took a best yet 6-29 as Hampshire Academy’s side inflicted a crushing 105-run defeat on St Cross Symondians on the Ageas Bowl Academy ground.
La Fontaine Jackson, left, who recently celebrated his 16th birthday, hit 107 and shared a match defining 115-run opening stand with Charlie Mumford (66) as the Academy posted 262-9 before Khanna took the last six wickets of the innings to dismiss St Cross for 157.
The result was another blow to Symondians’ title prospects, though with leaders Bournemouth and Bashley (Rydal) also losing, the situation is very tight at the top.
Easton & Martyr Worthy raised La Fontaine-Jackson struck three sixes and eight fours in his maiden hundred, while Mumford completed a fine day’s work by bagging five victims behind the stumps.
The Academy lost three wickets for 16 runs – two of them to spinner Alex Woolvine (2-54) - before Joe Eckland (43) added another 82 with Fontaine-Jackson to steer the Young Hawks to 262-9.
With covid isolation procedures in place and county pair Harry Came (at Derbyshire), Felix Organ, Tom Foyle and Brad Taylor all absent, St Cross were already struggling and when left-arm quick Josh Croom (2-20) had Harry Trussler and Ed Ellis caught for ducks, their problems deepened.
Harry Foyle (13) and former Hampshire batsman Jason Laney (16) were both snapped up behind by Mumford as St Cross lurched to 44-4.
Playing his first game in two months and clearly in discomfort from an ankle injury, Jack Bransgrove made 35 and added useful runs with Simon Beetham (56), the former Lymington captain deciding attack was the best form of defence and striking two sixes and four boundaries in his half-century.
With a big total on the board, the scene was perfect for Khanna’s leg spin and with the field set deep he teased the St Cross lower-order into submission, taking the last six wickets as the Winchester visitors fell from 118-5 to 157 all out, South African Michael Booth (18) striking several lusty blows before being superbly caught low down at extra-cover by Toby Albert.

ECB SOUTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE
RESULTS: ROUND 12 – 17 JULY 2021

ECB PREMIER DIVISION (50 overs)

Bashley (Rydal) 101 (Digby 23, De Abreu 4-12, Donald 3-8) Burridge 103-3 (Blake 39*, Hughes 25*). Burridge won by seven wickets.

Bournemouth 98 (C Park 27, Pack 22*, Walters 4-18, Wright 4-24) Alton 99-3 (Gonella 38*, Egerton 23*, Pack 6-16). Alton won by seven wickets.

Hampshire Academy 262-9 (Fontaine-Jackson 107, Mumford 66, Eckland 43) St Cross Symondians 157 (Beetham 56, Bransgrove 35, Khanna 6-29). Hampshire Academy won by 105 runs.

Lymington 157 (Edwards 38, Crabb 30, Morgan 3-28, Jerry 3-32) Havant 158-9 (Hopson 44, Morgan 24, Bulled 23, Cox 4-25). Havant won by one wicket.
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South Wilts 236-6 (Hayward 113, Mynott 58) Hook & Newnham Basics 172 (J Buckingham 62, Lockwood 32, Warner 4-25, Burton 3-24, Morgan 3-46). South Wilts won by 64 runs.

DIVISION 1 (40 overs)

Basingstoke & North Hants 226 (G Donaldson 57, Belcher 45, Neal 40, Orchard 4-71) St Cross Symondians II 108 (Harden 45, Bradley 4-26, Perera 3-26). Basingstoke & North Hants won by 118 runs.

Portsmouth 138 (Smitherman 37) Calmore Sports 140-3 (Johns 57*, Johnson 50, A Marston 3-24) Calmore Sports won by seven wickets.

Rowledge 157 (J Wish 35, Sebborn 31, Loader 3-31) New Milton 158-9 (Golding 38, Greig 38, Watts 23, Lloyd 3-15, Baker 3-34). New Milton won by one wicket.

Sarisbury Athletic 192-7 (Franklin 50*, J Hill 37, Rawlins 31) Andover 195-6 (Ashman 76*). Andover won by four wickets.

Totton & Eling 188 (Clarke 61, Mugochi 35, Peruzi 26) Sparsholt 80 (Taylor 40, Mugochi 6-33). Totton & Eling won by 108 runs.

DIVISION 2 (40 overs)

Bashley (Rydal) II 115 (Kennett 37, Smith 4-12, Munir 3-29) Fawley 116-5 (K Earl 38*). Fawley won by five wickets.

Fair Oak 87 (Watson 30, Trodd 5-13) Old Tauntonians & Romsey 89-7 (Dhariwal 31, Gwynn 4-10). Old Tauntonians & Romsey won by three wickets.

Paultons 155 (Feltham 76, Randall 4-16) Liphook & Ripsley 156-5 (Nicklin 41, Rouse 41). Liphook & Ripsley won by five wickets.

South Wilts II 251-8 (Cranch 77, Falconer 50, Edwards 42, Brown 3-52, Reynaldo 3-59) Hartley Wintney 172-9 (J Teale 43, Philpott 38, Puddifont 30, Ross 26, Lewis 3-12). South Wilts II won by 79 runs.

Waterlooville 197-9 (Birch 57*, A Reynolds 34, Verma 29, Russell 3-22) Ventnor 201-4 (Alleyne 93*, Blackman 51*, Jackson 3-22). Ventnor won by six wickets.

DIVISION 3 (40 overs)

Hambledon 232-7 (Glanfield 99, Pratt 34, Oliver 24) Hook & Newnham Basics II 188-8 (James 32, Neville 38, T May 37, Glanfield 3-32, Oliver 3-37). Hambledon won by 44 runs.

Langley Manor 193-9 (Noble 79, Taylor 5-46) Gosport Borough 193-4 (O Creal 51, Harrop 50, Harris 49*). Gosport Borough won by six wickets.

Portsmouth & Southsea 214-7 (Davies 74, T Benfield 37, Lee 26, Berry 3-31) Tichborne Park 116 (T Allam 64, Saunders 6-27). Portsmouth & Southsea won by 98 runs.

Purbrook 234-3 (Lee 102*, McCoy 46, Figgins 30, Mengham 26*) Hythe & Dibden 174 (Royan 34, Millar 27, Dean 3-26). Purbrook won by 50 runs.

Trojans 191-7 (Le Bas 66, Sutherland 38, Mahmood Agha 32, Shahane 3-41) Basingstoke & North Hants II 132 (Coombs 20, Syed Agha 3-20).  Trojans won by 59 runs.

A place in the Voneus Village Cup semi-finals - and one win from Lord's - is the glittering prize for victory on offer to Calmore Sports, if they can beat Gloucestershire's Rockhampton in tomorrow's (Sunday) last eight tie at Loperwood Park, 1pm.
Their opponents, who lie second in the WEPL Gloucestershire Division, won through to the quarter-finals by virtue of a bowl-out, while Calmore's route to the last eight has been a thrilling roller coaster ride, with a series of nail biting wins over Paultons, Sparsholt, Cookham Dean and Goatacre, whom they beat by losing fewer wickets in a tied sixth round nerve jangler.
Calmore boosted their confidence for the quarter-final with a six-wicket win at Portsmouth in which Shaun Johnson and Ben Johns hit fifties. Rockhampton enjoyed an easy ten-wicket win over Stroud-based Painswick.
Calmore Sports: Lavelle, Bailey, Johns, Brewster, Taylor, Johnson, Manning, Perry, West, Wright, Lepervanche. 
South Coast Panel duo Shaun Lilley and Nik Lewis will officiate.
* There is ample room (and shade) for spectators at Loperwood Park, where the licensed bar will be open throughout the match and hot food available.   Spectators are advised to bring their own fold-up chairs and factor 30 !!

Several hours before England’s agonising penalty shoot-out loss to Italy in the European Championship final, Ynystawe and Clipstone & Bilsthorpe suffered a similar fate in the last 16 of the Voneus Village Cup.
Following the abandonment of their round six fixtures on July 4, Ynystawe and Clipstone returned to their home grounds a week later to host the rearranged matches, taking on Gloucestershire’s Rockhampton and Dyfed’s Neyland, respectively.
However, with rain disrupting both matches once again, the captains agreed to stage a bowl-off and unfortunately for Ynystawe and Clipstone, the result didn’t go their way.
Rockhampton triumphed 1-0 in South Wales, Jamie Wakefield the only player to hit the stumps, while Neyland were on target four times to seal a 4-1 win over Clipstone.
Ynystawe, who lifted the Village Cup title in 2001, had the right to feel aggrieved at the weather.
                                                                                      Momentum
Having been put into bat by Rockhampton, the Welsh side raced to 115 without loss after 23 overs, with captain Tom Blake and opening partner Morgan Hodges both posting half-centuries.
Blake was removed for 57 with the first ball of the 24th over, caught by Will Tyler off the bowling of Dave McCabe, but it did little to halt Ynystawe’s momentum, with wicketkeeper Hodges continuing his charge.
Carl Roberts and Matthew Blake departed for four and 10, respectively, before Thomas Morgan, entered the fray and put on an unbeaten 36-run fourth-wicket stand with Hodges which could only be halted by the weather.
Ynystawe’s innings ended prematurely in the 38th over with the scoreboard 201 for 3, Morgan motoring on 19 not out from 13 balls, and Hodges stranded on an unbeaten 99 from 103 balls, including 11 fours and three sixes.
McCabe, Chris Willoughby and Jamie Wakefield were the wicket-takers for Rockhampton and it was the latter who earned hero status in the bowl-off as the only player on either side to hit the stumps.
Rockhampton will travel tomorrow (Sunday) to Southern Premier League Division 1 promotion contenders Calmore Sports, who previously won their tied match with Goatacre on fewest number of wickets lost, for their quarter-final clash.