Hampshire all-rounder Ian Holland enjoyed the bragging rights but not the victory smiles when his Ringwood side met Lewis McManus’s Camberwell Magpies in the Victoria Premiership.
Holland was run out for one in the second over of Ringwood’s disappointing 189 – a total which the Magpies passed five down, despite Holland trapping a crestfallen McManus leg before wicket for three.
St Cross Symondians all-rounder Jack Bransgrove is enjoying a second winter in Melbourne, where he previously played in his 2013 pre-university gap year.
He plays in the same Brighton sub-district side as Calmore Sports’ left-hander Ben Johns and, so far, has taken seven wickets in three games in addition to hitting 148 runs (including a first up 75), with a fair sprinkling of sixes !
Johns, meanwhile, has been starved of much batting opportunity in recent weeks, but has 263 runs to his name, including two 75-plus scores which earned him a first team place.
Across the city, South Wilts pair Luke Evans and Ben Draper had a day to forget as Parkdale crashed to a heavy defeat against Hampton.
Batting nine, New Milton teen Raff Hussey is getting little opportunity to build any sort of innings in the South Australia Second Grade with Port Adelaide – but he’s certainly developing as a bowler !
Hussey seldom bowls for the Green & Golds back home, but in his last two games in Adelaide he’s taken 3-19 in a 16-over stint against Northern Districts and followed it up with an impressive 1-23 return off ten overs v Glenelg. Hussey is spending the winter at the Darren Lehmann Academy prior to taking up an offer to study at Loughborough.

Teenage Totton & Eling all-rounder cricketer Ethan Taylor, sporting a sharp new ‘basin’ style haircut, let his football boots do the talking by scoring all four goals as Southampton-based Itchen College beat their Brighton & Hove counterparts 4-1 to progress to the quarter-finals of the English Schools Under-18 Trophy.
Itchen fell behind in the first half, but Taylor scored twice either side of half-time to secure a 4-1 victory and clinch a last eight place for his side.  Itchen travel to Street (Somerset) to play Strode College in the quarter-finals.
Ethan, eldest son of James Taylor, scored 331 runs (including two half-centuries) and took 21 wickets for Totton & Eling in SPL2 last summer.

Derbyshire have signed former St Cross Symondians all-rounder Logan van Beek as their overseas player for the entire 2019 county season.  The 28-year-old New Zealander is available for all formats of the game.
He scored 556 runs (114 v Hampshire Academy, plus five scores of 50 or more) and took 22 wickets for the Winchester club, who finished in a comfortable mid-table position in 2017.
"We were looking for a specific type of cricketer, someone to enhance our bowling attack," said Derbyshire head of cricket Dave Houghton.
Van Beek recently played for New Zealand A against India A, having previously represented the Netherlands at the 2014 ICC World Twenty20.  He took three wickets - Jos Buttler, Ravi Bopara and Chris Jordan - when the Dutch beat England by 45 runs in Chittagong.
"He gets his wickets with balls that are pitched up and that's a good length in England, especially in the early season.
"He's on the verge of New Zealand side and bursting to try and get in. That's the type of cricketer we want - guys who are here with a point to prove."
Van Beek has taken 109 wickets in 39 first-class matches at an average of 30.33, as well as 61 List A wickets - and he has made 1,087 first-class runs.

The Southern Premier and Hampshire Leagues have announced the divisional make-up of their respective competitions for the 2019 season, the SPL programme to begin on May 4 and the HCL a week later, on May 11.
Relegated in 2013, Bournemouth are back in the ECB Southern Premier Division for the first time in five years and replace New Milton. The competition will continue in its mixed format of 50-over ‘white ball’ cricket and ‘time’ games played in mid-summer.
SPL2 champions Sparsholt and runners-up Rowledge join New Milton as newcomers in Division 1, where ‘red ball’ matches are played on a 50-over basis, as in SPL2 and 3.
Lord’s National Village Cup finalists Liphook & Ripsley join three Premier Division second teams in Division 2, while County Division 1 champions Hythe & Dibden and third-placed Fareham & Crofton are newcomers in SPL3, where they will face relegated duo Tichborne Park and Trojans.  CD1 runners-up Parley do not, at present, meet SPL accreditation requirements and were not eligible for promotion.
Whereas the Premier League divisions each comprise ten teams playing each other on a home and away basis, the Hampshire League continues with 18 teams in each division.
County 2 champions Bedhampton are among five fresh faces in CD1, alongside Sway who have climbed their way up from the regional leagues and are celebrating a second promotion in three years.
The Southern and Hampshire League make up for 2019 is –
* denotes promoted club + relegated
ECB Premier Division
Alton, Bashley (Rydal), Basingstoke & North Hants, * Bournemouth, Burridge, Hampshire Academy, Havant, Lymington, St Cross Symondians, South Wilts.
Division 1
Andover, Calmore Sports, Hook & Newnham Basics, + New Milton, OTs & Romsey, Portsmouth, * Rowledge, Sarisbury Athletic, * Sparsholt, Ventnor.
Division 2
Basingstoke & North Hants II, * Fair Oak, + Hartley Wintney, Langley Manor, + Liphook & Ripsley, Paultons, St Cross Symondians II, * South Wilts II, Totton & Eling, Waterlooville.
Division 3
Bashley (Rydal) II, * Fareham & Crofton, Fawley, Hambledon, * Hythe & Dibden, Lymington II, Portsmouth & Southsea, Purbrook, + Tichborne Park, + Trojans.
County Division 1
Alton II, Andover II, * Bedhampton, Burridge II, Easton & Martyr Worthy, + Gosport Borough, + Havant II, Hook & Newnham Basics II, Hursley Park, Longparish, * Old Basing, OTs & Romsey II, Parley, Ropley, Ryde, Shrewton, St Cross Symondians III, * Sway.
County Division 2
Basingstoke & North Hants III, + Bishops Waltham, Bournemouth II, Bramshaw, * Bransgore, Compton & Chandler’s Ford, East Woodhay, * Emsworth, Fair Oak II, Ferndown Wayfarers, Odiham & Greywell, Portsmouth II, * Redlynch & Hale, + Rowledge II, Sarisbury Athletic II, South Wilts III, * Steep, * Winton.
County Division 3 North
Amport, Bishops Waltham II, Hartley Wintney II, Hook & Newnham Basics III, Hungerford, Hursley ParkII, IBM Hursley, Liphook & Ripsley II, Liss, Michelmersh & Timsbury, * Oakley, OTs & Romsey III, * Overton, Petersfield, RAM, Ramsdell, * Southampton Community, * Sparsholt II.
County Division 3 South
Bashley (Rydal) III, Cadnam, Calmore Sports II, Folland (Hamble), + Hayling Island, * Hythe & Dibden II, Kerala, Langley Manor II, + Locks Heath, Mudeford. + New Milton II, Old Netley & Highfield, Shanklin, Totton & Eling II, + United Services, + Ventnor II, Verwood, Woodgreen.
County Division 4 North
Alton III, Ampfield, Ashford Hill, Basingstoke & North Hants IV, + Chawton, Compton & Chandler’s Ford II, * Holybourne, Hook & Newnham Basics IV, Hursley Park III, Littleton & West Hill, Longparish II, Medstead, Old Basing II, Rowledge III, Silchester, Stockbridge, Twyford, Wherwell.
County Division 4 South
Bedhampton II, * Colden Common & Otterbourne, Fair Oak III, Fareham & Crofton II, Froxfield, Gosport Borough II, + Hambledon II, Locks Heath II, Mansbridge, Portsmouth & Southsea II, Purbrook II, Railway Triangle, Ryde Cavaliers, Ryde II, Sarisbury Athletic III, * Solent Rangers, Steep II, Waterlooville II.
County Division 4 West
Bournemouth III, * Breamore, Burley, Ellingham, Farley, Fawley II, * Hyde, * Lyndhurst & Ashurst, Mottisfont, Paultons II, Pyelwell Park, Redlynch & Hale II, Shrewton II, Southampton Travellers, Steeple Langford, Sway II, Whiteparish, Winton II.
* See www.hantscl.com/2018/hcl-2019-season for the Regional Division structure.

Tony Izzard is set to play his farewell innings, bowl his last ball and make his final umpiring decision next Thursday lunchtime, 1.45pm.
Portchester Crematorium is expected to be packed as cricket pays a lasting tribute to one of the all-time greats of the Combined Services, Royal Navy and United Services, who died last month, aged 70, after a short illness.
In a tribute, Rear Admiral Roger Moylan-Jones RN, reflected: “Tony made a massive contribution to Navy and Services cricket whilst he was serving, which continued of course, thereafter both as a player for US Portsmouth and then as an umpire in senior recreational cricket circles.
“I was a great admirer of his dedication to the game, and of his considerable all round skills which he consistently strived to improve - he was an extremely accomplished performer in a game he loved
“I knew Tony since he was first breaking in to the Navy side, and over the years we played together in many Navy and Combined Services teams; we last played together in the mid 1980s for an HMS Daedalus side, when I was in Command, which won the Navy Cup.”
Rear Admiral Roger Moylan-Jones was a long time Services team-mate of Tony Izzard and is now president of Devon CCC, for whom he played Minor Counties cricket.
Tony, who began service life aboard HMS St Vincent, the Gosport-based shore establishment in 1967, was a prolific player for the Royal Navy and Combined Services over a 16-year period from 1973 to 1989 before becoming a hugely respected umpire for both RN and CS, as well as across the Southern Premier League.
Promoted to Officer rank as a Lt Cdr in 1979, he spent 25 years in the Senior Service, though little of it at sea !   

An imposing all-rounder, he played 50 matches for CS, scoring almost 1,500 and recording a fine century against Oxford University on his ‘home ground’ of Burnaby Road in 1984. 
He captained the Royal Navy on numerous occasions, helping them win the Inter-Services Championships several times.
Tony was a very clean striker of a cricket ball and opposition sides were always conscious any total or target was gettable while he remained at the crease.
In the field, he was a brilliant catcher at slip or in the outfield, and a very useful right-arm medium-pace bowler, who latterly turned to off-spin.
Alongside sibling brother Mike, he played his early club cricket for Hayling Island (as an 11-year old) before the Izzard family moved to South Yorkshire and a quickly emerging Tony played for Sheffield United CC.

Upon his return to the south coast, Tony played for South Hants Touring Club before joining United Services upon their entry to league cricket in 1979.
He became a stalwart of the United Services club, captaining the Burnaby Road club for eight seasons and playing in 121 matches in the Hampshire and then Southern Premier League before turning his attention to umpiring on and off the field, standing in many RN, CS and SPCL matches whilst also being a leading member of the Hampshire ACO where he contributed through officials education and training.
A fine and highly respected cricketer, Tony became an excellent umpire.
You could tell from the way he officiated that he had played the game at a high level and understood what was going on around him on the field.  Captains always found him a pleasure to work with: just the right level of authority.
Most players would never dream of taking a liberty with him, but he was very human with it and never forgot what it was like to be on the players’ side of the fence.
When not being involved ‘in the middle’ Tony managed the Burnaby Road catering for many years, always a cheerful face behind the bar ready to chat cricket at the first opportunity. He was one part of a remarkable double-act with his wife, who produced arguably the finest cricket lunches and teas around.
Tony was also a decent footballer, representing Hampshire Grammar Schools (while at Price’s School, Fareham) and both Gosport Borough and Portsmouth RN, under the late Denis '4-2-4' Probee.
His funeral will take place at 1.45pm (13:45) on Thursday 6 December 2018 at Portchester Crematorium (PO16 8NE) and afterwards at the United Services Rugby Club at Burnaby Road in Portsmouth.
The family has decided that there will be no flowers for Tony at his funeral, but Help for Heroes is suggested as a suitable organisation for donations.
For those who plan to attending the funeral, the family has requested that bright Military Sporting ties or, preferably, cricketing ties will be very apt for the celebration of the life of Tony Izzard, a hugely respected sportsman who put back into cricket as much, if not more, than he took out of it. Above all, perhaps, he was a top bloke !

Hampshire’s Felix Organ, who topped the ECB Southern Premier Division batting charts this past summer, is making a run wave or two playing for Broadbeach Robina in Queensland’s Gold Coast League.
He notched 75 in BR’s 241-2 run assault on Queens, who were dismissed for 153 in reply, Organ taking 1-18 and team-mate Tom Scriven 1-25.  It was Organ’s second consecutive 70-plus score for Broadbeach, who lie third in the log.
With only one Premier Division wicket on his CV, New Milton teenager Raff Hussey wouldn’t regard bowling as his strongest suit – but he managed a creditable 3-19 return from an 18-over stint playing Second Grade for Port Adelaide against Northern Districts in the West End SA Grade competition.
Hussey was thrown the ball with Northern Districts 84-0 and promptly removed both openers and ND’s number three bat. His 18-over stint was more than he bowled all season for New Milton !
Hussey is spending the winter at Darren Lehmann's Academy ahead of taking up a place at Loughborough University in autumn 2019.
Elsewhere in Adelaide, Bournemouth’s Luke Matthews has been keeping an unusually low profile after bagging a pair in St Peter’s Collegiate’s heavy defeat by Port Districts in the Adelaide Suburban Turf League, where he excelled in his early matches, scoring 156 runs (inc two fifties) in his first three knocks.
The SPL contingent playing in Melbourne saw all their games washed out by heavy rain which has subsequently swept up Australia’s east coast and submerged much of Sydney.

Hampshire Cricket Board has announced a call to action for all local clubs and cricket organisations to apply to become a Cricket World Cup Club and ‘be part of something bigger’.
The initiative has been designed to help grassroots clubs further connect with their local community through family fun-based activity and help bring the excitement of the 2019 Cricket World Cup (CWC 2019) into their clubhouse.
As the CWC 2019 returns to England and Wales for the first time in 20 years, the ICC and ECB aim to engage one million kids throughout the tournament, with Clubs given the opportunity to apply to become a Cricket World Cup Club, put on a family day and celebrate and engage a new audience through the excitement of the CWC 2019.
The Cricket World Cup Club Fund has been launched with at least the first 2,000 affiliated Clubs who register having the opportunity to receive £1,000 to help digitise or upgrade catering facilities.
The Fund has been set up to help Clubs install new broadband, boost their clubhouse’s audio-visual capabilities, or transform their catering facilities to assist with their CWC 2019 family day.  The three step process is:
1. Register
2. Download Guidance Notes and Application Form
3. Email Form and Quotation
As part of the initiative, Clubs are being asked to run a weekend of child/family-based activity, helping to better connect with the local community and engage a younger generation. This could be anything, from kids’ coaching sessions, parent/child matches, or even a ‘Bring a Friend’ day. The aim of these family days is to get more kids involved in the game and to help Clubs showcase themselves to a wider audience.
“Within the South Central region, we’re well aware of the fantastic opportunity that the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup presents and the importance of seizing upon this once in a generation event to continue to get more young people passionate about our game.  The Cricket World Cup Club initiative created by the ICC and ECB is a golden opportunity and one that I encourage as many local clubs in Hampshire to sign up for. The Fund and CWC 2019 tournament represents a platform which we can utilise to grow a whole new generation of fans and players, boys and girls who will be playing at diverse, family-friendly clubs.”
Andy Lees, ECB Regional Head of Participation and Growth for the South Central region
Clubs who apply will have access to official marketing material to assist with the promotion of their event – which they will be able to use in schools, on social media and in the local area. Cricket World Cup Champions, the lead volunteer at the club, will receive official World Cup merchandise to reward them for their efforts.
Friday 7th – Sunday 9th of June 2019 will be the focus weekend for celebrations however club family days can run over any weekend during the World Cup (30th May-14th July).
 
Simon Jones
Cricket Development Manager
The Ageas Bowl
T: 02380 475653
M: 07920452537

Hampshire Cricket Chairman Rob Bransgrove is “exited and delighted” that the Isle of Wight will be hosting the county’s third Championship home fixture of the 2019  season against Nottinghamshire at Newclose, beginning on Monday 20th May.
The match, which marks the first first-class fixture to be played on the Isle of Wight since 1962, is to be played away from the Ageas Bowl due to next summer’s ICC Cricket World Cup.
Mr Bransgrove (left) said: “Due to the exclusivity period around its ICC World Cup Tournament commitments next season, Hampshire Cricket is required to play a home fixture away from the Ageas Bowl and we are very excited to be staging a debut First Class fixture at Newclose Cricket Ground on the Isle of Wight.
“Having played Second XI matches there in recent years, we know that Newclose is a fantastic facility, with a good wicket and plenty of space for members and supporters.
“The Club is working with a range of travel partners to ensure that as many of our mainland-based fans as possible will be able to join us for what should be a fantastic fixture.
“The 4-day match against Nottinghamshire, on 20th-23rd May, is a fitting reward for the hard work of everyone concerned at Newclose and, in particular, the determination and commitment of the late Brian Gardener who would be absolutely thrilled at this outcome.”
IWCB chairman Phil Mew said: “We think it's fantastic for the Isle of Wight and the whole Island community, to be able to bring top class cricket here for the first time for many years.
"The Board will be throwing its entire weight behind it to make sure it is a great success. Another benefit too is that it will also attract more people to the Island."

The Isle of Wight will host Hampshire’s County Championship match against Nottinghamshire at Newclose next summer.
They will play a four-day game there during the week commencing Monday 20 May – the first time a First Class game is played on the Isle of Wight since May 1962, when Hampshire narrowly failed to beat Tom Graveney’s Worcestershire at the then JS White’s Ground, now used for club cricket by Cowes.
Owing the World Cup and warm-up fixtures taking place at the Ageas Bowl, Hampshire (and several other counties) have to use out-grounds – much to the delight of traditional cricket fans who have looked askance at the curtailment of festival weeks in recent years.
Ironically, Hampshire’s reverse/away match against Nottinghamshire in June is at Welbeck.
The prospect of county cricket returning to the Island heightened recent when the ECB sent one of the top groundsmen to inspect the Newclose square and discuss potential funding for drainage improvements with Martin Gardener, the owner, whose late father Brian was the inspiration behind the £2m project and, alongside John Hilsum, so instrumental in the ground being developed and eventually opened in 2009.
It is understood Hampshire have been having transportation discussions with the Red Funnel ferry group, who operate car ferry and fast-cat services to Cowes from Southampton.  Players, supporters and advertisement hoardings would need to be transported across the Solent.
Club cricket has been played at Newclose since 2009, principally by Ventnor during their time in the ECB Southern Premier Division. Hampshire second team and the MCC YCs have used the ground for matches each summer.
Hampshire will begin the 2019 County Championship season with Ageas Bowl matches against Essex (April 5) and Yorkshire, the following week.

Hyde’s near clean sweep of south-west regional division cricket in the Hampshire League over the past two seasons has been rewarded after all.
The New Forest club has won 25 of its 28 league matches in the past two seasons, romping away with the South West Regional Division Two and One titles in the process.
But they feared that despite winning back to back championships, promotion into the County Divisions – and potential progress further up the pyramid – would be blocked due to the bumpy outfield on Hyde Common, a popular grazing spot for Forest cattle, donkeys and ponies, not meeting Hampshire League criteria.
In fact, shortly after clinching the SW1 title in late August, Hyde were told by the HCL that they were not being recommended for promotion to County Division 4 West next summer.
But league chairman Denis Emery has led a move to unlock the promotion door for not only Hyde, but Breamore and Lyndhurst & Ashurst, whose grounds also fell short of HCL requirements.
“We have ensured that New Forest clubs are not penalised by Forest Laws and restrictions and will help any club that needs it to continue playing.  Times change and we must change with it,” he explained.
Tom Morris’s 473 runs and 24-wicket hauls by Rob Morey and Will Alvis ensured Hyde would play CD4 West cricket next summer with a host of tasty derbies against Burley, Ellingham, Farley, Mottisfont, Pylewell Park, Redlynch & Hale, and Sway on a mouth watering menu.

Hampshire prospects Tom Scriven and Felix Organ inspired their adopted Australian club Broadbeach Robina to an eight-wicket win over Coomera Hope Island in the Gold Coast Kookabura Cup.
Scriven took 4-40 as CHI collapsed from a threatening 119-1 to 142 all out, a total Broadbeach chased down with Organ hitting an unbeaten 73.
Hampshire wicketkeeper Lewis McManus made 42 and later bagged three victims behind the stumps as Camberwell Magpies (248) beat Hawthorn by 35runs in the Victoria Premier Division.   McManus lines up against Ian Holland’s Ringwood Grade side this weekend.
South Wilts pair Ben Draper and Luke Evans were on the receiving end of a thumping 152-run defeat inflicted on their Melbourne Parkdale side by Carnegie, who made 239 before routing their opponents for just 87.  Evans and Draper at least made double figures, with Draper getting another 14* as Parkdale reached 82-1 following on.
Bemerton team-mate Ryan Murray is plying his trade for Mirboo North in the well known Latrobe Valley League, a 90-minute train ride east of Melbourne.
Murray has taken seven wickets for far and bowled 22 overs in his last stint, taking 2-40.
Across the Tasman Sea, Havant’s Harry Gadd top scored with 32 before his adopted Kiwi club Queenstown Ballarat suffered a catastrophic collapse, losing eight wickets for ten runs against Cromwell, the side folding from 62-2 to 72 all out in 18.2 overs. Cromwell lost eight wickets in reaching the target.

Pace bowler Ollie Southon, who took 34 Southern Premier League wickets in this summer’s debut season for Burridge, is one of eight new recruits taken on by the Hampshire’s Cricket Academy.
He was fifth in the overall list of Premier Division wicket-takers this summer, having joined Burridge from SPL3 newcomers Fareham & Crofton at the start of the season.
Southon will join fellow U18s George Pardoe and Scott Currie, as well as U17 quartet Fletcha Middleton, Tom South, George Metzger and Sonny Reynolds.
Hampshire’s Head of Player Development, Charlie Freeston has certainly cast his recruitment net far and wide with Wellington College pace bowler Harry Petrie and Hertfordshire-based George Langston joining fellow Bunbury Festival prospects Tom Prest (Canford) and left-arm spin all-rounder Monam Abbas in the Ageas Bowl nursery.
Joshua Lawrenson will fly across from the Channel Islands to link up with the Academy set.
They will be joined by U17 left-arm seam recruit James Trodd, from OTs & Romsey, and U18s Ben Huntley, from South Wilts.
The Hampshire Academy finished third in this summer’s ECB Southern Premier League, claiming 10 victories across both timed and 50-over games from their 16 contests and consistently impressing against the best senior club players in the county.
Batsman Felix Organ’s mammoth 843 runs at an average of 56.20 saw him top the list of run-getters, whilst the Winchester-based youngster also claimed 24 wickets at an average of just 17.38.
He formed a strong partnership with England Under-17 all-rounder Tom Scriven, who also contributed with both bat and ball with 27 wickets at an average of 18.70 to go with 646 runs at an average of 49.69. The pair, who are spending the winter on Queensland’s Gold Coast, have been offered professional contracts for the 2019 season.
Head of Player Development, Charlie Freeston said: “We’re delighted to add eight exciting young cricketers to the Hampshire Academy as part of this year’s intake, alongside George Pardoe, George Metzger, Fletcha, Scott, Tom and Sonny who all return having shown promise throughout this past year.”
“The squad’s winter training programme is already underway and with continued development throughout the off-season and into next summer, we hope 2019 will be another successful year.”
The player pathway system, including the Hampshire Academy, has a strong history of producing talented youngsters that go on to succeed in the professional game, highlighted no more so than eight products of the youth system representing Hampshire throughout their victorious Royal London One-Day Cup campaign this summer.

Local cricket will be saying its farewells to Lt Cdr Tony Izzard RN at the Portchester Crematorium on Thursday 6 December at 1.45pm and afterwards at the Royal Navy rugby club, Burnaby Road, Portsmouth,
Tony Izzard, one of the all-time 'greats' of United Services, Royal Navy and Combined Services cricket, passed away last weekend after a short illness.
A leading all-rounder, who also played soccer for Portsmouth RN and the Royal Navy, Tony was a legend at Burnaby Road, where (alongside his wife Sue) he ran the catering for many years after retiring from the game. Like his brother Mike, he went on to become a hugely respected cricket umpire.
A full tribute will appear here in due course.

Havant’s Harry Gadd, who captained Hampshire Under-17s this summer, played the lead role as an Otago Development side beat Southlands by 100 runs in a 50-over match in New Zealand.
Gadd, who is playing for Queenstown Ballarat (the venue for the ICC Under-19 World Cup last February), hit an unbeaten 82 as Otago posted 256-6 and then weighed in with a 4-20 haul with the ball as Southlands were dismissed for 156.  Gadd had retired Hampshire left-hander Jimmy Adams on his list of victims from the 2018 SPL season.
Calmore Sports left-hander Ben Johns is cashing in with runs for Brighton in Victoria’s South West sub-district competition.
The left-hander followed up two early scores of 35 and 24 with impressive knocks of 76 and 75 for Brighton, an affluent resort which includes Ricky Ponting and Shane Warne amongst its residents.
Up on Queensland’s Gold Coast, Hampshire duo Tom Scriven and Felix Organ took five of the ten Helensvale Pacific Pines wickets as their adopted Broadbeach Robina club successfully defended 189-6 to win by 38 runs.
Organ made 25, but it was Scriven who got amongst the Helensvale top order, his 3-21 spell with the new ball accounting for three of the top five batsmen. Organ later weighed in with 2-40.
Lymington all-rounder Ryan Scott is similarly impressing in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, where he made a half-century in his debut Ringwood & District match for Norwood.
He struck with the ball in this weekend’s match against Chirnside Park, who at 99 without loss, appeared well set to chase down a 185-run target. 
Cue Scott with the ball – his five-over spell yielding a 3-13 return and the scalps of three of the top four opposition batsmen as Chirnside Park tumbled to 141 all out.
Hampshire’s Lewis McManus pouched four catches as Casey South Melbourne piled up 329-9 in the Victoria Premier competition, but was dismissed for 23 as Camberwell Magpies were dismissed for 213 and soundly beaten.
County team-mate Joe Weatherley hopes to join McManus in Melbourne soon, but is currently experiencing visa problems.
South Wilts’ pair Ben Draper and Luke Evans helped Parkdale to a convincing 144-run first innings win over McKinnon in Melbourne’s Southern Bayside Championship.
Draper made 33 in Parkdale’s 268, while Evans took 3-46 as McKinnon fell to 124 all out. 

Can you make a difference by taking up a role in cricket beyond club level ?
Do you have the ideas, energy and time to help provide the experience players want ?

Roles range from organisational to administrative:
• non-executive directors and club cricket forum  * (Hampshire Cricket Board)
• senior/junior leagues and officials associations (various)

To express an interest simply email HCB.Admin@ageasbowl.com initially by 15th November with brief details of your area of interest and the Hampshire Cricket Board will contact you to try and match you with the relevant organisation(s) and role(s).

*This group exists to create clubs and leagues that provide the experience players want in line with the ECB Cricket Unleashed Strategy 2016-2020.  It reports to the Clubs and Leagues Forum (a Hampshire Cricket Board group consisting of leagues, officials, Hampshire Cricket Board, Hampshire Cricket) and its aims include:
• review of changes to date
• reduce length of day
• reconnect the game with its players and volunteers
• reduce administration via digital adoption
• recruit and develop volunteers
• transition of juniors into open age cricket.

 

Sibonelo Makhanya was over the moon to be selected by the Cape Town Blitz at the Mzansi Super League Draft and calls PPC Newlands home.
The 22-year-old, who spent the past summer with Basingstoke & North Hants, was picked up in the 12th round by coach Ashwell Prince and joins best friend and house-mate Andile Phehlukwayo in the squad. The Proteas all-rounder was the Cape Town Blitz' first-round pick.
"First of all, I was wishing to get in, and then when I got called for the Cape Town Blitz, I was over the moon. Andile [Phehlukwayo] was the first guy to message me, telling me that we are going to have a great time and it's going to be amazing," Makhanya said.
"It's Cape Town, the people are very friendly and outgoing, there is so much to do and it's just beautiful. It's got this foreign vibe about it and it's almost like a holiday destination.
"For the first time, it is going to be lovely to play with the crowd on my side because they are not the greatest when you are playing against their team. They are very passionate and I am looking forward to fuelling their fire," he added.
The all-rounder, whom Basingstoke would dearly love to have back at May’s Bounty in 2019, is looking forward to playing alongside Proteas Dale Steyn, Quinton de Kock, England International Dawid Malan and West Indian Samuel Badree, while also linking up once again with one of his World Cup-winning SA Under-19 teammates.
"Those are some massive names that one can only learn a wealth of experience from. I'm also looking forward to joining up again with Jason Smith - who I played SA U-19 with, and I think it's going to be loads of fun," he stated.
Cape Town Blitz hosts the Tshwane Spartans at PPC Newlands for the opening match of the Mzansi Super League on November 16.

Four cricketers who spent some of their embryo summers playing in the Southern Premier League, appeared in this weekend’s opening One Day International between Australia and South Africa at the Perth Stadium.
Travis Head (Ventnor), Chris Lynn (Gosport Borough) and Glenn Maxwell (South Wilts) played in an Australia side dismissed for 152 and beaten by six wickets. Heinrich Klaasen, who spent two summers with Purbrook as a teenager, was in the victorious South Africa side.
Lewis McManus bagged four catches behind the stumps playing for Camberwell Magpies as Casey South Melbourne posted 329-9 after day one of their Victorian Premiership match.
Hampshire team-mate Joe Weatherley will shortly be joining Ian Holland and playing for Ringwood, the home club of one-time Havant all-rounder Len Hayes-Rosario.
Hampshire Academy all-rounder Tom Scriven joint top scored and later knocked over both opposition opening batsmen, but was unable to spare Broadbeach Robina from a seven-wicket defeat by Burleigh in Queensland’s Gold Coast League.
Scriven made 37 as Broadbeach, rocked by three early losses including Felix Organ (lbw 5), made 153-8 and then took 2-20 with the new ball.
Bournemouth’s Luke Matthews cracked his second half-century in three knocks for St Peter’s Old Collegians in the Adelaide A1 Premier Turf League.
He made 52 on debut against Walkersville, 48 versus Payneham and made 56 in the current match against Goodwood.  St Peter’s made 225 and have Goodwood 26-3 overnight.
Also wintering in South Australia is New Milton’s Raff Hussey, who has joined the Darren Lehmann Academy and is assigned to Port Adelaide, who had Jason Roy, Sam Billings and Harry Came on their books in recent times.
South Wilts pair Ben Draper (33) and Luke Evans (21) helped Parkdale score 268 against McKinnon in the Southern Bayside Championship in Victoria.

Hampshire are considering a return to staging county matches at Basingstoke and also playing at Newclose on the Isle of Wight in 2019, according to a report in the November edition of The Cricketer magazine.
ICC World Cup matches taking place at the Ageas Bowl next summer means Hampshire having to seek alternative venues for some of their County Championship games.
Reverting to playing on out-grounds will delight traditional cricket lovers, particularly those in North Hampshire, who have not been able to watch county matches at May’s Bounty since 2010.
A Championship match, starting on Monday May 20, has been provisionally earmarked for Newclose following positive transportation discussions with the Red Funnel ferry group. The attractive ground on the southern outskirts of Newport was completed in 2009 and used each summer since by Hampshire 2nd XI and the MCC YCs.

South Wilts’ pace bowling talent Luke Evans has been named ECB Southern Premier League Young Cricketer of the Year.
The 21-year old right-armer took 38 Premier Division wickets for the Bemerton club this summer - plus another 29 playing Minor Counties cricket for Wiltshire – and, in total, captured 100 wickets all forms of competitive action.   He was runner-up to Harry Came, the St Cross Symondians’ batsman, in 2017.
Commenting on Evans’ award, South Wilts’ director of cricket Tom Morton said: “Luke has experienced a lot of success with his bowling in the last 18 months.
“He has worked hard within the Southampton Solent University cricket programme over a four-year period and his skill-set and confidence has grown immensely.
“Not only did he perform well in the Premier League, he was also very successful in Minor County cricket and played numerous county second team fixtures, including taking five wickets for Middlesex late in the season.”
When he returns from a winter playing alongside South Wilts’ team-mate Ben Draper for the Melbourne club Parkdale, Evans will need just seven more wickets to complete a century of Southern Premier League wickets.
Evans is the 38th winner of the Young Cricketer award, introduced in 1981 in memory of Waterlooville’s John Millett.  He is the third South Wilts player to win the award after Tom Morton (2005) and James Hayward the following year.

Basingstoke & North Hants all-rounder Sibonelo Makhanya has notched his third half-century of the season in South Africa’s provincial cricket.  He made 85 in Dolphins’ opening four-match match against Titans and struck an unbeaten 54 against Warriors at Kingsmead.  The 53 he made in Dolphins’ second innings in the current match against the Cape Cobras at Newlands took the former SA Under-19 captain past 1,500 runs in provincial cricket.

Luke Matthews, who missed Bournemouth's Southern Premier League Division One championship triumph because of a badly broken finger, made a half-century on debut for St Peter's Old Collegiate in the Adelaide Turf A1 Premier Grade.
The Exeter University captain made 54, but in a losing cause as his side lost by 41 runs to Walkersville (180).
Hampshire Academy pair Felix Organ and Tom Scriven are wintering on Queensland's Gold Coast and playing for Broadbeach Robina.  Organ took 3-25 on debut against Surfer's Paradise, with both Academy batsmen making five with the bat.
Portsmouth's Isle of Wight based left-hander Ben Duggan celebrated his Murdoch University debut in the WACA Suburban Turf League with a match winning 75, while Calmore's Ben Johns hit an unbeaten 76 as Brighton waltzed to an eight-wicket win over Elsternwick in the Victorian Sub-District competition. He struck a six and nine fours.
South Wilts' seamer Luke Evans took his first two wickets on Australian soil, but Melbourne club Parkdale lost to Caufield. Ben Draper hit 18.

Only sixteen !  Remember these three promising South Wilts cricketers from a 'few' years back ? Jamie Glasson (left), Russell Rowe (centre) and Stephen Elcock (right) will be among a host of Bemerton Babes attending a glittering, sell-out South Wilts colts reunion dinner in Salisbury this evening.
Pictured in their youthful prime, Glasson, Rowe and Elcock were at Hampshire's old County Ground attending a young cricketers' training session sponsored by the then British Gas Southern League.
Former South Wilts colts supremo Stephen Hatcher has organised this evening's dinner over recent months and predicts an evening full of nostalgic memories.

Harry Foyle has been named as St Cross Symondians’ Young Cricketer of the Year.
The all-rounder played a lead role in Symondians’ Southern Premier League title triumph this summer.
He scored 310 runs and took 29 wickets, enjoying one outstanding individual performance against New Milton, hitting a blistering 89 (with his side 80-4) and later taking 4-23.
New Hampshire signing Harry Came took the St Cross batting award, his 764-run tally including three centuries.
Steve Mitchell took the bowling prize with 30 wickets, while leading Premier Division 2 wicket taker Matt Perry-Lewis was named top Second XI bowler.
Award winners:
1st XI: Harry Came (batting) Steve Mitchell (bowling)
2nd XI: Paul Hawkins (batting) Matt Perry–Lewis (bowling)
3rd XI: Steve Berryman (batting) Steve Fryer (bowling)
4th XI : Ben Powell (batting and bowling)
5th XI: Ramesh Kolli (batting) Tom Griffiths (bowling)
Young Player:  Harry Foyle
Club People of the year: Steve and Carol Aldridge
Women’s section
Caity Smyth (batting), Lucy Counsell (bowling), 
Best Newcomer: Bethany Clarke. Coaches award: Lily Meleder.

Managed Migration in Club Cricket – End of season update
 
As part of their continuing correspondence with clubs on the subject of Managed Migration, the ECB is able to advise of the latest position.
During the summer, as in recent years, the ECB conducted an audit of players in Premier and other Leagues across the country.
The ECB is pleased to report that, through the efforts of many of you, cricket has been able to demonstrate a reduction in the amount of players that have breached the Home Office policy. Thanks to everyone that made this reduction possible. Clubs that appeared to breach the policy have been advised.
In September, members of ECB Public Policy and Regulation Team met the Home Office to discuss any planned changes to policy for the 2019 season. At present, nothing has been agreed in terms of policy and as a result, the criteria remains unaltered.
As a reminder, the payment of a players’ airfare and/or use of an agent to promote the availability of players in the higher levels of cricket is likely to increase the prospect of the Home Office considering the player to be a professional and, as a consequence, the risk of the player being deemed ineligible.
The Home Office definitions of a Professional sportsperson are:-
An “Amateur” is a person who engages in a sport or creative activity solely for personal enjoyment and who is not seeking to derive a living from the activity. This also includes a person playing or coaching in a charity game.
A “Professional Sportsperson”, is someone, whether paid or unpaid, who :
is providing services as a sportsperson, playing or coaching in any capacity, at a professional or semi-professional level of sport; or
being a person who currently derives, who has in the past derived or who the Secretary of State has reason to believe is seeking in the future to derive, a living from playing or coaching, is providing services as a sportsperson or coach at any level of sport, unless they are doing so as an “Amateur” in a charity game.
In the definitions of “Amateur” and “Professional Sportsperson”, “derive a living”, “paid” or similar references include payments made in kind.
The Governing Body Endorsement criteria for the player/coach or coach only for the 2019 season is now on line and found at www.ecb.co.uk/governance/regulations/governing-body-endorsement
ECB and the Home Office are continuing to work collaboratively with other sports on revising current Policy and Guidance for implementation for the 2019 cricket season and currently we are on track for being able to share more precise details by end of 2018.

Paul Bedford
National Participation Manager (Leagues and Competitions)
16 October 2018