Basingstoke & North Hants have received planning permission for a new state-of-the-art sports pavilion to replace the 154-year old building at May’s Bounty.
Basingstoke Sports and Social Club teamed up with architects Ayre Chamberlain Gaunt and project management consultancy PDCM to deliver the £2.6 million pavilion. 
The new look facility, which will serve and overlook both the May’s Bounty and Castle Field grounds, will be fitted with four unisex outdoor changing rooms, two squash changing rooms and two for officials. It also plans to add downstairs changing rooms and toilet facilities, helping to accommodate disabled players. 
As well as the sporting facility as part of the multi-million pound project there will be the inclusion of a new club bar with members’ lounge and a flexible function space with capacity for up to 150 people. 
Ayre Chamberlain Gaunt, based in Basing View, also hopes to bring the standards of May’s Bounty up so that county cricket can once again return to Basingstoke. 
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David Ayre, director of Ayre Chamberlain Gaunt, said: ‘We’ve been involved since very early on in the process working with Basingstoke Sports and Social Club, Hampshire Cricket and the 2 of 2 English Cricket Board so we’re delighted to get the go-ahead for this much-needed local hub for sports.” 
The design of the new facility consists of two carved brick blocks that come together to form a plinth that houses the changing room spaces. 
An external terrace wraps around the first-floor social spaces, providing 360-degree views of the surrounding sports pitches. A folded canopy marks the building as a landmark while sheltering the terrace. 
The grant of planning permission for the new sports pavilion is a timely boost for Basingstoke’s cricketers who are facing the likelihood of their two Southern Premier League teams and their 3rd XI in the Hampshire League all being relegated after a woeful summer. 

​Two promising Southern Premier League prospects, Alton’s Abhay Gonella and Andover batsman/wicketkeeper Alex Ayers have flown to Australia to spend the winter  enhancing their skills in the competitive and demanding arena of New South Wales Premier Cricket in Sydney.
A product of Guildford Royal Grammar School, Gonella [top left] has played for Alton for the past two seasons, hitting six scores of 50 or more in Premier Division matches.
He has deferred a three-year placement at the London School of Economics to join the Campbelltown-Camden Grade club.
Alex Ayers [top right] had a particularly fine summer in domestic cricket, scoring some 1,200 runs for Dauntsey’s School, near Devizes, and almost 500 for Andover, including two centuries, 135 against Rowledge and 122 v Ventnor. 
Ayers, 18, will play for Parramatta, where the late great Richie Benaud cut his teeth in club cricket before going on to captain Australia in 28 of his 63 Tests.
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* Photo credits - Abhay Gonella (Roy Honeybone) and Alex Ayers (Dave Vokes)

Former Hampshire Academy and Bashley (Rydal) left-arm quick Tom Barber, 24, has been released by Middlesex, having joined the club after a spell with the MCC Young Cricketers.
He made his County Championship debut for Middlesex v Glamorgan in 2018 and twice played T20 matches against Hampshire in front of capacity crowds under the Lord’s floodlights. 
​Barber has spent most of the past season playing Second XI Championship cricket and turned out for Harrow St Mary’s in the ECB Middlesex County League, taking nine wickets in 11 appearances.
On Barber departing the club, Middlesex Managing Director Fraser MBE said: “Tom Barber has the lot as a fast bowler. He is tall, left-arm, fast and has the ability to swing a cricket ball. Some bowlers possess one or two of these assets, very few three or four. 
“Our inability to develop this potential into the finished article, someone who can combine these assets with the ability to consistency hit a challenging length, has been a source of great frustration to everybody. Tom is a cracking lad who has worked hard and managed himself extremely well at Middlesex, and we wish him the best of luck in the next stage of his career.”
Barber himself commented: “I would like to thank the club for the opportunity, the fans and members for their ongoing support and would like to wish Middlesex every success moving forward”.
* The county rumour mill suggests that Barber could be joining Derbyshire.

Lymington stalwart Tony Wharton has been awarded a life-time achievement award at the NatWest Outstanding Service to Cricket Awards (OSCA) at the Ageas Bowl.
Tony, who has spent 30 years tirelessly working to improve cricket through the New Forest and particular his former clubs Langley Manor and New Milton and current club Lymington, received 41 per cent of the votes to attain the award ahead of Ray Holyer [Hampshire Association of Cricket Officials] and long serving Hursley Park cricketer and groundman Chris Westbrook.
Over and above his sterling work at Lymington, where he is treasurer and frequently first team scorer, Tony has been an ever present helping and coaching young cricketers. He was made a life member of the club in 2014. He has been treasurer of the Southern League and is president and former chairman of the South Hants Indoor Cricket League at Eastleigh.  
A carefree and cavalier opening batsman (and dibley dobley bowler) in his playing days, Tony Wharton has played cricket worldwide and once scored a century at Ventura on the Bournemouth & South Hampshire tour to California in 1989.  He is pictured in his prime chilling out after a long bowling stint at the Isolation Cavaliers ground in the West Indies, where he once worked and grew bananas.
 

Gosport Borough cricketer Jordyn Dore has been selected for England’s Learning Disability squad for the International Federation for Intellectual Impairment Sport (INAS) Global Games in Brisbane next month.
The Global Games will see more than 1,000 of the world’s best athletes with an intellectual impairment compete across nine sports at some of Brisbane’s iconic international sporting venues.
The Borough player and coach first impressed in Chance to Shine sessions at Baycroft School back in 2013, and was selected to join Hampshire's award-winning Irwin Mitchell Disability Programme.
Jordyn was part of Hampshire's disability team who were national champions in 2017 and 2018, Gosport's second team in the Hampshire Cricket League, as well as coaching the club's under 9s, women's softball and sessions run by the club's innovative "Privett Pavilion" community cafe.
“This is a great opportunity. It's been my goal from the start to represent England. Now having the chance to do it in Brisbane it's just amazing and the support has been brilliant which is really appreciated,” he said.
Nick Wheeler (Head Coach, Hampshire D40 Disability Squad) added: “I could not be prouder from a coach’s point of view. His dedication and hard work has shown the last two years and his selection is very much deserved.”
England and Wales Cricket Board are fully funding Jordyn, but his father Gary also needs to make the month-long trip due to the distance and duration.
If you would like to support the cost of Gary's travel and accommodation, this page - www.gofundme.com/f/help-get-jordan-to-australia - has been set up to which you can donate.

Tom Friend’s silverware haul continues to grow. Already a championship medal winner with Bashley (Rydal), Ventnor raised Friend has won the ECB Southern Premier Division batting award with 621 runs – and has now been named August ‘Cricketer of the Month’ by www.vimpsatthecrease.com website, the monthly awards being made in conjunction with Cricket-Hockey.com, the Downton-based sports equipment specialists.
​Friend began the month with a half-century against Alton, made three separate scores of 30 or more, but more specifically hit an unbeaten 84 against Bournemouth, an innings that secured the title for Bashley (Rydal).

Sarisbury Athletic’s Village Cup semi-final conquerors, Hertfordshire League club Reed carried off the trophy for a third time at Lord’s on Sunday – but their celebrations were dampened by a serious eye injury sustained by Houghton Main opening batsman Ian Simon.
Simon was not wearing a helmet when he hooked a short ball into his eye. He was rushed to hospital for tests, and underwent an operation to drain blood from the area. He had broken his cheekbone in several places. Fortunately, he remained conscious, and was asking for updates on the score from hospital.
With their opening batsman retiring hurt, Houghton Main managed just 160-8, and the team from the former colliery near Barnsley were unable to defend the modest target on a pacey Lord’s pitch on a warm September day, losing by seven wickets, with Reed skipper Tom Greaves hitting 67 not out and left-hander Rob Lankester 59.
Reed, fresh from clinching promotion to the Saracens Hertfordshire Premier League in 2020,  join Troon and St Fagan’s in lifting the Village Cup three times, having done so in 2012 and 2017. Only Woodhouse Grange (four) have won it more times than the Hertfordshire club.
The match took a worrying turn in the 13th over when a short of a length delivery which rose unexpectedly and Simon deflected it into his eye. Medical staff, along with Houghton Main’s No.4 batsman and neurosurgeon Dr Yousaf Rehman (who had just been dismissed) rushed onto the pitch to attend to Simon. There was a 20-minute break in play while he was stretchered off and taken to St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, accompanied by his family. He was set to remain in hospital for at least five days.
* The ECB’s Royal London national club championship final between Nantwich and Swardeston is at Lord’s on Monday, noon.

HARTLEY Wintney finished their Southern League Division Two campaign with their sixth straight win to end up finishing fourth in the table. 
Their season ended with a five-wicket win at Waterlooville, who were dismissed for 93, with James Beckwith ripping his way through the top order with an impressive 5-10 return in seven overs. 
Visiting Hartley won the toss and elected to bowl and James Beckwith ripped out the top order on his way to a very impressive 5-10 in seven overs. 
Fellow opening bowler Anthony Parson also took a wicket as none of the Ville top five made it into double figures. 
Some late resistance by Ash Silva (29) helped the home side nearly reach three figures, as Jamie Teale, Roy Cockram take wickets and Angus Brown grabbed two which saw them bowled out after 35.5 overs. Silva (3-9) did his best to keep his side in the game, but Hugo Hammond hit 23 and then an unbroken stand between Will Ross (18) and Matt Digweed (15) made sure Hartley's season ended with a super sixth victory.
Charles Janczur (3-18) and Suman Ganguly (2-3) reduced Paultons to 13-5 at Ripsley Park, where Scott Dawes (25) spared the visitors total embarrassment before spinner Oscar Amis (3-5) completed a 76 all out demolition. Liphook & Ripsley polished off the target inside 15 overs.

Totton & Eling have won the Southern Premier League Division 2 championship – despite losing FIVE of their last seven matches.
Yet they still managed to finish nine points clear of St Cross Symondians II, who stumbled in their last two games, critically the last one against Fair Oak, who beat them by ten runs.
Had that close-run affair at Lapstone Park gone the other way, celebrations would have been ringing out at the Green Jackets Ground, as opposed to Southern Gardens.
Ironically, Totton’s third successive defeat – by 61 runs at May’s Bounty – came against a Basingstoke & North Hants second team who simply had to win to have any chance of avoiding relegation.  Alas, eighth-placed Waterlooville had enough points in the bag to finish ten ahead of the Bountymen.
Scott Dyer (76) and Matt Thankachan (41) lifted Basingstoke from an uncertain 121-6 (Brighton Mugochi 4-23) to 209 against Totton, who dropped to 23-3 before Owen Morris (50) and Bothwell Chapungu (41) took them to a challenging 101-3.
But, once separated, the Totton innings collapsed to 148 all out against spin, with Keith Harris taking 3-23, and Matt Thankachan and Rakitha Perera two each.
Requiring four points from a possible 22 to ensure second place and hence promotion to SPL1, St Cross Symondians II fell to a narrow ten-run defeat against Fair Oak at Lapstone Park, but comfortably passed their points target.​
Charlie Gwynn's 83, aided by Tom Hockenhull (47) and Rhys Oxley (42), set up Fair Oak for a competitive 236-9. Having already ensured promotion at tea, St Cross set off in pursuit but lost wickets at crucial moments. Matt Howarth's 50 off 29 balls threatened to take the game away from the home team, but his departure meant that St Cross finished ten runs short at 226-9 (Dave Orchard 41). A win would have given  them the Division 2 league title as Totton and Eling continued their stuttering August run but remained at the top.

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Tickets for the evening, priced £40, which includes free food and drink, are already selling well, but if you fancy a top autumn cricket evening out then contact Robin O'Grady: [M: 07795 683868] or email robogrady@btinternet.com 

Alex Ayers and elder brother Charlie shared a double century third-wicket partnership as Andover went on a 324-run blitz at the expense of Southern Premier League Division 1 rivals Rowledge, whom they skittled for a meagre 70 to chalk up a massive 224-run victory.
Rowledge were already under the cosh when the brothers began their 206-run partnership, the third double hundred SPL stand by an Andover pair.
After a cautious start, the siblings proceeded to cause mayhem and thrash the Rowledge bowling to all parts of London Road.
Alex Ayers (right), who has tasted some Hampshire second team cricket since finishing at Dauntsey’s, ran up three sixes and 22 fours in a career-best 135 while Charlie, particularly brutal, pierced the boundary rope with two maximums and 13 fours on his way to 84.
Rowledge got some relief when the rain arrived with Andover 260-2 and the Ayers duo still going strong - with 12 overs still remaining. Ironically, they both perished to the emerging left-arm spin of Ollie Baker (2-44), but the onslaught continued with Nathan Birks (27) hitting three successive sixes as Andover powered to 324-9, a total trimmed by the rain break, with Rowledge set an improbable 295 off 41 overs.
Joe Randall emerged from the mauling with a creditable 5-77 for Rowledge, for whom the improbable became the impossible when, on a rain freshened surface, Babu Veettil (3-24) and Mike Adams (2-13) reduced them to 32-7.  Will Ryman (22) struck out in defiance before becoming one of four victims for Richard Taylor (4-19), whose tail end blitz left the visitors 70 all out.
Andover ended the season in a satisfactory fourth spot behind runners-up Sparsholt and Portsmouth, who each finished on a winning note.
Sparsholt won a low key affair at Steephill by three wickets after dismissing winless Ventnor for 115 (Hugh Calloway 32), while Portsmouth edged out Village Cup semi-finalists Sarisbury Athletic by seven runs in a rain cut meet at St Helen’s, where the city hosts successfully defended a trimmed 185 off 45 overs.
Portsmouth’s original 194 (Jack Marston 45, Tom Wallis 34, Alex Hammond 29) featured three-wicket returns by Phil Jewell 3-30 and Josh Hill 3-36.
But a remarkable spell of left-arm spin bowling by Andy Marston (3-1) put Sarisbury behind the clock.  Marston conceded only one run off his nine overs, eight of which were maidens, removing top scorer Tom Mills (32), Jack Lovett and the dangerous Josh Hill.   Dan Clouting (32), Chris Sanders and Phil Jewell kept SA in the hunt before they were dismissed for 178.
It was Sarisbury's fourth successive defeat since exiting the VC at Reed, who play Yorkshire's Houghton Main in Sunday's village final at Lord's.
 

SOUTHERN Premier League Division One champions Hook and Newnham Basics signed off their title winning campaign, with their 14th win out of 16 – their 17-run victory sentencing Old Tauntonians & Romsey to the second relegation spot alongside Ventnor.
Openers Harry Robson (13) and Daniel Moore (33) put on 33 after which the Hook innings was underpinned by a fine half century from Richard Willcock (51), who arrived at the crease with the score on 53 and departed when it was 166-8.
He shared a couple of handy partnerships with Josh Buckingham (20) and Rhodes Franklin (14) before Anik Divecha hit an unbeaten 15 as Hook finished on 192-9, spinner Rob Newman (4-34) and teenage left-armer James Trodd (3-34) taking seven of the wickets.
OTs reply got off to the worst possible start, as Joseph Vaughan was bowled first ball by Jack Murrell, pictured left..  Lanky left-armer Liam Shore (2-34) then removed Iain Woodhall, before Murrell struck twice more as the Romsey hosts found themselves 33-4.  But when Charlie King (43) and Harry Tulk (59) added 104 for the fifth wicket to take the score to 137, OTs looked as though they might pull off an unexpected victory. But a great run out by Divecha removed captain King to swing the game back in Hook’s favour. 
Opening bowlers Murrell and Shore returned and with it went the home side’s chances of victory.  Shore took one wicket and Murrell three more to take his tally to 6-40 for the game, his best return of the season since joining the newly crowned champions from Paultons. 
It was left to Ollie May to finish off the job with Buckingham snapping up his fourth catch of the game (and take his season’s tally to 27) as Hook finished their superb season in fine fashion.

George Marshall struck his second undefeated century of the season as Hambledon kept the promotion pressure firmly on Fawley with a handsome victory over Tichborne Park.
Playing for only the ninth time this season, Marshall hit 124 not out as Hambledon piled up 341-5 before rushing Tichborne Park out for 91 to win by 250 runs.  He made a career-best 154 against Fareham & Crofton in mid-summer.
But with Fawley defeating Hythe & Dibden in the Waterside derby, Hambledon had to settle for a third placed finish.
The scene was set for left-hander Marshall after Will Bond (50) and Portsmouth Grammar School’s Chris Pratt (46) had provided Hambledon with a century start.
They dropped from 121-1 to 185-5 (James Long 4-51), but that was as good as it got for Tichborne, who failed to take another wicket.
Marshall, with 23 fours in his 124, and Australian Luke Barber (51*), with a half-century on his Dons farewell before returning to his native Melbourne, took control with an unbeaten sixth-wicket stand of 166 which carried Hambledon to 341-5.
Due to some untimely weather interjections, Tichborne had seen four of their previous six matches cancelled.
No surprise then their ring rusty batsmen were rushed out for a meagre 91 (Lachan Jess 29), with Will Parvin taking 4-40. They ended the summer eight points behind promoted Fawley and, like Tichborne Park, lamenting the number of games – four in their case- los to the weather.      

                                           

​Fawley, Southern Premier League Division 3 runners-up
Back (from left): Jono Lush, Rob Leach, Sufian Munir, Nikhil Kadyan, Andy Parratt, Kieran Earl. Front: Adam Freeman, Bailey Parratt, Callum Earl, Will Crossley, Dave Streather. 

What a difference a year has made to Fawley’s fortunes !  Twelve months ago, finger nails were being bitten to the core as only three points separated them from the relegation trap door to Hampshire County Division One cricket.
A year on and the Watersiders are celebrating promotion into Southern Premier Division 2 as runners-up to Bashley (Rydal) II. Fawley were one of only three sides to topple the champions in their title winning 17-match season.
Fawley had to win their final match against near neighbours Hythe & Dibden to ensure Hambledon didn’t nick second place during their strong finish to the season.
But once the hugely influential Sufian Munir [left](3-22) reduced Hythe to 7-4 and later 48-6 when Dan Taylor (50) and Will McKay (33) began a partial rebuild.  Hythe reached 153-9 with Adam Freeman and Bailey Parratt sharing the other six wickets.
Craig Stow’s 4-33 return ensured Fawley wouldn’t have an easy ride. In fact, at 55-5 it was odds-on Hythe & Dibden – and Hambledon snatching that prize second place behind Bashley !
But Munir was still there – a situation that continued even with Fawley a healthier 104-7.  But Premier 3’s leading run maker (he finished the season with 807 league runs) prevailed, finding a reliable partner in Adam Freeman, whose 17 not out helped get the Holbury side home. Munir, cool as ever, finished with 72 not out, including ten boundaries.  It was a promotion clinching knock alright …
 
 

Portsmouth & Southsea pulled off the Southern Premier League Division 3’s Great Escape by beating Purbrook by 44 runs in their final match – a result which sent Fareham & Crofton on a return trip back to the Hampshire League from where they had arisen 12 months earlier.
They began the final round of matches four points behind Fareham, who faced an untimely finale with newly crowned champions Bashley (Rydal) II visiting Bath Lane, where the visitors won by 125 runs.
The Benfield brothers, Matt (left) and Tom were Portsmouth & Southsea’s key players, elder sibling Matt scoring 59 and being supported by Jack Davies (31) and Chris Bollom (38) as the visitors progressed to 123-3 before Martin Lee’s spell of 5-28 saw them clatter to 202 all out.
Purbrook quickly dropped to 25-3 before being revived by Joe Spiers (50) and Alex Cox (43). But they too collapsed, 107-3 becoming 159 all out on the back of Tom Benfield’s 4-50 return.
Fareham, promoted in third place in County Division 1 in 2018, toiled as champions Bashley piled up 277 with Arno Hattingh (64) and Patrick Holly (54) making half-centuries after opener James Turner (40) and Patrick Lewis (40) had taken the visitors into treble figures.
Fareham knew the game was up in terms of relegation and fell to 153 all out, with 13-year old leggie Ethan Baker snapping up 3-22 on debut.

Ben Johns has been named as Southern Premier League Division 1 Cricketer of the Month climaxing a series of key individual scores with a century against New Milton which has helped Calmore Sports steer clear of relegation.
The young left-hander hit 102 in the thumping 161-run win over the Green & Golds, a result that sentences OTs & Romsey (along with Ventnor) to SPL2 cricket next term.
Johns struck 16 boundaries in his 102 – which took his season’s aggregate to 651 runs – and shared a formidable 145-run stand with James Hibberd (66) as Calmore motored to 228-4 before dismissing New Milton for 67, Mark Lavelle taking 3-17.

​For the first time in their history Arreton won the Isle of Wight’s Fred Winter Cup beating Cowes by 6 wickets at Shanklin’s Westhill ground. 
A Man of the Match performance by Kevin Cooper, pictured, who added 129 not out to his three wickets, saw Arreton home with 8 overs to spare. His 100 came of just 46 balls with his 129 coming off 58 balls including 10 6’s and 13 4’s.
Invited to bat Cowes got to 88-1 at drinks (20 overs) with a partnership of 76 for the second wicket between Jack Summers (60) and Adam Lungley (32) before Lungley was caught at mid-wicket by Arren Warner off Kevin Cooper, who finished with figures of 3 for 41. 
Cowes increased the run rate although this was initially restricted by tight bowling from Gary Cooper (1-33) and Chris Wray (2-25), the latter taking two wickets in his third over. At the fall of the sixth wicket Josh Rice (45) was joined by his father Scott Rice (34) and together added 86 in 9 overs helping Cowes to get to 214-8 off their 40 overs.
Arreton openers Flynn Powell (27) and Gary Cooper (13) made 50 for the first wicket before they fell in successive overs with Sam Jones (1) then bowled by Justin Pinder, who  opened unchanged and finished with figures of 2-19 off his 8 overs. 
At 57 for 3 after 16 overs Arreton were struggling when big hitting Kevin Cooper (129*) was joined by Niall Powell (20), who added 120 for the 4th wicket in just 12 overs before Powell was eventually run out following a smart piece of work from wicketkeeper Jack Summers throwing the ball to the non-striker’s end. Powell was replaced by club captain Rob Wilcox (4*) to see Arreton home with 8 overs to spare.
Cooper said “it was a great team performance to restrict Cowes to 214 and today the batting just clicked, the track was a little slow and on occasions kept low so I decided to play as straight as possible. Having played for Arreton for 14 years and been runners up in the Fred Winter Cup before it a great to finally win it”.

James Hayward lit up the BCG with a galaxy of unorthodox reverse sweeps, switch hits mixed in with a few strokes from the coaching manual as third placed South Wilts brought the curtain down on their season with an 81-run victory over newly crowned ECB Southern Premier Division champions Bashley (Rydal).
Playing for the final time before his impending wedding, Hayward cracked four sixes and 12 fours in a dazzling 97 scored off 73 balls as South Wilts piled up a thumping 305-9.
With Tom Morton (26) alongside, Hayward [left] had South Wilts scoring at ten runs an over during an 89-run opening stand.
Ben Draper and Raff Hussey went cheaply (125-3) before Hayward was trapped leg before by Josh Digby (3-52) three runs short of his century.
Oxford University bound Ben Fisher (54) struck a maiden Premier Division fifty while Ryan Murray (33) and Luke Evans (24) did their bit as South Wilts broke through the 300-run barrier for the second time this season.
Two lengthy rain interruptions led to the Bashley target being reduced to 266 from 38 overs – but, realistically with the title already secured, there was an anti-climatic feel in the home camp.
There were celebrations when Tom Friend made 36 to clinch the Premier Division batting award, while Ben Walker (33) and Tom Jacques (24) gave support.
Five of Bashley’s wickets fell to experienced spin duo Rob Franklin (3-53) and Paul Draper (2-16), both making a rare appearance, as Bashley fell away to 182 all out.
Franklin quickly brushed off the cobwebs by having Jacques stumped by Ben Draper off the first ball he bowled.

Matt Metcalfe has topped the ECB Southern Premier Division bowling charts for the sixth time in ten seasons.
He finished with a personal best haul of 47 wickets – three more than Bashley (Rydal) left-armer Bradley Currie, who will probably have the consolation of being named Young Cricketer of the Year.
Metcalfe played a low key role with a 2-28 return as Lymington brought the curtain down on an unexpectedly high fourth placed finish with a comfortable 113-run victory over Basingstoke & North Hants, whose two-year stay in the Premier Division will end if Hook & Newnham Basics’ KVG outfield gets the nod from the league’s accreditation gurus.
Instead, pride of place went to 19-year old South African Gareth Schreuder, who celebrated his maiden competitive century with an unbeaten 102 off 74 balls, an innings which largely underpinned Lymington's 270-5.
Batting in his preferred five slot, Schreuder, a product of Hilton College, had the infrequent benefit of arriving at the crease with some runs on the board, Lymington being 95-3 on the back of a handy second-wicket stand between Dan Cox (46) and Ryan Scott (39).
Schreuder added half the runs in an 82-run partnership with Dom Hand (30) and went on to strike 14 boundaries, bringing up his hundred in the penultimate over during a pre-tea assault with Harry Fisher (28), which yielded another 95 runs and put Basingstoke out of the contest.
Two strikes by Guy Layman either side of Metcalfe removing David Griffiths had Basingstoke – chasing a rain adjusted 266 to win off 48 overs - rocking at 15-3.
Only Chris Froud (32) and Joe Oates (29) made any form of mark after a five-boundary spree by Jordan Hobday (22), while Schreuder, promised a rare bowl after scoring his hundred, completed a memorable day by bowling Ash Neal with a waspish off-break.  Basingstoke were 152 all out.

 

Hampshire can have every reason to be extremely satisfied with the performances of their Academy side in ECB Southern Premier League cricket this summer.
Accepted their fifth placed finish was two lower than last season, but their 2018 successes leaned heavily on the near 1,500 runs and 51 wickets Felix Organ and Tom Scriven got between them.
Twelve months on and it’s the youngsters like Fletcha Middleton, George Metzger, Tom Prest and Tom South who have begun to make their mark, not only in the Premier League, but also in the ECB county competitions in which Hampshire were 50-over Cup finalists (they lost to Northants) and semi-finalists in the three-day Championship, won last week by their conquerors, Surrey YCs.
Middleton, with a Premier League best 80, and South (58) led the way with a 129-run partnership as the Academy posted a handsome 274 against Havant, Hartley Wintney’s Harry Broderick (50) underlining his growing potential with a maiden fifty coming in a six and putting on a handy 70 with Mo Abbas (25).
Broderick (2-30) then struck twice with the new ball as Havant lurched to 57-4 before Pete Hopson (52) and Jez Bulled (57) brought an air of respectability to proceedings. But the last six Havant wickets (which fell to spin) – Bradfield’s Kamran Khanna taking 3-26 – yielded only 50 runs and the visitors, nursing a lean seventh-placed finish, were dismissed for 185.

Harry Came followed up a century with a five-wicket return as St Cross Symondians beat Burridge by 143 runs to clinch the runners-up spot behind champions Bashley (Rydal) and win the ECB Southern Premier League’s “white ball” 50-over pennant.
The Hampshire prospect hit 117 as St Cross piled up 334-4 before taking 5-43 as Burridge were dismissed for 191.
Hitting a six and 11 boundaries, Came shared a century opening stand with Billy Mead (51) before adding 98 with county team-mate Felix Organ (44).
He eventually departed at 233-3, leaving centre stage to Max Curtis (54 not out) and Jimmy Adams (42) to plunder further runs.
It was the second time in consecutive seasons Came had produced such a stunning one-man show. Last June, he flayed the Alton attack for 155 before taking 7-52 with his off-spin.
Richard Lock (49) and Hilio de Abreu (35) progressed the Burridge reply to 103-2 when Came nipped out both batsmen and then bowled Derek Kenway to leave the visitors 134-5.   Came went on to take 5-43 as Burridge fell away to 191 all out (Rick Ankers 25).

ECB SOUTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE
RESULTS – ROUND 18 – 31 AUGUST 2019

ECB PREMIER DIVISION

Bournemouth 230-6 (Davies 60, C Park 47, Woodruff 27)
Alton 233-3 (Harris 114*, Myers 55*, Paul 25)
Alton won by seven wickets.

South Wilts 305-9 (Hayward 95, Fisher 54, Murray 33, Morton 26, Digby 3-52)
Bashley (Rydal) 182 (target score 263 off 38 overs)(Friend 36, Walker 33, Jacques 24, Warner 3-31, Franklin 3-53)
South Wilts won by 81 runs.

Hampshire Academy 274 (Middleton 80, South 58, Broderick 50, Jerry 4-62)
Havant 185 (Bulled 57, Hopson 52, Khanna 3-26)
Hampshire Academy won by 89 runs.

Lymington 270-5 (Schreuder 102*, Cox 46, Scott 39, Hand 30)
Basingstoke & North Hants 152 (Froud 32, Oates 29)
Lymington won by 118 runs.

St Cross Symondians 334-4 (Came 117, Curtis 54*, Mead 51, Organ 44, Adams 42)
Burridge 191 (Lock 49, De Abreu 35, Came 5-43)
St Cross Symondians won by 143 runs.

DIVISION 1

Andover 324 (A Ayers 135, C Ayers 84, Randall 5-79)
Rowledge 70 (Ryman 22, Taylor 4-19, Veettil 3-25)
Andover won by 254 runs.

Calmore Sports 228-4 (Johns 102, Hibberd 66)
New Milton 67 (Lavelle 3-17)
Calmore Sports won by 161 runs.

Hook & Newnham Basics 192-9 (Willcocks 51, R Newman 4-34)
Old Tauntonians & Romsey 175 (Tulk 59, Murrell 6-40)
Hook & Newnham Basics won by 17 runs.

Portsmouth 194 (J Marston 45, T Wallis 34, Hammond 29, Jewell 3-30, J Hill 3-36)
Sarisbury Athletic 178 (target score 185 off 45 overs)(Mills 36, Clouting 32, A Marston 3-1)
Portsmouth won by seven runs.

Ventnor 115 (H Calloway 32, Lockyer 3-16)
Sparsholt 116-7 (O’Brien 22)
Sparsholt won by three wickets.

DIVISION 2

Basingstoke & North Hants II 209 (Dyer 76, Thankachan 41, M Harsham 29, Mugoochi 4-23)
Totton & Eling 148 (Morris 50, Chapungu 41, Harris 3-23)
Basingstoke & North Hants II won by 61 runs.

Fair Oak 236-9 (Gwynn 83, Hockenhull 47, Oxley 42, Allen 3-46)
St Cross Symondians II 226-9 (Hadfield 50, Orchard 41, Middleton 29)
Fair Oak won by ten runs.

Paultons 76 (Amis 3-5, Janczur 3-18)
Liphook & Ripsley 77-3
Liphook & Ripsley won by seven wickets.

South Wilts II 327-2 (Cranch 185*, Pearce 109*)
Langley Manor 142 (target score 301 off 46 overs)(Harris 58, Burton 5-50, Booth 3-11)
South Wilts II won by 158 runs.

Waterlooville 93 (Silva 29, Beckwith 5-10)
Hartley Wintney 94-5 (Hammond 23, Silva 3-9)
Hartley Wintney won by five wickets.

DIVISION 3

Bashley (Rydal) II 277 (Hattingh 64, Holly 54, J Turner 40, Lewis 40, Wimble 3-53)
Fareham & Crofton 153 (Sahu 29, Headen 25, Baker 3-22)
Bashley (Rydal) II won by 125 runs.

Hythe & Dibden 153-9 (Taylor 50, McKay 33, B Parratt 3-19, Munir 3-22, Freeman 3-28)
Fawley 156-7 (Munir 72, Stow 4-33)
Fawley won by three wickets.

Hambledon 341-5 (Marshall 124*, L Le Clerq 51, Bond 50, Pratt 46, Long 4-51)
Tichborne Park 91 (Jess 29, Parvin 4-40)
Hambledon won by 250 runs.

Portsmouth & Southsea 202 (M Benfield 59, Bollom 38, Davies 31, Lee 5-28)
Purbrook 158 (Spiers 50, Cox 43, T Benfield 4-50)
Portsmouth & Southsea won by 44 runs.

Trojans 201-6 (le Bas 77, Agha 58, Hunt 3-42)
Lymington II 115 (Robertson 58, Donaldson 5-23, Longman 4-20)
Trojans won by 86 runs.

Dan Harris hit an unbeaten 114 to ease Alton to a seven-wicket win over Bournemouth – a result which leaves the Lions second from the bottom of the ECB Southern Premier League table.
The former Northampton Saints batsman, in his debut season as Alton captain, struck 14 boundaries and underpinned a successful run chase that saw Bournemouth’s 230-6 overhauled with seven overs to spare.
Harris enjoyed a useful start with Ryan Covey (23) before adding an important 80 with Joe Paul (25) for the second wicket.
But it was his unbroken partnership with the ever-consistent Scott Myers (55 not out) that guided the Brewers to victory.  It was Myers’ fifth half-century of the season, his 558 runs being the fifth highest in the Premier Division.
Earlier, Adam Davies top scored in Bournemouth’s 230-6, three of his top five colleagues making starts before Chris Park’s unbeaten 47 gave the innings a stronger look.
 
 

South Wilts second team pair Tom Pearce (left) and Joe Cranch (right) have written themselves into the Southern Premier League record books by compiling a triple-century stand against relegated Division 2 visitors Langley Manor at Bemerton.
They shared an unbroken third-wicket stand of 319 - Pearce hitting 109 (16 fours) and Cranch an unbeaten 185 (two sixes and 26 fours) - as South Wilts piled up 327-2 before dismissing Langley Manor (chasing a rain reduced 301 off 46 overs) for 142 (Steve Harris 56).  Matt Burton took 5-50.  Before the stand, openers Sam Arnold and Steve Riddle had gone for ducks !
​It is the second highest partnership in SPL history - only surpassed by Burridge openers Alex Styles and Derek Kenway against Paultons in 2012 - and only the fourth time a 300-run stand has been posted.