Overseas batsmen top the log for runs scored in ECB Southern Premier League, Division 1 and Division 2 cricket after ten rounds of matches.
Burridge and Cape Town all-rounder Hilio de Abreu is the highest Premier Division scorer with 371 runs, while Portsmouth’s Fraser Hay and Hartley Wintney’s South African Jason Knibbs are tops in Divisions 1 and 2.
Fawley’s stylish Sufian Munir is the leading run scorer across all four divisions with 420 runs.
Leading performers -
Premier Division
Batting: * Hilio de Abreu (Burridge) 371, Harry Came (St Cross Symondians) 346, Scott Myers (Alton) 324, Pete Hopson (Havant) 318, Tom Morton (South Wilts) 301.
Bowling: Brad Currie (Bashley Rydal) 30, Matt Metcalfe (Lymington) 28, * Matt Bacon (Alton) 28.
Division 1
Batting: * Fraser Hay (Portsmouth) 414, Jeremy Frith (Sparsholt) 352, Tom Nightingale (Sarisbury Athletic) 336, Ben Duggan (Portsmouth) 336, Matt Buckingham (Hook & Newnham Basics) 321, Dave Banks (Sparsholt) 319, * Sam O’Brien (Sparsholt) 309, Lee Beck (New Milton) 306, Josh Buckingham (Hook & Newnham Basics) 303.
Bowling: Fraser Hay (Portsmouth) 24, George Watts (New Milton) 22, Martin James (Hook & Newnham Basics) 22, Mark Lavelle (Calmore Sports) 20, Charlie Ayers (Andover) 20.
Division 2
Batting: * Jason Knibbs (Hartley Wintney) 342, Jimmy Taylor (Totton & Eling) 296, * George Condon (Paultons) 292, Jason Laney (St Cross Symondians II) 280, Will Kerr (Hartley Wintney) 268.
Bowling: Dave Orchard (St Cross Symondians II) 26, Keith Harris (Basingstoke & North Hants II) 21, Andrew Denney (Paultons) 18, Sean Burton (Liphook & Ripsley) 18, Chris Chandler (Basingstoke & North Hants II) 18.
Division 3
Batting: Sufian Munir (Fawley) 420, Alex Turner (Bashley Rydal II) 320, Ollie Kanavan (Portsmouth & Southsea) 291, Ed Primmer (Tichbrone Park) 286, Zac Millar (Hythe & Dibden) 282.
Bowling: Syed Agha (Trojans) 27, * Luke Barber (Hambledon) 25, Jack Peach (Portsmouth & Southsea) 23, * Craig Stow (Hythe & Dibden) 22, Ben White (Fareham & Crofton) 22.
Wicketkeepers: Jeremy Bulled (Havant) 22, Josh May (Basingstoke & North Hants) 19, Chris Park (Bournemouth) 18, George Metzger (Hampshire Academy) 18.

There will be a new name on the Winchester & District CA Tichborne Trophy with newcomers Bevois Community playing Wickham in the final, provisionally set down for Monday evening July 29 at Hursley Park.
Wickham have breezed through their ties with comprehensive wins over Rotherfield Park, Fair Oak and Ropley, while Bevois qualified for their maiden final with an eight-wicket victory over Hursley Park (143-8).

BASINGSTOKE and North Hants have their third skipper of the season with David Griffiths taking over ahead of South Wilts’ visit to May’s Bounty, 11am.
Mitch Stokes, who started the summer as captain, is taking a Sabbatical and concentrating on halving his golf handicap.  Ben Thane took over the mantle, but a bad ankle injury is set to rule him out for at least a couple of weeks, if not longer, so Griffiths has taken on the job.
The former Hampshire & Kent man will be hoping to steer the Bountymen away from the basement of the Southern League Premier Division. In what will be a second half relegation dogfight with Alton and Bournemouth, in which only one side will be relegated.
Basingstoke did not help themselves with this aim last weekend, as they lost at Bournemouth by six wickets.
New captain Griffiths said: "Against Bournemouth we batted well and got over 200, but for once this season we did not bowl well and this cost us."
"We will take the positives from the game in our batting and now look to combine this with our bowling this week.
He added: "I am confidence in the players we have at the club and last year we beat every team in this league.
"We still have plenty of time with only game gone in the second half of the season. We have to knuckle down and get some results."
Griffiths certainly added some much needed spark to the Bounty in last night’s Guy Jewell Cup T20 semi-final victory over Hook & Newnham Basics, who had carried the trophy on consecutive open deck bus trips around town.
South Wilts, meanwhile, go into the match on a high after skittling Alton for a meagre 44 at Bemerton last week.
Reflecting on the nine-wicket win over Alton, South Wilts skipper Tom Morton said: “The ball was swinging, which was perfect for Luke Evans and Arthur Godsal.
“Both bowled with a great deal of control and skill, making the Alton batters play pitched up balls on a regular basis. We have seen spells like this before from Luke, but this was a spell from Arthur that we knew he was capable of just hadn’t seen in South Wilts colours. 
“We needed a positive response after a month of frustration with a couple of poor results and rained off matches, so it was great that two players stepped up from the outset and delivered this.” 
* Bashley (Rydal) will be without front line pace bowler Dan Goodey for the coming weeks, the Devon Minor Counties man having suffered a side strain.  But Josh Digby is back for the Hampshire Academy match at the BCG after running the coconut shy at his school fete last Saturday when Bash won at Burridge.

Waterlooville, who lie mid-table in Southern Premier League Division 2.
Back row: Archie Reynolds, Ash Silva, David Connolly, Cole Abrahams, Alex Shephard, Max Goddard
Front: Nam Verma, Jon Hudson, Sam Hillman, Tom Greene, Dan Birch.

Sussex veterans created an unwanted and ill-timed entry in the National Over-60s Championship record books when they were bowled out for a meagre SEVEN by Hertfordshire at Abbots Langley this midweek.
Seven Sussex batsmen failed to score as the side was skittled out in 13 overs, Keith Martin and Sandy Reynolds each taking five wickets for three runs !
It took Hertfordshire nine balls to knock off the runs.
* Chichester Priory Park's England Over-60s and 70s ace has asked us to point out that he was not playing for Sussex in this particular fixture.

Ton up teens ! Bashley (Rydal) opener James Turner (left) and Bournemouth's Jacob Gordon hit centuries in Dorset's high scoring ECB Under-17 County Championship draw against Cornwall at Chapel Gate.
The pair shared a third-wicket stand of 190, with Turner hitting a six and 14 fours in his 115 and Gordon two maximums and 13 boundaries in 122.  Together they eased Dorset to 307-8.  Cornwall replied with 336-6, Alex Barnett hitting 162.
James's hundred made it a memorable week for the Ringwood-based Turner family.  Twin Alex hit a century for Bashley (Rydal) II against Hambledon five days earlier.

Hook & Newnham Basics’ two-year hold on the Guy Jewell Cup ended with an emphatic 77-run defeat by Basingstoke & North Hants in the second T20 semi-final at May’s Bounty.
Basingstoke will now contest the August Bank Holiday Sunday (August 25) with Hartley Wintney, who trimmed Odiham & Greywell by 31 runs in the other semi.
Brad Porteous (40), Jordan Hobday (38) and new skipper David Griffiths (32) top scored as Basingstoke posted a decent 157-7 – a total Hook seldom threatened.
Basingstoke bowled and fielded well, tidy spells by Ash Neal (4-19) and Chris Jolley (3-16) being complemented by some clean catching.
Angus Brown was man-of-the-match for Hartley Wintney, scoring 57 and later taking 4-31 as Odiham were restricted to 138-9 (Scott Baldwin 3-18) chasing 169-8.

Seventeen year old twin Alex Turner struck his second century of the season for Southern Premier League Division 3 pacemakers Bashley (Rydal) against Hambledon – with an impressed former Essex captain Paul Prichard looking on !
Turner hit 112 (two sixes and 12 fours) as Bashley greedily piled up 323-6 and, after sharing a 140-run start with twin James (44), he enjoyed Prichard’s company during a second wicket stand of 79.
His century was rewarded with a debut call-up for Dorset’s Minor Counties Championship victory over Cheshire in midweek.
Early season SPL3 pacemakers Hambledon were probably taken aback when they saw the 54-year old Prichard (First Class career record 25,000 runs plus) warming up with Bashley when they pitched up at the BCG.
He joined the New Forest club several weeks ago with the aim of playing some cricket with his son Louis – and earned his spurs having made an unbeaten century on his Hampshire League Regional Division 1 West debut for Bashley’s fourths against Burley second team !
Predictably, Prichard also filled his boots, with 59 against Hambledon, after which Sam Kennett plundered an unbeaten 63.
What faint prospect Hambledon had of winning disappeared with a new-ball blast from George Wilson (4-46), which saw the visitors plunge to 81-6 before Australian Luke Barber (66) and Ian Turner, with 52 not out, saw them finish with a respectable 216 all out.
Turner, earlier conceded only 15 runs off his ten overs. The other six Hambledon bowlers went for 284 !
In the other Division 3 match, Hythe & Dibden trimmed Tichborne Park by three wickets, chasing down 132 (Craig Stow 4-10).  Tom Gates hit 42.

Hambledon’s Australian all-rounder Luke Barber has been named Southern Premier League Division 3 Cricketer of the Month for June, an award sponsored each month by www.vimpsatthecrease.com cricket website, in conjunction with Cricket-Hockey.com, the Downton-based sports equipment specialists.
The 20-year old, who plays for Norwood in the Melbourne’s Ringwood District Competition back home, has taken 28 league wickets so far this season – half of which came last month, when he also made over 100 runs in Hambledon’s three SPL3 games.
Hambledon won four of their opening five matches, but have subsequently been hit by injury, with Henry Glanfield (broken ankle) out for the rest of the season, and joining Ian Turner on the treatment table.

Emerging Southern Premier League youngsters Brad Currie and Harry Fisher played significant roles in Dorset's hefty 174-run Unicorns Minor Counties Championship victory over Cheshire at Chapel Gate.
Bashley (Rydal) left-arm seamer Currie (20) took ten wickets in the match - returns of 5-51 and 5-85 - while Fisher hit 64 and 86 in the respective innings.  Bournemouth's Luke Webb, who captains Dorset, hit a second innings 51.
Match scores: Dorset 286-9 (Eckland 109, Fisher 64, Scott 34, Collins 32) and 267-6 (Fisher 86, Eckland 73, Webb 51, Scott 28) Cheshire 125 (Currie 5-51, McCoy 2-36) and 254 (Currie 5-85). Dorset won by 174 runs.

An unbeaten 77 from Luke Cornish set the platform for Fareham & Crofton's 20-run win against fellow Southern Premier League Division 3 relegation battlers Portsmouth & Southsea at St James's Park
Vice-captain James Heiniger lauded the performance of his middle-order batsman on a far from easy pitch.
"It was a great knock,' said Heiniger. "The wicket wasn't unplayable but it was a bit tricky and the sort where you had to take your time at the start. Luke did that brilliantly before exploding towards the end. He is in great form at the moment and holding together our middle to lower order batting.'
After being put into bat, Fareham lost Dan Wimble and Heiniger to Jack Peach (2-18) with only 18 runs on the board.   Steve Berryman (44) started the recovery along with Sam Stoddart (19).
Cornish, who hit eight fours in his 77 not out, batted through to the end, adding useful runs with his Fareham hockey team-mate Chris Davey (30) helping his side  finish on 215-8. 
With Matt Benfield (78) going well P & S looked in a good position at 98-3, but 
Cornish was determined not to see his earlier effort wasted and he had the danger man caught off his bowling.  Man of the moment Ben White (4-31) made sure of the win by removing the final four home batsmen.
"It was a great death bowling spell from Ben,' said Heiniger. "He is excellent at cleaning up the tail. Morgan Frost and James Headen also bowled tight spells. All in all it was a great team performance.'
The win saw Fareham & Crofton leapfrog their opponents and out of the relegation zone.
Australian Heiniger is encouraged by the momentum being picked up by his team as they head into the second half of the season. 
"That is two wins from our last three games," said Heiniger. "It is nice to move out of the danger zone. We are under no illusions though and know there is still a lot of hard work to be done. Two or three more wins will give us a little bit more breathing space."
Fareham timely win was not good news for Lymington II, whose 204 (Henry Edwards 42) at Holbury owed much to teenager Harrison Gorny (46) who relieved a trying 137-7.
Keiron Earl's unbeaten 82 won it for Fawley, who enjoyed the platform of a 124-run start with newcomer Nikhil Kadyan (40), who earlier took 3-30.   Gorny took 3-17 but was unable to prevent a five-wicket Fawley win.
Purbrook returned to winning ways with a narrow two-wicket win over Trojans at Stoneham Lane, where the hosts fell apart after half-centuries by Nigel le Bas (57) and Oli Kelly (54).
Brad Mengham (4-39) grabbed a four wicket haul before Martin Lee (37) and Clark Harding (32) ensured the visitors chased down their 168 run target.

Dave Orchard (left) led from the front with a half-century followed by a five-wicket haul as St Cross Symondians seconds maintained second place behind leaders Totton & Eling in the Southern Premier Division 2 promotion stakes with a 77-run win over Hartley Wintney.
His 58 couldn’t have come at a better time as Jamie Teale (481) had part reduced St Cross to 88-5, but Orchard’s sixth-wicket stand with Robbie Hadfield (47), which yielded just shy of a century, turned things around.   Alex Woolvine, with two sixes in his 33 not out, pushed Symondians on to 266-7.
Will Kerr (43) and Hampshire Under-17 ECB cup finalist Harry Broderick (49) eased Hartley Wintney’s reply to 92-1 but Orchard’s reintroduction to proceedings once again changed the game’s direction, his 5-34 return and a 3-32 spell by William Lewis sending the visitors to 189 all out.
St Cross Symondians are effectively 13 points ahead of third placed Paultons, who trimmed lowly South Wilts II by 42 runs at Whitemoor Lane.
Left-arm spin king Andrew Denney (6-27) reluctantly found himself at the bar buying a post-match jug after his match winning figures.
Earlier, Paultons posted 256-8 through Simon Ennew (49), Scott Dawes (33), Ross Grierson (29), and Julian Drake (29), but then watched Joe Cranch (55) and Sam Arnold (76) compile a century stand.
Denney got both of them and went on to be the toast of the Paultons club after his six-wicket haul.
Immediately above South Wilts II in the log are Basingstoke and North Hants seconds – visitors to Bemerton for a crucial ‘six pointer’ on Saturday – who lost by 14-runs to Liphook and Ripsley at May’s Bounty.
Liphook’s 210 centred around Harry Munt (69), which held the innings together, with good support by Jonathan Pryce (39), the pair adding 69-runs for the fifth wicket.   Hampshire Seniors’ spin pair Matt Thankachan (4-31) and Keith Harris (2-28) caught the eye.
After losing opener Steve Bucksey with 34 on the board, Josh Coombs (21) and Callum Coombs  took the score to 50.  But with 17 runs added they lost three wickets before Scott Dyer (67) and Josh Weir (27) put on 72 for the fifth wicket.
Thankachan and Dyer got the score to 176, but from there Liphook’s Sean Burton took over with 4-34, as Basingstoke were bowled out for 196 on the second ball of the final over.
One side in desperate need of a win are Langley Manor, who were skittled for 80 by Fair Oak, the mystiques of Rufus Bullough’s spin proving too much for them to handle.  Bets were on an Oaks victory after his 5-8 haul.  Fair Oak won by nine wickets. Much needed too.

Sarisbury Athletic are set to host West of England Premier League side North Perrott in the quarter-finals of the Village Cup at Allotment Road on Sunday week, July 21.
While Sarisbury were pulling off a creditable three-wicket win at Cumnor, North Perrott - based near  Crewkerne and a Minor Counties Championship venue for Dorset - scrambled through to the last eight with a one-run win at Frocester, courtesy of a run out off the last ball !
North Perrott, who lie mid-table in the WEPL's Premier 2 Gloucestershire/Somerset Division, posted 227, with 16-year old batsman/wicketkeeper Jamie Baird hitting 86. Frocester needed eight runs off the last over, two off the last ball and ended up with two batsmen stranded at the same end (226-9).
The biggest surprise of the last 16 round saw 2018 Lord's winners Folkton & Flixton thrashed by fellow Yorkshiremen Houghton Main.
The quarter-final draw is: Foxton (Cambridgeshire) v Reed, Houghton Main v Egerton, Milford Hall v Astwood Bank, Sarisbury Athletic v North Perrott.  Ties to be played on July 21.

Hampshire Seniors
Standing (from left): Barry Goodman, Steve Mitchell, Kevin Weeks, Rick Marston, Chris Yates, Martin Shephard, Dick Batchelor (statsman). Seated: ​Neil Sutherland, Neil Trestrail, Nick Board, John Rickard (President/Chairman), Geoff Beale, Iain Britton.

Hampshire Seniors are getting excited - they're through to the next phase of the National Sixties Championships after extending their winning run with a six wicket victory over Buckinghamshire at Hursley Park.
They restricted Bucks to 186-4 (Keith Wallis 75) and polished off to target with some ease after a bright start by Geoff Beale (31) and Neil Trestrail (38). A steady 43 not out by Nick Board saw Hampshire home, with support from Iain Britton (26) and Chris 'Rowdy' Yates, who ensured there would be no hold ups with an unbeaten 28, which (unlike his recent/abandoned trip to Winton) found the right route to victory.
Hampshire's opponents in the next phase are Essex (home), Berkshire (away), Herts (away), Wales and Somerset at home.

Ricky Rawlins hit an unbeaten century to steer Sarisbury Athletic to a five-wicket win over Sparsholt, who lag 30 points behind Southern Premier League Division One leaders Hook & Newnham Basics.
He hit 15 boundaries in what was his fourth SPL hundred as Sarisbury successfully chased down Sparsholt’s 209 all out with five balls to spare.
Rawlins, pictured, who made 101 not out, shared a significant 89-run partnership with Tom Nightingale (53) before Michael Haworth (3-22) caused a few jitters.
Sparsholt skipper Jerry Frith conceded “we were a yard behind Sarisbury for virtually the whole game”.
They appeared to be well set at 99-2, but left-arm spinner Sam Hill (4-32) triggered a collapse which saw Sparsholt lose four wickets for 11 runs, including that of top scorer Haworth (49).
Dave Banks (24) and Liam Doran (24) rallied, while the last two wickets produced a handy 40 runs before Jordan Wright (3-61) finished things off.
Fraser Hay (6-36) and Reuben McArdle (3-40) skittled New Milton for a paltry 76 (Lee Beck 26) inside 21 overs at Fernhill, where James Christian (40) and Will Smitherman (31) swept visiting Portsmouth to a ten-wicket win.

BURRIDGE, who lie mid-table in the ECB Southern  Premier Division.
Standing (from left): Derek Kenway, Sully White, Dan Stancliffe, Kieran Geyle, Alec Damley-Jones, Jon Wright. Front: Azimunnoor Chowdhury, Hilio de Abreu, Rick Ankers, Richard Lock, Joe Collings-Wells.

 

Teenager James Trodd took a wicket with the last ball of the match to give Old Tauntonians & Romsey a dramatic two-run win over Southern Premier Division 1 rivals Rowledge at Church Road.
A fascinating contest full of twists and turns reached its climax with Rowledge, chasing OTs 213-8, requiring 16 runs from the last 12 balls and ten off Trodd’s final over and three off the last ball. 
Trodd directed his final ball with pace and pinpoint accuracy, striking the top of Steve Martin’s middle stump to leave Rowledge two heart-breaking runs short of their target.
Batting first Romsey made steady progress, losing their first wicket with 30 runs on the board, Rowledge opening bowlers giving very few loose deliveries.
A second wicket partnership of 92 between Joseph Vaughan (29) and Hampshire’s Chris Wood (62) looked to be taking the game away from the home side.
Two wickets in as many overs from impressive teen Will Ryman (3-26) stemmed the flow of runs. An intense 20 overs of enthralling cricket saw wickets fall at regular intervals, as Romsey accumulated a total that both teams were reasonably pleased with. Iain Woodall making a run a ball 26 and Rowledge spinner Ollie Baker taking 3-40. 
Rowledge set about the run chase watchfully as the dangerous opening seam attack of Chris Wood and James Trodd went about their business with pace and accuracy, but at 49-3 the Ledge looked to be in real trouble. 
In form Aussie Fraser Wilson (42) once again dug in, with the help of Chris Board (45) and the busy Ian Metcalfe (28), they set about running the visitors ragged with a game of tip and run that appeared to be taking Rowledge home.
However, this fascinating contest had one more twist, with overs and wickets running out, the Rowledge tail faced the scenario of 16 runs from 12 balls with only one wicket remaining, each run being cheered on enthusiastically by spectators who were witnessing a great advert for southern premier league cricket.
James Trodd bowled the last over with only 10 runs in the bank. An edged boundary and several quick singles left Rowledge needing three to win from the last ball. Then Trodd struck ... and OTs celebrated !

Alex Ayers burst back on to the scene with a maiden Southern Premier League century as Andover went on a 334-run fest against Division 1 cellar dwellers Ventnor in the Steephill sunshine.
Fresh from a run strewn season at Dauntseys School, where his 1,000 haul included two hundreds, Ayers hit 122 in the Steephill bowl, setting up a 137-run victory for the Lions.
Ayers, whose elder spin bowling brother Charlie was at the crease when he brought up his century, is anxious to make his mark during the second half of the season.
Hampshire Under-15s Player of the Year in 2016, Alex has been unable to reclaim his county colours since, so runs for Andover are paramount.
He made 78 against Portsmouth in the May half-term week and struck a six and 20 fours in his 122 at Ventnor, where Andover rattled up 334-8 before bowling the islanders out for 197.
Ayers enjoyed a century stand with Matt Knight (30) before handing over the reins to Babu Veettil, who smacked 60 off 34 balls, including one enormous six over the Steephill pavilion.  He hit four maximums and six fours in a whirlwind knock, Charlie Calloway’s two overs going for 31 runs.
George Willis (22) and Chris Russell (24) got Ventnor off to a 52-run start – both openers were bowled by Aidan Jansen (2-39) - but it was largely damage limitation for Ventnor, who have still yet to win a match this season.
Stalwart Neil Westhorpe made 53 before becoming one of four victims for Charlie Ayers (4-41), while Glyn Treagus returned 2-29 as Ventnor were dismissed for 197.

HOOK and Newnham Basics cruised to an impressive home victory as struggling Calmore Sports found the Southern League Division One leaders too hot to handle and were beaten by 156 runs.
Hook, embroiled in a tense one-wicket win over OTs & Romsey seven days earlier, too control with a 115-run opening stand between Richard Willcock (25) and emerging teenager Harry Robson, pictured.
Robson’s superb run-a-ball 69 was ended when he was caught by Ben Perry off the bowling of Australian Will McNeil and then Willcock (25) was the second out. Kieran Thomson, with an excellent 52, underpinned the middle of the innings and by the time he departed the score was past 200.  He was one of three wickets for Ben Perry.
Rhodes Franklin opened up at the end of Hook’s 286-9 with 47 not out, which included two sixes and three fours.
Calmore’s reply began badly with the early loss of opener Darren Vann bowled by Jack Murrell (2-39) with the score on 10.
Left-hander Ben Johns (39) and Matt Taylor (24) set about building the innings, but the introduction of Anik Devicha ended their 56-run partnership. 
Divecha (4-20) then took the catch as Franklin removed opener Johns. He continued to do more damage as Calmore were reduced to 95-7.
It was left to Will Gardner, Franklin and Murrell to finish off the job as the visitors were all out for 130, Steve Wright (26) making a career best.
A delighted Hook captain Josh Buckingham said: “Young Harry batted really well to start with and then Kieran (Thomson) and Rhodes (Franklin) also did well. 
“Anik (Divecha) was the pick of the bowlers in what was a good all-round team performance. It is going well for us at the moment and we are a young side enjoying our cricket.”

LYMINGTON
Standing (from left): Ryan Scott, Dan Cox, Guy Layman, Terry Crabb, Ollie Calcot, Darren Cowley. Front: Gareth Schreuder, Harry Fisher, Matt Metcalfe, Josh Proctor, Ben Rogers.

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Matt Metcalfe produced a season’s best 6-46, but then had calm dressing room nerves with the bat to ensure Lymington achieved a notable ECB Southern Premier Division double victory over Havant, whom they had previously beaten on the opening day of the season.
Lymington got in by three wickets chasing Havant’s 180 all out, but at 146-8 and 35 runs still required, the outcome dangled in the balance.
Metcalfe managed to find a reliable partner in teenager Josh Royan and on an increasingly difficult dry and turning Sports Ground surface, they nurdled 38 precious runs (only 12 came in boundaries) to get Lymington home.
The win was Lymington’s sixth in nine matches – no mean feat for a side many pundits feared might find itself embroiled in a relegation scrap this season.
Instead, they lie second behind Bashley (Rydal) in the Premier Division log, 30 points behind the leaders.
Metcalfe struck four times with the new ball as Havant lurched to 46-4 before half-centuries by opener Peter Hopson (50) and Jez Bulled, with an unbeaten 68, gave their bowlers a competitive 180-run total to defend.
Lymington’s top order batting this season has been unreliable – only seven individual fifty-plus scores have been posted in the nine completed matches – and once again there were problems for the late middle-order to solve.
Lymington lurched to 94-6 before Darren Cowley’s important 47 (36 came in boundaries) got them back on track.  When he fell at 147-7 (to Chris Morgan 3-55), Havant regained the initiative.
But Royan and Metcalfe aren’t the worst nine and ten around and the pair added those 38 runs Lymington needed to win.

Surprisingly, South Wilts’ nine-wicket victory over Alton – all done and dusted in 41 balls after the Brewers had been skittled for a dismal 44 – wasn’t quite the quickest ECB Southern Premier League result on record.
That niche still belongs to Havant, who in 2004 rolled Liphook & Ripsley out for 38 and romped home by ten wickets off 33 balls.
Richard Pineo’s 9-16 figures that day remain the best-ever bowling return in an SPL match.
There were no individual South Wilts heroics at Bemerton, where the game was over so quick – it finished in less than two hours by 12.50pm - the club’s third team were able to swap their Hampshire League County Division 2 match against Ferndown Wayfarers on to the main square. 
“We felt it only right our supporters should get a full day’s cricket,” explained South Wilts player-chairman James Hayward. “It worked out well too, with the third’s chasing down 229 to win by three wickets.”
Arthur Godsal, with a South Wilts’ best 6-21 return, and Luke Evans (4-18) shared the spoils as Alton were rushed out in 17.3 overs – the speed of their demise creating panic in the lunchroom as the ham salad lunches were still being prepared !
Six Alton batsmen bagged ducks as the Brewers - at 27-9 - crumbled in sight of the lowest Southern Premier Division total on record – 37 by Hursley Park in 2006, ironically by South Wilts ! 
Only skipper Dan Harris, who made his 13 runs out of 21, and latterly Jack Myers, whose 19 spared Alton the ignominy of that all-time low, made double figures.
South Wilts’ run chase didn’t go quite according to plan, with Australian Peter Rowe bagging a first-baller from Otago all-rounder Matt Bacon, who claimed his 28th wicket of the season.
But that was as good as it got for the beleaguered Brewers, as Tom Morton (25) and Godsal (14) breached the boundary rope eight times off those 41 deliveries.

Former South Wilts and Sarisbury Athletic left-hand all-rounder Ryan Burl made his maiden fifty for Zimbabwe in yesterday's ODI against Ireland in Stormont.
Batting with Zimbabwe wobbling at 160-7 in pursuit of Ireland's 242-9, he hit an unbeaten 53 as his team fell agonisingly five runs short at 237-9.  It was Burl's 19th ODI appearance for Zimbabwe, for whom he has played one Test against South Africa in Port Elizabeth in December 2017.

Liphook & Ripsley raised Jack Campbell is making his full County Championship debut for Durham in the current match against Leicestershire.
The 19-year old left-armer played for England U19s against South Africa last summer. He is currently studying at Durham University.

Skipper Keith Harsham led from the front with bat and ball as Hampshire remained unbeaten and top of their ECB 50-plus County Championship west group with a 46-run win over Cornwall at Sparsholt.
The veteran Basingstoke & North Hants all-rounder top scored with 62 before ripping out the Cornwall middle-order with a 4-25 return.
An unspectacular opening saw Hampshire on 57-3 after 15 overs with key batters Andy Giles (12), Fawley debutant Andy Parratt (8) and Stu Shapland (15) back in the pavilion. 
Keith Harsham, fresh from helping England 60s to a “grey” Ashes series win over Australia, set about rebuilding the innings with Andy Worth (32) taking the total to 124 before the Sparsholt chairman was bowled. 
Matt Thankachan (26) then joined the fray, blitzing the Cornish attack as Hampshire regained control before Harsham (62) holed out. The Seniors were 186-6 with 8 overs remaining. Useful contributions from Andre Manders (22) & Neill Sutherland (16) enabled Hampshire to close on 223.
Rowledge prospect Tim Wheatley quickly made inroads into the Cornish line up, dismissing both openers before Jon Nance and Anton Luiten frustrated the Hampshire attack. Progress was slow with only 67 on the board after 25 overs before they upped the tempo. 
                                                                             Champagne moment
Luiten looked as though he would make the Seniors pay when Thankachan spilled a straightforward catch early on off the bowling of Shapland. However, having put on 99, the tide turned when skipper Nick Gargaro had Nance (36) caught by Giles at deep long on and the same pair combined to run out Luiten (62) soon after. The run out by the sprightly Basingstoke outfielder was unquestionably the Brian Johnson Champagne Moment. 
The Seniors then dominated with Harsham (4-25) producing a fine spell as wickets fell steadily. Only skipper Paul Clements (28) offered much resistance before falling to Shapland. Wheatley (3-21) mopped up to give the Seniors a relatively comfortable victory.
Hampshire next take on the Isle of Wight at Hook & Newnham Basics’ KG V Ground on  Wednesday (10 July) before travelling to Trowbridge to face Wiltshire for their final Group fixture on Tuesday July 16.