Lymington seconds must become only the second club this season to beat champions Fair Oak - if they are to stand a chance of retaining their Southern Premier League Division 3 status for next season.
They go into their final match against the Oaks - ironically in the neutral surroundings of Sparsholt's well appointed Locks Lane ground - eight points adrift in the relegation struggle.
But even if they pull off the shock of the season at the Norman Edwards Memorial Ground, Lymington will still be relegated if Gosport win at Hambledon.
Ironically, Borough are the only side to have beaten Fair Oak this summer.
Fair Oak: Hughes, McKenzie, Kemp, Abbas, Gwynn, Gradwell, Bullough, Oxley, Featherstone, Bass, Stewart.
Lymington: Kelly, Agha, Barton, Edwards, Whyte, Attrill, Smith, Layman, Cox, Woodward, Willis.
With that eight-point advantage intact, Gosport lie 'safe' in third from bottom spot, but if they lose at Ridge Meadow and basement side Havant II roll over Bashley (Rydal) II, the calculators will be out and a photo finish will ensue.
Gosport produced a miraculous fightback to beat Lymington last week, their last three wickets producing 91 runs to win the match.
Teen ravers Jacob Harris and Jack Richards missed that win - almost drowning at the rain lashed Reading Festival - are back for the Hambledon trip. But their Lymington hero Charlie Pennicott is absent.
Another youngster, Hambledon's Henry Glanfield is in such good nick - three 50-plus scores in his past four knocks - that an international call-up could soon be calling, not from Trevor Bayliss, but ... Norway !
Henry's mother hails from Scandanivia and it's rumoured under-cover Norwegian selectors could be lurking in the undergrowth at Ridge Meadow when the spin all-rounder comes to the crease.
Hambledon: Will Bond, Spencer Le Clercq, Henry Glanfield, Alex Willoughby, Indy Chakrabarti, Chris Pratt, Lewis Le Clercq, George Harding, Ian Turner, Rhidian Chapman, Sam Beagley
Gosport Borough: Tom Larner, Lee Harrop, Simon Creal, Jacob Harris, Liam Campbell, Scott Taylor, Gavin King, Greg Kitchen, Jack Richards, Ollie Creal, Charlie Creal.
There's an equally important tussle at the top of SPL3, where the winners of the South Wilts II-Purbrook duel will finish runners-up to Fair Oak.
Purbrook take an 11-point lead into the match but will be pipped at the post if South Wits beat them at Bemerton.
South Wilts II: Phillips, Berzins, Cranch, Pearce, Pittman, Prescott, Franklin, Pittman, Wade, Atkinson, Burton.
Eleven points adrift of the closest safety rung, Havant II must beat visiting Bashley (Rydal) seconds if they are to avoid dropping down to Hampshire League cricket in 2019.
Bashley (Rydal): J Underwood, S Morris, C Vaughan, S Ridley, M Wilson, R Grierson, N Taylor, C Gates, T Harris, T Mills.
They go into their final match against the Oaks - ironically in the neutral surroundings of Sparsholt's well appointed Locks Lane ground - eight points adrift in the relegation struggle.
But even if they pull off the shock of the season at the Norman Edwards Memorial Ground, Lymington will still be relegated if Gosport win at Hambledon.
Ironically, Borough are the only side to have beaten Fair Oak this summer.
Fair Oak: Hughes, McKenzie, Kemp, Abbas, Gwynn, Gradwell, Bullough, Oxley, Featherstone, Bass, Stewart.
Lymington: Kelly, Agha, Barton, Edwards, Whyte, Attrill, Smith, Layman, Cox, Woodward, Willis.
With that eight-point advantage intact, Gosport lie 'safe' in third from bottom spot, but if they lose at Ridge Meadow and basement side Havant II roll over Bashley (Rydal) II, the calculators will be out and a photo finish will ensue.
Gosport produced a miraculous fightback to beat Lymington last week, their last three wickets producing 91 runs to win the match.
Teen ravers Jacob Harris and Jack Richards missed that win - almost drowning at the rain lashed Reading Festival - are back for the Hambledon trip. But their Lymington hero Charlie Pennicott is absent.
Another youngster, Hambledon's Henry Glanfield is in such good nick - three 50-plus scores in his past four knocks - that an international call-up could soon be calling, not from Trevor Bayliss, but ... Norway !
Henry's mother hails from Scandanivia and it's rumoured under-cover Norwegian selectors could be lurking in the undergrowth at Ridge Meadow when the spin all-rounder comes to the crease.
Hambledon: Will Bond, Spencer Le Clercq, Henry Glanfield, Alex Willoughby, Indy Chakrabarti, Chris Pratt, Lewis Le Clercq, George Harding, Ian Turner, Rhidian Chapman, Sam Beagley
Gosport Borough: Tom Larner, Lee Harrop, Simon Creal, Jacob Harris, Liam Campbell, Scott Taylor, Gavin King, Greg Kitchen, Jack Richards, Ollie Creal, Charlie Creal.
There's an equally important tussle at the top of SPL3, where the winners of the South Wilts II-Purbrook duel will finish runners-up to Fair Oak.
Purbrook take an 11-point lead into the match but will be pipped at the post if South Wits beat them at Bemerton.
South Wilts II: Phillips, Berzins, Cranch, Pearce, Pittman, Prescott, Franklin, Pittman, Wade, Atkinson, Burton.
Eleven points adrift of the closest safety rung, Havant II must beat visiting Bashley (Rydal) seconds if they are to avoid dropping down to Hampshire League cricket in 2019.
Bashley (Rydal): J Underwood, S Morris, C Vaughan, S Ridley, M Wilson, R Grierson, N Taylor, C Gates, T Harris, T Mills.
