Sean Read in full flight [Terry Nash]
Four-wicket Sean Read and Sam Stroud ripped the heart out of Hythe & Dibden’s top order to set up a seven-wicket win for Southern Premier League Division 3 pacemakers Bashley (Rydal) II, who are effectively 43 points ahead at the top.
Read took 4-41 and Stroud 2-26 as Hythe lurched to 36-5 (Zac Millar 23) before Alex Nicholas (32) helped out. Then Phil Morris (3-24) whipped through the tail.
It was easy pickings once Arno Hattingh (29) and James Turner (38) got into their stride. PC Wakely (3-39) arrested the chase before Morris’s unbeaten 30 got Bash home.
Sufian Munir took his run tally for the season past the 500-mark as Fawley climbed into second place with a 35-run win over Tichborne Park at Holbury.
Munir hit 93 (his second dismissal in the nineties) and shared a dominant century stand with Will Crossley (32) as Fawley notched 269-6 (Andy Parratt 27).
Will Allam celebrated his maiden SPL century, with an unbeaten 234-6 as TP replied with 234-6, Queenslander Lachan Jess hitting 57.
If George Marshall played more regularly, Hambledon would be a greater threat.
The pocket-sized left-hander turned out for the first time in a month against Portsmouth & Southsea and made 86, his stand with Will Bond (51) pointing the Dons to 230 before Ben Saunders popped in with 5-53.
P & S ran Hambledon close, Jack Davies hitting an unbeaten 108 but critically losing the strike in the last over when Rory Morris (3-42) took their tenth wicket. George Harding took 3-46 and Ian Turner a miserly 2-16 with the new ball.
Read took 4-41 and Stroud 2-26 as Hythe lurched to 36-5 (Zac Millar 23) before Alex Nicholas (32) helped out. Then Phil Morris (3-24) whipped through the tail.
It was easy pickings once Arno Hattingh (29) and James Turner (38) got into their stride. PC Wakely (3-39) arrested the chase before Morris’s unbeaten 30 got Bash home.
Sufian Munir took his run tally for the season past the 500-mark as Fawley climbed into second place with a 35-run win over Tichborne Park at Holbury.
Munir hit 93 (his second dismissal in the nineties) and shared a dominant century stand with Will Crossley (32) as Fawley notched 269-6 (Andy Parratt 27).
Will Allam celebrated his maiden SPL century, with an unbeaten 234-6 as TP replied with 234-6, Queenslander Lachan Jess hitting 57.
If George Marshall played more regularly, Hambledon would be a greater threat.
The pocket-sized left-hander turned out for the first time in a month against Portsmouth & Southsea and made 86, his stand with Will Bond (51) pointing the Dons to 230 before Ben Saunders popped in with 5-53.
P & S ran Hambledon close, Jack Davies hitting an unbeaten 108 but critically losing the strike in the last over when Rory Morris (3-42) took their tenth wicket. George Harding took 3-46 and Ian Turner a miserly 2-16 with the new ball.
