Hartley Wintney are top of the embryo Southern Premier Division 2 log after nailing Fawley by 69 runs to score a second win from the rain ravaged start to the season.
The return of Roy Cockram and Scott Baldwin to the ranks has given Hartley a significant boost and with the likes Will Kerr and teenage all-rounder Angus Brown due to return in mid-season prospects look bright as skipper James Mulvey prepares to take his team on the long haul trip to Ventnor.
Cockram, with an unbeaten 60, top scored as Hartley ran up 221-5 before bowling Fawley out for 152. He came to the crease with Hartley handily placed after a fine start by Jon Kerr (47) and Will Ross (27).
Riley Tona (3-44) interrupted things, but Cockram and Baldwin (48) restored Hartley’s position.
Long serving Andy Parratt (48) guided Fawley to 98-2, but the innings collapsed, with Jamie Teale taking 4-27 as the oilmen lost eight wickets for 54 runs to 152 all out.
The return of Roy Cockram and Scott Baldwin to the ranks has given Hartley a significant boost and with the likes Will Kerr and teenage all-rounder Angus Brown due to return in mid-season prospects look bright as skipper James Mulvey prepares to take his team on the long haul trip to Ventnor.
Cockram, with an unbeaten 60, top scored as Hartley ran up 221-5 before bowling Fawley out for 152. He came to the crease with Hartley handily placed after a fine start by Jon Kerr (47) and Will Ross (27).
Riley Tona (3-44) interrupted things, but Cockram and Baldwin (48) restored Hartley’s position.
Long serving Andy Parratt (48) guided Fawley to 98-2, but the innings collapsed, with Jamie Teale taking 4-27 as the oilmen lost eight wickets for 54 runs to 152 all out.
Left-arm spinner Matt Bampton [pictured] took 4-16 to set up a comfortable seven-wicket win for Old Tauntonians & Romsey, who chalked up a third successive Southern Premier League victory over Ventnor, whose away-day blues continued.
It put OTs on the 60-point mark, ahead of Hartley Wintney, the only other unbeaten Division 2 side.
Bampton’s victims included Rob Snell (19) and Ben Woodhouse (24), who was eventually last man out having spent time at the crease trying to glue a fragile Ventnor batting line-up together.
Ventnor managed only 94, Lewis Allen (2-24) having earlier picked up the key wicket of Barbados batsman Anthony Alleyne. Jody Brown took 2-26.
OTs, who visit Bashley (Rydal) II on Saturday 12.30, didn’t exactly race to their seven-wicket victory, opener and skipper Charlie King labouring 106 balls for his 23 not out, hitting a solitary boundary in the process.
Rob Newman (32) showed a tag more aggression as OTs cantered home with 16 overs to spare.
Ninth-wicket pair Peter Lamb and Archie Dunn were the heroes of Paultons’ narrow two-wicket win over Fair Oak at Whitemoor Lane, where they put on an unbroken 26 to turn the match.
Gregor McKenzie (31) gave Oaks a suitably brisk start, but Robert Pike (3-35) and Tony Richman (2-25) then reduced them to 59-5. Rufus Bullough (44) and Harry Reed (21) rallied the visitors by putting on 56 for the sixth wicket, but a late clatter of wickets saw Fair Oak bowled out for 133 in the 33rd over.
Paultons were themselves in trouble at 70-5 when Lee Wateridge was fifth out for a patient 21; young pace prospect Ben Smith took two top-order wickets for just 8 runs in his eight-over spell.
But Pike (33) and Richman (28) excelled with bat as well as ball for the hosts. Monty McKenzie’s two scalps had Paultons in the mire again at 108-8, but Peter Lamb and Archie Dunn put on an unbroken 26 for the ninth wicket to see the home side to victory off the second ball of the last over.
Ashan Silva (3-16) and Tim Jackson (2-11) reduced Bashley (Rydal) II from 30-0 to 49-5 at Rowlands Avenue, where Waterlooville romped to a nine-wicket win.
Saif Achakzai (30) rallied before Alex Shephard (3-26) imposed himself on the game, initially with the ball then making an unbeaten 51 in a 99-run start with Archie Reynolds (50) as Ville chased down the visitors’ 122.
Fourteen-year old Henry Amis (3-14) shared six wicket with his skipper Sean Burton (3-25) as Liphook & Ripsley bundled South Wilts II out for 122 (Sam Pittman 24) before Ryan Covey (63) eased them to a six-wicket win. Tim Cowley’s Bemerton grounds apprentice Jayden Atkinson took 3-35.
It put OTs on the 60-point mark, ahead of Hartley Wintney, the only other unbeaten Division 2 side.
Bampton’s victims included Rob Snell (19) and Ben Woodhouse (24), who was eventually last man out having spent time at the crease trying to glue a fragile Ventnor batting line-up together.
Ventnor managed only 94, Lewis Allen (2-24) having earlier picked up the key wicket of Barbados batsman Anthony Alleyne. Jody Brown took 2-26.
OTs, who visit Bashley (Rydal) II on Saturday 12.30, didn’t exactly race to their seven-wicket victory, opener and skipper Charlie King labouring 106 balls for his 23 not out, hitting a solitary boundary in the process.
Rob Newman (32) showed a tag more aggression as OTs cantered home with 16 overs to spare.
Ninth-wicket pair Peter Lamb and Archie Dunn were the heroes of Paultons’ narrow two-wicket win over Fair Oak at Whitemoor Lane, where they put on an unbroken 26 to turn the match.
Gregor McKenzie (31) gave Oaks a suitably brisk start, but Robert Pike (3-35) and Tony Richman (2-25) then reduced them to 59-5. Rufus Bullough (44) and Harry Reed (21) rallied the visitors by putting on 56 for the sixth wicket, but a late clatter of wickets saw Fair Oak bowled out for 133 in the 33rd over.
Paultons were themselves in trouble at 70-5 when Lee Wateridge was fifth out for a patient 21; young pace prospect Ben Smith took two top-order wickets for just 8 runs in his eight-over spell.
But Pike (33) and Richman (28) excelled with bat as well as ball for the hosts. Monty McKenzie’s two scalps had Paultons in the mire again at 108-8, but Peter Lamb and Archie Dunn put on an unbroken 26 for the ninth wicket to see the home side to victory off the second ball of the last over.
Ashan Silva (3-16) and Tim Jackson (2-11) reduced Bashley (Rydal) II from 30-0 to 49-5 at Rowlands Avenue, where Waterlooville romped to a nine-wicket win.
Saif Achakzai (30) rallied before Alex Shephard (3-26) imposed himself on the game, initially with the ball then making an unbeaten 51 in a 99-run start with Archie Reynolds (50) as Ville chased down the visitors’ 122.
Fourteen-year old Henry Amis (3-14) shared six wicket with his skipper Sean Burton (3-25) as Liphook & Ripsley bundled South Wilts II out for 122 (Sam Pittman 24) before Ryan Covey (63) eased them to a six-wicket win. Tim Cowley’s Bemerton grounds apprentice Jayden Atkinson took 3-35.