Hambledon’s Jonty Oliver was very much the man of the moment in his side’s clash with Fair Oak in Southern Premier Division 2.
Needing six to win of the last ball of the match, he cracked Monty McKenzie’s long-hop over mid-wicket, to the delight of his team-mates and the consternation of an Oaks side that had worked so hard to overturn the unbeaten league leaders only to fall at the last hurdle.
A steady performance with the bat had taken Fair Oak to a competitive 215 all out. Two pairs of brothers contributed the bulk of the runs – Harry Reed made 36 and Sam Reed 34, while Gregor McKenzie hit 49 off 22 balls and brother Monty made 42. At one stage Oaks were 178 for 3, but Henry Glanfield (3 for 19), George Harding (2 for 29) and Matt de Villiers (2 for 60) hauled their side back into it by taking the last seven home wickets for just 37.
Fair Oak were to rue that collapse. Dan McGovern (47) and George Marshall (22) took Hambledon to 79 for 1, but the pendulum swung back in Oaks’ favour with spinners Asad Abbas taking 2 for 38 and Nick Doubell 2 for 25. At 116 for 6 the league leaders were staring down the barrel of a first league defeat, but Oliver’s stand of 81 with Mark Butcher (26) set the stage for his late heroics. Oliver (left) finished on 62 not out of his side’s 216 for 7, maintaining Hambledon’s 100% record after a knife-edge finish that is becoming a regular event at Lapstone Park.
Old Tauntonians & Romsey’s proud seven-match winning sequence is over after an eight-wicket thrashing by Andover, who have leapfrogged above them into second place in Southern Premier Division 2.
They were bundled out for a meagre 92 at London Road, where Andover polished off the runs inside 17 overs.
OTs were in trouble from the outset, with Babu Veettil (3-10) striking two early blows as the visitors tottered at 11-3. Charlie King and Harry Tulk rallied, but OTs sank to 45-6, former Zimbabwe off-spinner John Nyumbu (4-27) creating further inroads.
Rob Newman and Hakim Peruzi both made 16 as a late rally raised the OTs score from 68-8 to 92 all out.
Glyn Treagus (36) and Harry Blackburn (36*) guided Andover to an easy victory.
Needing six to win of the last ball of the match, he cracked Monty McKenzie’s long-hop over mid-wicket, to the delight of his team-mates and the consternation of an Oaks side that had worked so hard to overturn the unbeaten league leaders only to fall at the last hurdle.
A steady performance with the bat had taken Fair Oak to a competitive 215 all out. Two pairs of brothers contributed the bulk of the runs – Harry Reed made 36 and Sam Reed 34, while Gregor McKenzie hit 49 off 22 balls and brother Monty made 42. At one stage Oaks were 178 for 3, but Henry Glanfield (3 for 19), George Harding (2 for 29) and Matt de Villiers (2 for 60) hauled their side back into it by taking the last seven home wickets for just 37.
Fair Oak were to rue that collapse. Dan McGovern (47) and George Marshall (22) took Hambledon to 79 for 1, but the pendulum swung back in Oaks’ favour with spinners Asad Abbas taking 2 for 38 and Nick Doubell 2 for 25. At 116 for 6 the league leaders were staring down the barrel of a first league defeat, but Oliver’s stand of 81 with Mark Butcher (26) set the stage for his late heroics. Oliver (left) finished on 62 not out of his side’s 216 for 7, maintaining Hambledon’s 100% record after a knife-edge finish that is becoming a regular event at Lapstone Park.
Old Tauntonians & Romsey’s proud seven-match winning sequence is over after an eight-wicket thrashing by Andover, who have leapfrogged above them into second place in Southern Premier Division 2.
They were bundled out for a meagre 92 at London Road, where Andover polished off the runs inside 17 overs.
OTs were in trouble from the outset, with Babu Veettil (3-10) striking two early blows as the visitors tottered at 11-3. Charlie King and Harry Tulk rallied, but OTs sank to 45-6, former Zimbabwe off-spinner John Nyumbu (4-27) creating further inroads.
Rob Newman and Hakim Peruzi both made 16 as a late rally raised the OTs score from 68-8 to 92 all out.
Glyn Treagus (36) and Harry Blackburn (36*) guided Andover to an easy victory.
