A six-wicket haul by Island based off-spin all-rounder Dan Cox, followed by an unbeaten half-century from South African Ximus Du Plooy, eased Lymington to a third successive victory that should secure their immediate ECB Southern Premier League future.
They beat the youthful Hampshire Academy by six wickets in a Premier Division match shorn to 32-overs a side due to late morning rain.
Inserted in difficult, damp Sport Ground batting conditions, the Young Hawks were up against it with Matt Metcalfe (2-18) and James Wade reducing the county side to 21-3.
Harry Broderick (23) rallied but once he was prised from the crease, Cox (pictured above by Roy Honeybone) took charge with a remarkable spell of 6-15, the best individual figures in the Premier Division this season behind Matt Burton, Havant’s Richard Jerry and Burridge all-rounder Dan Stancliffe, the other three bowlers to have achieved six-wicket hauls in 2021.
Cox, who journeys from the east coast of the Isle of Wight to the mainland for his weekend cricket, had his initial three victims caught, the next two bowled and the last leg before wicket. Only Bashley’s Louis Prichard, son of former Essex captain Paul Prichard, offered any real resistance. Poor shot selection didn’t help the Academy cause.
Academy left-arm paceman Josh Croom, back in action after an unwanted two-break caused by a fractured right foot, rearranged the stumps of stand-in gloveman Ben Rogers and Ryan Scott to leave Lymington 7-2.
But experienced Kiwi Terry Crabb (17) steadied the ship before being caught off the bowling of the Academy’s other left-armer Finn Calderwood.
But it was the South African Du Plooy (pictured below), from Pretoria, who proved to be Lymington’s match winner. Emerging from a lean spell at the crease, he notched a second consecutive SPL half-century, a patient one but still including two sixes and three fours.
His fourth-wicket stand of 56 with man-of-the-match Cox (24) decided the outcome, Lymington getting home at 111-4 with three overs to spare.
They beat the youthful Hampshire Academy by six wickets in a Premier Division match shorn to 32-overs a side due to late morning rain.
Inserted in difficult, damp Sport Ground batting conditions, the Young Hawks were up against it with Matt Metcalfe (2-18) and James Wade reducing the county side to 21-3.
Harry Broderick (23) rallied but once he was prised from the crease, Cox (pictured above by Roy Honeybone) took charge with a remarkable spell of 6-15, the best individual figures in the Premier Division this season behind Matt Burton, Havant’s Richard Jerry and Burridge all-rounder Dan Stancliffe, the other three bowlers to have achieved six-wicket hauls in 2021.
Cox, who journeys from the east coast of the Isle of Wight to the mainland for his weekend cricket, had his initial three victims caught, the next two bowled and the last leg before wicket. Only Bashley’s Louis Prichard, son of former Essex captain Paul Prichard, offered any real resistance. Poor shot selection didn’t help the Academy cause.
Academy left-arm paceman Josh Croom, back in action after an unwanted two-break caused by a fractured right foot, rearranged the stumps of stand-in gloveman Ben Rogers and Ryan Scott to leave Lymington 7-2.
But experienced Kiwi Terry Crabb (17) steadied the ship before being caught off the bowling of the Academy’s other left-armer Finn Calderwood.
But it was the South African Du Plooy (pictured below), from Pretoria, who proved to be Lymington’s match winner. Emerging from a lean spell at the crease, he notched a second consecutive SPL half-century, a patient one but still including two sixes and three fours.
His fourth-wicket stand of 56 with man-of-the-match Cox (24) decided the outcome, Lymington getting home at 111-4 with three overs to spare.
