Stuart Shapland played a real captain's role, leading from the front as Hampshire Seniors put their first points on the board in the ECB 50-plus County Championship with a narrow two-wicket win over Cornwall in Falmouth.
He took 3-42 with the ball and later top scored with 69 as Hampshire successfully chased down a Cornwall total of 237-8. Paul Burrows (33) and Andy Parratt (30) did their bit up front, as did Pete Hayward (31) later, but it was left to Brendan Fourie, with 25 not out, to get Hampshire across the line after eight wickets had fallen.
The Isle of Wight also have a win on the board after beating the Channel Islands at Shanklin. Mark Price (50) and Kerry Rice (33) top scored in the IWCB's 153. One time KES student Gordon Irish (41) top scored for the CI before Rice took 3-11 to win the game.
The IWCB also gave a good account of themselves in a high scoring 16-run defeat by group table topping Devon, Shanklin's Andy White hitting 125.
He took 3-42 with the ball and later top scored with 69 as Hampshire successfully chased down a Cornwall total of 237-8. Paul Burrows (33) and Andy Parratt (30) did their bit up front, as did Pete Hayward (31) later, but it was left to Brendan Fourie, with 25 not out, to get Hampshire across the line after eight wickets had fallen.
The Isle of Wight also have a win on the board after beating the Channel Islands at Shanklin. Mark Price (50) and Kerry Rice (33) top scored in the IWCB's 153. One time KES student Gordon Irish (41) top scored for the CI before Rice took 3-11 to win the game.
The IWCB also gave a good account of themselves in a high scoring 16-run defeat by group table topping Devon, Shanklin's Andy White hitting 125.
