With both openers missing, Sway are having to reshuffle their batting order for the Southern Premier Division 2 derby against near neighbours New Milton at Station Road.
Tim Noble and John Walter are absent so Adam Clark and Jay Dehning are included for Sway, who won a tight two-wicket affair at Liphook & Ripsley last week.
Relegated New Milton also got off to a winning start, also by two wickets, against Gosport Borough, but opener Ollie Shrubsole too is absent. It will be the first time Sway and Milton have played a league match.
Sway: Millard, Grasham, Crossley, Clark, Steadman, Burton, Bernard, Dehning, Marshall, Thomas, Waller.
New Milton: James Adams, Ed Bartlett, Thaakier Davids, Josh Parsons, Ollie Nichols, Ben Griffiths, Lee Beck, Eddie Wooster, Joe Hall, Jamie Gawler, Josh Bennett.
Fair Oak’s Lapstone Gardens has dried out to enable Hambledon’s visit to go ahead – the Dons being without opener George Marshall. Replacement Henry Glanfield will be anxious to keep his pads clear of any straight deliveries.
Fair Oak: H.Reed, S.Reed, J.McNeeney, J.Todd, T.Clark, R.Oxley, B.Smith, M.White, J.Gradwell, T.Merrill, L.Goodyear.
Gosport Borough’s new coach John Adams could be without as many as three front line players for Langley Manor’s visit to Privett Park.
Other matches: Portsmouth & Southsea v Hartley Wintney, St Cross Symondians II v Liphook & Ripsley,
Tim Noble and John Walter are absent so Adam Clark and Jay Dehning are included for Sway, who won a tight two-wicket affair at Liphook & Ripsley last week.
Relegated New Milton also got off to a winning start, also by two wickets, against Gosport Borough, but opener Ollie Shrubsole too is absent. It will be the first time Sway and Milton have played a league match.
Sway: Millard, Grasham, Crossley, Clark, Steadman, Burton, Bernard, Dehning, Marshall, Thomas, Waller.
New Milton: James Adams, Ed Bartlett, Thaakier Davids, Josh Parsons, Ollie Nichols, Ben Griffiths, Lee Beck, Eddie Wooster, Joe Hall, Jamie Gawler, Josh Bennett.
Fair Oak’s Lapstone Gardens has dried out to enable Hambledon’s visit to go ahead – the Dons being without opener George Marshall. Replacement Henry Glanfield will be anxious to keep his pads clear of any straight deliveries.
Fair Oak: H.Reed, S.Reed, J.McNeeney, J.Todd, T.Clark, R.Oxley, B.Smith, M.White, J.Gradwell, T.Merrill, L.Goodyear.
Gosport Borough’s new coach John Adams could be without as many as three front line players for Langley Manor’s visit to Privett Park.
Other matches: Portsmouth & Southsea v Hartley Wintney, St Cross Symondians II v Liphook & Ripsley,
Alex Nippard [left] emerges from the backwaters of Hampshire League regional cricket to play for Parley at Trojans, the one-time lead Poole Grammar School student having been a prolific run scorer at his peak.
Parley were washed out against Sparsholt last week, while Trojans lost narrowly at South Wilts.
Parley: Jacques, Collins, Saunders, Laird, Bragginton, Green, Rook, Powell, Huns, Nippard and Booth.
Sparsholt’s new Australian recruit, Joe Merlino – a big hitting wicket-keeper/batsman from Newcastle, New South Wales – makes is SPL3 debut against Havant II at Locks Lane.
Sparsholt: Berzins, Ley, Emslie, M Robbins, Merlino, W Robbins, Diran, Taylot, Fuller, Skeates, Dawes.
South African spin all-rounder Craig Jeffery, ineligible for last weekend’s Hook & Newnham Basics hiding, is back for Fareham & Crofton at Paultons.
Fareham & Crofton: Southon, Bulled, Jeffery, Kent, Frost, B Barnwell, Adams, Reader, Headen, Barnwell, Rajeshirke.
Teenager Ollie Webster, Hook's hero at Bath Lane, has a school match so misses Basics' IIs match with South Wilts II at the KGV. He's replaced by his dad !
Hook: Watterson, Rizwan, J Hall, Light, Wyatt, Dyer, J Webster, Bowman, Bland, Burgess, Clark.
Hursley Park, away to Fawley, look to improve on last week's collapse - they lost their last seven wickets from 40-3 without scoring a single run.
Parley were washed out against Sparsholt last week, while Trojans lost narrowly at South Wilts.
Parley: Jacques, Collins, Saunders, Laird, Bragginton, Green, Rook, Powell, Huns, Nippard and Booth.
Sparsholt’s new Australian recruit, Joe Merlino – a big hitting wicket-keeper/batsman from Newcastle, New South Wales – makes is SPL3 debut against Havant II at Locks Lane.
Sparsholt: Berzins, Ley, Emslie, M Robbins, Merlino, W Robbins, Diran, Taylot, Fuller, Skeates, Dawes.
South African spin all-rounder Craig Jeffery, ineligible for last weekend’s Hook & Newnham Basics hiding, is back for Fareham & Crofton at Paultons.
Fareham & Crofton: Southon, Bulled, Jeffery, Kent, Frost, B Barnwell, Adams, Reader, Headen, Barnwell, Rajeshirke.
Teenager Ollie Webster, Hook's hero at Bath Lane, has a school match so misses Basics' IIs match with South Wilts II at the KGV. He's replaced by his dad !
Hook: Watterson, Rizwan, J Hall, Light, Wyatt, Dyer, J Webster, Bowman, Bland, Burgess, Clark.
Hursley Park, away to Fawley, look to improve on last week's collapse - they lost their last seven wickets from 40-3 without scoring a single run.
