Jack Mynott injury gets the thumbs-up [Roy Honeybone picture]
All eyes will be on the sky above as overnight and morning rain once threatens the local ECB Southern Premier and Hampshire League programmes.
Rain is due to last from 2am until late morning, so let’s hope that, when ground inspections are done, everyone remembers that pitches dry out and there is plenty of time in the day to get the cricket on. We’ve lost enough playing time already this summer …
Top billing in the ECB Premier Division is second placed South Wilts hosting leaders Bournemouth at Bemerton (1130) when Jack Mynott and James Hayward are due to return to a full strength side.
Mynott, picked for Wiltshire on Sunday, dislocated his thumb in an U14s training session at his East Sussex public school last month, but is now fit to play.
South Wilts: Morton, Mynott, Rowe, Hayward, Draper, Hussey, Godsal, Huntley, Warner, Grant, Burton
Bashley (Rydal) have left-arm pace bowler Brad Currie pencilled in for a long overdue return at unchanged Alton, who moved off the bottom of the table with a victory at Burridge last weekend.
Alton: Gonella, South, Middleton, Harris, Myers S, Hale, Wright, Heffernan, Walters, Myers J, Ballinger.
Bashley (Rydal): Gordon, Digby, Fisher, Porter, Andrew, Francis, Stroud, Wilson, Currie, Baker, Fletcher.
St Cross Symondians are keeping team selection to themselves ahead of Hook & Newnham Basics’ visit to the Green Jackets, where Harry Robson returns after 7-days in solitary.
Hook & Newnham Basics: Buckingham J, Lockwood, Robson, Buckingham M, Willcock, Murrell, Divecha, Moore, Balcombe, Hobday, Simpson.
Havant have Ben Walker back for the visit of a youthful Hampshire Academy side to the Park.
Havant: Ben Walker, Pete Hopson, Harry Gadd, Simon Loat, Chris Morgan, Jez Bulled, Richard Hindley, Fred Gadd, Alf Taw, Richard Jerry, Faizan Tahsin.
Academy: Broderick, Mumford, Fontaine-Jackson, Eckland, Barker, Kelly, Whitfield, Prichard, Jack, Khanna, Catherwood.
In the other match, unnamed Lymington chase a fourth straight win against Burridge at the Sports Ground.
Voneus National Village Cup quarter-finalists Calmore Sports entertain Sparsholt at Loperwood Park (1230) in their new guise as Division 1 leaders - a position they took when Totton & Eling were bowled off the summit by losing at Basingstoke & North Hants last week.
But only a fraction of a point separates Calmore from New Milton, who receive an in-form Basingstoke side boasting four straight wins.
Calmore Sports: Lavelle, Bailey, Brewster, Johns, Taylor, Johnson, Moss, Fisher, Carty, Wright, Lepervanche.
Deposed leaders Totton & Eling will expect to return to winning ways when SPL1 strugglers St Cross Symondians II visit Southern Gardens.
Basement side Andover host resurgent Portsmouth and are becoming desperately anxious to gain a third win and wriggle out of the bottom three. They are already 17 points behind St Cross.
Portsmouth now have five wins under their belts, but wicketkeeper Alex Hammond has damaged tendons in his fingers and could be out for a month. James Christian is gloveman at London Road.
Andover: Hooper, Ashman, Carr, Birks, Taylor, Adams, Veettil, Knight, Duckworth, Duckworth, Ayers
Portsmouth: Duggan, Christian, Palmer-Goddard, Marston J, Smitherman, Wallis D, Woolf, McArdle, Marston A, Brook, Webb.
Some positive news on the hands and fingers front is that Rowledge opener Jonty Seeborn is set to return from a dislocation to play against cellar dwellers Sarisbury Athletic at Church Road.
Injuries have conspired against Rowledge after their young side made such a positive start but, opener Sam Plater apart, they are at full strength against Sarisbury, who have opener Ricky Rawlins sidelined with a calf muscle pull, but Peter Hammond back after absence of five years.
Rowledge: Ben Wish, Jake Wish, Ricky Yates, David Lloyd, Max Witney, Jonty Sebborn, Ollie Baker, Will Ryman, Olly Ryman, Ryan Littlewood, Ethan Martin.
Sarisbury Athletic: J Hill, Smith, Bolton, Lovett, Franklin, Orr, Sanders, S Hill, Jewell, Hammond, Kitcher.
Last weekend's results also saw a change in the Division 2 leadership, with Hartley Wintney climbing to the summit and climbing above beaten OTs & Romey in the process.
Hartley's new found lead comes under scrunity from Liphook & Ripsley, while OTs host a South Wilts II strengthened by left-hand opener Jack Stearman and Tom Lewis, who have dropped down. SW need some points.
South Wilts II: Cranch, Stearman, Edwards, Pearce, Pittman, Howgrave-Graham, Falconer, Pittman, Partridge, Atkinson, Lewis.
Bashley (Rydal) II, who pulled off an extra-ordinary last ball win over South Wilts last week, have Tom Jacques in their side to host fourth placed Fair Oak, but hero Rhodes Franklin isn’t playing.
Fawley face the long haul to Ventnor – hiring the Hythe ferry for the day may have been a travel option – while bottom of the pile Paultons are taking their strongest side (less Nathan Feltham) to Waterlooville.
“We need to start scoring some runs,” says opening bat and skipper Simon Ennew.
Paultons: Team. Simon Ennew, Lee Wateridge, Cameron Grierson, Robert Pike, Josh Metcalfe, Ben Rogers, Tony Richman, Scott Dawes, Darryn Stairs, Harmon Chadhoke, Andrew Denney.
Can anyone halt Hambledon’s relentless march in Division 3 ? They chase a seventh successive victory at winless Purbrook, who have lost all six. Hambledon are at full strength.
Its second v third at the KGV where Hook & Newnham Basics II host run getters Langley Manor, led by Jack Budd, the SPL’s leading batsman at the mid-season point.
Hook II: Light, Warner, Allnutt B, Shore, Gardner, May T, Brown, Watts, Neville, Wyatt, Love.
Tom Richards is at last able to field a full strength Hythe & Dibden side at Portsmouth & Southsea, who dropped to fifth after a tonking at Hambledon.
Hythe needs the points, though Tichborne Park are unlikely to get much respite from their visit to Basingstoke & North Hants.
Hythe & Dibden: T Richards, T Gates, M Young, Z Millar, J Stovell, W Mckay, W Royan, T Jones, N Vaughan, B Holbrook, T Ndowora.
The other match features Trojans v Gosport Borough.
Rain is due to last from 2am until late morning, so let’s hope that, when ground inspections are done, everyone remembers that pitches dry out and there is plenty of time in the day to get the cricket on. We’ve lost enough playing time already this summer …
Top billing in the ECB Premier Division is second placed South Wilts hosting leaders Bournemouth at Bemerton (1130) when Jack Mynott and James Hayward are due to return to a full strength side.
Mynott, picked for Wiltshire on Sunday, dislocated his thumb in an U14s training session at his East Sussex public school last month, but is now fit to play.
South Wilts: Morton, Mynott, Rowe, Hayward, Draper, Hussey, Godsal, Huntley, Warner, Grant, Burton
Bashley (Rydal) have left-arm pace bowler Brad Currie pencilled in for a long overdue return at unchanged Alton, who moved off the bottom of the table with a victory at Burridge last weekend.
Alton: Gonella, South, Middleton, Harris, Myers S, Hale, Wright, Heffernan, Walters, Myers J, Ballinger.
Bashley (Rydal): Gordon, Digby, Fisher, Porter, Andrew, Francis, Stroud, Wilson, Currie, Baker, Fletcher.
St Cross Symondians are keeping team selection to themselves ahead of Hook & Newnham Basics’ visit to the Green Jackets, where Harry Robson returns after 7-days in solitary.
Hook & Newnham Basics: Buckingham J, Lockwood, Robson, Buckingham M, Willcock, Murrell, Divecha, Moore, Balcombe, Hobday, Simpson.
Havant have Ben Walker back for the visit of a youthful Hampshire Academy side to the Park.
Havant: Ben Walker, Pete Hopson, Harry Gadd, Simon Loat, Chris Morgan, Jez Bulled, Richard Hindley, Fred Gadd, Alf Taw, Richard Jerry, Faizan Tahsin.
Academy: Broderick, Mumford, Fontaine-Jackson, Eckland, Barker, Kelly, Whitfield, Prichard, Jack, Khanna, Catherwood.
In the other match, unnamed Lymington chase a fourth straight win against Burridge at the Sports Ground.
Voneus National Village Cup quarter-finalists Calmore Sports entertain Sparsholt at Loperwood Park (1230) in their new guise as Division 1 leaders - a position they took when Totton & Eling were bowled off the summit by losing at Basingstoke & North Hants last week.
But only a fraction of a point separates Calmore from New Milton, who receive an in-form Basingstoke side boasting four straight wins.
Calmore Sports: Lavelle, Bailey, Brewster, Johns, Taylor, Johnson, Moss, Fisher, Carty, Wright, Lepervanche.
Deposed leaders Totton & Eling will expect to return to winning ways when SPL1 strugglers St Cross Symondians II visit Southern Gardens.
Basement side Andover host resurgent Portsmouth and are becoming desperately anxious to gain a third win and wriggle out of the bottom three. They are already 17 points behind St Cross.
Portsmouth now have five wins under their belts, but wicketkeeper Alex Hammond has damaged tendons in his fingers and could be out for a month. James Christian is gloveman at London Road.
Andover: Hooper, Ashman, Carr, Birks, Taylor, Adams, Veettil, Knight, Duckworth, Duckworth, Ayers
Portsmouth: Duggan, Christian, Palmer-Goddard, Marston J, Smitherman, Wallis D, Woolf, McArdle, Marston A, Brook, Webb.
Some positive news on the hands and fingers front is that Rowledge opener Jonty Seeborn is set to return from a dislocation to play against cellar dwellers Sarisbury Athletic at Church Road.
Injuries have conspired against Rowledge after their young side made such a positive start but, opener Sam Plater apart, they are at full strength against Sarisbury, who have opener Ricky Rawlins sidelined with a calf muscle pull, but Peter Hammond back after absence of five years.
Rowledge: Ben Wish, Jake Wish, Ricky Yates, David Lloyd, Max Witney, Jonty Sebborn, Ollie Baker, Will Ryman, Olly Ryman, Ryan Littlewood, Ethan Martin.
Sarisbury Athletic: J Hill, Smith, Bolton, Lovett, Franklin, Orr, Sanders, S Hill, Jewell, Hammond, Kitcher.
Last weekend's results also saw a change in the Division 2 leadership, with Hartley Wintney climbing to the summit and climbing above beaten OTs & Romey in the process.
Hartley's new found lead comes under scrunity from Liphook & Ripsley, while OTs host a South Wilts II strengthened by left-hand opener Jack Stearman and Tom Lewis, who have dropped down. SW need some points.
South Wilts II: Cranch, Stearman, Edwards, Pearce, Pittman, Howgrave-Graham, Falconer, Pittman, Partridge, Atkinson, Lewis.
Bashley (Rydal) II, who pulled off an extra-ordinary last ball win over South Wilts last week, have Tom Jacques in their side to host fourth placed Fair Oak, but hero Rhodes Franklin isn’t playing.
Fawley face the long haul to Ventnor – hiring the Hythe ferry for the day may have been a travel option – while bottom of the pile Paultons are taking their strongest side (less Nathan Feltham) to Waterlooville.
“We need to start scoring some runs,” says opening bat and skipper Simon Ennew.
Paultons: Team. Simon Ennew, Lee Wateridge, Cameron Grierson, Robert Pike, Josh Metcalfe, Ben Rogers, Tony Richman, Scott Dawes, Darryn Stairs, Harmon Chadhoke, Andrew Denney.
Can anyone halt Hambledon’s relentless march in Division 3 ? They chase a seventh successive victory at winless Purbrook, who have lost all six. Hambledon are at full strength.
Its second v third at the KGV where Hook & Newnham Basics II host run getters Langley Manor, led by Jack Budd, the SPL’s leading batsman at the mid-season point.
Hook II: Light, Warner, Allnutt B, Shore, Gardner, May T, Brown, Watts, Neville, Wyatt, Love.
Tom Richards is at last able to field a full strength Hythe & Dibden side at Portsmouth & Southsea, who dropped to fifth after a tonking at Hambledon.
Hythe needs the points, though Tichborne Park are unlikely to get much respite from their visit to Basingstoke & North Hants.
Hythe & Dibden: T Richards, T Gates, M Young, Z Millar, J Stovell, W Mckay, W Royan, T Jones, N Vaughan, B Holbrook, T Ndowora.
The other match features Trojans v Gosport Borough.
