Summer-long leaders Trojans have been bundled off the top of the Southern Premier League Division 2 table after suffering a fourth defeat in five outings.
A crushing nine-wicket defeat at Loperwood Park has dropped the faltering Stoneham club out of the promotion positions for the first time this season and handed Calmore Sports pole position with two games to play.
A 42-run win at Hambledon has enabled Tichborne Park to leapfrog Trojans, who are now eight points adrift of the promotion places.
Trojans, who face a demanding finish to the season against Hambledon and then Tichborne Park, were reduced to 56-5 by Calmore, whose bowlers took full advantage of the favourable conditions.
Trojans fielded arguably their strongest batting line-up, but needed Adbul Manjra (30) and Mario Mohammed (20 not out) to provide a mid-innings rescue act at Loperwood Park.
They improved Trojans’ cause but, after a telling 3-26 spell by James Rose, it needed last-man Jordan Wright (27) to lift the final score to 144.
The Trojans spirits lifted when Jamie Donaldson bowled Calmore skipper Mark Lavelle immediately after the restart.
But that was Trojans’ solitary moment of joy as Matt Hardy and teenager Ben Johns took command and guided Calmore to a nine-wicket win.
Hardy was in awesome form, cracking 12 fours in his unbeaten 76, while Johns continued his good run of form, hitting 49 not out.
Heavy rain that caused the abandonment of their visit to South Wilts in the ninth over after tea may have been a blessing in disguise for relegation threatened Paultons’.
South Wilts were rattling along at seven runs an over and were going well at 55-1 in pursuit of Paultons’ 204 when the rains came.
The ‘no result’ leaves Paultons third from bottom, effectively seven points above Fawley – but with table toppers Calmore Sports next up at Whitemoor Lane on Saturday, 12.30.
Nathan Feltham blazed a quick-fire 46 (four sixes and five fours) at the top of the innings for Paultons, while Robbie Pike (49) and Josh Metcalfe (27) batted effectively in the middle-order as Paultons made 204 (Tom Pearce 3-48).
But the total was set to come under close scrutiny as Owain Phillips (35 not out) and Tom Cowley had South Wilts well placed when the weather set in.
Fourteen year old left-arm spinner Bailey Parratt, with a 5-11 return, was on the brink of bowling Fawley to a critical Southern Premier League Division 2 victory at Hartley Wintney when the weather turned sour.
Among Parratt’s victims was HW top scorer Danny Plume (47).
Three of his other victims were cleaned bowled and a fourth trapped leg before wicket.
The North Hampshire sider were in dire straits at 125-9 when heavy rain caused the match to be abandoned six overs before tea.
The washout was a blow to Fawley’s survival plans – the ‘no result’ leaving them second from bottom in the table with two games left.
A crushing nine-wicket defeat at Loperwood Park has dropped the faltering Stoneham club out of the promotion positions for the first time this season and handed Calmore Sports pole position with two games to play.
A 42-run win at Hambledon has enabled Tichborne Park to leapfrog Trojans, who are now eight points adrift of the promotion places.
Trojans, who face a demanding finish to the season against Hambledon and then Tichborne Park, were reduced to 56-5 by Calmore, whose bowlers took full advantage of the favourable conditions.
Trojans fielded arguably their strongest batting line-up, but needed Adbul Manjra (30) and Mario Mohammed (20 not out) to provide a mid-innings rescue act at Loperwood Park.
They improved Trojans’ cause but, after a telling 3-26 spell by James Rose, it needed last-man Jordan Wright (27) to lift the final score to 144.
The Trojans spirits lifted when Jamie Donaldson bowled Calmore skipper Mark Lavelle immediately after the restart.
But that was Trojans’ solitary moment of joy as Matt Hardy and teenager Ben Johns took command and guided Calmore to a nine-wicket win.
Hardy was in awesome form, cracking 12 fours in his unbeaten 76, while Johns continued his good run of form, hitting 49 not out.
Heavy rain that caused the abandonment of their visit to South Wilts in the ninth over after tea may have been a blessing in disguise for relegation threatened Paultons’.
South Wilts were rattling along at seven runs an over and were going well at 55-1 in pursuit of Paultons’ 204 when the rains came.
The ‘no result’ leaves Paultons third from bottom, effectively seven points above Fawley – but with table toppers Calmore Sports next up at Whitemoor Lane on Saturday, 12.30.
Nathan Feltham blazed a quick-fire 46 (four sixes and five fours) at the top of the innings for Paultons, while Robbie Pike (49) and Josh Metcalfe (27) batted effectively in the middle-order as Paultons made 204 (Tom Pearce 3-48).
But the total was set to come under close scrutiny as Owain Phillips (35 not out) and Tom Cowley had South Wilts well placed when the weather set in.
Fourteen year old left-arm spinner Bailey Parratt, with a 5-11 return, was on the brink of bowling Fawley to a critical Southern Premier League Division 2 victory at Hartley Wintney when the weather turned sour.
Among Parratt’s victims was HW top scorer Danny Plume (47).
Three of his other victims were cleaned bowled and a fourth trapped leg before wicket.
The North Hampshire sider were in dire straits at 125-9 when heavy rain caused the match to be abandoned six overs before tea.
The washout was a blow to Fawley’s survival plans – the ‘no result’ leaving them second from bottom in the table with two games left.