Hursley Park are into Last Chance Saloon territory in Premier Division 2.
If they lose their relegation battle at Sparsholt on Saturday, they will almost certainly be consigned to playing in the bottom tier of the Southern Electric Premier League in 2016.
They were well and truly clobbered by promotion chasing Portsmouth at The Quarters – the Southsea visitors piling up 322-5 before running away with a 115-run victory.
Island-based Harry Collier was Portsmouth’s man-of-the-match, smashing a pre-tea 84 before taking 5-46.
Opener Jack Marston enhanced his prospects of landing the SPL2 individual batting award with 70 and shared a 96-run stand with Will Smitherman (50) to kick-start the Portsmouth innings.
Vickram Dawson (3-47) returned to his old Hursley Park haunts to help dismiss his former team-mates for 207 (Matt Branford 43).
Sparsholt warmed up for Saturday’s Lock’s Lane basement battle with a 100-run win over Paultons, who suffered an eighth successive defeat.
New Zealander Kyle Ruffell (71) and Stu Tognarelli (56) underpinned Sparsholt’s 243-8.
Paultons last win came against Sparsholt – back on June 6 – but three-wicket each by Tommy Viljeon and Jon Vokes saw them bowled out for 143.
Langley Manor are all but mathematically down after Hambledon beat them by seven wickets at Ridge Meadow. Jack Budd (84) kept the Manor alive, but Hambledon galloped past a modest 177 with George Marshall (67) and Will Bond (43) at the helm.
If they lose their relegation battle at Sparsholt on Saturday, they will almost certainly be consigned to playing in the bottom tier of the Southern Electric Premier League in 2016.
They were well and truly clobbered by promotion chasing Portsmouth at The Quarters – the Southsea visitors piling up 322-5 before running away with a 115-run victory.
Island-based Harry Collier was Portsmouth’s man-of-the-match, smashing a pre-tea 84 before taking 5-46.
Opener Jack Marston enhanced his prospects of landing the SPL2 individual batting award with 70 and shared a 96-run stand with Will Smitherman (50) to kick-start the Portsmouth innings.
Vickram Dawson (3-47) returned to his old Hursley Park haunts to help dismiss his former team-mates for 207 (Matt Branford 43).
Sparsholt warmed up for Saturday’s Lock’s Lane basement battle with a 100-run win over Paultons, who suffered an eighth successive defeat.
New Zealander Kyle Ruffell (71) and Stu Tognarelli (56) underpinned Sparsholt’s 243-8.
Paultons last win came against Sparsholt – back on June 6 – but three-wicket each by Tommy Viljeon and Jon Vokes saw them bowled out for 143.
Langley Manor are all but mathematically down after Hambledon beat them by seven wickets at Ridge Meadow. Jack Budd (84) kept the Manor alive, but Hambledon galloped past a modest 177 with George Marshall (67) and Will Bond (43) at the helm.
