Time is running out for Totton & Eling to save their Southern Premier League, Division 1 status.
They must win at least two of their remaining five games if they are to climb above fellow strugglers Liphook & Ripsley - who are effectively 28 points ahead of them – into a third-from-bottom safety spot.
Totton fell apart against Basingstoke’s new-ball pair Martyn James (3-19) and Mitch Stokes (2-18) at Southern Gardens.
Ollie Perrin (27) tried to glue things together and it needed a plucky seventh-wicket partnership between Kumodak Sharma (22) and Ethan Taylor (20) to lift Totton from 64-6 before Matthew Thankachan (2-24) and Ryan Connor (2-8) ended the innings at 125 all out.
Zimbabwean Mark Mbofana dismissed Dan Belcher, but a Basingstoke win was always inevitable, with Richard Vinn (37 not out) and Stokes (27) adding 43 before Will Phillips [pictured above by the Basingstoke Gazette] hit a six and six boundaries in an unbeaten 46 to finish things.
Old Tauntonians & Romsey plunged from 49-1 to 110 against rampant Hook & Newnham Basics at the KGV.
They made a sound enough start, but were unsettled by the twin spin of Aniket Divecha (3-31) and left-armer Kevin Poulter, who took 2-0 off his seven overs.
Iain Woodhall (40) battled on, but Kieran Thomson (3-10) cut through the lower-order to end the visitors’ innings at 110.
Ben Thane went cheaply, but Harry Came (42) and Thomson (32) added 62 for the second wicket to effectively seal Hook’s win.
They must win at least two of their remaining five games if they are to climb above fellow strugglers Liphook & Ripsley - who are effectively 28 points ahead of them – into a third-from-bottom safety spot.
Totton fell apart against Basingstoke’s new-ball pair Martyn James (3-19) and Mitch Stokes (2-18) at Southern Gardens.
Ollie Perrin (27) tried to glue things together and it needed a plucky seventh-wicket partnership between Kumodak Sharma (22) and Ethan Taylor (20) to lift Totton from 64-6 before Matthew Thankachan (2-24) and Ryan Connor (2-8) ended the innings at 125 all out.
Zimbabwean Mark Mbofana dismissed Dan Belcher, but a Basingstoke win was always inevitable, with Richard Vinn (37 not out) and Stokes (27) adding 43 before Will Phillips [pictured above by the Basingstoke Gazette] hit a six and six boundaries in an unbeaten 46 to finish things.
Old Tauntonians & Romsey plunged from 49-1 to 110 against rampant Hook & Newnham Basics at the KGV.
They made a sound enough start, but were unsettled by the twin spin of Aniket Divecha (3-31) and left-armer Kevin Poulter, who took 2-0 off his seven overs.
Iain Woodhall (40) battled on, but Kieran Thomson (3-10) cut through the lower-order to end the visitors’ innings at 110.
Ben Thane went cheaply, but Harry Came (42) and Thomson (32) added 62 for the second wicket to effectively seal Hook’s win.
