Matt Journeaux and Mitchell Stokes, his opposite number, are calling out for improved overall batting performances from both Sarisbury Athletic and Basingstoke & North Hants at Allotment Road tomorrow (1pm).
Sarisbury Athletic will remain top of Southern Premier League Division 1 if they avenge a day 1 defeat at May’s Bounty, when Stokes himself struck an audacious century.
Last week, Sarisbury were reeling at 100-7 when last week’s match with Bournemouth was rained off, while another undistinguished batting performance saw Basingstoke toppled by arch neighbours Hook & Newnham Basics.
Ricky Rawlins is missing for Sarisbury, while Basingstoke are without teenager Max Harsham, who top scored in the Hook debacle. All-rounder Graham Porter stands down to give teenager Joe Oates a chance.
Sarisbury Athletic: Journeaux, Akram, Covey, Hovey, Lovett, Floyd, Clouting, Freemantle, Sanders, Allmark, Jewell. Basingstoke: Stokes, Vinn, Belcher, Julin, Bucksey, Benge, B Neal, Oates, James, Connor, A Neal.
Totton & Eling are without influential teenager Ollie Perrin against second placed Portsmouth at Southern Gardens. Perrin, who has produced two individual match winning performances this season, the latest at Rowledge last week, is in Sri Lanka with Clayesmore School.
Portsmouth have been bowled off the top after successive defeats by Sarisbury Athletic and Andover. They give an SPL debut to Hampshire Under-15 seamer Joe Kooner-Evans.
Portsmouth: Locke, Hay, Smitherman, J Marston, Christian, Collier, Kooner-Evans, Ahmad, Verma, McArdle.
Andover, who have climbed to third place after three straight wins, host out-of-sorts Liphook & Ripsley, whose season has gone in the opposite direction.
They won their opening three matches, but have lost their last four, a barren sequence which has coincided with all-rounder Harry Munt stepping down as captain.
Andover: M Hooper, Treagus, Ballantyne-Dykes, O'Gorman, Souter, Roberts, Knight, A Hooper, Adams, Foy, Veettil.
Hook & Newnham Basics experienced a lean start but last weekend’s 91-run beating of Basingstoke & North Hants underlined their ‘nuisance potential’ to the top teams. They have yet to win on home KGV soil this season, but Ben Thane’s return should boost their prospects of ending the hoodoo against enigmatic Rowledge.
Hook: Love, Thomson, Thane, Hobday, N Willcock, Brewer, R Willcock, Buckingham, Poulter, Divecha.
Rowledge: B Wish, T Gleave, S Balajee, J Randall, D Lloyd, C Board, I Metcalfe, J Teale, S Moseley, R Forbes, J Wish.
Sarisbury Athletic will remain top of Southern Premier League Division 1 if they avenge a day 1 defeat at May’s Bounty, when Stokes himself struck an audacious century.
Last week, Sarisbury were reeling at 100-7 when last week’s match with Bournemouth was rained off, while another undistinguished batting performance saw Basingstoke toppled by arch neighbours Hook & Newnham Basics.
Ricky Rawlins is missing for Sarisbury, while Basingstoke are without teenager Max Harsham, who top scored in the Hook debacle. All-rounder Graham Porter stands down to give teenager Joe Oates a chance.
Sarisbury Athletic: Journeaux, Akram, Covey, Hovey, Lovett, Floyd, Clouting, Freemantle, Sanders, Allmark, Jewell. Basingstoke: Stokes, Vinn, Belcher, Julin, Bucksey, Benge, B Neal, Oates, James, Connor, A Neal.
Totton & Eling are without influential teenager Ollie Perrin against second placed Portsmouth at Southern Gardens. Perrin, who has produced two individual match winning performances this season, the latest at Rowledge last week, is in Sri Lanka with Clayesmore School.
Portsmouth have been bowled off the top after successive defeats by Sarisbury Athletic and Andover. They give an SPL debut to Hampshire Under-15 seamer Joe Kooner-Evans.
Portsmouth: Locke, Hay, Smitherman, J Marston, Christian, Collier, Kooner-Evans, Ahmad, Verma, McArdle.
Andover, who have climbed to third place after three straight wins, host out-of-sorts Liphook & Ripsley, whose season has gone in the opposite direction.
They won their opening three matches, but have lost their last four, a barren sequence which has coincided with all-rounder Harry Munt stepping down as captain.
Andover: M Hooper, Treagus, Ballantyne-Dykes, O'Gorman, Souter, Roberts, Knight, A Hooper, Adams, Foy, Veettil.
Hook & Newnham Basics experienced a lean start but last weekend’s 91-run beating of Basingstoke & North Hants underlined their ‘nuisance potential’ to the top teams. They have yet to win on home KGV soil this season, but Ben Thane’s return should boost their prospects of ending the hoodoo against enigmatic Rowledge.
Hook: Love, Thomson, Thane, Hobday, N Willcock, Brewer, R Willcock, Buckingham, Poulter, Divecha.
Rowledge: B Wish, T Gleave, S Balajee, J Randall, D Lloyd, C Board, I Metcalfe, J Teale, S Moseley, R Forbes, J Wish.