Sparsholt lost all ten wickets for 31 runs before crashing to a nine-wicket defeat by Southern Electric Premier Division 2 promotion challengers Paultons at Locks Lane.
They progressed to 28-0 through New Zealander Kyle Ruffell (20) and Ed Jenner (16) – but then collapsed in quite sensational manner.
Tony Richman (4-16) and Eric Linge (2-31) did the initial damage, reducing Sparsholt to 49-6 before changing personnel.
Teenager Robert Pike (2-10) and left-arm spinner Andrew Denny (2-2) mopped up the tail as Sparsholt caved in after 22.5 overs.
Paultons knocked off the runs before Sparsholt’s tea ladies even had time to bake the cakes, Nathan Feltham being the only batsman to be dismissed, stumped by Dave Gough off Mike Doubell.
Lee Wateridge hit 27 not out as Paultons strolled home.
Portsmouth remain 12 points ahead at the top after inflicting a 79-run defeat on Hursley Park, who have been cast adrift at the bottom after suffering a fifth successive loss.
To compound their misery, Hursley Park have been docked five points for fielding an unregistered player in a recent SPL2 game.
Ryde teenager Harry Collier (60) was the lynchpin of Portsmouth’s 209, lifting the Southsea hosts from 88-4 (Will Smitherman 30) and sharing a key stand with skipper Dave Henderson (41).
Martyn Ford (3-35), Nick Wheeler (3-37) and Sam Gee (3-25) shared nine of the Portsmouth wickets.
Playing against his former Hursley team-mates Vickram Dawson (3-30) took the first two Park wickets before Neil Sutherland (29) and Matt Branford (23) raised the visitors’ reply to 82-2.
But the last eight wickets fell for 48 runs – left-arm spinner Andy Marston taking 3-21 – as Hursley slipped to 130 all out.
Hampshire’s Chris Wood hit a half-century and took four wickets as Old Tauntonians & Romsey climbed into third place with a tight 19-run win over Tichborne Park.
His 59 was comfortably top score in OTs’ 159 (Will Allum 4-37), while his 4-26 return ensured visiting Tichborne fell short.
Steve Smith’s impressive 2-18 return unsettled Tichborne’s top order, but Queenslander Justin Reid (36) kept the visitors in it until the innings subsided from 52-2 to 60-5, Wood taking two of the wickets.
Tom Allam (47) reignited the cause, but Wood returned to end the fightback – Tichborne’s threat at 136-8 when the all-rounder was stumped.
Langley Manor went down by 88 to Hambledon, who are unbeaten in the three games under the watch of new skipper Rob Atkins.
Will Bond (50) and Mark Lavous (25) got runs at the top of the order for Hambledon, but it was the unbeaten 36 by one-time Hampshire spinner Ian Turner that took the game away from the Manor, who were dismissed for 85.
Newly promoted Bashley (Rydal) II broke a sequence of five successive defeats with a six-wicket win at Fawley, who were 81-9 until Australian Paul Kruger (34) applied the long handle.
Andy Neal (3-13) and novice seamer Sean Read (3-20) did the damage for Bashley, who lost three quick wickets in the 40s before Simon Ridley’s 45 not out go them home.
They progressed to 28-0 through New Zealander Kyle Ruffell (20) and Ed Jenner (16) – but then collapsed in quite sensational manner.
Tony Richman (4-16) and Eric Linge (2-31) did the initial damage, reducing Sparsholt to 49-6 before changing personnel.
Teenager Robert Pike (2-10) and left-arm spinner Andrew Denny (2-2) mopped up the tail as Sparsholt caved in after 22.5 overs.
Paultons knocked off the runs before Sparsholt’s tea ladies even had time to bake the cakes, Nathan Feltham being the only batsman to be dismissed, stumped by Dave Gough off Mike Doubell.
Lee Wateridge hit 27 not out as Paultons strolled home.
Portsmouth remain 12 points ahead at the top after inflicting a 79-run defeat on Hursley Park, who have been cast adrift at the bottom after suffering a fifth successive loss.
To compound their misery, Hursley Park have been docked five points for fielding an unregistered player in a recent SPL2 game.
Ryde teenager Harry Collier (60) was the lynchpin of Portsmouth’s 209, lifting the Southsea hosts from 88-4 (Will Smitherman 30) and sharing a key stand with skipper Dave Henderson (41).
Martyn Ford (3-35), Nick Wheeler (3-37) and Sam Gee (3-25) shared nine of the Portsmouth wickets.
Playing against his former Hursley team-mates Vickram Dawson (3-30) took the first two Park wickets before Neil Sutherland (29) and Matt Branford (23) raised the visitors’ reply to 82-2.
But the last eight wickets fell for 48 runs – left-arm spinner Andy Marston taking 3-21 – as Hursley slipped to 130 all out.
Hampshire’s Chris Wood hit a half-century and took four wickets as Old Tauntonians & Romsey climbed into third place with a tight 19-run win over Tichborne Park.
His 59 was comfortably top score in OTs’ 159 (Will Allum 4-37), while his 4-26 return ensured visiting Tichborne fell short.
Steve Smith’s impressive 2-18 return unsettled Tichborne’s top order, but Queenslander Justin Reid (36) kept the visitors in it until the innings subsided from 52-2 to 60-5, Wood taking two of the wickets.
Tom Allam (47) reignited the cause, but Wood returned to end the fightback – Tichborne’s threat at 136-8 when the all-rounder was stumped.
Langley Manor went down by 88 to Hambledon, who are unbeaten in the three games under the watch of new skipper Rob Atkins.
Will Bond (50) and Mark Lavous (25) got runs at the top of the order for Hambledon, but it was the unbeaten 36 by one-time Hampshire spinner Ian Turner that took the game away from the Manor, who were dismissed for 85.
Newly promoted Bashley (Rydal) II broke a sequence of five successive defeats with a six-wicket win at Fawley, who were 81-9 until Australian Paul Kruger (34) applied the long handle.
Andy Neal (3-13) and novice seamer Sean Read (3-20) did the damage for Bashley, who lost three quick wickets in the 40s before Simon Ridley’s 45 not out go them home.