Skipper Rob Pittman, pictured by Jon Williams, hit a blistering 124 as South Wilts’ newly promoted second team went on a 393-run frenzy against relegated Hartley Wintney in their Southern Premier League, Division 2 debut at Bemerton.
Pittman cracked four sixes and 14 fours in his century as Hartley Wintney wilted in the Wilton Road sun.
They were under the cosh long before Pittman’s blitz began – Owain Phillips (71) and Tom Cowley (23) having 90 runs on the board after only ten overs.
Sixty of Phillips’s 71 runs came in boundaries – two sixes and 12 fours – but the real mayhem began when Pittman was joined by teenager Sam Arnold in a right/left hand combination – the pair peppering the Bemerton boundary, Arnold scoring 85 off 60 balls, including a six and ten fours.
South Wilts’ shut up shop at 393-4 and then bowled HW out for 132 (Christian Pain 4-30).
Pittman cracked four sixes and 14 fours in his century as Hartley Wintney wilted in the Wilton Road sun.
They were under the cosh long before Pittman’s blitz began – Owain Phillips (71) and Tom Cowley (23) having 90 runs on the board after only ten overs.
Sixty of Phillips’s 71 runs came in boundaries – two sixes and 12 fours – but the real mayhem began when Pittman was joined by teenager Sam Arnold in a right/left hand combination – the pair peppering the Bemerton boundary, Arnold scoring 85 off 60 balls, including a six and ten fours.
South Wilts’ shut up shop at 393-4 and then bowled HW out for 132 (Christian Pain 4-30).
