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VENTNOR RECORD VITAL WIN ... BURRIDGE CRASH TO HAVANT

15/7/2015

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Match winner Neil Westhorpe hit an unbeaten 64 and skipper Mark Holmes took 5-50 as Ventnor tightened the screw at the ECB Southern Electric Premier Division basement with a nervy four-wicket win over St Cross Symondians at Newclose.
It was Ventnor’s second win in three matches and boots their prospects of avoiding the drop.
But when Ventnor slumped to 63-5 in response to the mainlanders’ modest 175, an island win appeared unlikely – until left-hander Westhorpe stepped up to save the day.
Ventnor certainly enjoyed the upper hand during the morning session, with Holmes’s five-wicket haul reducing St Cross to 139-7 off 30 overs.
They lost both openers without a run on the board before Charlie Ayres (21) and New Zealander Michael Pollard partially repaired the damage.
Pollard (70), aided by Brad Aldridge (31) and Richard Taylor (3-25), ushered the Winchester visitors to 175 all out.
Ventnor’s run chase was from straight forward and when Tasmanian Sean Willis (29) fell at 62-4, all appeared lost.
But the bespectacled Westhorpe got his head down and with Hugh Calloway (29)
doubled the total to 137-6.
There was still work to be done when James Cheek arrived at the crease, but with Westhorpe breaching the boundary rope nine times and the Ventnor wicketkeeper a reliable partner, the islanders’ got home by four wickets, with Westhorpe unbeaten on 64.
Post-lunch half-centuries by Joe Collings-Wells and Geoff Dods were to no avail as Burridge slumped to a six-wicket defeat by Havant and back into relegation trouble.
On the flip side, the win – which coincided with South Wilts’ first loss - put Havant right back into title contention.
Burridge effectively lost the game in the morning session, limping in to lunch at 101-5 (Will Steward 33) and losing a sixth wicket immediately after the break.
Left-arm spinner Chris Morgan (4-61) and Andy Gorvin (2-24) did the damage before Dods (54 not out) and Collings-Wells, with a sensibly complied 56, added 85 for the seventh wicket to give Burridge a fighting chance.
But once Ben Walker (28) and Pete Hopson (44) put on 55, it was just a matter of how quickly Havant got the runs.  It took them until the 50th over, but Richard Hindley (57) and Gorvin (25) were in no hurry.








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