Other fallers were Bashley (Rydal) v South Wilts, Bournemouth v Basingstoke & North Hants, Ventnor v Waterlooville (SPL1), Langley Manor v Fair Oak (SPL2) and the scheduled Division 3 match between Parley and Sparsholt.
Hartley Wintney's Division 2 match against St Cross Symondians II was among six opening day round 1 Southern Premier League matches t be cancelled.
Other fallers were Bashley (Rydal) v South Wilts, Bournemouth v Basingstoke & North Hants, Ventnor v Waterlooville (SPL1), Langley Manor v Fair Oak (SPL2) and the scheduled Division 3 match between Parley and Sparsholt.
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ECB SOUTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE
RESULTS - ROUND 1 - 4 MAY 2024 ECB PREMIER DIVISION Lymington 186 (M Abbas 71, Rogers 34, K Dhaiwal 29, Basey 4-15, Chandhoke 3-28) Hampshire Academy 187-7 (Gordon 57, Ashman 41, Eckland 35, Golding 32). Hampshire Academy won by three wickets. Havant 132-8 (Feeney 32*, Hopson 24, Stancliffe 3-28, Ullah 2-11, Southon 2-16) Burridge 85 (Collings-Wells 21, Stone 3-7, Morgsn 3-15, Clayton 2-9). Havant won by 47 runs. St Cross Symondians 216 (Bransgrove 47, La Fontaine Jackson 42, South 6-22) Alton 75 (Rolfs 21, Haworth 8-21). St Cross Symondians won by 141 runs. Cancelled: Bashley (Rydal) v South Wilts, Bournemouth v Basingstoke & North Hants. DIVISION 1 Andover 177 (Garood 48, Lightfoot 3-21 ) Totton & Eling 181-8 (Baker 72, Mugochi 32, Bracey 23*, Nyumbu 3-24). Totton & Eling won by two wickets. Hook & Newnham Basics 274-9 (Lockwood 73, M Buckingham 53, Warner 45, J Buckingham 41, Butcher 3-34) Calmore Sports 169 (Johns 48, Jewer 31, Taylor 28, Divecha 4-45). Hook & Newnham Basics won by 105 runs. Portsmouth 215-9 (Joy 67, Ashraful 64, Wood 3-29) Old Tauntonians & Romsey 157 (Tulk 83, Vaughan 25, Warner 6-29). Portsmouth won by 58 runs. Sarisbury Athletic 257-5 (Morton 109, Feltham 54, Robson 38 Cookson 34) Rowledge 198 (Baker 37, J Wish 26, Martin 25, Le Roux 25, Littlewood 21, Franklin 3-31, Cookson 3-39) Sarisbury Athletic won by 59 runs. Cancelled: Ventnor v Waterlooville DIVISION 2 Gosport Borough 138 (O Creal 28, Larner 28, Regan 25, Bartlett 4-18) New Milton 139-8 (Shrubsole 39, Davids 20, Richards 5-15). New Milton won by two wickets. Liphook & Ripsley 133 (Munt 28, Waller 3-22) Sway 136-9 (Noble 26, Neave 3-28, Harvey 3-32). Sway won by two wickets. Portsmouth & Southsea 151-9 (Mansford 68, Kanavan 30, Behrens 6-22) Hambledon 152-5 (Pratt 35, Sharma 35, Behrens 21). Hambledon won by five wickets. Cancelled: Hartley Wintney v St Cross Symondians II, Langley Manor v Fair Oak. DIVISION 3 Hook & Newnham Basics II 196 (Webster 68, Dyer 40, Kent 3-12) Fareham & Crofton 88 (Frost 27, Bland 3-19). Hook & Newnham Basics II won by 108 runs. Havant II 61 (Perkins 25, Munir 4-14, Davies 4-23) Fawley 63-2 (Edwards 24, Khurana 24*). Fawley won by eight wickets. Paultons 78 (Holden 4-22, Green 3-9) Hursley Park 40 (W Flynn 18, L Longland 6-6, inc hat-trick). Paultons won by 38 runs. Trojans 95 (Mahmood 26, Freeman 4-25) South Wilts II 96-7 (Pearce 3-17, Mahmood 3-17). South Wilts II won by three wickets. Cancelled: Parley v Sparsholt. Teenage all-rounder Josh Williams, who has played for Sparsholt and Andover in the past two seasons, debuts for Sarisbury Athletic against Southern Premier Division 1 rivals Rowledge at Allotment Road, 12.30.
He lines up alongside left-arm spin all-rounder Kaiden Cookson, from the powerful WACA Premier club Fremantle, who will probably open the batting with Tom Morton. Rob Franklin skippers Sarisbury, while award winning gloveman Ben Wish leads a youthful Rowledge for the ninth successive season Sarisbury Athletic: Franklin, Morton, Robson, Feltham, Grierson, Williams, Pascoe, Clark, Holzman, S Hill, Cookson. Rowledge: Ben Wish, David Lloyd, Max Martin, Ollie Baker, Olly Ryman, Will Ryman, Ryan Littlewood, Justin Felsch, Zac Le Roux, Jonty Sebborn, Jake Wish. Portsmouth, who are expected to challenge Sarisbury Athletic in he honours race, entertain OTs & Romsey at St Helen's, which also hosts an ECB KO tie against Middleton on Sunday. Portsmouth: Duggan, Joy, Ashraful, Gadd, Wimble, Christian, Daini, Kooner-Evans, Warner, Lewis, Rao. OTs & Romsey: King, Noble, Wood, Tulk, Newman, Vaughan, Ponting, Peruzi, George, Bampton, Bethel. Player/coach Usman Ijaz, recruited from Sonning, makes his Hook & Newnham Basics bow against Calmore Sport, who include Australian Chris Diston from Casey South Melbourne. Hook & Newnham Basics: Warner, Lockwood, Ijaz, M Buckingham, Armstrong, J Buckingham, Neville, James, Murrell, Watts, Divecha. Calmore Sports: Johns, Diston, Lavelle, B.Perry, T. Perry, Butcher, Metcalfe, Carty, Jewer, Taylor, Bailey. Andover host Totton & Eling, while Ventnor v Waterlooville has been called off due to a waterlogged surface. South African seamer Bash Walters has returned for a fourth season running for Alton and will spearhead their attack against 2022 ECB Southern Premier League champions St Cross Symondians at Wincheser's Green Jackets ground, 12.30. The 37-year old has spent a successful winter with Northern Cape, helping the Kimberley-based outfit reach the CSA T20 B final and later beat Free State by four wickets in the Division 2 4-day final, in which Walters took eight wickets and hit a priceless 77. The Brewers five a debut to Aarav Rajnikanth, who has joined from Sutton, and Aussie Ben Rolfs, who stayed over to enjoy an English winter. St Cross thrashed Corsham by nine wickets in the ECB KO last weekend and will host either Burbage Easton Royal or Bashley (Rydal) in the next round. Alton: Harris, Rajnikanth, Myers, Ruffell, Rolfs, South, Heffernan, Walters, Sumner, Varney, Gadsby. Matt Goles has returned from Cape Town having played a significant role in Burridge's Premier League and T20 Cup double winning performance last summer.
He clocked up over 1,000 runs in league and cup as Burridge snatched a dramatic title win on the final day of the season and later went on to beat Alton in the T20 final. Burridge begin their title defence against a much changed Havant, who are led by opener Pete Hopson. Havant: Hopson, Ransley, Hindley, Morgan, Stone, Jones, Feeney, Barnard, Clayton, F Gadd, Tubman. Burridge: Jack Paskins, Mathew Goles, Joe Collings-Wells, Shu Chowdhury, James Hughes, Francis Moore, Inayat Ullah, Dan Stancliffe, Oli Southon, Ed Molloy, Sully White. Lymington name a full strength side to play the Hampshire Academy on the Nursery Ground. Lymington: B Rogers, M Abbas, R Scott, K Dhariwal, J Dhariwal, G Berg, J Royan, Hemmings, Layman, Thompson, A Abbas. The matches between Bashley (Rydal) and South Wilts, and Bournemouth v Basingstoke & North Hants have been cancelled due to waterlogged pitches. This is the scene after the thunderstorms of Wednesday evening flooded the Bashley (Rydal) ground and led to the cancellation of the club's scheduled ECB Southern Premier Division round one match against South Wilts. "It's soul destroying for our groundstaff, who have worked really hard to get the ground playable after the wettest winter in living memory and all to no avail," said Bashley chairman John Neal, who revealed that the club had lost £7,000 in income from last season's numerous cancelations. Also cancelled is Bournemouth's match against promoted Basingstoke & North Hants, while Ventnor's Steephill bowl is still full of water, saving Waterlooville an expensive day out. Langley Manor have been unable to do any work at Knellers Lane such is the stare of the ground. They were due to host Fair Oak. Parley's SPL3 match against Sparsholt is also off. Promoted Old Tauntonians & Romsey open their Southern Premier League Division 1 challenge against strongly fancied Portsmoth on Southsea seafront on Saturday (1230), buoyed by an encouraging debut performance in the ECB national club championship.
They lost by 11 runs to Lansdown, but running a top flight West of England Premier Division outfit close was a real positive for Rob Newman, who is skippering OTs for the first time this season. OTs made 201-9 after Lansdown posted 212-3 off 40 overs. Lansdown is the Bath club where Sir Vivian Richards played before joining Somerset. OTs lost Charlie King early, but Tom Cowley (44), Hampshire's Chris Wood (20) and Harry Tulk (27) pushed the score along, as did Joe Vaughan (24) while wickets fell. At 162-8, OTs appeared out of it but lewis Allen crashed four big on-side sixes and a boundary to lift the final score to 201-9. Clink this link to watch highlights of Sarisbury Athletic's (rain abandoned) match against Parley at Allotment Road: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6Xsbh18r4M&t=7s
Hambledon were the solitary local club to progress in the National Village Cup with a six-wicket win at Sparsholt - all the other scheduled first round ties being called off due to heavy overnight rain. They will all be replayed this Sunday (May 5) with venues, Hursley Park v Odiham & Greywell apart - being reversed. Sparsholt's volunteer ground force worked wonders to get the Norman Edwards ground playable, but after losing the toss the Winchester village club found themselves in the mire. Continually hit by personnel loses - batsman/keeper Will Berrill has left to join Andover - it was always going to be a struggle. James Restell (4-14) and Chris Pratt (2-19) exploited the damp conditions to have Sparsholt reeling at 29-6. Young gloveman Josh Stanbrook-Tompkins (28), aided by Will Robbins and Joel Eastwood, did at least make Hambledon work harder for the remaining spoils and lifted Sparsholt to 103 all out. Hambledon promptly lost Pratt and Henry Glanfield, both trapped leg before by Tom Ley (3-30) for second ball ducks. Ley's day job is working alongside Glanfield, so he enjoyed his success. George Marshall [40] is always difficult to dislodge and his 40, alongside an unbeaten 34 by Charlie Boyd, eased Hambledon home with time to spare. Sunday's rescheduled ties: Overton v Paultons, Tichborne Park v Hook & Newnham Basics, Sway v Cadnam Emsworth v Liphook & Ripsley, Sarisbury Athletic v Easton & Martyr Worthy v Sarisbury Athletic, Calmore Sports v South Winchester, Hursley Park v Odiham & Greywell, Shrewton v v Compton Down.
Trojans cricket legend Jamie Donaldson has called time on a career spanning four decades, well over 350 matches with a staggering haul of 500 or more wickets, bowled at a hugely impressive economy rate.
At a towering 6'8" and arguably the tallest cricketer to have played locally, Donaldson joined Trojans when he was in his teens at King Edward VI School in Southampton. Now in his fifties and a key member of Hampshire's 50-plus county side, Donaldson has decided to hang up his boots, confessing "my body has told me to stop." "Jamie's been an absolute legend at Trojans. His commitment to the cause has been staggering," said Trojans chairman Nigel le Bas. "He drives up from his home near New Milton to play regularly and in his early days he was regularly commuting down from London to open the bowling. Indeed, once he played on his weekend break between a two-week work trip to New York !" A long time team-mate from behind the stumps at Stoneham Lane, wicketkeeper Le Bas believes that, like a good wine, Donaldson's bowling has matured with age "He's an away swing bowler who used to have some genuine pace and obvious bounce from his 6ft 8 frame, but he recently became unerringly accurate with the ability to swing and seam the ball," he explained. The respect Donaldson is shown by opposition batsmen was never more apparent than in the final match of the reason when Trojans played Fareham & Crofton in a critical 'winner take all' Southern Premier League match at Bath Lane. Fareham chased down a modest Trojans total of 178 to guarantee their own survival, but first they had to contain Donaldson, who sent down ten immaculate overs, conceding only 16 runs. It was his 2,932nd and final over in Southern League cricket, delivered over a period of 350 or more matches - the fourth highest appearance tally in Trojans long history. His 455 wicket haul is the sixth highest in the Southern Premier League and contains 11 five-fers. Donaldson's economy rate stands at an impressive 3.18. "I recall one of those nap hand hauls - a spell of five wickets for four runs off 12 overs against a talented Portsmouth side," Le Bas remembered. "Jamie was quite handy with the bat too, scoring over 4,000 runs - including one remarkable 157 not out at South Wilts in 2004. We were 42-5 when he came in and ended up with 306 ! Teenager Wilf La Fontaine Jackson just can't stop scoring runs, whether its for Winchester College in his final sixth form year or now St Cross Symondians.
He and Henry Nicholls both scored over 1,000 runs for Winchester last summer and, following a successful gap year winter in Australia where he tasted the demands of Sydney first grade cricket, La Fontaine Jackson has hit the ground running. His tour of duty with the Hampshire Academy done and dusted, Wilf will be available for St Cross Symondians all summer long. That could be bad news for Southern Premier League bowlers. He opened his St Cross season with an unbeaten 104 in the rain abandoned warm-up against Hook & Newnham Basics before leading a successful run chase in the Winchester club's nine-wicket win over Corsham in the ECB national club championship. He struck an unbeaten 70, sharing hefty stands with Jack Bransgrove (25) and Felix Organ as St Cross cruised past Corsham's 167 with ten overs to spare. Organ, who made a Hampshire 2nd XI century last week, cracked three sixes in his 58 not out. Corsham earlier collapsed from 130-3, the last seven wickets falling for 37 runs, Charlie Gwynn taking 3-22. St Cross will host the winners of the rain-delayed tie between Burbage & Easton Royal and Bashley (Rydal) in the next round on May 12. They open their Southern Premier League challenge against Alton at the Green Jackets Ground on Saturday, 12.30. Key South Wilts all-rounder Harry Broderick is optimistic he'll be fit for the start of the ECB Southern Premier League season on Saturday despite fracturing a finger on his left-hand in the pre-season defeat by the Hampshire Academy.
The injury prone Broderick, who suffered on-going back issues last summer, went to hospital immediately after dislocating his left little finger, which was put back into shape by Hampshire's medical team. "I had the injury x-rayed and there's a definite fracture," he revealed. "But I'm pretty positive I'll be at Bashley (Rydal) on Saturday." Losing one of his most influential players before the season has barely begun would be another ill-timed blow for skipper Ben Draper, who has been busy rebuilding his side after half of last season's Bemerton first team left. After influential opening bowler Matt Burton announced he was joining WEPL side Bridgwater, opening batsman Jack Stearman left for Premier Division rivals Bashley (Rydal). How ironic his Bashley debut could be against South Wilts - that's if the overworked BCG volunteer ground force can get the pitch and outfield fit. If that was not enough, big hitting Ben Huntley switched to another WEPL side, Premier Division 2 outfit Corsham and off-spinner Tom Lewis moved to Portsmouth, where he now lives. Australian Peter Rowe is unlikely to play this summer. South Wilts have, however, brought in past Academy all-rounder Tom Cheater to open the batting alongside James Degg and recruited Australian Ryan Freeman from the Sydney Grade club Campbelltown Camden. The Aussie, who took five wickets against Poole Town last weekend, may open the South Wilts attack with teenager Matt Falconer, with 2023 Southern Premier League bowling award winner Tom Grant and Archie Fairfax-Ross the prime spinners. Fairfax-Ross and Millfield big hitter Ben Howgrave-Graham could be two youngsters to watch for South Wilts. The Bournemouth and Poole sporting scene has been saddened by the passing of David (Dave, Robo) Robinson, who played football and cricket for the town, Minor Counties for Dorset and before becoming chairman of Hampshire's Cricket Committee. He was 85. Professionally, he was senior partner with the Prince Croft & Ball (now PKF Francis Clark) accountancy practice. During his career PC&B established itself as the largest local independent practice. A talented sportsman in his youth and educated at Poole Grammar School, David took to accountancy locally in 1956 at the tender age of 18 before being tempted by the bright city lights and leaving for a spell in London in 1962 as a qualified Chartered Accountant. He returned to Bournemouth in 1967 and in 1980 became Senior Partner. Alongside his family, David’s passion was always sport, playing soccer in the winter and immediately switching to cricket when spring arrived. Once a ball boy at a soccer international at Wembley Stadium, David caught Newcastle United's eye when he was 16 years of age but, with his father a bank manager, he moved towards a 'proper job' in accountancy. But he once attended a coaching course alongside Jimmy Greaves at Lilleshall. Locally, he went on to play for Poole Town and Christchurch FC. Even when he was gaining accountancy experience in London, David returned home each weekend to play cricket. His son James recalled: "Dad told me how as a young boy when the family moved from living above the Lower Parkstone branch to manage Barclays bank in Christchurch, Dad rode his push bike to Poole Town football training and to cricket two or three times a week. His commitment continued when he lived in London and he would ride his Vespa scooter back home every weekend - with our Mum as pillion passenger - to play cricket for Poole.” David went on to spend his entire club career spanning 40 odd years at Poole Park as a top order batsman and represented Dorset in the Minor Counties Championship on numerous occasions. He rattled off hundreds galore, the first of which in 1956 coincided with Jim Laker taking 19 Australian wickets at Old Trafford.
James remembered: "We loved going to watch Dad play for Poole and spent many a Saturday playing on the boundary edge hoping he'd play with us when he got out. I'm not sure he appreciated our enthusiasm when he returned to the dressing room. "Away games were just as good and long before the days of satnavs, he used to navigate his way to opposition grounds using pubs as landmarks! Many a Saturday evening was spent outside a pub with a Panda Pop" When he eventually decided to hang up his boots, David devoted his enormous energies into Hampshire cricket Having filled almost every administrative position in the club he became Poole's chair for 12 years, later becoming president, and was a member of Hampshire’s Executive Committee at Northlands Road, taking over as Chairman of Cricket from Jimmy Gray in 1997a position he held until Hampshire became a limited company upon its move to the Rose Bowl at West End. Son James added: "I also remember when he was Chairman of Cricket at Hampshire and being round his house when he took a phone call. He casually said “that was good news, that was Shane Warne and he has agreed to play for Hampshire in the summer”. Incredible "Dad threw himself into watching cricket and his roles at Hampshire. He loved keeping busy, organising players' benefit dinners, including those for Malcolm Marshall, Robin Smith and Cardigan Connor, amongst others. "To me it was all about the incredible friends and relationships he built through sport and how that transitioned into work. I am sure he had sporting rivals, maybe some enemies, but I would like to think that stayed on the pitch and there was always respect and a pint of something after the game. "I loved to hear the stories when he met old friends around the grounds about how they would try to knock his proverbial head off but it was always said with a smile on their face and a handshake. David followed his Grandson, Tom Robinson around the grounds of Dorset playing youth and senior cricket for Poole and Dorset before he moved to play for David’s arch rivals Bournemouth. To this day Tom still gets asked if he is David Robinson’s son and is very proud to say yes. David Robinson was a regular spectator on the boundary edge at Chapel Gate, greeting everyone with a warm smile. He will be greatly missed there this summer. The funeral is at Tappers, Harbour View in Randalls Hill, Lytchett Minster, Dorset, BH16 6AN, on Monday 20 May at 10.30am. Rain forecast during the early hours of Saturday and Sunday morning is threatening to disrupt the weekend's recreational programme. A host of local clubs have yet to take the field this season due to the weather and consequential unfit pitches and outfields. The opening rounds of the ECB national club championship and Village Cup are due to be played on Sunday. Uxbridge have conceded against Havant, as have Amport v Ventnor in the Village Cup. Fixtures - SATURDAY Alton v Banstead, Basingstoke & North Hants v Andover, Bournemouth v Hampshire Academy, Easton & Martyr Worthy v Calmore Sports, Fareham & Crofton v Hythe & Dibden, Fawley v Sway, Gosport Borough v Purbrook, Portsmouth v Waterlooville, Sarisbury Athletic v Parley, South Wilts v Avebury, St Cross Symondians v Hook & Newnham Basics, Totton & Eling v Lymington, Wimborne v New Milton. SUNDAY ECB National Club Championship Basingstoke & North Hants v Royal Wootton Bassett, Burbidge & Easton Royal v Bashley (Rydal), Lansdown v Old Tauntonians & Romsey, Portsmouth v Middleton, Richmond v Odiham & Greywell. National Counties T20 Cup Dorset v Wiltshire (Wimborne, 10.30) Village Cup Paultons v Overton, Hook & Newnham Basics v Tichborne Park, Cadnam v Sway, Sparsholt v Hambledon, Liphook & Ripsley v Emsworth, Easton & Martyr Worthy v Sarisbury Athletic, South Winchester v Calmore Sports, Hursley Park v Odiham & Greywell, Colehill v Catistock, Shrewton v Compton Down. Southampton Solent University suffered a 53-run defeat by Cambridge University in their BUCS Championship opener at Sarisbury Athletic. The Light Blues posted 180-8 before dismissing Solent for 127, Huzaifa Yousaf making 42.
Solent had Durham on the rack at 65-6 at Totton & Eling on Friday, but Norfolk's Freddie Fairey (97) and Brj Shopuri (54) lifted the total to 248-9 off 40 overs. Solent made 152 in reply. Former Bangladesh captain Mo Ashraful christened his Portsmouth debut with a three wickets and 64 runs against Waterlooville, who won a tight game by four runs at St Helen's.
Ashraful, who is Portsmouth's overseas player this season, took 3-14 and later hit 13 fours as his side, wih 233-5, fell just short of Ville's 237 (Alex Shephard 50). Andrew Galliers and Chris Morgan hit fifties as Havant posted 214-6 in 40 overs to beat Chichester Priory Park by 34 runs at Goodwood. Teenager Harrison Barnard (26) and Australian Louis Clayton (23) chipped in for Havant, while Simon Hasted (58) responded in CPP's 180-7. Alton got in some useful batting practice by scoring 278 against Farnham, where Dan Harris (49), Ben Rolfs (46), Scoitt Myers (36) and Aarav Rajnikanth (36) top scored. Mike O'Mahoney took 6-60 and made 44 of Farnham's 148. Sway, last season's SPL3 winners, pulled off an excellent seven-wicket win at Exmouth, where Tim Noble and Will Millard notvched unbeaten 50s as the New Forest club chased down 224-7. Alex Hall hit 44. Jez Bulled (73) and South African Craig Jeffery 59) helped Fareham & Crofton reach 263-6 against Hampshire League Division 1 newcomers Hayling Island at Bath Lane. Greg Chaplin (68) and Jack Williams (40) top scored in Hayling's 213 all out, leg spinner Jeffery taking 3-25 and Tom Kent dropping a huge hint to selectors with 3-36 in a rare bowl. Australian Joe Merlino cleared the Locks Lane boundary rope six times on his way to an unbeaten 62 which helped Sparsholt beat Devon tourists Plymstock (166) by five wickets. Brad Dawes earlier took 6-13. Eight local sides are set to be involved in ECB National Club Championship action on Sunday (April 28), with Basingstoke & North Hants and St Cross Symondians facing West of England Premier League opposition.
Basingstoke host Royal Wootton Bassett at May's Bounty, while St Cross face Corsham for the second year running, but this time at the Green Jackets Ground, Winchester. Bashley (Rydal), who have yet to play any cricket this season, travel into Wiltshire for a tough looking preliminary round tie at Burbage & Easton Royal, who won WEPL Division 2 in 2023. Southern Premier League champions Burridge and South Wilts both have byes, while Old Tauntonians & Romsey head to Bath for a meet-up with WEPL Premiers Lansdown. Portsmouth may include former Bangladesh captain Mohammad Ashraful against Sussex Leaguers Middleton at St Helen's, Southsea. Havant host Uxbridge with Waterlooville headed to Normandy. Odiham & Greywell's reward for beating Berkhamsted is an away day at Middlesex Premier League club Richmond. All the matches are 40-overs per side and start at 1pm. Admission is free. Key South Wilts all-rounder Harry Broderick is optimistic he'll be fit for the start of the ECB Southern Premier League season despite fracturing a finger on his left-hand in the pre-season defeat by the Hampshire Academy.
Broderick went to hospital immediately after dislocating his left little finger in a freak fielding accident, It was put back into shape by Hampshire's medical team. "I had the injury x-rayed and there's a definite fracture," he revealed. "But I'm pretty postive I'll be at Bashley for the opening match on May 4." South Wilts left-arm spin all-rounder Archie Fairfax-Ross underlined the benefits of six winter months in Australia by scoring his maiden century against the Hampshire Academy on the Utilita Bowl Nursery Ground.
He peppered the boundary rope with eight maximums and six fours, 84 of his best yet 106 crossing the line. But, for all his efforts, South Wilts lost a 50-over warm-up match which produced 539 runs, by four wickets. Fairfax-Ross, who wintered on Queensland's Gold Coast, was joined in the South Wilts 269-run fest by Harry Broderick (47) and Ben Howgrave-Graham, who smacked a quick-fire 45. Andover's Sam Ashman (46) and Dom Kelly (50) responded for the Academy, whose match winner was Finn Gordon, who celebrated his 17th birthday with a blistering 73 not out, which included three sixes and eight fours. With support from Ethan Martin (21 not out), Gordon lifted the Academy from 160-5 to victory. Derrick Waters has left the crease at Sparsholt cricket for the last time – his ‘innings’ at Locks Lane lasting some 70 years and ending with his recent death a month shy of his 96th birthday.
A devoted lifelong supporter of Hampshire cricket, Bath rugby and Saints football, he joined Sparsholt in 1954 while working as a chartered quantity surveyor with the Hampshire County Council at The Castle. He was Sparsholt secretary for many years after having to retire prematurely from cricket due to a back injury sustained early in his career. His sons, all-rounder David and right-armer Steve succeeded him at Sparsholt, with grandson Seren going on to represent Kenya in the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup in India and Sri Lanka. Mr. Waters was fine sportsman in his youth, excelling at cricket, rugby and football for Chichester Grammar School in his teens - but sadly had spinal fusion at a young age which had a significant impact on his involvement in sport. Despite his back injury, Derrick turned out regularly for Sparsholt and played in the Igglesden Trophy winning team in 1964. He was forced to stop playing for Sparsholt far earlier than he would have liked due his back surgery, but spent every weekend from that point watching the cricket while sitting in his car with his wife Jean from underneath the old oak tree at Locks Lane. “He took particular pleasure at watching both myself and brother Stephen playing for Sparsholt and was there when Seren, then 13 years of age, made his debut for the club,” recalled David, who was awarded the MBE in 2009 for services to under privileged children and cricket in Kenya. A very decent all-rounder himself, David is a long-standing member of the Kenya Kongonis cricket club. He was chair for 14 years and club captain for 24. An equally proud moment for Derrick came at Lord’s the following 2010 summer when grandson Seren scored a match winning 111 for Durham against Loughborough in the MCC Universities final. Derrick Waters, David and Seren are pictured in the Long Room at Lord’s after the final. Derrick’s funeral is at the Test Valley Crematorium, near Romsey, on Thursday May 9 (3pm) with a gathering at the Norman Edwards Ground at Sparsholt afterwards. Simon Woodruff's return to Chapel Gate to skipper Bournemouth in the ECB Southern Premier League this coming cricket season has been boosted by the arrival of a talented South African all-rounder.
Aidan Meyer, a 23-year old from the Eastern Province, has joined the Lions having played a lead role in Swaley's Derbyshire League promotion drive last season. A right-hand bat and seam bowler from the Port Elizabeth side Grey's Old Boys , Meyer made over 760 runs, including two late season unbeaten hundreds, to help Swaley finish as Division 1 runners-up. He was equally effective with the ball, taking 39 wickets as Long Eaton-based Swaley gained promotion into the county's ECB Premier League. Rated as a fine prospect by Hampshire's EP-based coach Adi Birrell, Meyer will make his Lions debut in Saturday's pre-season friendly against the Hampshire Academy at Chapel Gate. Woodruff has returned to Bournemouth after spending the 2023 season with St Cross Symondians, where things did not work out as he might have hoped. He will lead a young Lions side in which Meyer will be joined by two other domiciled South Africans, pace bowler Cole Rushworth and teenage batter James van Gool. Bournemouth's opening Premier League match is against promoted Basingstoke & North Hants on May 4. Saturday
Chichester Priory Park v Havant (at Goodwood), Fareham & Crofton v Hayling Island, Farnham v Alton, Ferndown Wayfarers v Poole Town, Hampshire Academy v South Wilts (noon), Shanklin & Godshill v Ventnor (at Arreton), Southampton University II v Trojans, Sparsholt v Plymstock, Totton & Eling v Burridge. Sunday Friendly Exmouth v Sway, Havant v Hampshire Under-16s. MATCHES CANCELLED Bashley (Rydal) v Lymington, Bournemouth v Bridgwater, Ferndown Wayfarers v Poole Town Hook & Newnham Basics v Liphook & Ripsley, Hursley Park v Tichborne Park, Langlebury v Sarisbury Athletic, Normandy v Basingstoke & North Hants, OTs & Romsey v Gosport Borough (ECB KO), Paultons v Calmore Sports, Paultons v Bramshaw (NVC), South Wilts II v Bere Regis, St Cross Symondians v Datchet, Wimborne v Parley, Ben Mayes hit a match winning half-century to guide the Hampshire Academy to a four-wicket over Guernsey - a victory which enabled the county youngsters to win the triangular Cornerstone sponsored Series Trophy. The King Edward VI sporting starlet, who also plays U16 hockey for England, made a patient 50 off 115 balls as the Academy chased down Guernsey's 134 all out to win with ten balls to spare. Mayes, left, hit a six and four boundaries but showed considerable patience guiding his side home after a mini-collapse. Mayes (50) and Sam Ashman (34) had taken them to 106-2. Ethan Martin completed the run chase. Earlier Sam Davis (3-17) and Martin (3-25) shared six Guernsey wickets with Freddie Gillett taking 2-12. Ben Mayes brings up his half-century [Martin Gray pic] Bradfield School's Andrew MacEwen led the way with 76 as the Hampshire Academy posted 166-4 before dismissing Somerset for 117 in the Guernsey Cornerstone Tournament.
He hit two sixes and eight fours, sharing a 77-run start with Andover's Sam Ashman (21) before enjoying another useful partnership with Finn Gordon (36). Sam Davis, Freddie Gillett and Manny Lumsden took two wickets each. But the Academy's bright start ended with a 51-run defeat by a far more experienced Guernsey Board side, who defended 125-9. Davis, Lumsden and Eddie Jack took two wickets each before the Hampshire youngsters crashed to 74 all out, Kai Highman taking 4-5 and Charlie Forshaw boosting his prospects of some Southern Premier League cricket this summer with 3-16. Guernsey then beat Somerset by six wickets. Hampshire play Guernsey in a 50-over match at the KGV Field, St Peter Port on Saturday, 1100. Hampshire Academy 14-man squad
The Channel Islands weather relented to enable the Hampshire Academy to beat their Somerset counterparts by 29 runs in a T20 match in Guernsey. Wilf La Fontaine Jackson (49) and Andrew MacEwen (36) top scored in Hampshire's 149-6. Sam Davis and Finn Gordon took two wickets each as Somerset replied with 120-8, opener Seb Linnett hitting 55, including three sixes. |
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