Henry Glanfield was the major influence with bat and later ball as Hambledon recorded a second consecutive win beating Southern Premier Division 2 rivals Fair Oak by 28 runs at Lapstone Park.
The player Norway appear to have forgotten made 46 - comfortably the top individual score of the match - before taking four Oaks wickets with his seamers.
Fair Oak began with a fine bowling display, but couldn’t replicate the feat with the bat, being dismissed for 100 after Hambledon were 128 all out.
Strike pair Ben Smith (2-32) and James Gradwell (2-17) had the visitors in the mire at 32-4, but the visitors were steered into calmer waters by a stand of 71 between fifth-wicket pair Henry Glanfield (46) and Spencer le Clercq (22). The Oaks spinners then took charge, Rhys Oxley taking 3-28 and Lewis Goodyear 3-22 Hambledon being dismissed for what appeared a below-par 128 all out, but which turned into a competitive one taking into account the slow outfield.
Oaks never really got going with the bat. Glanfield underlined his importance to Hambledon with for 4-15 while fledgling Fair Oak captain Harry Reed, opening the innings, made a watchful 22 of the first 60 runs before being seventh out. Matt White carried on the resistance and finished unbeaten on 30, but of the rest only last man Lewis Goodyear made it into double figures. The tenth-wicket pair put on 31 before the innings ended at 100 not out. James Restell (2-20) and spinner Ollie Bembridge (2-18) did well with the ball for Hambledon.
Jack Budd (59) and former Hampshire all-rounder Sean Ervine (58) hit fifties as Langley Manor chalked up a healthy 238-7 before dismissing Gosport Borough for 172 at Privett Park, where Greg Kitchen (5-36) responded. Jordyn Dore took 5-36 for the Borough, while little Tommy Spencer sent down a tidy 2-18 for the Manor.
The player Norway appear to have forgotten made 46 - comfortably the top individual score of the match - before taking four Oaks wickets with his seamers.
Fair Oak began with a fine bowling display, but couldn’t replicate the feat with the bat, being dismissed for 100 after Hambledon were 128 all out.
Strike pair Ben Smith (2-32) and James Gradwell (2-17) had the visitors in the mire at 32-4, but the visitors were steered into calmer waters by a stand of 71 between fifth-wicket pair Henry Glanfield (46) and Spencer le Clercq (22). The Oaks spinners then took charge, Rhys Oxley taking 3-28 and Lewis Goodyear 3-22 Hambledon being dismissed for what appeared a below-par 128 all out, but which turned into a competitive one taking into account the slow outfield.
Oaks never really got going with the bat. Glanfield underlined his importance to Hambledon with for 4-15 while fledgling Fair Oak captain Harry Reed, opening the innings, made a watchful 22 of the first 60 runs before being seventh out. Matt White carried on the resistance and finished unbeaten on 30, but of the rest only last man Lewis Goodyear made it into double figures. The tenth-wicket pair put on 31 before the innings ended at 100 not out. James Restell (2-20) and spinner Ollie Bembridge (2-18) did well with the ball for Hambledon.
Jack Budd (59) and former Hampshire all-rounder Sean Ervine (58) hit fifties as Langley Manor chalked up a healthy 238-7 before dismissing Gosport Borough for 172 at Privett Park, where Greg Kitchen (5-36) responded. Jordyn Dore took 5-36 for the Borough, while little Tommy Spencer sent down a tidy 2-18 for the Manor.
Rob Nicklin hit an undefeated 83 to guide Liphook & Ripsley to a four-wicket win over St Cross Symondians II at the Green Jackets, where Harry Trussler (40) top scored in the hosts 161.