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Calmore Sports trump Havant to give B.A.T. league advantage
Mike Vimpany - 12 August 2001
BAT Sports are firm favourites to land their first Southern Electric ECB Premier League title - thanks to local rivals Calmore Sports, who inflicted Havant's first defeat of the season.
Calmore's narrow two-wicket win over last year's champions has helped BAT establish a 17-point advantage over Havant with three matches remaining.
If Havant fail to beat BAT in next Saturday's top-of-the-table clash, the title will almost certainly be on its way to Southern Gardens for the first time.
BAT, meanwhile, gave their own prospects a massive boost by bowling Bournemouth out for 112 before clinching a six-wicket victory.
But it was Calmore, whom BAT visit in their final match on September 1, who set the cat amongst the pigeons by becoming the first club to nail Havant in a 50-over match since June last year.
They pulled out all the stops with the ball - teenager Paul Cass (2-22) and Glen Motchall (2-38) having the champions reeling at 36-4 after Paul Gover had surprisingly decided to bat first.
Richard Hindley (30) and Gover (20) himself pulled things around but, with Calmore bowling and fielding out of their skins, further breakthroughs were not long coming.
The pair moved the score on to 81 before Paul Draper (3-29) triggered off a three-wicket collapse.
He dismissed both Hindley and Gover, the Havant skipper providing Stuart Bailey with one of his four victims.
From a desperate 99-7, Havant rallied to reach 144-8 through Phil Loat (23 not out), Graham Benton and Simon Greenfield.
Calmore came out of the traps with all guns blazing after tea - Clive Surry (40) giving last year's runners-up a positive 57-run start.
The off-spin of Hindley (4-27) created doubts at 82-5 and, despite James Hibberd (28) further alarms at 120-8.
But Tom Pegler (26 not out) played a timely captain's innings and, with support from Pete Clark, got Calmore home at 148-8.
Bournemouth lost the toss and had effectively lost the game once BAT pair Dan Goldstraw (3-19) and Mark Page (2-16) ripped through their top order on a damp Southern Gardens surface.
Julian Cassell (16) put up initial resistance but, after a two-wicket break by Damian Shirazi (2-14), it was left to Peter Waite (28 not out) and Kristain Wilson (16) to lift Bournemouth's total into treble figures.
BAT wobbled at 33-2, but Richard Kenway (43 not out) and Dave Banks (37) took advantage of the easing conditions to steer the leaders to victory at 113-4.
Hampshire's Andy Sexton cracked 182 as Bashley (Rydal) piled up 287-2 before clinching an 85-run win over Andover.
Sexton, who hit four sixes and 28 fours, dominated a 196-run opening stand with Neil Thurgood (61) before Andy Loader clipped 36 not out.
Matt King (4-41) unsettled Andover at 45-3, but Roger Miller's 83 kept the pot boiling before Andover were dismissed for 202 (Neil Taylor 3-48).
Tim Lamb hit a season's best 80 and Chris Steedon (50 not out) a maiden half-century as South Wilts beat Liphook & Ripsley by 74 runs to win their first match since June 2.
In early difficulty at 25-3, South Wilts rallied, with Lamb involved in successive key partnerships, initially with Tom Caines (29), then Rob Wade (37) and latterly Steedon, who helped post 224-7.
Michael Smyth (29), Rob Barnes (27) and Graham Tyler (26) all made starts for Liphook, but in the absence of a significant innngs, the visitors slowly slipped to 150 all out - Russell Rowe taking 3-34 after three previous batsmen had been run out.
Burridge experienced few problems in dismissing Hungerford for 111(Owen Dawkins 31) - Paul Jenkins removing the middle-order with a 4-14 return - before coasting to a six-wicket win.
A half-century by Neil Cunningham (52) put Burridge in the driving seat.
© Mike Vimpany / SEPL / Daily Echo
| Teams | England. |
| Players/Umpires | Richard Hindley, Paul Draper, James Hibberd, Julian Cassell, Damian Shirazi, Richard Kenway, David Banks, Andrew Sexton, Neil Taylor, Timothy Lamb, Christopher Steedon, Robert Wade, Owen Dawkins. |
| Tournaments | Southern Premier League |
| Season | English Domestic Season |