Portchester A v Havant A - 24.02.08

Portchester A (12pts) 135 for 5 (12 ov) lost to Havant A (23pts) 140 all out (11.3 ov)

Havant A won by 5 runs
Batting: P Hungerford 29, S Kelly 27, C Coward 26*

Portchester B v Denmead - 24.02.08

Portchester A (10pts) - 135 for 4 (12 ov) lost to Denmead (22pts) - 152 for 4 (12 ov)

Denmead won by 17 runs
Batting: S Gale 33*, J Young 30*

Hampshire CL Sports Quiz 2008 - 21.02.08

The brains trust of Biggs, Buckle, Gale and Hungerford had a shocker at the Hampshire League’s annual Sports Quiz, held at Bath Lane on the 21st February.

Biggsy filling in for the unavailable Stainton particularly enjoyed his evening!! Although he did make the most of the free sandwiches on offer…

The team’s final score of 116 saw them finish in 7th place on the night [out of 7!] and 19th overall - out of 25. With the top 18 sides going through to the next round, we missed out by one place and by 5 points. Mr Biggs was devastated not to make it through!

Portchester A v Portsmouth - 10.02.08

Portchester A (4pts) - 71 for 5 (12 ov) lost to Portsmouth (23pts) - 138 for 3 (12 ov)

Portsmouth won by 67 runs
Bowling: John Biggs 2/23

As the scores suggest, this was a terrible performance by the A Team. Not helped by last minute injuries - Lee played despite being hardly able to walk; having a dead-leg from playing football in the morning and Steve O’Neill couldn’t play having picked up a back strain on the Sunday morning! Thanks to John Biggs for filling in at late notice. Biggsy was the only Portchester player who came out of the match with any credit, picking up 2 for 23 from his 3 overs….. A return to the A Team beckons?!

I am still waiting on scorer Staints to write his report on the match as intended. For the first time ever he is speechless and doesn’t know what to write! As soon as he finds the words I’ll put the report on here, although the match can be summarised in just the two - Barry Crocker!!

Portchester B v DOE Cavaliers - 03.02.08

Portchester B (7pts) - 113 all out (11.3 ov) lost to DOE Cavaliers (24pts) - 118 for 2 (12 ov)

DOE Cavaliers won by 5 runs
Batting: Simon Gale 20, Josh Young 20