Taylor top of the SPL wickettaking list as Boro win again
Scott Taylor and Ollie Lunt shone as Gosport Borough maintained their winning start to the Southern Premier League campaign.
Taylor is the leading wicket-taker across all four divisions after taking his tally to 13 in three matches, including a career-best 6-9 haul against Fareham & Crofton.
He bagged 4-34 as Bashley 2nds totalled 200-9 after being inserted at Privett Park.
That score would have been a disappointment for the visitors, who had reached 104-1.
Skipper Phil Morris (54) and Josh Parsons (24) had put on 64 for the first wicket before the latter was run out.
Lunt then took centre as Gosport cantered to a fivewicket win with almost 20 overs in hand.
The Queenslander slapped 13 fours and five sixes in racing to his maiden SPL ton - 102 off only 83 balls.
Lunt had announced his arrival at Borough with 81 not out on debut in a pre-season friendly against Burridge 2nds.
He also scored an undefeated 52 on his SPL debut in a nine-wicket thrashing of Fareham a fortnight earlier.
Lunt put on 84 for the first wicket with Gavin King (27) and 69 for the second with Viv Richards (28).
James Edmunds bagged 3-4 - Boro lost three wickets for nine runs at one stage - but Bashley were unable to end their 100 per cent start.
Newly-promoted Fareham suffered a third straight loss against Paultons - despite a great start.
Paultons slumped to 875 at Whitemoor Lane after electing to bat first. They were rescued by a superb 139-run stand for the sixth wicket between No 5 Julian Drake (75) and No 7 Antony Richman (69).
The latter struck five fours and three sixes in a 63-ball stay as Paultons eventually posted 244 all out (Dan Reader 3-38), Shahryar Khan 3-45).
Fareham subsequently made an even worse start than Paultons had, crashing to 24-4.
Australian all-rounder Callum Barton was the chief architect of their downfall, claiming three of those wickets – skipper Tom Kent (4),
Jeremy Bulled (3) and South African Craig Jeffery (5) – en route to 3-24.
Sam Stoddart (41) top scored as the visitors struggled to 94-7. A last wicket stand of 38 between Peter Briggs (25 not out) and last man Andrew Martin (14) hoisted their score to 155 all out (extras 27).
Peter Hayward’s impressive all-round display helped
Havant 2nds thrash Trojans by 129 runs.
Batting at No 8, Hayward top scored with 43 as Havant posted 220 at Stoneham Lane.
He then collected 3-19 off seven overs as the hosts slithered to 93 all out.
Andrew Galliers hit 40 at the top of the order but Havant were struggling on 139-7 when captain Warren Turner strode out to join Hayward
in the middle.
Turner promptly belted five fours in a 21-ball 31, helping Hayward to add 57 for the eighth wicket. South African Quinton Venter took 4-34.
Steven Matthews (4-25) and Ali Gardner (3-16) also enjoyed themselves when Trojans replied. Both sent down a two-wicket maiden in successive overs as the hosts collapsed from 56-3 to 56-7.