Hampshire County Cricket Club's plan to field a team made up of fledgling contracted players and academy students in the Southern Electric ECB Premier League next season has been given the thumbs up

Teenage Hampshire YCs starlet Steve Snell has batted himself on to the MCC Groundstaff at Lord's next summer, writes Mike Vimpany

Newly promoted Ventnor look set to be without the influential Mark Garaway when they begin life in the Southern Electric Premier League, Division 3 next summer

Hampshire's Mark Garaway is moving to Somerset, where he will become county Second XI coach and the ECB's South West region Academy Director

The Southern Electric Premier League has called an Extraordinary General meeting at the BAT Sports & Social Club on Wednesday October 10 to enable clubs to vote on the proposal to allow Hampshire County Cricket Club to enter a side in the competition

Self interest by clubs anxious to keep their own young players could hamper Hampshire's plans to field a team made up of fledgling contracted players and academy students in the Southern Electric ECB Premier League next season

Paul Draper has played his final match for Calmore Sports and is set to join Southern Electric ECB Premier League rivals South Wilts next season

Havant's Paul Gover has been appointed to captain a new look Hampshire Board side in next Thursday's key Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy 2002 second round tie against Ireland at the Rose Bowl, 10.45am

Lymington's hopes of finishing runners-up in Southern Electric Premier League Division 2 were dashed when an unfit pitch at Grasmere Road led to the abandonment of their last day visit to Cove

Celebrations ran long into the night after BAT Sports clinched the Southern Electric ECB Premier League championship with a 15-run victory over near neighbours Calmore Sports at Loperwood Park

Hampshire Under-17s took a major step towards qualification for the ECB quarter-finals after chalking up a thumping 27 points

Hampshire Under-16s are effectively out of the hunt for the honours

Calmore Sports pair Jez Goode and Paul Draper are in the Wiltshire side to face Ireland in the first round of the 2002 C & G Trophy at South Wilts' ground, Lower Bemerton on Wednesday (29th August), 10.45am

Mullally was a star with the bat as Winchester KS clinched the Southern Electric Premier League, Division 3 championship with a thumping nine-wicket win over Paultons at Ower

Hants U17s lose in ECB semi final

BAT Sports are within touching distance of the Southern Electric ECB Premier League crown

Stephen Cook and Hampshire's Lawrie Prittipaul smashed centuries as Portsmouth clinched the Southern Electric Premier League, Division 2 championship with a 346-run avalanche against relegated Old Basing at St Helen's, Southsea

Hampshire Under 17s Team for ECB Semi-final

Teenager Andover off-spinner Matt Hooper has bowled Hampshire into the semi-finals of the ECB Under-17 County Championship

BAT Sports, Portsmouth and Winchester KS can begin to put the celebratory champagne on ice as a wet Saturday gave their respective Southern Electric Premier League championship prospects a significant boost