Orazio Santalucia, the Island's new Cricket Academy director, produced a stunning display to send Southern Electric Premier League Division 3 title favourites Winchster KS crashed to defeat at Steephill

Hampshire's Academy side are off the mark in the ECB Southern Electric Premier League with a tense one-wicket victory at Liphook & Ripsley - the winning runs coming courtesy of four byes

Lymington have provided themselves with a launch pad for a potential Southern Electric Premier League, Division 2 promotion push after securing a second consecutive win and denting newly promoted St Cross Symondians own two-match winning start

Three rain-delayed Southern Electric Contracting Cup first round ties are due to be played this evening, 6pm

Newly promoted St Cross Symondians can expect their claim to pole position in the Southern Electric Premier League, Division 2 table to come under stiff examination from Lymington at the Royal Green Jackets Ground, Winchester tomorrow, 1pm.

Already minus top wicket taker Dan Goldstraw, BAT Sports face a mini injury crisis as they bid to kick start their ECB Southern Electric Premier League challenge against Bashley (Rydal) at Southern Gardens tomorrow, 1pm.

Promising Hampshire YC's all-rounder David Wheeler is set to play his first Southern Electric Premier League match of the season tomorrow (SAT) - barely a week after having been diagnosed with a stress fracture of the spine.

Lymington, whose opening match against Purbrook was another weather victim, began their Southern Electric Premier League Division 2 challenge on a positive note, beating recently relegated Burridge by eight wickets.

Bashley-Rydal's bid to launch an early season ECB Southern Electric Premier League leadership challenge floundered in the rain at title holders Havant.

Former Hampshire wicketkeeper Adrian Aymes marked his recreational cricket comeback with a century as Hursley Park piled up 242-2 to defeat Southern Electric Premier League, Division 2 rivals United Services by 88 runs at The Quarters.

Newly promoted St Cross Symondians scrambled a two-wicket last-over victory over Gosport Borough at Privett Park - after appearing to have the win points comfortably in the bag at one stage.

Can Bashley (Rydal) make lightening strike again and knock title holders Havant off the ECB Southern Electric Premier League championship scent?

Cardigan Connor's long-standing Hampshire links have provided a direct spin off for Ventnor, who parade a promising young Anguillian all-rounder in tomorrow's Southern Electric Premier League, Division 3 opener against New Milton at Fernhill, 1pm.

James Hibberd is keeping his fingers firmly crossed that a match winning performance for Calmore Sports against Hampshire's newly promoted Academy side will boost his prospects of further trials with Kent.

Captain: Roger Miller

Hard hitting Paultons all-rounder Tony Richman wrote himself into cricketing folklore when he smashed a maximum six sixes in a single over in a Border League match at Bramshaw.

Ben Nolan-Stone faces his old Portsmouth team-mates when Bashley (Rydal) aim for a regional semi-final slot in the ECB National Club Championship at the BCG on Sunday, 2pm.

The ECB Southern Electric Premier Cricket League has been sent reeling by a third successive weekend of wet weather

Brad Thompson, Bashley-Rydal's experienced Western Australian all-rounder, is set for a spell on the sidelines after breaking a finger in last week's ECB Southern Electric Premier League defeat at Havant

Arch rivals Easton & Martyr Worthy and St Cross Symondians go head to head in an all-Winchester Southern Electric Premier League, Division 2 derby at Cockets Mead tomorrow (SAT), 1 o'clock.