HAMWORTHY RECREATION II 135 (3pts) lost to CHARLTON DOWN 136-1 (20pts) by nine wickets

CHARLTON Down made it three wins from three with a dominant nine-wicket victory against Hamworthy Recreation.

Matt Stevens’ 2-10 from his eight overs and a match winning stand of 120 from Jae Miller (79) and Jack Eveleigh (35 not out) eased Charlton Down to victory.

Hamworthy batted first and found runs hard to come by from the accuracy of opening bowling pair of Matt and Dan Stevens.

Matt Stevens struck to remove Steve Jenkins for 11 with a lifting ball that he could only glove to Rob Deadman behind the stumps with the score on 12-1.

Nick Berry and Ian Peters added a quick-fire 52-run partnership and a big total looked on the cards as Hamworthy raced to 64-1 off 14 overs.

But off spinner Kim Park (2-24) dismissed the former, top edging to Nick Voss at short backward square leg.

James Pretty then produced a double wicket maiden having the dangerous Ian Peters well caught by Park at deep mid-wicket.

It was soon 79-5 when Park then bowled Nathan Peters, deceiving him with a well-flighted ball.

James Pretty picked up his third wicket when Harry Poole chipped a leg side glance straight to Dan Stevens with the score on 95-6.

The returning and impressive Matt Stevens (2-10) bowled Adam Shroud for eight and the innings was slowly coming to an end on 110-7 with more than 13 overs to go.

However Joe O’Brian and Keith Gallagher had other ideas, playing sensibly and picking up runs to push the score onto 134 before Javed Gill took two quick wickets, bowling Gallagher (13) and Stuart Peters for nought.

The Hamworthy innings closed on 135 all out.

Jae Miller and Jack Eveleigh batted cautiously, scoring only 11 runs from the first seven overs, against a very good bowling attack of Peters and Joe O’Brian and, returning from injury, first team bowler Adam Shroud.

Miller and Eveleigh batted sensibly picking up well taken singles and dispatching the bad ball to the boundary.

Miller stepped up the scoring rate and started to punish any wayward bowling and had a perfect foil of Jack Eveleigh who rotated the strike.

Miller was eventually out for a well-constructed and patient 79 clipping the ball to square leg.

It was left to Eveleigh (35no) and Nick Voss (8no) to see Charlton down to victory with more than 10 overs to spare.