A Portsmouth area born Hampshire Cricket XI

Since then, no player born in the city or surrounding area has appeared for the 1st XI in a competitive game.

It might come as a surprise - given Portsmouth’s size - that no player born in the city has ever played for England’s senior team in any format of the game.

Gosport-born Trevor Jesty remains the only ex-Hampshire player born locally to do so - winning 10 one-day caps in 1982/83.

Fareham-born Graham Roope made his England Test debut in the 1970s, but he was playing for Surrey at the time.

Here, The News - with thanks to Hampshire Cricket historian and Portsmouth resident Dave Allen – selects an all-time Hampshire XI of players born in Portsmouth, Gosport or Fareham.

It is a functioning XI and is listed in batting order. In brackets are the years in which the player appeared for Hampshire’s 1st XI.

Barry Reed (1958-1970)

The Portsmouth-born opening batsman once held the Hampshire record for the highest innings in a one-day game.

But it wasn’t a record he held for very long!

At the end of May 1970, he plundered an unbeaten 143 in a Gillette Cup tie against Buckinghshire at Chesham.

A week later, Barry Richards smashed an unbeaten 155 in a Sunday League game against Yorkshire at Hull.

Two years before, Reed had put on 227 for the first wicket with Roy Marshall in a Gillette Cup win against Bedfordshire. Marshall hit 140 and Reed 112.

In his 122 first-class matches (and 215 innings) for Hampshire, Reed scored 4,910 runs at 24.30 with 29 half centuries and just two centuries.

His only Championship ton came, fittingly, in Portsmouth against Glamorgan in 1967.

Neil McCorkell (1932-1951)

The batsman/wicket-keeper scored over 16,000 runs in 396 first class games for Hampshire.

He scored the first of his 17 centuries in late June 1935, 150 against Lancashire in Southampton. Three days later, against the same team in Liverpool, he hit 154.

Portsmouth-born McCorkell - who would be this XI’s wicket-keeper - saved his highest ever score for his final season with Hampshire - hitting 203 against Gloucestershire at the Wagon Works ground in Gloucester.

He passed away in South Africa in 2013 just a few weeks before his 101st birthday.

Derek Kenway (1997-2005)

The Fareham-born batsman scored 4,382 runs in 93 first class appearances for the county.

He compiled another 2,616 in 110 List A games.

In 2001/02 he was part of the England Academy squad that toured Australia - his team-mates including Andrew Strauss, Ian Bell, Graeme Swann, Rob Key, Owais Shah and Steve Harmison.

The highest of Kenway’s seven first class tons was 166 against Notts at The Ageas Bowl in 2001.

Two years later he scored two one-day hundreds in the space of a month - 115 against Somerset and 120 not out against the touring Zimbabweans.

Since leaving the pro game, Kenway - who started out at Hambledon - has played Southern Premier League cricket for Portsmouth, Totton & Eling and most recently Burridge.

Trevor Jesty (1966-1984)

The Gosport-born all-rounder made his first class debut for Hampshire a few weeks after England had won the football World Cup in 1966.

He made the last of his 490 first class appearances shortly after is 43rd birthday in 1991, for Lancashire.

After leaving Hampshire, he spent three years with Surrey and four seasons at Old Trafford.

In all, he scored almost 22,000 first class runs and took 585 wickets. In one-day games, he compiled 9,216 runs in 428 games and took 372 wickets.

In 1982, between the end of May and the middle of September, he scored nine centuries in all competitions.

Such form saw him make his England ODI debut on the winter tour of Australia and also resulted in Wisden selecting him as one of their five cricketers of the year in 1983.

The highest of his 35 first class hundreds was 248 for Hampshire against Cambridge University in 1984.

The previous year he had smacked his List A best - a remarkable 166 not out against Surrey in a John Player League game against Surrey in Portsmouth.

Jesty’s best first class bowling figures for Hampshire were 7-75 against Worcestershire in 1976, while the previous year he took a List A best 6-20 against Glamorgan.

After retiring as a first class player, Jesty played for hometown club Gosport Borough in the Southern Premier League and later became a first class umpire.

Mike Barnard (1952-1966)

The sporting all-rounder scored 9,314 first class runs in 296 appearances for Hampshire.

Born in Portsmouth, he scored the highest of his seven centuries - 128 not out - against the touring Indians at Bournemouth in 1959.

Barnard also scored 26 goals in 127 first team appearances for Pompey, making his debut on Boxing Day 1953 after signing from Gosport Borough.

Jon Ayling (1987-1993)

The Portsmouth-born all-rounder took 134 wickets in 60 first class games and 93 in 94 List A matches.

He also scored over 3,000 runs in all competitions, with one century - 121 against Oxford University in 1992.

Ayling opened the batting for a Southern Schools XI in 1985, with one of his team-mates future England skipper Nasser Hussain.

He won three one-day medals - the Benson & Hedges Cup win 1988 and 1992 and the NatWest Trophy in 1991.

Ayling also turned out for hometown club Portsmouth in the Southern Premier League.

Opening the batting against Andover in 1993, he smashed an unbeaten 182 in a league encounter at Drayton Park.

Jack Newman (1906-1930)

The Portsmouth-born bowler’s stats are simply remarkable.

In 541 first class games, he bagged 2,054 wickets, taking five wickets in an innings 134 times and 10 wickets in a match on 35 occasions.

Only two men have ever taken more first class wickets for Hampshire than Newman’s 1,946 haul - Derek Shackleton and Alec Kennedy.

The legendary John Arlott once said that Newman was one of the best cricketers he had ever seen who was never capped by England.

Newman took six or more wickets in an innings on 71 occasions, including nine times for Hampshire in 1910.

In 1921 he bagged 177 Championship wickets - a county record that only stood for 12 months before Kennedy took 190. Newman’s haul remains the second best ever for Hampshire.

Until last September, he held the record for the county’s best first class match haul - 16-88 against Somerset at Weston in 1927. Kyle Abbott’s 17-96 haul against the same opponents pushed Newman down to another second place in the county record books.

No slouch with the bat either, Newman completed the double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in a Championship season five times in the 1920s.

Lawrie Prittipaul (1999-2005)

The all-rounder was mainly used in one-day games during his Hampshire career, appearing in 75 of those compared to just 23 first class matches.

Prittipaul scored one first class ton, and it was a big one - 152 in an innings win against Derbyshire in Southampton in 2000.

He had made his Southern Premier League debut for hometown team Portsmouth in 1997 - scoring 164 against the Hampshire Academy in 2005 - and spent a decade there before moving on to Havant and St Cross.

In 2008 he was the leading runscorer in the SPL top flight with 816 at 54.40. Havant colleague Ben Walker was second with 581.

He also played for Servicemaster in the Hampshire League in 2016.

Alan Wassell (1957-1966)

The Fareham-born bowler bagged 320 wickets in 122 first class matches.

He took five wickets in an innings 11 times with a best of 7-87 against Surrey at Bournemouth. His match figures of 12-163 were also a career high.

In the 1980s, and into his 40s, he was still turning out for Gosport Borough in the Southern League.

Tom Dean (1939-1949)

The Fareham-born leg-break bowler took 54 wickets in his 29 first class games for Hampshire.

His best was a 7-51 haul against Derbyshire at Ilkeston in 1946, the only time he was to take 10 wickets in a Championship game.

He had made his debut for Hampshire in August 1939, just a few years before the outbreak of the second World War.

Richard McIlwaine (1969-70)

The ex-Portsmouth Grammar School pupil played just four first class games for Hampshire, taking four wickets.

He had made his 2nd XI debut in 1968, with his last appearance for the 2nds coming in his home city at Burnaby Road in 1971.