Going remains good! Portsmouth Community vice captain scores 50 off 50 balls on his 50th appearance – and takes five wickets in Hampshire Cricket League victory

Dave Going scored exactly 50 off 50 balls on his 50th appearance for Portsmouth Community - and also took five wickets as his side maintained their 100 per cent Hampshire League record.
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Community are 38 points clear of fourth-placed Gosport Borough 3rds - the top three go up - after their eighth successive Division 6 South East victory.

Vice captain Going was their all-round star as Community inflicted just a second league loss of the summer on third-placed Fair Oak 4ths.

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After inserting the visitors at Cockleshell Gardens, Community bowler Ninand Gokhale (2-18 off eight overs) struck early on.

Vice captain Dave Going, left, is presented with a special cap on his 50th Portsmouth Community appearance by chairman Matt Barber.Vice captain Dave Going, left, is presented with a special cap on his 50th Portsmouth Community appearance by chairman Matt Barber.
Vice captain Dave Going, left, is presented with a special cap on his 50th Portsmouth Community appearance by chairman Matt Barber.

But a young Oak side’s brand of ‘no fear’ cricket eventually saw them compile a highly competitive 206-9. Jamie Sparshott (49) and Dan Wheble (40) top scored before Going, the sixth bowler Community used, claimed 5-42 - his best league figures for the club.

In reply, Going - batting at No 3 - hit a run-a-ball half-century, his fourth league score of 50 or more this season.

Tom Turner (4-22) looked to have spun Fair Oak to victory but with wickets falling and the run rate beginning to climb, Kalim Shiraz played a match-winning innings.

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Coming in at No 7, he clubbed an unbeaten 48 off 35 balls, sealing Community’s three-wicket success with a huge six, with just 12 balls remaining.

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Jacob Patton finally celebrated his maiden Gosport Borough century - 11 years after being dismissed for 99!

Coming in at third wicket down, he smacked eight sixes and 12 fours in a stunning 138 as Gosport amassed 304-6 against Fair Oak 5ths.

Patton put on 123 for the fourth wicket with opener Russell Weller (89) and a further 72 for the fifth with Tom Price (19) after Boro had been inserted at Privett Park.

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Patton’s previous highest score had been 99, playing for Gosport 4ths against Emsworth in 2011.

In reply, Paul Gillen (3-12) and Nathan Titchener (2-12) reduced Oak to 7-4. Staring down the barrel of humiliation, they did at least scrape their way to 111 (Ryan Grant 3-13), losing by 193 runs.

Clanfield 2nds were shot out for 97 by Froxfield - but still triumphed.

PJ Ford (5-18) and Andy Wellen (3-9) tore through the Froxfield reply as they collapsed from 43-2 to 67 all out, losing by 30 runs.

Earlier, opener John Windebank (20) top scored for Clanfield before they nosedived from 58-2 to 97 all out.