The Going is still great! Dave smacks fourth hundred of the season as Portsmouth Community dish out another Hampshire League hiding

The Division 6 South East table-toppers and title favourites hammered Fair Oak by 278 runs - a week after blitzing Fareham & Crofton 4ths by a 243-run margin.

Going followed up his 105 against F & C with 118, sharing a club record stand of 216 with Mike Bristow (95) for the second wicket in a total of 338-6.

It was Going’s fourth ton of the summer - he had also scored 104 against Portsmouth 4ths and a career best 126 in a 175-run thrashing of Emsworth 3rds.

Bristow agonisingly missed out on three figures once again after previously scoring 93 against Clanfield.

It was hard work for Fair Oak in the field with a very slow over rate due to the Community batsman losing a number of balls in the surrounding hedges!

However, despite the boundary blitz, John Bassom recorded 4-59.

Fair Oak were then blown away by Kalim Shiraz who recorded his best figures of 5-25 - with all his victims clean bowled. Remarkably, that was after conceding 16 runs in his first over.

Shiraz now had 30 league wickets this season - four more than anyone else in the division, with Gosport’s Danny Bradley-Turner the next best. And Shiraz’s wickets have come at a superb average of just 8.70.

Fair Oak limped to 60 all out with only three batters reaching double figures.

Eighth-wicket pair Daniel Porton and Will Massey shared a match-winning stand as Purbrook 3rds maintained their promotion charge.

Purbrook were making hard work of chasing Hayling 3rds’ 136-9 total off 40 overs when the two tailenders came together.

Both ended unbeaten on 19 as Purbrook reached their target in the 38th over.

Opener Hayden Sole - who had passed 50 in eight of his previous 10 league innings in 2022 - was dismissed in single figures (9) for the first time this year.

Roy Marsh’s 26 for Purbrook was the highest individual innings in the game, as Billy Wythe (24) top scored for Hayling.

Extras (36) was the hosts’ biggest contributor with Joe McGlinchey, the sixth and final bowler used by Purbrook, taking 4-38.

Gosport Borough 3rds occupy the third and final promotion place after Ryan Grant’s maiden league century against Bedhampton 2nds.

Grant plundered 131 as Boro rattled up 293-6, sharing a second wicket stand of 225 with Gerry Archer Jr who was 11 runs short of his third league ton of 2022.

Bedhampton, who only fielded eight players, replied with 155-5 - James McBeath (48 not out) and Chris Berry (25 not out) adding an unbroken 78 for the sixth wicket as their side lost by 138 runs at Privett Park.