BURLEY 2nds must have thought they had enough runs on the board when a century from James Brown saw them to a large total.

However, they hadn’t reckoned with Matt Shellman who smashed a larger century to set up Winterbourne 2nds’ six-wicket victory in Regional Division 3 West.

An opening stand of 182 between Peter Stacey (62) and Brown set Burley on their way to 260-6 with Jim Burry making 42 not out and Brown hitting 17 fours and a six in his 111 with seventh bowler Malcolm Griffiths taking 5-36.

After losing an early wicket, Shellman (125) and Mark Hunter (87) shared in a second wicket stand of 157 that propelled Winterbourne towards their 40-over victory to keep them in second place.

With maximum points from their 41-run home win over Fawley 3rds, Hyde 2nds extended their lead in the division and it was an opening stand between Seth Loader (56) and Rob Holbrook (59) that enabled them to post 209.

After the openers had departed, wickets fell to Ian McElleney (4-15) and only Alex Kang (20) made progress in the late order as Hyde were all out in 40 overs.

Fawley were kept in contention by opener Andrew McElleney (48), John Doe (48 no) and Kieron Coxall (29) but the last seven batsmen scored just 23 runs between them as Kang (3-32), Tim Broomfield (2-12) and Zawe Rashid (2-12) had them out for 168 in 41 overs.

Verwood 2nds kept up their promotion challenge with an eight-wicket win over struggling Bramshaw 3rds who were removed for 135 with only skipper Ian Loveless scoring a patient 69 as Jack Driscoll took 3-28.

Openers Eric Pearson (63 no) and youngster Jack Musselwhite (41) scored the bulk of Verwood’s reply with a stand of 109 at Potterne Park.

Ellingham 3rds completed another blank weekend for their club but they could not have expected to be bundled out for just ten runs by Sway 2nds at Picket Post.

Just three weeks after Ellingham’s first team set a new unwanted Hampshire League record for the lowest total when they managed just seven runs, the thirds now have the league’s second lowest total. Ellingham lost a wicket to a run out in the first over and with Steve Drayton (6-3-5-3) and Joshua Bailey (5-3-5-2) the main destroyers, Ellingham’s innings closed in 14 overs. Sway lost a wicket without a run on the board before winning in five overs.

Alderholt opener Tom Morris hit 120 and with 16-year-old Matt Barnaby (58) making his maiden half-century for the club, they amassed 269-7 against nine-man Winton 3rds in Regional Division 2 West at the Winton Oval.

The home side were never in the hunt and folded for 156 with Alderholt skipper Steve Willoughby taking three wickets.

Chasing a Bramshaw 2nds’ target of 229-7 at the Carvers, Ringwood were rolled over for 112.