SKIPPER Mike Porter led Bashley to victory over local rivals New Milton – and then had borrow a tenner from his dad to buy a jug!

Porter, who is in his first season as captain, hit a classy 81 as Bashley eased to a four-wicket win in an often-fractious derby at the BCG.

New Milton’s 212 for six was largely down to David Wakefield (56) and James Haggaty (54), the pair sharing 70 for the fifth wicket.

But after Tom Gates (33) had given the Bashley reply a solid start, Porter and Tom Jacques (54) put on 109 for the third wicket to wrest the contest from the Green & Golds.

Milton’s tediously slow over rate – for which they were deducted a point – failed to have the desired effect, while the umpires’ reports on some of the players’ antics are likely to make for interesting reading.

Late wickets for Haggaty (2-52) and Dan Loader (2-59) were a mere consolation as Bashley claimed the bragging rights in the first top-flight encounter between the clubs.

Porter, who was the toast of the clubhouse after his father David had stumped up the beer money, told the Daily Echo: “Being a student and having financial difficulties, dad has to supply all the jug money. Anyone who scores 50 or takes five wickets has to buy one and I didn’t bring enough money.

“He doesn’t mind and is always happy if I get runs. It is more of a problem when I don’t get runs and start asking him for money!”

Porter added: “With it being a derby and them less than a mile away, it was always going to be a difficult game with some friendly banter here and there.

“I thought we bowled well. Kevin Nash up top did his usual and pitched it full and swung it about. We were unfortunate Andy Neal pulled his hamstring so it was over to the spinners to try to tie up the game and I thought they did that beautifully.

“We were fairly happy on the bowling front and stopped them scoring anywhere near the number of runs I imagine they would have wanted.

“I thought we paced our reply well. We lost two or three wickets more than we wanted but were happy with the win and will take it into next week.”

Porter, who captained Dorset and Hampshire Academy through various age groups, added: “There is more responsibility being captain this year and it needed one of us to dig in so that’s what I tried to do.

“Unfortunately, I fell short at the end but I was happy with how I went and how the team went. We are a close-knit team, there are no bad eggs and I’m enjoying it.”

  • Tailenders Matt Metcalfe, Ed Freeman and Ollie Calcott spared Lymington’s blushes as they salvaged an unlikely draw against winless Hampshire Academy.

The trio all dug deep after Lymington had collapsed to 108 for eight in pursuit of the Academy’s 228 for nine at the Sports Ground.

Earlier, Metcalfe (2-63) and Freeman (1-11) had struck to reduce the Academy to 11 for three before Jake Goodwin heroically set about repairing the damage.

Goodwin (129) hit three sixes and 17 fours to frustrate Lymington with Darren Cowley (2-35) and Richie Lock (2-36) among the wickets.

The Lymington reply started in disastrous and pedestrian fashion as they lost their first three wickets for the addition of just one run from the first 10 overs.

George Pardoe (2-10), who is dual-registered with Bashley, claimed the first two wickets including the prize scalp of Hampshire’s Lewis McManus.

Although Dom Hand (41) briefly helped stop the rot – and shared 64 for the seventh wicket with Simon Beetham (31) – Lymington were in the mire at 108 for eight after the pair had both departed.

But a stoic ninth-wicket stand of 40 between Metcalfe (35) and Calcott held up the Academy before Freeman (16) and Calcott survived to see Lymington to 169 for nine at the close.

  • Bournemouth halted a run of three successive defeats by coasting to a six-wicket victory over Division One rivals Liphook & Ripsley.

Matthew Jones struck two early blows to reduce the hosts to 22 for two before Jem Warner claimed a couple of wickets without further addition to the total.

Although a fifth-wicket stand of 30 threatened to check Bournemouth’s progress, Jones (4-27) made the breakthrough to prompt another collapse.

Liphook were eventually rolled over for just 78 with Warner (3-36), Dom Clutterbuck (2-4) and Rob Pack (1-9) all among the wickets.

Although openers Luke Matthews and Martin Miller fell cheaply as Bournemouth wobbled at 14 for two, Jake Hurley took the game away from Liphook.

Hurley (33) hit five fours and a six in his 38-ball stay, guiding the Lions to 53 for four before he was caught.

But Sanrang Urankar (20) remained undefeated at the close as Bournemouth reached 80 for four with more than 30 overs to spare.

  • Parley will now stage the Dorset & Wiltshire regional final of the Davidstow Village Cup after their scheduled trip to Goatacre yesterday was rained off.

Under new competition rules, the host club has to surrender home advantage if the tie does not take place on the original date.

Parley will entertain their opponents from Wiltshire at the Christchurch Road headquarters on Sunday (1pm).