BAT Sports are off to a flier in the ECB Southern Electric Premier League with a crushing nine-wicket win over Bournemouth at Chapel Gate.

They skittled out the strongly-fancied Dorset side for 91 and then polished off the target in the 23rd over, with teenager Ricky Rawlins cracking 54 not out.

But BAT opener Damian Shirazi was quick to point out the impact of the toss on the game.

"Absolutely crucial," he said. "We had the best of the bowling conditions and, to be fair, our guys performed superbly."

None more so than Jez Ord, the former Old Tauntonians & Romsey seam bowler, whose ten overs (seven of which were maidens) cost just five runs.

"He got Jono McLean out in the bargain, but Jez was so disciplined and bowled an immaculate spell.

"I doubt if there's ever been a better spell of bowling in the league," Shizazi added.

Bournemouth made a sound enough start, openers Richard Scott and Matt Swarbrick sharing a 35-run stand.

But things began to go wrong when David Banks trapped Scott leg before and Hampshire's McLean followed immediately after, clean bowled by Ord.

When Banks (3-27) removed Neil Staddon and Darren Cowley for ducks, Bournemouth really were struggling.

Swarbrick (40) battled away, adding 20 with Nick Park, but when the Dorset opener became the first of four victims in James Hibberd's second spell, Bournemouth's tail folded to 91 all out.

Hibberd finished with 4-22, his second spell costing only eight runs.

Jo Wilson celebrated his Bournemouth comeback with Shirazi's wicket - the Liverpudlian missed the 2004 season with a shoulder injury - but there was to be no respite.

Rawlins smashed 54 not out off 45 balls to celebrate his maiden SPL half-century - two massive sixes off Scott sailing high over deep mid-wicket.

Richard Kenway kept him company, scoring a more sedate 24 as BAT cruised to an emphatic nine-wicket win.

Last year's runners-up, Havant, suffered one of their heaviest defeats on record when they crashed to 62 all out and a 103-run defeat by Portsmouth at Havant Park.

A dismal 62 was Havant's lowest-ever score. Not one batsman managed double figures after James Schofield (3-16) and James Manning (2-20) had cut through the top order.

Portsmouth skipper Lee Savident clung on to four catches.

Portsmouth's 165-9 was built around Hampshire's Lawrie Prittipaul (60) and Schofield (31), who added 69 in a crucial third-wicket stand.