BAT Sports 2nd XI: Back row (from left): Adam Hayes, Richard Dibden, James Bosbery, Ricky Rawlins, Roy Peters and Michael Pinney. Front: Sammy Walker-Baker, Gary Cozens, David Adams, Simon Preston and Ben Walker.
Hythe & Dibden's bid to steamroller the Hampshire League County Division 2 championship hit the buffers with a 38-run defeat by BAT Sports 2nd XI, who have moved into the promotion frame.
Richard Dibden, sidelined from Premier League cricket this season due to an ongoing shoulder injury, hit a face-saving 101 not out - his first competitive century since his teenage days - as BAT posted 214-5.
"Hythe have a half-decent attack and facing them on a pacy Jones Lane pitch certainly concentrated the mind," Dibden said.
The cosmopolitan Watersiders, who fielded South African-born pace trio Dawie Van der Merwe, Eugene Burzler and Christof Bothma, were dismissed for 176, with James Bosbery taking 4-32.
With Cadnam losing a thriller at Andover II - for whom Andy Sale hit an unbeaten 101 - Petersfield have climbed into pole position.
Australian Brendan Shoebridge smashed 157 not out in Petersfield's 73-run win at Rowner.
There's no stopping Fair Oak, who romped to an eighth straight County Division 1 victory, with Mark Thorne hitting 139 not out in the 170-run win at Lymington.
Paul Funnell (56) hit a half-century in Andover II's 38-run win at Old Tauntonians & Romsey, while Tichborne Park went on a run fiesta, hammering the beleaguered Sarisbury Athletic attack for 321-9.
Gary Chalkley (84) and Ed Primmer (72) top-scored before Paul Primmer biffed 47 off 18 balls.
Queenslander Lawrie Begni (5-31) and Will Allam (4-22) ripped Sarisbury out for 72 - four of Sarisbury's top five getting ducks!
Flamingo captain Stuart Shapland broke his toe making 111 and later taking 5-17 in the 41-run win at Burridge.
Shapland, who hit 13 fours in his century, batted with a runner for most of his innings.
"I didn't intend to bowl after tea unless it was really necessary - and it was, so I bowled off one pace and got five wickets," he smiled.
Clive Surry scored 125 but was unable to save Calmore Sports II from a six-wicket defeat by Fareham & Crofton, for whom Kevin Light cracked 117.
Calmore lie marginally above the three-down drop zone, with Waterlooville looking favourites to go down alongside Burridge after a thumping 127-run defeat at Locks Heath.
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