Fair Oak are hot favourites to win the Hampshire League championship in their debut County Division 1 season.

The title race swung dramatically in Oak's favour when overnight leaders Andover II lost their unbeaten six-match record at Tichborne Park.

And Fair Oak thrashed Old Tauntonians & Romsey II by ten wickets to move 14 points clear at the top, with six matches left to play.

South African all-rounder Derek Manning (6-27) and off-spinner Rhys Oxley (3-0) sent fourth-placed OTs crashing to 64 all out at Lapstone Park, where Mark Thorne's unbeaten 41 carried Oaks to a seventh straight win.

Tichborne Park bowled themselves back into the title reckoning with a 33-run win over Andover, who had led the table since the season's start.

Ian Austin (50), Nick Gerrard (42) and Ed Primmer (41) helped Tichborne post 237-7 before Andover ran into problems against Mick Butler (3-14) and Ian Austin (3-68), and were pegged to 204-9.

Australian leg-spin all-rounder Jarrod Bowes took over the Waterlooville captaincy at Sarisbury Athletic - and almost single-handedly won the CD1 relegation duel.

He hit 125 of Ville's 279-8 and then took 5-44 as Sarisbury collapsed to 170 all out.

Unbeaten Hythe & Dibden maintained their unbeaten record at the top of County Division 2 with an 81-run win over close rivals Petersfield but Cadnam, boosted by a century from Australian Ashley Hulme, remain on their tails after beating Old Basing.

South Perth batsman Ben Berthon-Jones hit a century as New Milton II maintained Division 3 top spot with a comfortable win over Hambledon II.