It's three out of three for Lymington, who have emerged the early pacemakers in Southern Electric Premier League, Division 2.

They won by eight wickets at Old Tauntonians & Romsey, who prop up the table after a bleak losing start.

Charlie Forward (45) lost three partners in the opening hour, but his dismissal as one of teenager Lloyd Scott's three victims left Paul Longland (48) with the responsibility of ensuring OTR made a decent score.

Christian Pain, pictured, (3-40) took two late wickets to leave OT's defending a relatively modest 193.

It took Lymington 33 overs to polish off the target Simon King carrying his bat for an SPL best 79 not out.

He shared a 125-run second wicket partnership with Zimbabwe's Keith Dabengwa (62), who made his second half-century in three days.

Table topping Purbrook crashed to a surprise eight-run defeat by Hungerford, while champions Ventnor lost by three wickets at Andover.

Ventnor were rocking at 26-4, but Neil Westhorpe (64) and Rob Snell (37) rallied to lift the total to 121 before young leg spinner Chris Hadfield (4-29) began to work his way through the lower ranks.

Mark Miller's 55 proved crucial as Andover slipped from a promising 81-1 to 134-7 Charlie Freeston taking 3-42 but Mark Williams (25 not out) and Matt Hooper (23 not out) produced an unbroken eighth-wicket stand to see the hosts home.

Rowledge spent the morning of the Trojans game appearing on Sky Sports' Cricket AM show.

But they were sent crashing down to earth by the Stoneham visitors, who shot them out for a meagre 72.

Tim Flestead (4-19), Paul Douglas (4-8) and Jamie Donaldson (2-29) skittled Rowledge inside 30 overs.

Jamie Sedden's unbeaten 28 got Trojans home before tea.

James Irvine-Fortescue hit an unbeaten 80 and shared a century stand with Jack Jenkins (51) as St Cross Symondians cruised to an eight-wicket win at Havant II.

Havant faded after Dom Carson (70) and Ollie Knight (34) had taken them to 107-1.

Raj Naik (3-39) and Mark Padwick (3-25) did the bulk of the damage.

St Cross had it done and dusted in 46 overs teenagers Irvine-Fortescue and Jenkins doing the bulk of the spadework before Naik's 37 not out settled affairs.