ECB Cockspur Cup Club Championships.

Totton & Eling (140-6) beat Havant (140 all out).

Totton & Eling are through to the national phase of the ECB Cockspur Cup club championships after a dramatic last ball win at Havant on Sunday (July 1).

A leg-bye off the final ball of a rain-trimmed 38-over match enabled them to tie the scores at 140 each - and scramble into the last 16 by virtue of losing fewer wickets.

They will visit the winners of the rain-delayed tie between Ealing and Henley - they meet this Sunday - on July 15.

Chasing what appeared a modest target on a predictably damp surface was never going to be easy for Totton, who needed to score a run a ball to win from ten overs out.

Fortunes ebbed and flowed throughout a fascinating contest, which Totton skipper David Banks described as: "our best game this season by far."

Totton scored a key early blow when James Hibberd (3-28) bowled the dangerous Steve Dean without scoring.

But the visitors, who had Havant on the rack at 47 for 6 in last week's rained off Premier League match between the pair, were decidedly on the back foot when Lawrie Prittipaul, the former Hampshire batsman, was at the crease.

Prittipaul made 73, a class knock, and generally underpinned the Havant innings, which disintegrated upon his dismissal.

He added 51 with Ben Walker, but from a promising 100 for 2 in the 22nd over, Havant sank to 140 all out - the last eight wickets falling for 40 runs!

David Banks (2-22) broke the stand before Havant lost six wickets - four of them to spinner Paul Franklin (4-12) - before their innings ended after 34.2 overs.

"I thought we bowled well, particularly in the second half of Havant's innings, but Lawrie (Prittipaul) batted superbly," Banks said.

Richard Pineo gave Havant an early lift when he trapped Lee Savident leg before, but Damian Shirazi and Derek Kenway remodeled the innings.

They took Totton to 60 for 1, but when Richard Hindley (2-10) deceived Kenway (26) in the flight, it became tougher for the reigning SPL champions.

And when Hindley, who proved particularly difficult to get away, got Ricky Rawlins caught in the deep at 80 for 3 in the 26th over, Totton still needed 61 off the last ten.

Shirazi (55), pictured, kept Totton very much in the hunt, but he holed out to Ben Walker at 107 for 4 in the 33rd over to put the outcome back in the balance.

Totton required 34 off six overs, 28 from four and 20 off the last three.

The sweep-happy Banks took crucial runs off Phil Loat, but just when James Hibberd (19) needed to keep a cool head he was repeatedly deceived by Prittipaul's slower deliveries and eventually bowled having a heave at Pineo.

Totton, needing six runs to level the scores at 140 off Pineo's final over, benefited by two shots through mid-wicket by Archie Norris, who was run out at 139 for 6 off the penultimate ball.

Banks needed to get a bat - or boot - on Pineo's very last ball.

It struck his pad and, despite a loud appeal by the bowler, Banks and Franklin scampered the match leveling - and winning - run.