HOOK and Newnham Basics are still searching for their first home Southern League Division One win of the season, after their latest defeat at the King George V Playing Fields against Bournemouth.

Home skipper Matt Love won the toss and elected to field and the Dorset side scored 220-8 from their 50 overs.

In reply, Hook were then bowled out for 180, after being 70-2.

Bournemouth looked set for a much bigger score, when Jake Hurley (80) joined opener Ben Bridgen (55) at the centre.

The second pair took the score to 126-2, before Bridgen’s knock of 122 balls which included six fours and one six was ended.

Hurley continued to keep the scoreboard ticking over and along with Chris Park (16) and Sanrang Urankar (11) they took the score past 200.

Hurley was the fifth man out, as Anik Devicha picked up three late wickets for the home side.

The Bournemouth number three’s innings saw him hit four sixes and five fours at a rate of over a run-a-ball.

From 207-4, the visitors managed to score just 13 more runs for the loss of four wickets as they finished on 220-8.

The Hook reply saw Kieran Thomson (9) the first man out and fellow opener Ben Thane (26) join him in the pavilion with the score on 52.

Matt Buckingham (22) and Love (51) moved the score to 70, before Buckingham was stumped by wicketkeeper Park for one of his three victims.

Bournemouth continued to take wickets at a regular interval, as Hook failed to build the big partnerships they needed to win the game.

Skipper Love tried to steer his side to victory, but when he departed the seventh man out with the score on 162, the Dorset bowlers whipped through the tail, as Hook added just more 18 runs.

Hook will hope to return to winning ways, when they travel to lowly Totton and Eling on Saturday.