Magnificent seven wins in a row for table-topping Newborough, while Notts player stars for Market Deeping
Newborough Bulls made it seven wins in a row to stay in control of the Lincs Championship South title race.
The villagers avenged their only defeat of the season by strolling to a six-wicket win at fourth-placed Orton Park. Tom Shipman (5-42) did most to undermine the home side as they were dismissed for just 106. Charlie Johnson and Shiva Teekasingh collected two wickets apiece as no Orton batsman reached 20.
Aussie Jack Stokes struck 48 for Newborough who raced home inside 19 overs. The opener already has 634 Championship runs at an average in excess of 90.
Newborough have a nine-point lead over Boston, who crushed Bourne seconds by 218 runs yesterday, with Market Deeping 11 points further back in third after their six-wicket win over Skegness.
Lyndon James, a Deeping man who plays first-class cricket for Notts, made a rare appearance in this game and predictably dominated it with bowling figures of 5-29 and an unbeaten innings of 72 from 69 balls. Deeping dismissed their visitors for 128.
Standings: 1 Newborough 164pts, 2 Boston P10 155pts, 3 Market Deeping P9 144pts, 4 Orton Park P9 132pts, 5 Skegness P9 115 pts, 6 Ketton Sports P96pts, 7 Moulton Harrox P9 85pts, 8 Sleaford 2nds P9 67pts, Grantham 2nds P9 66pts, 10 Bourne 2nds P8 37pts.
In Division One South Castor stormed to a 117-run win at Burghley Park seconds with Ryan Evans smacking an unbeaten 70 from just 44 balls and Alfie Armstrong making 57 in a team total of 282-5. Captain Stuart Dockerill and Shaun Dunn picked up three wickets each in Burghley’s reply.
Baston pipped Newborough seconds by one wicket in a low-scoring Division Two South match with vital contributions coming from Rajendra Rowthu (5-24), David Conlon (3-10), Sam Webster (39) and Ben Hudson (32).
Adam Renton cracked 126 as Ketton Sports seconds pipped Long Sutton seconds by 10 runs, while Jason Dunn (4-34 & 48) was the star for Castor seconds who beat Royal Boston seconds by three wickets in Division Three South.
In the Premier Division Bourne slipped from second to fourth after losing by six wickets at Scunthorpe despite a defiant 52 not out (out of 127) from Robert Dunn and Burghley Park went down by four wickets at Grimsby after being dismissed for 207.
Spalding became the latest victims of Woodhall Spa pro Tayyib Tahir who hit 215 of his side’s 338-8 to set up a 93-run win. Tahir faced 172 balls and struck 31 4s and three 6s. He now has a competition high 863 runs at an average of 108.