CHESTER Boughton Hall’s chances of taking anything from their clash with County League champions Nantwich were undermined by a sudden batting collapse.

Hall were going relatively well on 115-4 in response to the Dabbers’ score of 203-8 at Whitehouse Lane, but their resistance crumbled and they ended up being all out for 128.

Jimmy Warrington was the chief destroyer, blowing the second half of Chester’s batting line-up away to finish with figures of 5-40 off 15.3 overs.

Nantwich had decided to bat first after winning the toss.

New Chester signing Ian Linwood made the breakthrough with the score on 61, before Jack Williams had Ollie Law trapped LBW with the score on 101.

Linwood (5-56) and Williams (3-55) continued to take wickets at regular intervals to restrict Nantwich to 203-8 off their 55 overs. Cheshire player Jonny Kettle top scored for Nantwich with a patient 84.

In reply, Mark Rowland and Mike Robinson opened up for Chester and put on 29 before Rowland snicked behind for 22.

Lee Dixon followed shortly afterwards before Robinson and Aussie Kumar Sarna put on a useful 62, before Sarna departed for 28.

Robinson was next to go for 43 with the score 115, but then came the batting collapse as Chester lost their last seven wickets for only 13 runs.

Elsewhere in the Premier Division, NESTON lost their unbeaten record at Alderley Edge, where their batsmen mustered a below par 145 (Andy Murphy 55). Jason Whittaker bowled unchanged to claim 7-33.

Alan Day and Adam Worrall, who had carried their side to victory at Chester the previous week, did it again to clinch a five-wicket win with knocks of 50 and 46 respectively as Edge finished on 146-5.

Warren Goodwin returned from injury to help fire Chester Boughton Hall into the third round of the Kingfisher National Knockout on Sunday.

Goodwin, who has missed the early weeks of the season with a hand injury, scored a breezy 45 off 44 balls in the victory over Wallasey at Filkins Lane.

Opting to bat first, Chester racked up a mammoth total of 301-7 off their 45 overs, including 51 extras and a magnificent 117 from 83 balls from Lee Dixon.

Alex Kegg then bowled beautifully for his 2-31 and part-time bowler Olly Thompson finished with figures of 4-22 as Wallasey were all out for a total of 193 off 39.2 overs.