CHESHIRE bats Danny Leech and Ben Spendlove carried Oulton Park to victory in the ECB Premiership.

They shared a unbeaten stand of 220 with Leech on 130 and Spendlow 94, but Park are still three points behind Hyde, who won by seven wickets.

On a batsman friendly wicket it was only the Oulton Park spinners who had any success. Nathan Dumelow took 2-68 and Chris Jones 5-63 to hasten the end of the Toft innings, in which the last seven wickets fell for jut 55 runs.

It was Oulton's sixth win on the trot and the Cheshire Cup holders made further progress in this season's competition by winning at Bramhall on Sunday.

County skipper Andy Hall made 173 and Danny Jones took 3-41 as Bramhall ended on 277-5, a challenge worthy of the Oulton bats. They reached 281-3 via Chris Bassano (132), Dumelow (82no), Leech and Spendlove (both 34) and now meet Alderley Edge at home in the quarter-finals.

Oulton 2nds 215ao lost to Irby 2nds 290-2 - Cheshire Under 17 Chris Blake made a magnificent 121, but it was not enough.

Middlewich 240-6 Mobberley 268-7

MIDDLEWICH'S run chase came up agonisingly short against Mobberley for the second time in five days.

In the midweek Twenty20 tie, the teams both finished on 180 runs, but Middlewich went out by virtue of having lost more wickets.

In the Division Two clash they were marginally second best again.

Mobberley posted a commanding score, though Middlewich stuck to their task and removed wickets via Stuart Price (4-54) and Gavin Tomlinson (2-46) for bonus points.

In reply Middlewich began strongly and openers James Prime (54) and Andrew Cole (34) constructed a solid 102 run partnership for the first wicket. Both Jamie Williams (14) and Phil Parry (20) got starts but were unable to build on them to produce match winning scores.

At 145-5 the main objective was to surpass the 180 run target within the 45 overs to achieve maximum batting points. However the superb Chris Ainley (74no) and skipper Rich Clorley clearly believed the target was obtainable, at least until Clorley fell with the score on 231.

Winnington Park 182-9dec Didsbury 183-6

WINNINGTON sank to the bottom of Division One following Cheadle Hulme's shock 114 runs victory over leaders Chester Boughton Hall as well as their own defeat at the Rec.

Wicketkeeper Dave Hine top scored with 66 and Aidan Baker (46) and Paul Sinclair (31) also batted well. But the total proved easy enough for Didsbury despite the attempts of Vishnu Bhardwa (4-55) to make it otherwise.