A BOUNDARY-LADEN unbeaten century from opener Ben Cooke swept Colwall to a crushing 10-wicket win over Bromyard in Division One of the Worcestershire League.

Cooke struck 23 fours in his 113 not out off 89 balls and along with Nick Panniers (53 not out off 56 balls) eased Colwall past Bromyard’s 182 all out on 185-0 off only 24 overs.

Tom Coleman had done most of the damage to the Bromyard batting with 6-29 off 10 overs, with Dinusha Fernando (50) one of his six victims. Bromyard were 97-1 at one stage but then fell away once opener Fernando was back in the pavilion to surrender their last nine wickets for just 85 runs.

Burghill and Tillington pulled themselves away from the relegation zone with a confidence-boosting six-wicket victory at Hagley.

They were 76-3 chasing Hagley’s 249-7 but Owen Morgan (42 not out) and Ed Symonds (41) added 56 for the fourth wicket and then Morgan and William Oliver (74 not out) saw them home in the 46th over with an unbroken partnership of 119 for the fifth wicket. Oliver batted for 67 balls and hit eight fours.

Wormelow came agonisingly close to beating Stourport-on-Severn in Division Two.

Lee Watkins took 4-41 in helping dismiss Stourport for 224 and Wormelow were looking good at 120-2 and then 180-4. But after opener Brent Hartley departed for 91 (including ten fours and a six) wickets tumbled and Wormelow finished up on 221-9 off 50 overs.

In Division Three promotion-chasing Bartestree and Lugwardine hurried to a ten-wicket cruise against visiting Ross.

Openers Ben Simpkin (27 not out) and Kieran Smith (83 not out off just 38 balls) required only 13.2 overs to overhaul Ross’s 114 all out. Smith was particularly brutal on the Ross bowlers, cracking 15 fours and two big sixes. Joe Beach (3-14) and Luke Sparrow (3-14) had earlier worked their way through the Ross batting, with Daniel Barnard hitting 23.

Brockhampton’s batting came up short as they went down to a slender 20-run defeat to Kidderminster Victoria in the Premier Division of the Birmingham and District League.

Seamer Nick Powell led the way with 5-34 as Brockhampton dismissed Kidderminster for 190 in 47.3 overs, and at 100-4 in reply they looked to have set up a winning platform.

But that soon became 124-8 and though No.9 batsman Callum Stewart wagged the tail with 34 off 45 balls, Brock were bowled out for 170 in the 48th over.

Shameer Ahmed (ten fours in his 75) and Atiq Ur Rehman (55 off 50 balls) were the mainstays for bottom-of-the-table Eastnor as they overcame a mid-innings crisis to reach 200 all out against Division Two visitors Old Elizabethans.

They were in danger of a dramatic collapse when they slipped from 127-2 to 148-7 but Tareq Jamil then weighed in with a dogged 18.

However Eastnor’s efforts proved in vain when Old Elizabethans put together a match-winning 205-3 in reply following an opening partnership of 102 between Jamie Boyle (57) and Damon Gariff (58).