Barnards Green defeat sends Kenilworth Wardens rock bottom

Wardens were bowled out for 195 after choosing to bat first.

Harry Johnson hit an unbeaten 78, backed by 54 from Oliver Dandy, but the innings belonged to Chris Steele, who took 7-46 in his 17 overs.

Green then cruised home to 196-2, thanks largely to an unbeaten 101 from Rehaan Edavalath, which included 17 boundaries.

He shared in a 115 second wicket partnership with Oliver Halion (40) before he and Jevan Kher (40) knocked off the other 65 runs needed, Kher with seven fours and a six.

A draw for fellow strugglers Moseley saw this result dump Wardens onto the bottom of the table.

Leamington were beaten by 84 runs at home to Old Hill in Premier Division Two.

Old Hill made 236-6, captain Bilal Hassan with 88 plus unbeaten knocks of 42 by Harry Davenport and 26 by S.P. Keeling-Wright. Archie Walker took 3-45.

Leamington were then bowled out for 152 as Old Hill's triple attack of Aamir Manzoor (4-48), Keeling-Wright (3-50) and Saad Naseem (3-40) tore through the home side.

James Hawkins was caught two runs short of his half-century while Harrison Smith and Samuel Sitch added 28 apiece.

Leamington seconds, who are in the bottom two, picked up 12 vital points in a losing draw away at Streetly in the Warwickshire County League Premier Division.

Choosing to bat, the home side made 273 all out, Joshua White hitting 88, with nine boundaries and five sixes, and Wahab Shahid 50 not out after openers Matt Hinton (29) and Adam Hussain (43) had put on an opening stand of 55. Harry Thompson took 3-55.

Leamington ended up 43 runs short on 230-8, Seb Bainbridge with 11 boundaries in his 66, Freddie Ackerman with 33, Jack Hawkes 29 not out and Orlando Briggs 25.

Zakhir Ahmed ended with figures of 5-59.

A nervy Warwick were made to work hard for their one wicket win over fourth-placed Corley and remain top of Division Two.

They bowled out the visitors for 145, Aravind Rajagopalan taking a fine 4-11, Paul Williams scoring 40.

But Corley had Warwick floundering at 61-6, Andrew Oates ending with 4-14.

James Sood (47) and Tom Spencer (17) calmed matters but the ninth wicket fell a run short of drawing level at 144 leaving Jamie Coleman to strike a winning four on the first ball of the 42nd over to take his side to 148-9.

Third-placed Kenilworth beat visiting bottom side Ambleside by 50 runs.

The home side were dismissed for 171, Marco Higgins scoring 39, Daniel Horner 32 and Adam Huxford 26; Darun Kaliray the pick of the bowlers with 4-26.

Paul Lawrence (4-31) and Connor Shingler (4-22) then set about the visitors, who crumbled to 121 all out, Jason Fox top-scoring with 32.