Wardens well beaten at home by Barnt Green as Banton shines

Put into bat, the visitors declared at 285-8.

Jacques Banton was their star turn with a magnificent 107, slamming 11 fours and three sixes.

H.J. Cullen added 46, with eight boundaries and a six.

Amrinder Brar also made 35 and shared an 84 run partnership for the fourth wicket with Banton.

Amun Bal claimed 3-41 off his 10 overs.

Wardens were then bowled out for 106 in reply.

Only Alex Wilkinson (29 not out) and Andrew Leering (26) got among the runs as they struggled against the bowling of R.B.S. Venkataraman (4-12 off 15 overs with eight maidens) and Harpreet Singh Brar (4-22 off 17 overs with 10 maidens), who kept the scoring rate down superbly.

In Division Two, Leamington were beaten by 91 runs by visiting league leaders Berkswell.

Asked to bat, the visitors made 253-8, George Baines leading the way with 65, Vansh Jani hitting a half century, Jason Jakeman ending with 3-47.

Leamington's reply fell well short, all out for 162 in 35.1 overs.

Opener Harrison Smith did more than his bit with 53, Samuel Sitch adding 37, Aussie paceman Ryan Sidebottom taking 3-32.

In Warwickshire County League Division Two, Kenilworth produced a crushing 173-run win away at Coventry & North Warwickwickhire.

Kenwilworth had a bad start, losing their first two wickets for 17 runs.

But M. Higgins (73) and C. Shingler (70) steadied the ship as they reached 230-8, P. Singh taking 3-23.

S. Rhodes then set about the home side, taking a magnificent 7-13 off 10 overs as they crumbled to 57 all out in 20.5 overs.

Leaders Warwick also made very light work of visiting Attock to win by nine wickets.

Choosing to bat, Attock were bowled out for 76 in 22.2 overs, Tom Spencer with 5-13 and Rajinder Singh 3-21.

Warwick needed only 12.3 overs to knock off the needed 12.3 overs, Kaustubh Peddi with 30 of them.