The Rams entertained their first home crowd of the season against a weakened Malmesbury side with a fine win by 242 runs.

On a warm afternoon the home captain, Tony Gardner, elected to bat first and made a significant contribution of 106 runs in his team's total of 266 for 5 from their 40 overs. Richard Hall played a great supporting knock of 45, but the batting star of the day has to be young Tom Hemming who, at 13 years of age, racked up an unbeaten 73 off just 69 balls and played shots to all parts of the ground collecting 9 boundaries along the way.

The Malmesbury reply never got going, with Darren Hall (2 for 16) and Dan Binding (4 for 7) wrapping up the away batting in short time.

A sound victory for Northleach Town, collecting maximum points, and are looking forward to a trip to Tetbury next weekend.