Hucknall still waiting for first NPL win while Papplewick and Linby beat Mansfield

Caythorpe chose to bat at the toss, recovering from a couple of early wickets with a century stand between James Oldham (42) and Hishaam Khan.

Khan went passed his own half century, falling for 69 as Hucknall applied the brakes to their visitors by taking wickets at regular intervals.

The final tally was 207 for 8 as Jake Wright took 3 for 43 and Dane Straw 3 for 46. Robin Maxwell and Vinay Landa (33) got the chase going, putting on a 64-run stand.

Sam Wood added 30 and Joshua Downie 31 as all of the top 5 in the order made starts. At 157 for 3, victory looked well within reach, but the return of Khan to the bowling attack turned things around.

He took 4 for 36 to stall the chase such that 13 runs were needed from the final over with the last wicket pair together.

A pair of boundaries dented that but, Caythorpe held their nerve to eke out a two -run victory.

Papplewick & Linby got the better of Mansfield Hosiery Mills by seven wickets.

The home side chose to bat after the toss, but Daniel Blatherwick (3 for 14) and George Baltherwick (3 for 23) proved too good to handle as the Millers were skittled for 93.

The visitors needed just over 22 overs to reach their target, for the loss of 3 wickets. Ben Trevor-Jones top scoring with 26.

Elsewhere, last season’s champions Kimberley were beaten by one run against Cuckney,

Cuckney struggled after electing to bat and lost early and regular wickets.But, lead by 38 from Will Butler and 37 from Tom Ullyott, Cuckney pushed up to 189 all out, leaving one over unused. Despite the loss of an early wicket, Kimberley appeared to be on their way to a fourth win in four games with Matt Taylor (44) and Tom Rowe out in the middle. The pair had added 93 together, Rowe reaching a half century, but when he was run out on 53 things got interesting. Cuckney kept chipping away at the wickets such that the last pair came together with 18 runs wanted from two overs. They managed 11 in the penultimate over and needed only two from the final three balls, before David France took the final wicket.