Readers County Durham League: Willington extended their 100 per cent record to five games with a comfortable victory following a low-scoring game at Brandon.

The rain-affected wicket made scoring difficult and the leaders were grateful for a half century from Chris Slattery who found the boundary line on five occasions, contributing 55 to the modest total of 127 made from 45 overs.

David Christie was in splendid form with the ball for Brandon and his ten overs stint earned him five wickets for just 33 runs.

It was Slattery though who took the man-of-the-match honours and he followed up his batting heroics by capturing four Brandon wickets for 32 runs in 10 overs. Gary Cummings gave admirable support, conceding just 19 runs from his ten overs spell and Brandon were all out for only 87.

Kimblesworth made it four wins out of five with a huge victory at home to Mainsforth who were all out in 19.3 overs with just 59 runs on the board.

Their batsmen found it difficult against the twin pace attack of captain Stephen Meek and Nigel Darling who both took five wickets. Darling's 9.3-overs spell cost just 17 runs while Meek conceded 40 runs from his ten overs.

In contrast to the Mainsforth innings, runs flowed freely when Kimblesworth made first use of the wicket. Opener Meek led by example, hitting a six and four boundaries out of 46 and Australian Shannon O'Hara maintained his good form making 30.

The impetus was maintained by Adam Cochrane with 45 and late contributions from Nigel Darling and David Showler meant that Mainsforth faced a formidable task at the halfway stage. Gary Purcell produced a good spell in the visiting attack ending with five for 42 in 12 overs.

Langley Park were all out with just two balls of their 45 overs remaining in their home fixture with Evenwood.

Five bowlers, Billy Teasdale, John Maughan, Yjoty Yadav, David Jacobs and Lee Forster all took two wickets as Langley ended on 142.

A second-wicket partnership between Teasdale, whose 60 included a six and five boundaries, and Chris Peareth (31) laid the foundations for Evenwood's total of 210, which also included a valuable 70 by Yadav. He hit a couple of sixes and nine fours.

Langley Park used six bowlers in their attack and the most successful was Peter Caufield with figures of three for 30 from 7.1 overs.

The remaining matches at Crook Town, Etherley and Ushaw Moor were washed out without a ball being bowled.