DEVASTATING bowling brought Woodhouse Grange their third Davidstow Village Cup title with a crushing ten wicket victory over Great and Little Tew at Lord’s in the final.

Skipper Nick Hadfield and his side won the premier competition for village clubs for the first time since 2007 with a dominating and impressive display.

After the Oxfordshire outfit made the surprising decision to bat after winning the toss, with grey clouds surrounding the home of English cricket and a greenish-looking pitch, Grange’s formidable attack strangled the Tew top order.

They reduced them from 44-1 to 60-5 in a sensational spell between the 14th and 17th overs and Tew limped to 114 all out – not even able to complete their allocated 40 overs.

Man-of-the-match David Suddaby did most damage with the ball, his nine overs bringing three wickets and the priced scalps of Jordan Garrett and Harry Smith.

But Josh Jackson and Steve Burdett, with two wickets each, and Andrew Horner, Hadfield and Chris Suddaby also got in on the act as Grange wiped away the disappointment of defeats in 2008 and 2012.

Grange’s openers, Hadfield and Andrew Bilton, made chasing the meagre total look a simple task – the latter, in particular, displaying a series of classy strokes in a 63-ball half century, which included eight fours.

He looked to finish the task in style, two bludgeoned sixes and a crashing boundary in the 22nd over bringing the end in sight, before Hadfield (43 not out) appropriately struck the winning runs with a boundary of his own. Bilton finished on 70 from just 69 balls with ten fours and two sixes.

Grange were on top from the start.

David Suddaby and Steve Burdett tied openers Joe White and Ashley Hubbert down from the outset and there were only 14 runs on the board when the first wicket fell in the fifth over.

Joe White wafted at a high and wide delivery and Andrew Bilton, at third man, superbly stretched above his head to reel the ball in.

Tew recovered to 44-1 after 13 overs but, then, the Sutton-on-Derwent side ran riot. Jackson struck first with a straight ball to dismiss Ashley Hubbert – his score of 17 would be his side’s highest - before David Suddaby showed enormous character.

Smith top-edged a ball over mid-wicket and was caught but the umpire signalled a no-ball. It could have been a crushing blow for the bowler, who played in the two earlier losing finals without taking a wicket.

But he came back the very next ball and had Garrett plumb lbw. Markus Jeacock then lasted just one of Suddaby’s deliveries as he played across the line and departed the same way.

When Smith, who was starting to get expansive, was bowled through the gate trying to work the ball through the offside, Suddaby had ripped the heart out of the Tew line-up.

His colleagues continued to heap on the pressure. Horner dispatched Robbie Catling’s middle stump with a savage delivery and Jackson steamed in to collect Andy Harris’ wicket from his own bowling.

Robbie Shurmer knocked off his own leg stump, from Hadfield’s bowling, and Chris Suddaby caught and bowled Lloyd Brock low down at his ankles.

Tew were trying to flail the bat around but it was in vain. Steve Burdett wrapped up the their innings – Chris Bilton catching a high shot from Ian Bryan in front of cover – and Grange merely needed to clock off the runs to record a wonderful victory.

They did so with a ball shy of 17 overs still remaining.