None of the 22 batsmen on parade reached the magical 25 mark when Malton & Old Malton lost their unbeaten division two record at table-topping Sewerby.

Adrian Long’s 6-29 wrecked the Malton innings which only totalled 88.

Wayne Dawson hit back with 3-17 but Sewerby clocked up their third win with four wickets in hand.

Struggling Londesbrough Park lost for the third time as York III gained their first outright win.

For the city club, Karl Waite made 68 and Gary Fenton 45 to help them to 180-9 with Sam Medley taking 5-42.

He then hit 60 in the home reply but Steve Beales took 3-32 and Fenton 3-43 as the game moved to an interesting finale. The positive result came off the penultimate delivery when the final wicket fell to a run out to leave Londesbrough perishing by five runs.

Rain had the final word at Pocklington when the second innings was prematurely ended after 41 overs at which point bottom-placed Dringhouses had made 180-4 in reply to the hosts’ 224-6. Each side took 12 points.

There were home half-centuries by Ted Donkin (50) and Neil Jackson (66) with handy input from Matt Atkinson (26) and Alex Downey (25no). Their combined efforts enabled Pocklington to post a good target despite 3-68 by Mick Kenyon. His son Andy followed with 40 and Ian Wilson made 38. Chris Evans was poised on 49no when the rain came.

Bolton Percy gained a comfortable five-wicket win at Ripon.

Chris Warters hit 56no in a below-par Ripon score of 142, which was prematurely terminated when Ali Rigby grabbed four wickets for four runs. Percy’s reply of 144-5 came via Matt Westwood (40) and new county councillor Richard Musgrave, who made 26.