YORK Cricket Club recorded back-to-back wins in the Solly Sports Yorkshire ECB County Premier League with victory by 68 runs at Doncaster Town.

Simon Lambert’s half-century made in testing conditions proved decisive for the visitors to collect maximum points from their first away match of the season.

York won the toss and chose to bat but a combination of accurate bowling and a slow outfield, following heavy rain the previous evening, made scoring difficult.

Adam Whatley was one of two batsmen dismissed in the opening 20 overs, which yielded only 63 runs, the opener dragging a rare loose delivery straight to mid-wicket. Liam McKendry spooned a simple catch in the same area.

Ryan McKendry joined opener Lambert at the crease and the pair took the score to 86 by the mid- point, and three sixes in four balls straight after the drinks break took Lambert to a second successive half-century. Poor communication resulted in his run-out six balls later for 57, keeper Sonny Day-Tennant removing the bails.

The young glove-man also took a catch to dismiss McKendry (24) off-spinner Graeme Attenborough leaving York on 118-4.

The loss of two further wickets before the score had reached 150 set them back further.

Nick Kay made 25 and was beginning to dominate but he failed to beat Cox’s accurate throw. Three wickets in the closing five overs meant Attenborough finished with 3-45 and Brown’s 4-45.

The home side’s reply began badly when Cox went to a sharply taken catch by Love at mid-on in Chris Burn’s second over.

Stuart Guy was trapped lbw by Whatley who then took a good low catch at slip in Charlie Elliot’s first over to remove Attenborough.

A stand of 33 between Luke Townsend and skipper Alex Gosney pushed the total past 100. Tom Pringle, who finished with 2-18, bowled four consecutive maidens, to apply the brakes, while Kay took 2-30.