LECHLADE left their bowlers with too much to do as they came up short against Thornbury to lose at home by six wickets.

The hosts were bowled out for 220 at the Manor Ground with just over four overs remaining.

The match appeared to swing in Lechlade’s favour as they had their visitors on the ropes at 2-2 but an unbeaten 113 from Sam Summerfield and an injury to bowler Luke Sellers sealed the fate for Joe Breet’s side.

“You can’t take anybody in our league lightly and we didn’t, but on the day they played better and we didn’t play too well,” said the skipper.

“I thought we had fallen a bit short with the target we set them after not batting our full 50 overs.

“You need to be batting your full overs and I think we needed a score of around 250 to have had a chance of winning.

“I want to say the guys that got in should have made big fifties or hundreds but they didn’t and that is why we had an average score for our team.

“We started off well with the ball and had them two down for five or six runs but Luke Sellars, our opening bowler, pulled up with a side injury.

“That sort of changed the dynamics of the game and everybody else had to pull in and bowl the extra overs, but that is not an excuse.

“I think the result could have been different if he bowled his full 10 overs.”

Breet won the toss and elected to bat but again found himself back in the pavilion with only five to his name.

However, Miles Hammond and Brad Dial took the score to 75 before Hammond (42) played a loose shot and was caught by Summerfeld.

Freddie Martin followed quickly for one and Dial (39) went one ball before drinks leaving Lechlade on 130 for 4.

Benny Ellis played fluently for 48, but when his cameo to an end, with a careless shot, the writing was on the wall and Lechlade were bowled out for 220 in 45.4 overs.

The total did not look so poor when both Sellers and Hammond struck in their first overs reducing Thornbury to 2-2.

At 13-2 in the eighth over the visitors were struggling but then Sellers had to leave the attack his injury and after that none of the other bowlers were able to make the breakthrough.

Summerfield completed a well made century, racing to 113* off 127 balls to guide Thornbury to a comfortable six wicket win in the 44th over.