Town go top (From Western Telegraph)

Town go top

Pembroke (61 all out) lost to Haverfordwest (62 for 1) Umpires: Dai Morris and Barry Wood Scorer: Jayne Cole (HWest)

Haverfordwest motored back to the top of the table as they easily beat Pembroke at Treleet, bowling out the homesters for 61 on a wicket that gave encouragement to all the bowlers - and then racing to their target in only 13.1 overs as rain threatened.

It was a good all-round display by The Town as they had six bowlers among the wickets, held six catches as they were strong in the field, and had Karl Rhead and Phil Kirkby to maintain their recent batting form.

Pembroke never recovered from their early batting problems as they collapsed to 19 for 4 and then 33 for 7 as not one batsman managed double figures, Nigel Phillips and Kevin Jenkins top-scoring with nine runs apiece.

The Town made early inroads as Adrian Griffiths had Barry Evans caught by keeper Huw Scriven and Paul Thomas also bowled Hugh Davies for a duck at the same score of five in a tight spell where he gave away just ten runs in nine overs.

Adrian Griffiths was forced to stop bowling after the fifth ball of his third over as he tweaked a groin muscle but Simon Williams came on and bowled Paul White for a duck and had Matthew Mitchell well caught at long leg by Dai Davies.

Dai Davies took another good catch to help Clive Tucker remove William Davies, running round from mid-wicket to pouch a skier, and Gareth Scourfield followed without scoring when he was caught by Williams off the canny spin bowler.

Kirkby joined the fray to grab the wicket of Nigel Phillips, caught at long-off by the limping Griffiths - and then Steve Phillips wrapped the innings with the last three wickets, all clean bowled.

Pembroke hopes of snatching something out of the match were given an early boost as Martin Fletcher took a good catch to shift Dai Davies for a single, home skipper Gwyn Griffiths the delighted bowler, but then Rhead was joined by Kirkby in an unbroken stand of 60 which saw Rhead end up with two fours and a six in 28 and Kirkby take his toll on off-spinner Phillips with a six and four fours in his 30 from 31 deliveries as Haverfordwest re-crossed the Cleddau Bridge with an important 27-point win in their pockets since rivals Carew were without a game because of Kilgettys demise.