BROCKHAMPTON remain at the top of the Crusader Worcestershire League Division 1 after a thrilling tie against visiting Worcester Nomads.

With the scores level and the last Nomads batsman at the crease, it was down to Herefordshire Minor Counties skipper Chris Boroughs to bowl the last ball and he did not fail his new side, pinning Blake Raymond leg-before to leave the villagers two points clear at the top of the table.

While Boroughs (4-76) played a significant role for Brock-hampton with the ball, it was the home side's skipper Adam Hewlett who was their real hero.

With Nomads in a commanding position at 104-1 from 20 overs, chasing 178 to win, Hewlett decided to introduce himself into the attack and the move paid substantial dividends as he returned 6-23 from 14 accurate overs.

Earlier, Brockhampton had struggled with the bat after being invited to take first strike in a match reduced to 48 overs-a-side.

Dave Mokler (11) and Boroughs, who departed for a rare duck, were quickly dismissed but Ashley Nahorniak (24) and Henry Langford repaired the damage to some extent before Nahorniak was run out.

Two more quick wickets fell but Hewlett (34) engineered another revival, assisting Langford (52) in a sixth wicket stand of 48.

Simon Crump (12) and Johnny Walker (15) also added useful runs in the closing stages of the innings.

A fine hundred by Ollie Bailey and some good seam bowling helped to keep Bromyard in contention in third place in the table after a 93-run success against visiting Bewdley.

The home side were put in to bat on a damp wicket but got off to a good start as Bailey and Ashley Bullock (18) posted 58 for the first wicket.

After that, however, the Bromyard batting was very much a one-man show as only skipper Zahid Saeed (15) and James Hine (14) were stay around for long to support Bailey.

The opener remained untroubled and progressed to an excellent 110, his third century for the Flaggoners Green club, striking 15 fours from the 127 balls he faced.

In reply, Bewdley struggled to combat Shahzad Mahmood's opening spell, slipping to 20-3 before a further rain interruption took the players off the field for half an hour.

But on the resumption the visitors fared no better against Zahid who received excellent support from Hine as the home side cruised to victory.

Shahzad finished with 3-37, Zahid with 4-35 and Hine 3-20 as Bewdley were all out for 98.

Eastnor were destroyed by the son of a cricket legend as they crashed to a 123-run defeat at home to Stourbridge.

The villagers harboured hopes of a success when they began their reply to the visitors' 160 but failed to reckon with Mali Richards, son of West Indies great Sir Viv, who ripped through their batting with a spell of 7-13.

Only Faisal (eight) got past two as Eastnor were ripped out for a paltry 37 - and it might have been even worse as the visitors gave away more than half of that meagre total, 19, in extras.

Earlier, steady bowling by the Eastnor attack had restricted Stourbridge, who had been invited to bat first, to 160 all out.

Adeel took the first three wickets to fall and he received good support in the closing stages from Tom Hurrell (3-29) and veteran Jim Sandford (2-28).