Ross captain Jack Donovan had plenty to smile about after leading his side to a four wicket win against Brockhampton at The Park last Saturday.

Not only were his bowling figures of 7 wickets for just 6 runs his best ever return in senior matches but the 22-year-old also passed the milestone of 200 wickets for the club in all competitions.

After the deluge of rain in the lead up to the game, the ground crew worked on the pitch, outfield and outlying areas all day on Friday and again on Saturday morning to enable the game to go ahead and Donovan then won an important toss, asking the visitors to bat first. Veteran Paul Morris was making his first team debut and he opened the bowling with Chloe Tingle.

After the Brock openers added 20 the wickets started to fall, Morris (2-19) made the initial breakthrough, first inducing a drive that was excellently caught at mid-on by Alex Springer and, one run later, seeing off the Brock captain Will Morrall, caught behind by wicketkeeper Jim Lewis. Tingle (1-31) then took the third wicket with the score at 22 when Charlie Cole held the first of his two fantastic catches at slip, this one being a diving one handed effort.

From this point on, Donovan took centre stage as he removed all the remaining batsmen with a superb display of swing bowling. Five of the batsmen were clean bowled, one was lbw and one courtesy of a two handed catch above his head by Cole at slip. Brock were indebted to Chris Price, who made 21 batting at number three and a last wicket stand of 35 between Charlie Davies, who top scored with 33 and Mark Evans as they limped to 99 all out inside 33 overs. The Ross skipper ended with figures of 8.2-4-6-7 and the whole team produced an excellent display of ground fielding and catching to maintain control throughout the innings.

After tea, Ross openers Mike Jeffryes and Angus McIntyre set about the run chase and Jeffryes was soon peppering the straight boundaries with some huge hitting. The burly opener struck 4 fours and 3 sixes in a 45 ball half century to send Ross on their way and after he was fourth out with the score on 67, it was down to the Ross youngsters to finish the job. Alex Springer proved to be well up to the task as he played a controlled innings of 18 not out to see Ross to the victory target with four wickets in hand and 17 overs to spare.

The 22 points earned sees Ross move up to 6th in the league and a nice confidence boost as the team now go in search of a first away win of the season at Abergavenny this weekend.