The firsts, without a win to their name so far this season, entertained a confident Woodhall Spa side at Sleaford's London Road ground.

The visitors were buoyed by two opening game victories that have seen them take an early lead in the Premier League table.

Sleaford won the toss and elected to bat but, in the face of some destructive bowling by Aaron Onyon, their innings was soon reduced to a debacle.

In a batting display the home side will wish to quickly forget, only Steve Bradford, with 13, reached double figures, as six Sleaford batsmen were sent back to the pavilion without troubling the scorers.

The fact that extras, at 20, top scored underlined what a poor batting display it was, with Sleaford suffering the humiliation of being all out for 44 off 20.1 overs.
Onyon ended with stunning figures of 7 for 24.

To rub salt into the wounds, Woodhall knocked off the required runs in only 8.1 overs for the loss of one wicket, with Luffman hitting a quick-fire 32 not out.

The nine-wicket victory maintained Woodhall's position at the top of the table, while Sleaford are currently lying third from bottom.

*IN the other ECB Premier League games, defending champions Bracebridge Heath went on the rampage in their match against league newcomers Haxby.

Rob Cook set a new league individual record when he hit 243 of Bracebridge's total of 384 for three. He took full advantage of the short boundary at Haxey, hitting 16 sixes which forced Haxey to station two people in the adjoining field to collect the ball. Cook also recorded 19 fours while skipper Mark Fell hit 111.

In reply, Haxey began well, reaching 91 for one but from there they fell away to an all out total of 126.
Messingham and Market Deeping kept up their tradition of high scoring matches. Messingham notched up 240 for seven, with Ian Dawson top scoring on 76, but Tom Andrews eclipsed this performance with an unbeaten 142 and, with David Gillett (73no), took Deeping to a seven wicket win.

Australian players were to the forefront at Caistor, where Marc Watkins hit 84 of the home side's total of 180 for eight. Bourne's Mark Fotheringham then helped his side to a six wicket win with an unbeaten 55.

And at Lindum, the home side were all out for 179 in the final over, before visitors Nettleham claimed a three wicket win.

Louth moved back up the table at the expense of Grimsby. They scored 210 for eight, of which Graham West hit 50, and then Nuwan Shiroman's six for 21 reduced Grimsby to 154 all out.