Goresbrook set themselves up for victory with an excellent performance with the ball but their good early work was undone and they ultimately, crashed to a 33 run reversal at May Bakers Sports Ground on Saturday.

Visiting Captain, Paran Kalley won the toss and elected to bat but was soon rueing his decision as pacemen Ted Ivory (4 for 52) and skipper Kane Messenger (3 for 31) had Parks’ reeling at 38 for 6. ‘Keeper Klaine Fernando showed his top order how to deal with the home attack, buckling down for 74 balls, compiling an excellent 62. Fernando received excellent support from teenager Navine Sureshan (25) the pair lifting Oakfield Parkonians back into the match with a pivotal 7th wicket stand worth 74 runs. A brace of late wickets from Phil Thoufick ( 2 for 16) wrapped up the visitors’ innings for 161.

After tea Brook’ got off to the worst possible start with both Jordan Calverley and Thoufick back in the hutch without troubling the scorer. Shane Barwick (44) and Lee Jones (21) briefly steadied the ship and Muhammad Attuallah (19) and Kaushik Yelari (16) chipped in with support in the middle order but Sri Lankan one day International, Priyamal Parera, atoned for his earlier golden duck with a five-wicket haul, reducing the Dagenham outfit to 128 and defeat by 33 runs.

Goresbrook 1st 128 all out from 26.3 Overs (5 points) lost to Oakfield Parkonians 1st 161 all out from 44.1 Overs (25 points) by 33 runs