Goresbrook’s first eleven were thwarted by the rain against league leaders, Oakfield Parkonians, at the M & B Sports Ground on Saturday. Home skipper Jordan Calverley won the toss and invited the visitors to bat first .

‘Brook’s attack made early inroads into ‘Park’s top order with Ted Ivory, Shane Barwick and Daryl Forward all bagging a scalp apiece. Umar Choudhury kept his nerve in compiling an excellent 60 but become the first of pacemen Kane Messenger’s two wickets at a cost of 60. Spinner, Hussain Chowdhury, marked his first team debut, by claiming a brace of victims in a fine spell of 2 for 36 as a solid performance in the field restricted the visitors to 209 for 7 from their allotted 50 overs.

The heavens then opened and play was abandoned as a draw at tea.