St Cross Symondians face a summer-long battle against relegation from the SEPL top flight after suffering a 92-run 'basement battle' defeat to Bashley (Rydal).
Neither club had won a match prior to meeting at the tree-lined Royal Green Jackets ground and frailties in the respective batting departments produced a relatively low scoring affair.
St Cross had been satisfied with their afternoon's early work, restricting Bashley to 158-8.
But their inexperienced batting line up folded like a pack of cards to 66 all out against a predominately seam attack.
"We've lost our top three from last season - New Zealander Sam Fairley, Hampshire's Jimmy Adams and his brother Ben - so runs have been hard to come by so far," admitted St Cross president Jigger Jenkins.
For Mike Vimpany's full round-up of the Southern Electric Premier League, see today's Daily Echo.
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