Stamford Bridge's West Indian star Lorenzo Ingram became the fastest player to reach 1,000 runs in a season when he achieved the landmark in the 12th division one match of the campaign.

Ingram started the day requiring 17 runs to achieve the landmark and reached well beyond this requirement when he took 116 off the Tadcaster Magnet attack to clock up his fifth league century of the season. Pete Milner added support with 34 to counter Magnet skipper Paul Clark's 5-64 and take the Bridge to 223-9.

Clark then followed with 38 but his side were never in with a chance of matching their opponents and closed on 142-8 as Matt Fairweather took 3-31.

In division two, Rowntrees skipper Richard Tuite had his seasonal best bowling figures when his 5-25 reduced Crayke to 98-9.

Norman Pipes hit back with 3-44 but was unable to prevent Rowntrees completing the double over the Villagers as Gerry Capelin's 42 hastened a six-wicket defeat.

Bottom-placed Hovingham came close to earning their second win of the season but eventually suffered a nine-run loss at Bolton Percy.

Bolton's Nick Lister was the key factor in Hovingham's ninth defeat when he made 61 and then followed with 3-44.

Batting support came from Dave Randall with 34 which helped Percy make 185-9 despite a good stint by Simon Mosey, who took 5-35.

After the tea break, Richie Brown made 54 and Tom Lund 30 but Lister combined with Phil Salter, who took 3-59, to dismiss the visitors for 176.

There was a humdinger of a division three match at Londesbrough Park, where a high-scoring encounter with Clifton Alliance resulted in a tie to prevent Clifton going second.

Batsmen made hay in the beautiful rural setting with home player Charlie Rook making an unbeaten 106. Simon Dodd, with 59, and John Williamson (45) gave him early support before Mark Tissiman contributed 38 in an unbroken third-wicket stand of 108 which saw Londesbrough to 270-2.

While Rook dominated Park's innings, Clifton's fine response was founded on a great team effort. Paul Atkinson made 60 at the top of the order but he was just one of six batsmen to get into the run charts with Matt Phillips (37), John Myers (36), Chris Dower (28), John Thornton (29no) and Simon Corley (26) all keeping the scorers busy.

Rook kept himself in the picture by taking 3-82 but the outcome of the game depended on young bowler Dan Howard who, faced with the task of preventing Clifton scoring five off the final over, managed to restrict them to four leaving the visitors on 270-8.

Beverley Town spurned the chance to record one of the league's biggest ever totals when they declared after 35 overs in division four.

Osbaldwick's bowlers were indebted to the home captain for curtailing their agony since, by the declaration, Beverley had made a massive 279-4 with Anthony Spence making 112 and Richard Todd 124.

The demoralised Osbaldwick batsmen fared poorly with the honourable exception of Martin Baggalay and were knocked over for only 67 as Ian Sugden took 4-9 in just four overs and David Fishwick 3-24. Ex-Askham Bryan player Baggalay gave a fine example to his team-mates by compiling an unbeaten 52.

The clash of the top two sides in division five proved one-sided when leaders Dunnington crushed second-placed York III by eight wickets to record their tenth win in 12 games.

Peter Bainbridge made 61 and Steve Beales 28 for York, but Chris Burgess curtailed the remainder of the batsmen in taking 5-29. Mike Noble's 3-22 helped to dismiss York for 140.

Divisional leading batsman Ian Burgess narrowly failed to record his fourth century when he reached an unbeaten 93 in Dunnington's 141-2.

Having been firmly at the foot of the league in 2004, New Earswick are a mere 17 points behind the division six leaders after beating Stillington by seven wickets.

Dennis North and Ben Walker each made 31 for Stilington but John Routledge took 5-51 and Rob Wood 4-63 to restrict the target to 129-9.

This proved to be nowhere near adequate as Carl Pallister made 51no to see Earswick to victory at 130-3.

Updated: 09:13 Tuesday, July 12, 2005