North Mymms' brave fight away to Bishop's Stortford was not enough as they lost by four wickets in the Herts Cricket League Premiership.

With two overs to go, the hosts had six wickets in hand but were still 15 runs short of victory.

They managed just four from the penultimate over and crucially lost the wicket of Masoor Khan to the final ball, the opener eventually departing for 114 off the bowling of Jakob Bhula.

The first delivery of the final over was a dot but then a big six from Ben Twohig put Stortford right back in it.

He was out next ball, trying to stretch a single into a double, but with four needed from the final two deliveries, a double and then a four from Cutlan Smyth meant Stortford sneaked to victory.

Earlier Mymms had made 268 with 75 from Guganeshan Muralitharan and 63 for Armaan Randhawa the stand-out scores.

Old Owens also suffered a loss, by 96 runs away to West Herts.

The hosts had won the toss and elected to bat, getting to 217-8 in 60 overs.

That involved a late order rally after they had slumped to 37-4 inside 14 overs, Jake Wickham (2-28) and Jack Bloxham (2-18) sharing the wickets between them.

Cole Seggery's 45 in 78 balls steadied the ship somewhat but they were still 110-6 before 48 from Simon Walker and 43 not out from number nine Bill Gage got them to 217-8.

Owens too had a slow start, down at 19-3 at one point, but unlike their hosts they could not fashion a recovery.

Indeed 25 from opener Matthew Plater turned out to be the second highest score of the day, bettered only by 32 from Whickham late on.

Charlie Randall struck a century and bagged four wickets in a remarkable individual performance - leading Knebworth Park to an emphatic 105-run win over Flitwick.

His unbeaten 101 was his second ton in three weeks and was a marathon effort on a surface where batting was never easy.

After losing the early wickets of Kobe Richmond and Rob Morley, Randall and opening bat Louis Champion, who also batted superbly with a hard fought 63, struck 120 for the third wicket.

Skipper Matt Hutchinson's 31 helped take the total on to 183 but Randall, with valuable support from Niels Hart patient eight helped add 52 for the eighth wicket, eventually got them 243-9.

And there was no rest for Randall as he opened up the bowling with Richmond, and the pair immediately had the home side struggling with a wicket each in the opening two overs.

Randall would finish with 4-34 as Flitwick slumped to 76-6 and, after a brief recovery, Alex Richmond and Hutchinson bagged two apiece to mop up the tail and bowl them out for 138.

Rob Slack hit 97 to help give the thirds their first win of the season, beating Stevenage.

He and Adam Hassall (37) put on 128 for the third wicket before a quick 50 from Jonathan Cirkel and 22 for Richard Wheeler took them to 234-7. 

Troy Keartland's wonder delivery remove Stevenage's opener on the first ball and set the stage for the reply.

Drew Myles took two wickets, as did U13 spinner Finn Hobbs as Stevenage finished 112 runs short.

The seconds couldn't complete the winning sequence though as they lost by five wickets to Hertford.

James Bedford top scored with 28 in their 165 and despite a wicket in the second over, and reducing the visitors to 50-4, Hertford only lost one further wicket.