Bicester & North Oxford slipped to a four-wicket defeat at Tring Park on their return to Division 2 West.

A slow start against some excellent line and length bowling of Simon Stanway, who took 3-33 off 21 overs, saw Bicester held to 192-9.

Darryl Wooods made 70 in three hours, while Alex Jewell and Tauqeer Hussain chipped in with useful contributions.

In reply, Tring raced to 70 in 15 overs.

Tauqeer Hussain had picked up one wicket and was starting to look threatening when he twisted his knee in the 18th over.

Despite a superb spell of 19 consecutive overs by Paul Jeacock, who took 4-58, Tring won with four overs to spare with Adam Pusey making 55.

BICESTER & NORTH OXFORD

D Woods lbw Taylor...70

G Sansome b Kempster...26

A Jewell b Abrahams...33

Tauqeer Hussain c&b Abrahams ...23

S Lyon run out...0

R Lynch b Stanway...3

I Bryan b Stanway...3

J Holton not out...13

G Savin lbw Stanway...15

P Jeacock run out...1

Extras...5

Total (9 wkts, 60 ovs)...192

Fall: 1-57, 2-110, 3-136, 4-142, 5-159, 6-159, 7-167, 8-187, 9-192.

Bowling: Stanway 21-11-33-3, Brooks 7-0-33-0, Kempster 11-1-26-1, Taylor 14-2-48-1, Abrahams 7-0-50-2.

TRING PARK

M Bowyer lbw Tauqeer Hussain... 27

J Steptoe c Lyon b Jeacock... 26

A Pusey b Jeacock ... 55

T Brooks b Jeacock ... 32

U Abrahams b Jeacock ... 2

L Brooks c&b Lynch... 10

G Steptoe not out... 22

B Kempster not out ... 2

Extras... 18

Total (6 wkts, 46.1ovs)... 194

Fall: 1-53, 2-63, 3-125, 4-129, 5-152, 6-188.

Bowling: Tauqeer Hussain 9-2-28-1, Lynch 8-0-55-1, Jeacock 19-2-58-4, Bryan 10.1-2-36-0.

Tring Park 25pts, Bicester & NO 8