TILLINGHAM picked up their first win of the season at home to Southend & EMC III team. The visitors won the toss and decided to bat.
Some excellent bowling from Clay with two wickets and a run out from Ford grabbing the wicket of top scorer Banks for 43, kept the flow of wickets going.
Stiffell finished with two for 21 from 11 overs and Mason two for seven from six overs. Frustratingly for the home side, the last wicket wouldn't fall and the last five overs, only seeing three runs scored. Southend managed a total of 129 for nine after 45 overs.
In reply, Dave Cummins lead from the front in a captaincy role and opened the batting, carrying his bat for the second week running with 53 not out.
Hylton (26) partnered him for a while before getting bowled to a ball that kept very low on an early, unpredictable wicket. In the end it was a convincing win for the home side with nearly 20 overs to spare, finishing 133 for 4. Tillingham II played on their travels at East Hanningfield and Gt Burstead.
Tillingham batted first and started with a 108-run opening partnership between Emerson (72) and Raven (47) but unfortunately once this was broken the runs didn't come quite as well.
Alfie Bailey hit a quick 21 in the middle order, but unfortunately the away side only managed to make a target of 169 for six off 45 overs, with some very tight bowling from Patel, and Stratford with four wickets from ten overs.
In reply, Hanningfield didn't really struggle for runs. Hamilton was hitting the ball well for his 50 and Foster (58) also played some good shots.
Tillingham put up a fight towards the end with the scores tied taking four wickets for no run scored, but it was too little too late. Alfie Bailey bowled well with two for 24 off five, and Harry Butterwick two for 26 off six.