Bromsgrove 127 all out (3pts)
Shrewsbury 128-6 (20pts)
Shrewsbury won by 4 wickets

BROMSGROVE'S blip continued after their top order collapsed against Shrewsbury, in Birmingham and District League Division One on Saturday.

Jordan Rose returned to the Boars' first team in place of the injured Alexei Kerveezee, who is still up to five weeks away from recovering from a hamstring injury.

Having lost the toss, Mark Evenson's men were invited to bat first on what looked to be a decent wicket, where a score of more than 180 seemed a realistic target.

In the second over, however, Rose was trapped LBW by the pace of Tom Allin, a young bowler who was to cause the Bromsgrove team further problems.

Jayden Levitt and Omar Ali then put on 32 runs before Levitt went LBW playing a shot he will want to forget.

Valeed Butt and Lyndon Jones fell cheaply to Allin and Omar went for 32 giving a simple return catch to Reece O'Connell, leaving Bromsgrove 57-5, before a shower temporary stopped play.

Tom Green fell quickly, LBW to O'Connell, and it was left to Duncan Roke and skipper Mark Evenson to start to rebuild the innings.

Roke eventually fell for 14, becoming the fourth and probably the unluckiest LBW victim of the day.

Evenson, however, remained and showed many of his players how they should have approached their time at the crease.

He found another partner in keeper Tom Hill, to put on 30 for the ninth wicket.

Evenson was eventually the last man out for 41, gifting Shrewsbury nine overs in their chase of a very modest 127.

Bromsgrove went into tea knowing they were probably 50 runs short of what they should have achieved.

The Shrewsbury top order started the innings knowing they only had a small total to chase in 64 overs, and were confident of a comfortable victory.

Atif Ali gave Bromsgrove the start they needed with a wicket in the first over.

He bowled with pace and control, but runs started to flow off the bowling of Omar who was quickly replaced after two overs by leg-spinner Dilawar Khan Orakzai.

Dilawar, Jones and Atif all bowled in good areas, restricting the run rate, while they were backed up with some fine disciplined fielding.

Wickets were starting to fall on a regular basis and for a moment it looked like Bromsgrove just might pull another rabbit out of the hat.

Evenson reintroduced Atif into the attack after drinks, and he found the edge of Jack Shantry, only to see a routine slip catch spilled.

Shantry went on to make 30 before Dilawar bowled him.

Shrewsbury eventually got home in the 44th over.