DEVIZES slumped to a heavy defeat against Glastonbury on Saturday despite a promising start from their bowling attack.

Glastonbury won the toss and elected to bat, but were soon struggling at 25 for three.

Paul Vooght removed Glastonbury's dangerous opener Wes Durston for ten and Steven Spencer and Tim Burt were both caught off James Ashford-Brown's accurate bowling.

But the boundaries continued to flow and James Hildreth threatened to tear Devizes' bowlers apart in a 35-ball innings of 45, before Mark Banham induced a flat-footed drive that was edged through to keeper Mark Sinclair.

At 108-4 the game was evenly balanced, but Gareth Andrew and David Dyer's took advantage of some average bowling to post a fifth wicket partnership of 109.

Vooght's return to the attack had an instant impact as he skittled Dyer for 46, but Andrew continued to blitz the bowling on route to his century.

Glastonbury finished with an impressive 288 from their 50 overs, which put the pressure on the Devizes batsmen.

Devizes started cautiously after some excellent Glastonbury bowling with the new-ball, but from 22-0 after eight overs the Wiltshire side suffered a catastrophic collapse, slipping to 65-6.

Again Andrew did the damage taking three wickets for 38, assisted by some brilliant fielding.

First Stobbart fell to a brilliant one-handed slip catch from Durston and then Spencer, at mid-off, dived full-length to intercept Tim Saye's lofty drive.

Tom Edwards was caught from Tom Punchard's bowling and Jake McCauley's wicket fell to Andrew.

Mark Colyer's stubborn mid-order 51 not out added some respectability to the scoreboard in the final orders, but he quickly ran out of partners.

Andrew struck again to bowl Nick Paget for a duck and then Paul Vooght was run out for a single.

Durston caught Mark Banham from Adam Payne's bowling and then Durston bowled Ashford-Brown for nine. Alex Muse was not out for 14.

Devizes completed their 50 overs, well short of the mark, with 169-8.