Bath v Corsham

The home side won the toss and chose to bat first at North Parade, but were put under early pressure when Sharpe's deadly bowling removed openers Steve Depledge and Kim Watson for just 33 runs.

Bad turned for worse for Bath when Ben Staunton was caught by Neil Shardlow, from Paul Clifford's bowling, and Tom Baker was dismissed by Mark Hadrill for just five as the top order collapsed.

But Tom Hankins steadied the ship with a crucial 91 runs before he was run out.

Steve Pope was stumped for just five, but James Brown's 50 and 22 from Joe Dorgan helped Bath build a big score, before a three-wicket burst from Sharpe wiped out Corsham's tail end.

With 24 extras Bath made a total of 248 runs.

Corsham had 50 overs to turn the match around, but were not able to find any rhythm to their batting.

The rot set in from the start when they sold their first five wickets for just 56 runs.

Tom Baker caught Dwain Winter from Mark Thorburn's bowling for 19, and all-rounder Toby Sharpe made 17 before he fell to the impressive Joe-Dorgan, who took four wickets for 21.

Richard Foley was bowled for 16 before Dorgan bowled Steve Copland and Neil Shardlow for four.

Steve Perrin gave the visitors hope with a mid-order stand of 44, before Thorburn struck again for his second.

Perrin's departure sparked the collapse of all resistance as Corsham's remaining four wickets went for 13.

Hadrill fell to Dorgan LBW for one, Simon Gwilliam bowled Peter Dennett for ten, before Thorburn mopped up the tail of Paul Clifford, LBW for a duck, and Andrew Davis, LBW for 2.

Last man standing was Craig Chaplain who was not out for four.

Corsham's captain Neil Shardlow blamed his side's defeat on another poor batting display.

"We have got to sort the batting out, we're lacking confidence and need to have a good look at how we're going to play it in the couple of games, but it's not going to be easy.

"But there are no excuses, we have to play better together and put some runs on the board."