FAIRFORD'S good start to their Gloucestershire League season ended when falling six runs short chasing Rockhampton's imposing 271.

Townsend scored 46 for Fairford and Greener hit 50 but they fell short of their target scoring 265-9.

NINE-MAN Cirencester 2nd beat Corse & Staunton with 15-year-old Tom Putney taking 2-10.