AFTER back-to-back defeats, a trip to title-chasing Bath would not have been what Potterne needed to get their campaign back on track.

However, The Grove men have adapted well in their first season in Premier One and they headed back over the Wiltshire border with a 14-run success and beaming smiles.

Things for Neil Clark’s side at North Parade could not have got off to a worse start, they were reduced to 38-3 with the top three batsmen all back in the pavilion having failed to get into double figures.

But Potterne’s middle order of Wiltshire skipper Ed Young (50), Clark (72) and the returning Sahan Wijerathne (71) – who had been out for six weeks after cutting the tendons in his hand at work – swung things back in the visitors’ favour.

After closing on 268-7 from their 50 overs, they dismissed their hosts, who had begun the day on top of the table, for 254 with an over to spare, Dylan Higgins and Andrew Woodward both claimed three wickets apiece, despite Bath, at one stage, being 219-6.

“It was a brilliant win,” skipper Clark said. “They had smashed us at our place earlier in the season, so to go there and win was fantastic.

“I had been on at the lads to bat the full 50 overs as that is something that we have struggled with this season and we did it.

“It was a great effort and the bowlers were superb too.

“I gave young Ollie Jackson two overs, the 46th and the 48th, at the end – that is a tough time to bowl and he picked up a wicket and then after that he took the winning catch.”