Clymping had moved ahead of Broadwater last week, but Broadwater's sixth successive win, at home to Selsey on Saturday, moved them 12 points clear of Clymping with a game in hand.

But Clymping are now 60 points ahead of third-placed Horsham Trinity.

James Salisbury, the Clymping skipper with Gareth Challen unavailable, said: "It was a real run fest, and a great game for the neutral, but it was frustrating because we needed to win."

Bottom-club Wisborough Green won the toss and stuck Clymping into bat, who then smashed 256-7 from 42.3 overs. Aussie Andrew Danson crashed 77, Andrew Dick hit 69 and Kim Dean struck 52.

Green responded with 235-8 from 51 overs. Martin Hopkins scored an excellent 136, and Danson took four wickets for 66 runs.

Salisbury said: "We declared early to give ourselves more time to bowl them out, but Martin Hopkins batted really well.

"At one stage, it looked as though they would win. But we took a couple of wickets, started to look comfortable, and then thought we could get the win."

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