Luke Hayward (7) and R. Heffernan (13) looked dangerous, but fell cheaply; meanwhile, Robert Ings occupied the crease. Jordan Lees came to the crease and looked to force himself onto the bowling with a rapid 23.

Just as the scoreboard started to look respectable, Backhouse got a ball through Ings’ defence to end his vigil for 15 runs.

Backhouse immediately followed it up by catching a skied ball from Lees and Hibo Green were in trouble again at 6/63.

Andrew Martin made full use of his feet, charging the bowler or rocking back deep into his crease, before he played on for 29 to a ball that kept low. Hibo Green’s innings ended on a mediocre 104. 

The Coolavin openers weathered a barrage as the Hibo bowlers laid into them.

They worked their way to 25 before Hayward got his hands underneath a popped up chance. Jack Goodwin was Andrew Martin’s first victim, falling straight away for 21.

Sam Woodberry and Luke Davis continued to build the score. Davis fell with the score on 51, but Lachlan Tozer and Woodberry made it to drinks at a healthy 3/62.

When play resumed Martin made good use of the pitch as the ball leapt at Tozer’s gloves and continued to slip, while B. Langlands skied an attempted hoick to reduce Coolavin to 5/70.

An unlucky break for Woodberry (15) saw an under edge smash into his foot and rebound over the keepers head only for J. Swan to react in time to move across from slip and take the catch.

Jordan Lees tested out his injured ankle with medium fast bowling and pinned Coen Stephenson leg before with Coolavin 7/88.  

Rod Backhouse joined the Coolavin captain and applied a dead bat to see off any balls on the stumps, while Jake Backhouse (18*) took on the bowling of F. McAlister by swinging hard at balls not on the stumps.

The gamble paid off as his outside edges flew over the slips cordon and rolled into the fence to carry his team across the line for a victory by two wickets, with 10 overs still in hand.