Ormskirk beat Penzance to win National Club Championship

Ormskirk's bowlers proved too much for Penzance's batter

Ormskirk won the National Club Championship after beating Penzance by 25 runs at Lord's.

Batting first, Ormskirk were bowled out for 217 with a ball to spare in their 40 overs as opener Calum Turner hit 111 - Brad Wadlan, Tom Dinnis and Mehran Sanwal all took three wickets for the Cornish side.

In reply, Penzance started well as Christian Purchase made a quickfire 47, but only skipper Brad Wadlan (35) could add a significant score as Sam Holden delivered figures of 5-41.

Ormskirk bowled out Penzance for 192 off 36.3 overs to take the title back to Merseyside.

Penzance's trip to the final was the first time a Cornish side had played at Lord's since Werrington were beaten in the 1994 Village Cup final - the last side from the county to win at the home of cricket was Troon when they won the third of their Village Cup titles in 1976.

Penzance skipper Brad Wadlan took three wickets for his side

Turner's 111 was key to Ormskirk having any chance of victory - the opener was one of just four of his side's batters to reach double figures

Turner and fellow opener George Politis put on 74 for the opening wicket before the latter became the first of Sanwal's three victims when he was caught by Dinnis for 29.

Sanwal claimed the wickets of George Lavelle (9) and Sam Holden (0) to leave the Merseyside club on 97-3.

Gary Knight (15) and Harvey Rankin (19) both supported Turner before he was trapped lbw by Wadlan for a 99-ball 111 that included 19 fours and a six .

Ormskirk were left on 188-6 when Wadlan dismissed Turner's replacement Ian Robinson with the next ball.

He and Dinnis mopped up the tail as Wadlan returned figures of 3-31 and Dinnis 3-42 as Ormskirk were restricted to 217 all out.

Christian Purchase could not hide his disappointment after being caught on 47

In reply, Penzance opener Jack Paull was forced to retire at the end of the second over on 7 not out, but his replacement Wadlan provided a useful accompaniment to the big hitting Purchase.

The Cornish opener - who had scored centuries in three prior rounds of the competition - made 47 off as many balls before being caught in the deep by Lavelle having his three sixes and four fours.

Ormskirk claimed the wickets of Charlie Sharland and Nicholas Halstead-Cleak in the space of two overs to leave Penzance on 101-3 off 16.4 overs.

But Penzance's woes continued as bowlers Holden and Jamie Barnes continued to torment them as they lost three more wickets for just 19 runs - Grant Stone went for 6, Josh Croom was bowled without scoring and Paull - who had returned with a runner - went for 7 to leave the Cornish side on 120-6 with 17 overs left.

When Wadlan became Barnes' third victim an over later after scoring 35 off 52 balls, Ormskirk knew the game was in their hands.

Tommy Sturgess made a quickfire 15 before being caught in the 28th over to leave his side on 143-8.

Jonathan Ludlam (17) and Dinnis (17 not out) both helped Penzance's tail provide some resistance - but when Sanwal was bowled out for 10 by Holden for his fifth wicket - the game was over.

"I'm proud as punch after a long year to get this far," Sturgess told BBC Radio Cornwall after the loss.

"It's a bit of a kick in the guts to be honest - we gave ourselves every opportunity to win that and just unfortunately the better team probably came out on top.

"We never lost belief, we know that we can go right the way down the order - I think those middle overs we lost a cluster of wickets - fair play to them, they probably out-bowled us and got more from the surface.

"It was the middle period of the game that we probably lost too many wickets."