Kerala v Froxfield: A WEAKENED Froxfield side slipped to their first defeat of the season, losing by 80 runs away against Kerala.

Jordan Hiscock (1-59) made an early breakthrough for Froxfield and Steve Singleton picked up figures of 3-36 in an impressive opening spell.

Hallam Brown then came into the attack and picked up two wickets in his first over on his way to 3-38 as Kerala slipped to 95-6. A critical dropped catch off Brown let off D Ambi early in his innings and he went on to smash 57.

Although Rob Higgins picked up 2-13 and Ryan Gander got the final wicket in the last over, Kerala were able to amass 204 all out.

Froxfield never looked like chasing down the total after losing an early wicket.

Only Sam Barnett (18), Brown (15), Higgins (26) and Kevin Hiscock (13) reached double figures against a strong bowling unit as Froxfield fell comfortably short of the target, all out for 124.