Grayshott are one big win away from clinching their first I'Anson title since 1988.

The 'nearly' team of the 1990s – they have been runners-up four times – Grayshott have to be positive at Witley who are in a relegation dogfight and, as they showed at Frensham on Saturday, will fight to the finish.

Ten points would do it for Grayshott. Eight points might not be enough because Frensham can still level the points and average and take the title on more games won.

Frensham are away to Puttenham, the other contenders and just one point further adrift, who could themselves snatch a first ever championship.

A draw in this match would suit Grayshott fine, but they would still need at least five points themselves.

It was always likely to go to the wire, but this tense climax rates as one of the best finishes seen in the 101-year history of the competition.

Grayshott managed to scramble a win against lion-hearted Dogmersfield. Grayshott owed their win to a star burst from young Ali Lindsey-Clark. Deciding to bat first, Grayshott lost Wheble cheaply before left-handers Gary Hunt and Richard Baker staged a partnership of 120, both taking advantage of the short leg-side boundary. Ross Bowers bowled a marathon 21-over spell, taking four wickets with some excellent pace bowling.

Lindsey-Clark removed the openers cheaply, but Dogmersfield refused to roll over and an excellent stand by Capleton and Tim Shirley suggested that the visitors could sneak a win. But then Lindsey-Clark, who had taken four wickets in his first seven-over spell, came back and the game changed. By bowling straight and full, he took his tally to eight wickets, whereupon the youngster again had to be removed from the attack. However, Wheble removed the stubborn Baker and Grayshott had captured 10 vital points.

Witley's steely determination to save themselves may have denied Frensham another championship.

The visitors, set a target of 203, looked dead and buried at 85-7, but Barrow and Munday came up with an unbroken stand of 76 and Witley came away with two points that gives them a fighting chance of avoiding relegation.

Frensham, put in to bat, looked to be on for a very early declaration as Maxwell (50 in 49 balls) and Harrison rattled up 112 for the first wicket. But Witley really pulled it back, thanks to some fine bowling by Ritchie and veteran spinner Kelly. Frensham had hoped to close after 35 overs, but in the end left Witley 50 overs on a good pitch.

It took Frensham 10 overs to get a wicket, but then Witley seemed to be in freefall as Maxwell and Sherman reduced them to 39-6 and then 85-7, with Ritchie gone for 35 and 19 overs still to go.

But Barrow and Munday came together and showed true grit as they resisted the pressure of men all round the bat to play out time. Barrow had two 'lives' and other half-chances were missed, but Witley deserved to get something out of this vital game.

It was a hard, but sporting encounter. Ritchie allowed Frensham to field a substitute after Page had damaged his foot and Cobb, the replacement, took an excellent catch to dismiss Kelly.

With only one regular bowler in their side, Fernhurst, having put Puttenham in to bat, did well to contain openers Robinson and Randall to 73 runs in the first 20 overs. From then on, Puttenham started to throw the bat and Travis Robinson completed his second century against Fernhurst this season. Puttenham declared at 215-3 from 38 overs.

Fernhurst batted stubbornly throughout the 52 overs. Survival was the name of the game and the last pair of Payne and Harrison played out the last four overs without scoring a run. Fernhurst ended the day on 102-9, Cook having taken 6 for 33.

The Bourne elected to bat against Kingsley and, despite the accuracy of McNally, again found runs easy to accumulate on a good batting surface. Sale once more played the anchor role, while Siebert batted splendidly until he was run out for 66. Fedee pushed the run-rate along and The Bourne declared at 212-4 after 44 overs.

Kingsley started badly, with Murphy edging Rooke's first ball to Woods at second slip. Wickets continued to fall at regular intervals and when

dangerman Randall was superbly caught and bowled by Fedee, the game was in the bag. Kingsley were all out for 119 in the 33rd over. The Bourne play at Thursley on Saturday, hoping to maintain fourth place in the division.

'Jingles' Hall, the Lindford captain, has yet to win the toss this season, and Saturday's local derby with Headley was no exception. Rooney chose to bat and shared partnerships of 36 with Bate, 43 with Carpenter and 49 with Dave Cook while making 66 not out and guiding Headley to 160-8 in 48 overs. May's 18 overs included seven maidens and he certainly deserved more than one wicket.

Lindford were always ahead of the rate as far as a winning draw was concerned. Downham bowled well for his five wickets, but Hall, who had earlier run out two Headley batsmen, steered his side to the extra points. Opener Gray made a good 32.

Tilford's season hit rock- bottom with a particularly tame performance against a 10-man Thursley team who wanted to win more. Tilford's innings was held together by Wilson who again fell short of a deserved 50, but with no supporting cast and accurate bowling from Sylvester in particular, the innings closed some 50 runs short of anything like a decent total.

Martyn took quick wickets before tea, giving the home side some hope, but the swashbuckling Lyons and man-of-the-match Sylvester made the home bowling look tame and Thursley raced to victory with wickets and overs to spare.