TOM Coleman and Tom Cosford hit maiden league centuries as third-placed Horspath took the lion’s share of the points away to Home Counties Premier League Division 1 leaders Henley in a high-scoring draw.

Horspath were in trouble at 35-3.

But then Coleman (117no) and Cosford (109) shared a club league record stand of 186 for the fourth wicket to take the visitors to 268-4 from their 64 overs.

Coleman hit 16 fours in his 164-ball innings, while Cosford destroyed Henley’s spinners with some powerful straight hitting in posting four sixes and 13 fours off 138 deliveries.

Henley’s reply had reached 142-1 in the 31st over when Matt Rowe retired hurt with a suffered a broken right hand after he was struck by a delivery from Ajmal Shahzad.

Six runs later, Waqas Hussain was out for 85 off 86 balls, with two sixes and 14 fours.

A series of brilliant catches - most notably Mark Jefferson’s stunning one-handed dive at extra cover to dismiss Euan Brock and Mohammed’s superb effort to run in 30 yards from the mid-wicket boundary to claim a skier from Ziahat Ashraf - suddenly had Horspath sensing victory.

But Henley’s ninth-wicket pair of Euan Woods (38no) and Nugent – effectively their last two batsmen with Rowe not expected to return to the crease – survived the final three overs as the hosts closed on 243-8.

HORSPATH

J Mohammad c Barnes b Nugent 7

T Coleman not out 117

J Fitzjohn c Davison b Nugent 1

M Jefferson c Davison b Nugent 7

T Cosford c Hussain b Afridi 109

A Shahzad not out 18

Extras 9

Total (4 wkts, 64 ovs) 268

Fall: 1-19, 2-25, 3-35, 4-221.

Bowling: Nugent 19-2-72-3, Afridi 20-3-53-1, Hussain 4-0-20-0, Brock 6-0-36-0, Ashraf 6-1-25-0, Woods 6-0-30-0, Rowe 3-0-26-0.

HENLEY

M Roberts c Fitzjohn b Shahzad 7

M Rowe ret hurt 48

W Hussain c Coleman b Shahzad 85

R Morris c Cosford b Faruk 6

E Woods not out 38

D Barnes c Eason b Cosford 19

S Davison c Fitzjohn b Belcher 4

Z Ashraf c Mohammad b Cosford 8

E Brock c Jefferson b Belcher 5

T Afridi run out 10

T Nugent not out 0

Extras 13

Total (8 wkts, 56 ovs) 243

Fall: 1-23, 2-148, 3-158, 4-202, 5-207, 6-221, 7-228, 8-242.

Bowling: Eason 9-3-21-0, Shahzad 15-1-79-2, Cosford 13-3-45-2, Belcher 11-0-46-2, Faruk 8-0-41-1.

Horspath 15pts, Henley 7

Oxford earned a three-wicket victory in a fluctuating match at Burnham.

Samad Fallah claimed 5-80 as the hosts recovered from 87-7 to reach 210 after being put in to bat.

The visitors then slipped to 27-4 before half-centuries from skipper John Barrett (69) and Shami Mendis (54) turned it around and secured their win with 3.2 overs to spare.

BURNHAM

G Basran b Fallah 0

F Raja lbw Musk 12

H Gandam c Perkin b Fallah 0

K Kumar c&b Eltham 10

A Khan c Perkin b Fallah 25

S Alam lbw Mendis 17

S Ali c Musk b Eltham 21

A Malik not out 51

S Javed c Barrett b Eltham 39

M Haroon c Perkin b Fallah 26

M Khalid lbw Fallah 2

Extras 7

Total (all out, 56 ovs) 210

Fall: 1-0, 2-0, 3-14, 4-48, 5-48, 6-87, 7-87, 8-159, 9-206.

Bowling: Fallah 21-3-80-5, Musk 4-2-16-1, Humphreys 0.3-0-0-0, Eltham 18.3-5-56-3, Mendis 5-0-22-1, Clough 7-1-30-0.

OXFORD

O Tong-Jones c Ali b Khan 11

H Eltham c Kumar b Haroon 16

A Clough c Malik b Khan 0

M Ayub c Khan b Faisal 33

J Perkin b Haroon 0

J Barrett c Javed b Khan 69

S Mendis lbw Haroon 54

M Beer not out 16

R Musk not out 5

Extras 10

Total (7 wkts, 50.4 ovs) 214

Fall: 1-19, 2-27, 3-27, 4-27, 5-84, 6-177, 7-201.

Bowling: Haroon 14-2-55-3, Khan 24.4-4-98-3, Khalid 7-0-24-1, Javed 3-0-17-0, Gandam 2-0-10-0.

Burnham 10pts, Oxford 25

Charlie Hill took five wickets to lead Banbury to a

three-wicket success at home to High Wycombe.

The spinner captured 5-20 in 12.4 overs as the home side were dismissed for 156 in their final over.

Earlier Ajaz Chema, Brad Taylor and Ollie Wright had tied down the Wycombe top-order.

From 116-3, Banbury faltered in sight of victory but an unbeaten 76 from skipper Lloyd Sabin, who hit nine fours, saw them home in the 50th over.

Great & Little Tew’s poor run continued with an eight-wicket defeat away to basement club Tring Park.

Choosing to bat first, Tew were bowled out for 128 in 47.2 overs, spinner Michael Payne taking 4-25.

After top-scorer Jancan Adams then claimed an early wicket for Tew, Tring were sped to victory in the 30th overs, by Charlie Macdonell’s sparkling 83 from 75 balls.