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FINDON emphasised their recent superior consistency in the Sussex Invitation Cricket League by wrapping up on Saturday their third title in four seasons and their fourth in six.

FINDON emphasised their recent superior consistency in the Sussex Invitation Cricket League by wrapping up on Saturday their third title in four seasons and their fourth in six.

Champions by 50 points last season, they became only the second club to retain the crown Goring were the first, 1984-86 when they won by 148 runs at Keymer & Hassocks, to finish 48 points clear this time.

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Having won none of their first five games and been fourth-bottom in the table, they ended with the most victories, thanks to what skipper Nigel Waller described as their best performance of the season.

He asserted: Keymer are a better side than their 57 all out.

In Findon s 205 for six, James Iago s 51 took him to 380 runs for the season at an average of 34. Consistent opener Graham Waller finished 456 at 38, Toby Kingsbury 333 at 27 and Paul O Sullivan 322 at 35.

Then seamer Nigel Waller exploited the Keymer uphill ridge to gather seven for 24 to reach 24 wickets for the season.

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Paceman Iago has 32, and back-from-university leg-spinner Mark Stewart 12.

Waller and Iago bowled in tandem until the penultimate over, delivered by Stewart, before Waller broke the last-wicket stand, the longest of the Keymer & Hassocks reply, worth 17 runs.

The full report can be found in the Worthing Herald, August 30.

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