Another wining toss and Cromer elected to bat, with Alex Craske and Battrick eagerly taking the chance to open. A slow but steady start took them to 33 from 15 overs, before Craske fell pulling one that refused to get up.
Battrick then slipped into destroyer mode in a stand of 47 for the next wicket, of which his partner contributed 8 before being run out in bizarre fashion, going for a second run as Battrick recorded his 50 from the completed single.
Battrick batted superbly and, though slow and watchful at the start, once in he hit the ball hard and long finally being stumped for a well deserved 65.
In only his second innings of the season ( the other being an unbeaten 88 in an abandonded match at barney) Grant Zelos put bat to ball and fell just short of his half century on 48. The tail wagged slightly, and 178 was always going to be a winning score with the Cromer bowlers on display.
Taylor started the rot in his first over, and when he and opening partner Craske took their sweaters after 10 overs the score was 25 for 5.
Craske had taken the lions share, and his figures at this point were 5-4-4-3. He later returned to bowl three more overs, and his final figures of 8-6-10-3 incredibly contained only two scoring shots, wides making up the difference.
Battrick bowled superbly without reward, and it's no disrespect to the opposition to say that on the day his bowling would have found more success in the Alliance Premier Division than it did on Sunday.
Tuthill bowled with good pace again with no luck. Furlong found great line and length, yet took a wicket with one that never left the turf. Jack Van Greuning showed good pace amongst the over- eager deliveries in his three over spell, and took his maiden wicket - clean bowling the oppostion’s top scorer.
Depsite this, the wily skipper Roy Clarke stood up to everything Cromer threw at him and in the gathering gloom even unintended head-high no-balls didn’t faze him as he kept Cringleford‘s pride intact, finishing unbeaten on 21.
Nick Bond also bowled.