Real McCoy

Green found the boundary with increasing regularity striking eleven fours and three huge sixes.

Matt Brown (28 not out) gave useful if sketchy support.

Green (76) fell with just two required, and Brown then finished the game with the eighth six of the innings.

Greasley, not enjoying good fortune on the day, was Marple’s most successful bowler with 3 for 75.

Both Brown and Green were missed with the score in the 170s off his bowling, although it is impossible to say if the final result would have been any different.

On Saturday Marple entertain local rivals Bramhall with a 12.30pm start.

Marple seconds are up to second place in the second eleven premier league.

This, after defeating Didsbury seconds by four wickets in a good, competitive game of cricket at Bowden Lane on Saturday.

A fine all round performance, with the wickets shared, kept Grappenhall to 169 on an excellent pitch. In reply, Marple slipped to 34 for 3 despite a breezy 24 from Haroon Ahmed.

Jack Marshall was then joined by veteran Gary Cash, and Marshall proceeded to dominate a century plus stand for the fourth wicket.

After Cash (38) was dismissed, Didsbury claimed another two quick wickets, but skipper George Clarke, provided solid support for Marshall who played a number of delightful strokes in his match winning knock of 83 not out.