BUILDING 50 plus partnerships throughout the innings, Tynedale picked up a big win over Consett which keeps them among the top five.

Led by captain Tom Cant (82*), good stands for their first, second and fifth wicket proved decisive as they moved 14 points clear of their sixth placed hosts.

In an innings when Consett's bowlers only conceded five extras, all no balls, the Tyne batsmen did all the hard work to take them to a high score of 238.

After a shaky start to the season, Cant is coming into some scoring form and his controlled performance allowed Tynedale to post the competitive total.

In a game reduced by five overs per innings, Connor Fellowes (28) and Jamie Crichton (55) had raced away to 50 in the eighth over to get Tynedale off to a flyer.

After another sharp burst of runs, Fellowes was caught in the deep to bring Cant into the attack but he brought patience to the innings with his first boundary not coming until his 18th ball faced.

Crichton was happy to take the lead at the other end as he scored 55, including 10 fours, with his usual dispatches to the legside with him and Cant adding 57 for the second wicket.

With the score on 111-1, Crichton fell when he fluffed a shot straight into the hands of an opponent.

It wasn't until Consett's opening bowlers Dan Milligan (0-46) and Daniel Pyke (3-66) swapped ends that the home side built some traction, with Pyke's deliveries shooting up from a good length to add James Rainford (0) and Patrick Matautaava (6) to his collection to take the score to 122-5.

Sam Mannion (31) joined Cant and they pushed the score to 187, Mannion taking 20 balls to score eight before moving to 23 by his 30th delivery by hitting two fours and a straight six.

When Mannion was stumped, Cant brought up his 50 in the 34th over and he remained in post as he guided Tynedale past 200 through grit, guile and concentration.

Callum Barnes (0), Will Dagg (6) and Josh Renton (7) all came and went, so it was left to Ross Sinclair (18) to hit the bulk of the 17 runs which came in the final over.

Tynedale didn't make things easy for themselves, and they were just 18 minutes off the timed out deadline of 8.30pm.

Panic started to set in as they turned to a flurry of bowlers to try to break the 50 run partnership between Andrew Forster (25) and Milligan (27) to deny Consett the chance to claw their way back.

Kamran Mansoor (48) was in good scoring form after being dropped by Curtis Lucas on 13, and he put on a good partnership for the second wicket with Andrew Waters (24) who was caught by Cant (3-27) off his own bowling.

Cant spread his bowling efforts out with Matautaava (1-27), Sinclair (1-46), Barnes (2-38), Dagg (0-21), Renton (1-16) and Lucas (1-3) all utilised.

After a sustained battle between Barnes and Mansoor, the left arm spinner saw his chance and beat the danger man to bring about the fall of wickets, Consett losing their next three for just 27 runs, the highlight a superb diving catch from Cant off the bowling of Barnes.

Forster and Milligan then had Tynedale sweating until the latter was caught behind by Crichton off Renton, the ending of their partnership ultimately earning Tynedale the honours.

Tynedale II continued their title challenge with a crushing nine wicket victory over Lintz II.

Paul Newton (4-26) was in wicket taking mood as Lintz finished their 25 overs on 128-5, captain Richard Darling (1-26) taking the other.

Tyne openers Paul Scandle (41) and Ben Griffiths (56*) nearly did it all themselves as they made 93, with Noah Hiles (21*) helping to finish things off.