TYNEDALE looked to their captain for success as they inflicted a heavy defeat on Newcastle City.

Tom Cant was in exceptional form as he guided them to a 136-run success which moved them one place to fourth in the table, hitting 104 not out as he batted through the entire 50 overs and then claiming five wickets to limit City's batsmen.

Cant's stay at the crease lasted 183 minutes as he opened alongside number one Connor Fellowes (30), an obdurate and determined display seeing him to his first century since last June.

He and Fellowes put on 52 runs for the first wicket before the opener was bowled by Stubbs (1-67) after four fours.

In came new pro Patrick Matautaava looking for a big score after his duck the previous week, and he faced 32 balls on his way to a score of 52 as he showed a different style to Cant, going after every ball.

With the score on 122 with Matautaava hitting six fours and three sixes, he hit out one time too many at Usman Salahuddin (2-53) as he was caught by Usman Mukhtar.

Cant remained happy to steadily tick the score along, with James Rainford coming in and scoring 31 at a rate of a run-a-minute of their 44 run stand until he was given out lbw to Salahuddin.

Sam Mannion only managed a single when he was called upon, but Noah Hiles continued his great form since being called up to the first XI as he teared into the City bowling attack, falling just one short of his half ton with Tynedale edging past the 200 mark.

With the arrival of Callum Barnes in the 41st over, Cant decided to open up and the pair added 74 for the seventh wicket to see Tynedale finish on 304.

Barnes' 24 not out was an entertaining knock, while Cant hit five of his eight boundaries from the final 30 balls of the 124 faced in total as he drove through the extra cover.

The skipper's involvement wasn't ended there though as he and his fellow bowlers performed well to see off Newcastle on 168.

It took until the 12th over to find the breakthrough with City posting 55 without loss, left arm spinner Barnes (1-35) luring Sandeep Padmalaya (29) out of his crease with keeper Rainford lightning quick to stump him

Newcastle's next eight wickets totaled 113 runs as Tyne's spinners, particularly Cant, started finding more in a pitch which blinked into life sporadically.

Cant got into his groove in the 16th over as he removed Salahuddin (2) and then claimed the huge wicket of young opener Mohsin Mukhtar (35) who was looking dangerous with bags of technical ability.

His third wickete came when he had Palav Kumar (4) caught by Hiles at deep square leg, with Mukhtar (18) the next to depart to Cant when caught by Fellowes in the 26th over for 101-5.

Cant completed his remarkable five-fer from nine overs as Zain Ahmed (17) was caught behind by Rainford.

With plenty of runs in hand, Will Dagg (1-25) came in and had Abid Mukhtar (2) caught by Curtis Lucas in his first over, before Josh Renton (1-16) clean bowled last man Stubbs (33) after his late 45-run partnership with Mudassar Amin (12), run out by Rainford.

Ten-man Tynedale II lost ground in the Division B1 title race as they went down by the narrowest of margins to Newcastle City II.

They were just one run off the total of 207 posted by City, good knocks from openers Paul Scandle (30), Ben Griffiths (40) and captain Richard Darling (42*) taking them to within a whisker.

Young Dale Leadbitter (25) and Paul Newton (23*) helped later in the order, but a late partnership between Newton and Mark Clark (15) fell just short when the latter was run out in the second last ball of the game.

The wickets were shared around for Tynedale as they put Newcastle into bat first, Griffiths (2-6) the pick of the bowlers from his two overs, with Darling (1-14), Euan Stephenson (1-39), Leadbitter (1-34), Newton (1-32) and Sam Peter (1-17) also striking.