Herts League title and relegation battles going to final day

And it will be some final game too, as leaders Potters Bar host neighbours Old Owens with their five-point lead over Harpenden still intact.

The wet stuff almost derailed the Bar, but they managed to scramble to a one-run win away to Totteridge Millhillians.

They visitors made 280-6 inside 44 overs when their innings came to a premature end.

Reece Hussain (77) and Charlie Scott (41) had salvaged a disappointing stand with a third-wicket partnership of 89.

Steve Gale went first ball before Scott departed soon after but an 85-run stand for the sixth wicket between Esam Rahman (33) and Thilan Walallawita, the latter scoring 99 not out in 43 deliveries with five fours and 11 sixes, dragged them to their final total.

The delay gave Totteridge a target of 183 from 20 overs, and they came close.

They needed six off their final over to win and had four singles form the first four balls.

But Walallawita had Sam Smith stumped by James Seward off the penultimate ball and then Joe Wray was run out on the final ball.

Bar won't find their rivals in any mood to roll over though after a victory of their own.

They beat Hertford by six runs at home to move out of the bottom two.

Put into bat, Owens made 197-4 with the rain also ended things there in the 44th over.

Trystan Kennedy remained unbeaten on 88 while there was 44 from Brad Lane.

Hertford were then given a revised target of 206 in 33 overs and were nine men down going into the final over.

They needed 14 in that over too and reduced it by six with two balls to go.

They only managed one more though to end on 199-9 with Jake Whickham claiming 4-45 for Owens.

Nesan Jeyaratnam played a captain's innings for North Mymms. Picture: KEVIN LINES (Image: Kevin Lines)

Welwyn Garden City saw their expected relegation confirmed with a 139-run defeat to North Mymms at Digswell Park.

The victory was also good enough to ease Mymms's relegation worries, leaving them 12 points clear of second from bottom West Herts and five ahead of Old Owens.

The visitors had won the toss and opted to bat in the crunch clash, and it proved a solid decision.

Although that wasn't instantly apparent as Dan Orchard struck on the third ball of the afternoon to remove Guganeshan Muralitharan for a duck.

The next wicket came at the end of the sixth over, Dan Roomans seeing off Zaid Kureshi, to leave Mymms on 28-2.

That was when the game turned and with Jakob Bhula and Nesan Jeyaratnam in tandem, it wouldn't be until the first ball of the 33rd over that Welwyn could get their hands in the air again.

The pair put on 151 together before Bhula went for 76.

Skipper Jeyaratnam stuck around though, collecting his century and building another partnership, this one amassing 85 runs alongside Armaan Raadhawa.

He was eventually out for 121 from 129 deliveries, 14 fours in amongst the score.

Raadhawa remained unbeaten at the end with 59 from 37 balls as Mymms got to 307-6 in 48 overs.

Roomans finished with 3-50 for WGC who then set about a revised target of 300 in 44 overs.

And they never came close, all out after 42 overs for just 160, skipper Connor Emerton their top scorer with 32.

Rhys Wynne led the Mymms bowling with 3-32 while there were two wickets each for Richard Oxley, Yuvresh Malhotra and Bhula.