Cumbria started their Group programme in the NCCA Trophy with a very good three wicket win over Lincolnshire at Scunthorpe.
Michael Slack won the toss and asked the hosts to bat first, removing captain Joseph Kendall and wicket-keeper Tom Keast for only 24.
Then Lincs best partnership of the innings (47) between Ben Wright (58) and opener Jaden Fell (34) got them to 71-3 in the 15th over.
Spinner Nico Watt (Carlisle) removed Fell and he also eventually trapped the dangerous Jordan Cook (42) leg before to end the innings.
Watt, the Cumbria League’s leading wicket-taker so far this season, finished with 4-15 from 8.1 overs while Cockermouth’s spinner Matthew Siddall took 2-57 from ten overs.
Lincolnshire had been bowled out for 172 in 39.1 overs.
Cumbria were very solid at the top of the order with the first six batsmen all getting a start and into double figures.
Cockermouth’s Matthew Sempill top-scored with 43 not out, guiding his side home to 176-7 in 39.4 overs.
There was good support from Michael Slack (36), Marcus Stables (32) and new cap JJ Fielding (25).
Fielding is the son of a former Cumbrian player Jonathan Fielding who played 28 times for Cumberland in the Minor Counties Championship and took 87 wickets with his slow left arm spin between 1996 and 2005.
He took a further 29 wickets for Cumberland in the one-day competition.
His son JJ (Joseph James) is a member of the Lancashire 2nd X1 close to a first team call-up. He plays his club cricket now for Southport and Birkdale in the Liverpool Senior League having previously played for Ramsbottom.
Cumbria play their second Trophy game at Cockermouth on Sunday against Herefordshire (start 11am).
