JORDAN Stone took five wickets was top run maker as Lydney won at Gloucestershire Cricket League high-flyers Tetbury.

The 74-run win against second-placed Tetbury moves Lydney into fifth in Division One.

The home side won the toss and put Lydney into bat.

The game got off to a bizarre start with five extras from the first ball and a total of 14 from the opening over including two fours for Ben Ferguson, one off a no-ball.

Jack Knox also got a boundary in the next over as Lydney raced to 20-0 off the first two sets.

Ferguson followed up with another two fours in the 12-run third over.

The opening partnership lasted until the second ball of the seventh over when Ferguson was caught leg before.

His 16 runs off 23 ball had all come from boundaries.

Matthew Aldridge hit a four with the penultimate ball of the eighth over but was went leg before five deliveries later.

The first maximum of the game came in the 13th over from Dafydd Nicholas.

Knox hit two fours in the next over but on the final delivery became the third Lydney batsmen to be trapped leg before.

He had scored 27 with five fours and Lydney were 80-3.

Nicholas was bowled with the first ball of the 16th to make it 82-4.

Jake Bonser had hit one four but he went to a catch towards the end of the 19th to put Lydney on 93-5.

The innings was put back on track by Stone and Niall Halford who made a sixth wicket stand of 74.

Stone hit the first of eight fours with the opening ball of the 20th over and followed it up with another two in the next over.

After Tetbury had slowed the flow of runs by restricting Lydney to three from three overs, Stone followed with 19 from two.

He took a four off the opening ball of the 25th two more from the first two of the 26th and then a maximum with the final delivery of the over.

Halford also claimed a six in the next over and a four at the end of the 28th – after Stone had hit another maximum.

The partnership end when Halford was caught and bowled midway through the 31st.

He had scored 13 and Lydney were on 167-6.

Stone went at the end of the next over for 169-7.

His 64 had come off 70 balls with eight fours and three sixes.

Jack O’Connell hit fours off the first two balls of the 34rd over but was bowled with the next for 177-8 in a double wicket.

Tom Morris had only faced two balls when he was bowled with the penultimate delivery of the set.

Hugh Gibbs was the last wicket to fall after being caught for 14 with the first ball of the 42nd.

Callum Miller was 17 not out which included two sixes as Lydney set a target of 215.