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CORNWOOD boosted their survival prospects in the Premier Division thanks to a three-wicket win over fellow strugglers Budleigh Salterton.
The Corns had lost three in a row since winning at Torquay on June 8, dropping into the bottom two along the way.
Cornwood are still in the bottom two, but the margin between them and safety has closed right up.
Bradninch are only one point ahead and Torquay’s safety margin has been cut to four points after they were beaten by 168 runs at Sidmouth.
And arch rivals Plymouth are in danger of being sucked into the struggle to stay up as they are only 15 points ahead now following their reversal at North Devon.
As for Budleigh they remain rock bottom and are 23 points behind Cornwood now.
Cornwood’s man of the moment against Budleigh was Pakistani all-rounder Asif Raza, whose four for 34 with the ball ripped out the Otters’ middle order as the visitors slowed to 209 for eight.
Asif then steered Cornwood home with the bat, compiling a businesslike 75 not out to clinch victory with eight balls to spare.
Budleigh had looked good at 91 for one when James Burke was dismissed Elliot Staddon for a patient 33 off 86 balls.
Bob Dawson was still going strong and was on 73 when Matt Butterworth got him out at 143 for two.
The runs kept coming for a while from Eliot Rice (34) and Kiwi Stuart Langridge, both of whom were eventually picked off by skipper Jason Hall (2-24).
Raza’s second spell proved decisive as he removed Jack Dart five balls in, the followed up with former Cornwood player Matt Kidd then Dickie Arnold first ball before dispatching Lloyd White.
Cornwood got a decent start through Ryan Rickard (28) and Chris Parker – both fell to Joel Murphy (3-26) – which brought Asif in at 60 for two.
Mark Horwell and Hall went in successive balls to Bob Dawson as Cornwood wobbled to 64 for four.
A stand of 87 between Asif and Matt Skeemer, who earlier bowled seven tight overs for just 18 runs, got Cornwood back on track.
Burke (2-31) and the retuning Murphy caused mild alarm in the home camp as Skeemer, Duncan Boase and Staddon went in a running total of 180 for seven, but Asif and Butterworth (17no) stayed calm.