AFTER taking a tumble, Toft need to get up again.
A home date on Saturday with Timperley, the Cheshire County League’s Premier Division leaders, means they have to.
The visitors to Booth’s Park are unbeaten in the top-flight this season, winning six of their seven matches.
Toft suffered only a second reverse at Nantwich last weekend, although it was a heavy one – by 100 runs.
Needing 207 to win, they succumbed for 106.
Henry Hughes (28) was their leading-scorer while only two other batsmen – James Drummond (15) and skipper Jimmy Lomas (13) – reached double-figures.
Pace-man Oliver Freckingham, with 6-42, proved to be the Dabbers’ match-winner.
Lomas had used seven bowlers, including himself, in a bid to cut short the home team’s innings after they had won the toss.
The Knutsford team could feel confident at 115-5 before a sixth-wicket partnership worth 74 runs between captain Raymond Doyle (69) and Freckingham (38) shifted momentum.
James Scott (3-34) and Rob Jones (3-29) were the most successful Toft bowlers, the latter trapping Doyle LBW, while Rob Sehmi took three catches behind the stumps.
Toft have slipped to third, overtaken by in-form Oulton Park, and trail Timperley by 31 points heading into the weekend.
Meanwhile Toft bowed out of the Joseph Holt Brewery T20 at the group-stage following a 42-run defeat at home to Bramhall on Tuesday.
The visitors racked up a huge 211-6, Joe Stanley taking 3-32.
Rob Sehmi (58 off 26 balls) gave them hope before they succumbed for 169 in the penultimate over.
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