ASHUR Morrison believes that there are still plenty of positives his Corsham side can take from their one-wicket defeat at Downend on Saturday.

The Station Road side fell just short when trying to defend 291 all out, but the skipper felt that, while they contributed to their own downfall, the team should not be downhearted.

“Most Saturdays you will defend 291,” Morrison said. “And to be honest we were lucky to get up to that score – Tom Foley and Will Wales put on a fine last-wicket stand.

“They had a bowler (Callum Gregory) who took six wickets and, yes he bowled full and straight, but I wouldn’t say he got any our boys out, I would say we made mistakes.”

Corsham, who saw debutant overseas all-rounder Remano Esau fall four short of a deserved century, were indebted to the efforts of Foley (23) and Wales (34 not out) as their 10th wicket partnership contributed 50 runs to the visitors total.

In reply, Downend got off to a fine start as they went at eight an over, but they were aided by some wayward opening bowling from James Arney and Morrison before getting over the line with seven balls to spare with Foley the pick of the Corsham bowling with 3-50.

“Both James and I wear our hearts on our sleeves,” the skipper said.

“Maybe we were trying too hard to find that magical delivery instead of relaxing and trying to hit line and length and create the pressure.

“But we did well to bring it back and we should have won the game.

“When the Jackson brothers (Matthew and Phil) came in (at eight and 10 respectively) we got complacent.

“We should have looked to close the game out, not give them the chance to win the match.

“Yes, we are disappointed to lose the match, but we can take the positives from it.

“We only lost by one wicket – we weren’t totally dominated. We lost because we got too complacent – this is something that can be remedied.”

Corsham will look to secure their first win of the campaign on Saturday when they welcome Premier One new boys Lechlade to Station Road.