Premier Division: Big hitting Davidson ensures Grange remain top of the pile

The all-rounder only came to the crease in the 41st over with his side 169-5 batting first at Raeburn Place. At that stage 210 or 220 looked to be a decent total, but Davidson's big hitting took them well over that to 263-5.

Blake Dean and Charles Legget came in for particular punishment, 27 coming off the 49th over bowled by the Australian and 17 coming off the last over from Legget.

That period of the game swung the balance of the match in Grange's favour and the visitors never really recovered.

Earlier Cammy Coles had led the way with 55 opening the batting for Grange, while spinner Tom Clarke bowled really well to take 4-37.

With a number of key batsmen missing Carlton were always going to struggle to chase 264 to win and when Ani Majumdar and captain Stevie Gilmour went for six and four respectively things looked even tougher.

Dean looked good for 25 before he was bowled by a beauty from Jonny Gray and Oli Tame dug in for 53, but run outs for teenager Nick Hunt and Nathan Pietsch cost them dear.

In the end Carlton were all out for 206 with Clarke being the last man to depart to debutante spinner Drew Weir.

Over at Myreside, Forfarshire secured a hard fought victory to scupper Watsonians chances of seven wins in a row. The Edinburgh side had the visitors -who were missing captain Ryan Watson who was a late call off - 95-6 at one point, but a great partnership between pro Kelby Pickering and Dennis Petrie helped them recover to 203-8.

The Australian hit a half century, while Petrie made 47 not out as the Watsonians bowling and fielding levels dropped.

In reply Watsonians looked set for victory when Ryan Flannigan was going well, but once he was run out the innings faltered. In the end they were all out for 198 in a thrilling finale.

The league's top runs scorer Alistair Gray hit another century as Dunfermline Knights easily won at Aberdeenshire.

South African Gray led the way with 103 for the Fifers batting first and Vasu Reddy chipped in with 38. They set the hosts 291 to win.

In reply Aberdeenshire lost pro Michael Parlane early on off the bowling of Reddy and never recovered.They were eventually all out for 129 with spinner Aparajit Singh taking a couple of scalps including that of Richie Lamb.

At Bothwell Castle Uddingston were in ruthless form against McCrea FS West.

The visitors - missing injured pro Leighton Burtt - were bowled out for just 63, the third lowest in the top flight this term, with only one batsmen making it into double figures.

Captain Ricky Bawa was the destroyer-in-chief for the hosts with 5-17 while pro Ras Priyadarshana took 4-7.

In reply Uddingston lost Paul Hoffman fairly early, but Sameer Zia guided them home with seven wickets in hand with 33 not out.

Kamran Sajid hit 100 not out as Clydesdale defeated Greenock at Titwood.

He was well supported by 65 from Qasim Sheikh as the hosts posted 225-6 from their 50 overs. In reply Greenock made a good fist of it, but fell 35 runs short in the end. Chris Bellwood top scored with 46, but four wickets from Zeeshan Bashir saw Clydesdale home.