Brighouse edged an entertaining encounter at Great Horton - but had to wait until the last over of the game to hit the winning runs.

Brighouse won the toss and put Great Horton in to bat under an overcast sky.

The home side began well enough after a shaky start with Mohammed Zahid and Ziafat Ashraf pushing the ball around fairly comfortably.

But the pair should have learned their lesson from the first ball of the game when a mix-up almost saw Zahid being run out.

They continued to go for the ambitious singles and disaster struck with the score on 17 when when left-hander Zahid went for a risky run and was brilliantly run out by Richard Thompson, who despite seeing only one stump, still made a direct hit.

Wahid Iqbal was next in and he and Ashraf moved the score along with the short boundaries a helping factor.

Iqbal brought up Great Horton's 50 with a superb square cut off Imran Ali and immedately repeated the punishment. But he got overconfident and was caught in the slips off Ali while going for the third boundary in the same over. Another player had failed to capitalise on a good start.

Adam Stott, who had replaced skipper James Stansfield, then struck. Ashraf was trapped leg before although the batsman was not impressed by the umpire's decision. Brighouse looked to be getting on top but Great Horton's overseas player, the former Pakistan under-21 international Rizwan Malik, was brought into action and he provided some excellent entertainment with a swashbuckling half century which included a towering six which disappeared back over bowler Stansfield's head and out of the ground.

The 23-year-old looked capable of hitting the home side into a winning position until he was caught by Mark Horne off Ali's bowling.

But it wasn't the end of the boundaries by any means and Great Horton continued to blaze away, despite wickets falling, and reached and impressive 217 for nine - Gullbar Ahmed providing an entertaining 52 of them.

After 13 lost minutes for rain, Brighouse made a solid start to their innings.

Opener Horne went on to hit a fine 71 as wickets fell around him.

Great Horton's leg-spinner Mohammed Sharafat bowled 21 overs which included six maidens and he picked up five wickets as the match kept spectators on the edge of their seats.

But an unbeaten 28 from Mark Wood saw the visitors home with just four balls to spare.