JAMES Brown's fantastic performance certainly gave his Bromyard team-mates the feel-good factor when he played a major part in the demolition of Romsley in their Crusader Worcestershire League division one second XI clash.

The 34-year-old, who classes himself as a bowler who likes to 'swing the bat agriculturally', first starred with the willow as he blasted an unbeaten 86 off just 58 balls as Bromyard posted a daunting total of 337-8 from their 50 overs.

And if the Romsley players weren't sick of the sight of Brown by then, the right-arm opening bowler went on to tear through their batting order, taking 6-43 as the visitors collapsed to 85 all out -- one run less than Brown had contributed to his side's total.

The crushing 252-run victory gave Bromyard the maximum 24 points available and helped them climb to eighth in the division one second XI table.

Brown said: "I was batting at number seven and the game was well set up for me by our number three batsman Owen Thomas, who made 79, and number four Brian Pursall, who hit 68.

"They put up a good stand for the third wicket so that we were well placed for me to go in and have a bit of a swish towards the end. I have been playing for Bromyard for about five years now and that was my best score so far.

"On the day, I felt a bit sorry for Romsley's bowlers because it was quite a flat pitch with nothing much in it for the them.

"I got my eye in and batted in quite an agricultural fashion, but everything I swung at seemed to come off."

Despite saying the pitch had little in it for the bowlers, Brown certainly found it to his liking at the start of Romsley's reply.

Brown and fellow opening bowler Dave Harris (4-32) took all 10 wickets between them as their opponents struggled to cope with their devastating spell.

He added: "Dave picked up the first wicket, but I went on to get six. Three of them were caught and the other three were bowled.

"Michael Reece held two of the catches off my bowling and I got the other catch myself. My caught-and-bowled was my favourite wicket because it got out one of their best batsmen. He had hit me for six and tried it again a couple of balls later, but I dug the ball in a bit short and he mis-timed a simple catch back to me.

"On the whole, their batsmen just went for their shots because they were chasing a big score and often got themselves out."