Superb swing and seam bowling spells by Will Eason and Pat Foster set Horspath on the way to making it two wins out of two with a crushing eight-wicket victory at Gerrards Cross.

The victory puts Horspath joint top of Division 2 with Buckingham.

Eason (3-17) produced a masterful opening spell to reduce the hosts to 10-3, before Foster (4-17) ripped out the middle order with Cross lurching to 40-7.

Young left-arm spinner Lloyd Belcher took 2-2 to wrap up the innings for 78 all out off 34.5 overs, Sam Westaway finishing 22 not out made up entirely of singles.

Horspath then coasted to 80-2, with Rameez Raja finishing the job by hitting his first ball for a six into the tennis courts.

Shipton-under-Wychwood ended Thame Town’s good return to the league with a comfortable six-wicket victory.

Visitors Thame started well after being put in to bat.

But Shipton skipper Charlie Brain, with two wickets, initiated a collapse which included the run out of Will Taylor.

When Thame skipper Mike Higgs was out for 58 made off 100 balls, the visitors were struggling at 97-5.

With left-arm spinner Shaun Miller (3-32) causing problems, only Honey Garg, with 42 off 63 balls, resisted as Thame were dismissed for 176.

Joe Barrett set Shipton’s reply off to a sparkling start with 43 off 47 balls.

His opening partner Andrew Hemming played the anchor role with an unbeaten 63 to see Shipton home in the 38th over.

Higgs competed a good individual display for Thame with three wickets.

A brilliant all-round display by Harry Stephens paved the way for Oxford’s five-wicket victory against Cookham Dean at Jordan Hill.

The visitors were well-placed at 88-2 after being inserted, but Stephens swept away Cookham’s middle order with 4-17 in six overs as they were dismissed for 135 in 37.5 overs.

Stephens’s unbeaten 48 and Freddie Fairhead’s 31 helped Oxford home.

Aston Rowant suffered an 81-run defeat at Datchet.

Tidy bowling restricted Datchet, whohad chosen to bat first, to 211-5.

However, Rowant’s batting line-up, without last week’s century-maker Miles Hammond, could not cope against the bowling of Steve Naylor and Chris Peploe and were dismissed for 130 in 39 overs.