High Wycombe made a return to winning ways in the Home Counties Premier League as they beat Tring Park by two-wickets on Saturday.

The Division One champions came into the match in sixth position in the league after suffering two defeats in a row and were eager to return to winning ways.

Tring batted first and made a decent start to proceedings as openers Charles MacDonell and Benjamin Abbott took them beyond 50 with limited fuss.

However, the departure of Abbott for 42 off the bowling of Paul Sawyer with Tring on 59 triggered a batting collapse which threatened to undermine their whole innings.

A ruthless Wycombe attack began to click into gear and Saif Zaib (4), MacDonell (20), Curran Guar (0) and Rory Wood (4) all departed to leave Tring on 75-5.

Tring were now in danger of imploding and were in need of a healthy knock from at least one of their batsmen to re-establish some calm.

Their wishes would be answered twice over as Michael Payne (73 not out) and robin Pritchard (78) produced a superb sixth wicket stand of 135.

Pritchard had been playing with the handbrake off as he hit 11 fours before falling to the bowling of Jonathan Burden.

A useful 33 from Toby Wastling concluded the Tring innings and he was last man out to leave Park on 259-7 from their 64 overs.

Only two Wycombe men struck with the ball as Burden claimed 4-61 and Sawyer finished with an economical 3-27.

If Wycombe’s season has been defined by stuttering form thus far, Garth Davson’s levels of performance with the bat have remained an ever reliable source of consistency.

Once again the opener set the standards for his side as he smashed 101 from 110 deliveries to record his fourth century of the season.

He would eventually be snared by Simon Stanway, but by then the damage was done with Wycombe on 216-4.

Davson’s efforts were ably supported by Nathan Hawkes (53) and James Benning (52) and the trio’s scores took the visitors most of the way to their target.

Hawkes was particularly dominant with bat in hand as his half-century came from just 30 deliveries and included seven fours and three sixes.

Cheap dismissals for Sawyer, Uzair Amjaid, Gavin Baker and Daniel Cranfield-Thompson made the Wycombe chase more complicated than necessary.

But George Russell ticked off the final runs in composed fashion with an unbeaten 22 and Wycombe got over the line with just over 51 overs on the board.

The victory sees Wycombe climb to fifth in the table and close the gap to leaders Banbury, who drew on Saturday, to 32 points.

Wycombe will look to pick up a second win on the bounce when they take on Great & Little Tew Firsts in their next match on Saturday.