PARLEY 263-4 (25pts) beat Dorchester 157 (5 pts) by 108 runs

DORSET Premier Division record run-maker Carl Brissett plundered his fourth successive century against Dorchester in another superb one-man show.

The West Indian opener's unbeaten 128 was only 29 fewer than the whole Dorchester side could manage and followed his huge innings of 130 at Colehill the previous week.

The county town side were left to rue the one chance Brissett offered when he had scored just eight.

He edged a ball from Rob Waite to the right of Matt Chalmers at slip and although he dived to get a fingertip to the ball he couldn't hold it.

"It could have made a big difference if it had stuck, but it was a difficult chance and it went to Matt's weaker side," said skipper Tony Foot. "Rob Waite kept him quiet in a good spell with the new ball, but after that it was an all too familiar story with him being just too good for our bowlers."

The omens were bad for Dorchester - they haven't successfully chased a target yet this season - when Foot lost the toss and Parley skipper Gavin Oldbury elected to bat on a good Dean Park track.

Rob Waite and Quinten Miller contained the openers with only 44 coming off the first 14 overs and when Waite had Hess caught by Miller in the 17th over with the score on 57 Dorchester didn't think they were doing too badly.

But then Brissett started to cut loose, taking advantage of a lightning fast outfield as he set out on his crusade to beat his own league scoring record.

His 50 came off 84 balls in 104 minutes and though Dorchester had some success with Justin Miller tempting Watts and Southerland to proffer catches to Rob Acheson and Ian Sibley and wicketkeeper Lee Ames snapping up Oldbury off Sibley's bowling, Brissett roared on to his

century off 120 balls with the last 20 overs bringing 146 runs.

Dorchester opener Sibley began the chase with a purpose when his first four scoring strokes all found the boundary. But as the wickets began to tumble to the fiery pace of Parley's other overseas star South African Chris Van Vlit their cause was soon lost.

By the 15th over Van Vlit had ripped out three of Dorchester's top four batsmen and first-change Brissett then rubbed salt into Dorchester's wounds by joining in the attack to leave the visitors on 57-4.

Picking up a bat for the first time in seven weeks because of a knee injury, Foot did his best to hold things together. He and teenager Steve Clifford took the score from 75-6 to 140 before Clifford was stumped by Hess off the versatile Brissett who had made his customary switch from pace to spin for his second spell.

Van Vlit came back to terrorise the tailenders, taking

2-4 in a five-over second stint that included two maidens and a wicket maiden as Dorchester were all out in the 42nd over.