Norfolk reach one-day last eight

Trevor Ward made 71 as Norfolk beat Hertfordshire

A brilliant all-round display from George Walker helped Norfolk into the quarter-finals of the MCCA Knockout Trophy on Sunday.

He scored 57no as Norfolk posted 278-6 and then took 4-20 in 10 overs as Hertfordshire were all out for 182.

Norfolk will now face Lincolnshire at Grantham on Sunday, 14 June.

And they can gain the measure of each other when they meet in the opening match of the minor counties championship in Sleaford on Sunday.

In the Trophy the visitors were struggling at 22-2 before Trevor Ward (71) and Stephen Gray (47) got them back on track.

An unbroken seventh wicket stand of 105 between Walker and James Spelman, who made 44, took Norfolk to a formidable 278-6 from their 50 overs.

Former skipper Paul Bradshaw and fellow opening bowler Michael Eccles made early inroads into Hertfordshire's batting line-up and they slumped to 79-5.

Eccles took 3-33 and Bradshaw 2-41 to go with Walker's four wickets as Herts limped to 182 all out in the 46th over.

Skipper Carl Rogers told BBC Radio Norfolk: "When there was 15 overs to go I thought they were in the box seat and we could have easily gone down and only managed 200 or 220.

"For us to come out and hit back like that was a bit of a blow to them."

Norfolk won the trophy in 1997, 2001 and 2005 and are on course to continue that sequence of winning the title every four summers.