PARLEY 305-4 (20pts) beat WEYMOUTH 154 (4pts) by 151 runs

WEYMOUTH chairman John Ryan bowed out where it all began for him in cricket, as he played his final game before retiring after the Seasiders’ defeat against Parley at Dean Park.

In a typical end-of-season fixture with no real implications, Parley racked up 305-4 off their 50 overs to Weymouth’s 154 all out in reply.

Sri-Lankan Roshan Embala-gama scored a blistering 111 not out for the home side, followed up with Jack Rowett claiming 5-32 to seal the game.

But the day was all about Ryan, who was given a guard of honour and a good ovation as he left the field for the final time.

He told Echosport: “It was fantastic, everyone was really good to me and everyone on our side knew what was going on.

“A couple of their side knew and the umpires knew it was my last game too so I got a nice little clap on my way back in and a nice little guard of honour.

“I couldn’t have wished to finish it at a better place because that’s where I started watching cricket as a kid.

“The first game of cricket I saw there was in 1978 when Hamp-shire beat Middlesex to win the Sunday League, there was about 6,000 people there and that was my inspiration.

“I gave all my kit away as well so I can’t play next year, I walked into the dressing room and gave some of the others my bat and pads.

“Having bowled spin for five or six years, I used to bowl seam up, so in my last over I bowled an old fashioned bit of seam, that didn’t go so well so it was a good time to retire.”

The loss, Weymouth’s sixth defeat on the spin, had no real implications on the Seasiders’ final position, as they could not finish lower than fourth in Premier One since the league split last month.