COGGESHALL Cricket Club captain George Blackwell wants his team's ruthless side to come out after seeing their winning run ended by Marshall Hatchick Two Counties Championship division one leaders Worlington.

Blackwell was frustrated that Coggeshall were unable to turn a dominant position midway through Worlington's innings into a victory as they were beaten by 83 runs at Harefield.

It was a loss that ended a four-game winning sequence and the skipper wants to see his players put sides to the sword when they are on top to continue their advance up the division one table.

He said: "We need to be ruthless when we get teams into positions like we did.

"I don't expect every catch or every run-out chance to be taken but if we can do the basics well and then chip in with some moments of brilliance we know results will continue to come.

"Of course its annoying that we lost, but that's the way this league is - teams will beat each other.

"I'm obviously disappointed we lost but we will try bounce back this week and play the cricket we have been."

Blackwell said the focus would be to "do the basics right and stick to plans" when they head to bottom side Elmstead on Saturday and he is expecting to take a strong side to Vicarage Meadow.

He added: "We're looking good again; we miss Josh Morton but everyone else is available.

"The second team have been playing well lately as well and there have been players performing strongly there so competition for places is happening."

Coggeshall know they will have to pick things up again, though, after the disappointment against the leaders.

Blackwell said: "The result was disappointing; we have been playing really well the last few weeks and let ourselves down on Saturday.

"It really was a game of two halves in the field for us.

"We started strongly took early wickets and put the pressure on and after 25 overs we had Worlington 75 for four with what I consider their best four bats all out and back in the pavilion.

"However, the second 25 overs was the complete opposite.

"We started dropping important catches and miss-fielding simple balls, letting Worlington post 231, which I felt was 60 too many.

"Heads were down at tea and we were all disappointed with what had happened in the last 25 overs and knew we had given ourselves a challenge.

"We limped to 148 pretty easily but unfortunately nobody was able to set a foundation for a strong run chase and in the end the defeat capped off a bad day at the office."