A magnificent all round performance from Sileby saw the club claims its first ever Charity Cup crown as they cantered to an eight wicket win over Shepshed Town at Loughborough Town's Park Road ground.

Club Chairman Nigel Kinch top scored with an unbeaten 52 for Sileby while Liam Kinch shared the man of the match award with his father thanks to 39 not out and 3-22 with the ball as Sileby chased down Shepshed's below par score of 145 all out.

With the outfield still showing some dampness due to morning dew, it was an inevitable decision that the side winning the toss would bowl first and it was Sileby skipper Matt Ellis that had the luck with the coin and inserted Shepshed.

His bowlers then set about doing the job that he wanted - namely taking wickets.

Lee Medcroft duly obliged as he enticed a leg before decision from umpire Wileman, although it appeared to be a touch high, with the disgruntled Phil Shaw heading back to the pavilion with just 21 on the board.

Sean King and Adam Smith set about repairing the early damage and added 24 runs for the second wicket. However, their steady alliance was ended in the 13th over as another leg before deicision was upheld, this time by umpire Dick Fowkes, with the exemplary Micky Ruddle the grateful recipient with Smith heading back to the hutch on this occasion.

Shepshed skipper Danny Brown was most definitely the unhappier of the two skippers and it was down to him and King to again try and steady the Shepshed ship in the face of some tidy Sileby bowling, with Ruddle in particular impressing with some excellent lines and lengths.

The pair eeked out ten further runs but their partnership was broken by Eamonn Bourke, who looked out of sorts in his first spell, with King trying to use his feet to a wideish delivery but he failed to make any contact and Sean Dudley completed an excellent stumping.

Two balls later it was 56 for 4 as Shepshed's overseas star Mandy Dipha was caught at mid off by a sliding Charles Kindleysides, with Ruddle again the successful bowler, to send his team mates in to raptures.

Brown was digging a lone furrow with whatever plans he had made before the game shot to pieces by the loss of four early wickets and it was going to need a big partnership to take his side to somewhere near the 200 runs they needed to make things difficult for Sileby.

His mood would not have been helped by the needless run out of Karl Shaw, who was run out by Richard Preston, although Dudley must take a large amount of credit for turning a poor throw from Preston in to the run out with 81 on the board.

Brown and youngster Sam Smith put on 55 for the sixth wicket, with Smith scoring runs against Sileby for the second time in two days, while Brown passed the 50 mark from just 54 balls in just over one hour. However, he then managed to perfectly pick out Jake Gillett at deep midwicket off the bowling of off-spinner Liam Kinch for a timely, and excellently made, 55.

The loss of the skipper then brought another landslide of wickets as Sileby's bowlers turned the screw, with Kinch to the fore. The youngster added two more wickets to that of Smith as Shepshed's tail failed to wag at all as they lost their last five men for nine runs in five overs

Smith nicked one behind to Dudley off Medcroft for 20 (136 for 4), Ash Palmer then nicked Kinch behind to Dudley for two (138 for 8), Adam Revell chipped one back to Kinch for a neat caught and bowled (141 for 9) and the innings was finally polished off from the final ball of the 36th over as Tom Bone tried to smash Bourke out of the park and was cleaned up for three with Shepshed 145 all out.

Ruddle was the pick of the bowlers, conceding just 14 runs from his eight overs, while Medcroft (2-31) and Bourke (2-22) claimed a brace apiece,

"We're going to have to bowl well" Brown commented during the interval. It seems, however, that his bowlers were not listening to their skipper as a loose first over from Nick Thompson gifted Sileby four wide balls and a leg bye, which then set the tone for the innings.

Dipha can consider himself unlucky not to have claimed more than the one wicket, that of Kindleysides as he looked to work a straight ball through midwicket and was promptly bowled for 10, with 28 on the board.

The Sileby right hander had earlier cashed in on two wide deliveries to crash two excellent cover drives to the extra cover boundary for four. However, his stay was to be short lived, giving Shepshed a sniff of a chance.

Gillett was steady and produced two boundaries of his own, including a gorgeous tuck off his toes off Palmer. Indeed, it was a repeat shot that he timed far too well that was his downfall with the score on 57 as he tucked another leg stump delivery out to Karl Shaw on the deep midwicket boundary who took an excellent low catch to remove the Sileby opener for 25.

From then on, it was the Kinch show as Nigel began in measured fashion while Liam was lucky to survive an early leg before shout off the bowling of Dipha but he made the chance he was afforded count as he shared an unbroken stand of 89 with his dad.

Kinch Snr then began to up the pace as the Shepshed bowlers heads began to drop. He picked up a sweetly timed six over midwicket off the bowling of Bone and he took Sam Smith to the cleaners in his third over as well, with 15 coming from it.

His half century came in the 25th over with a single and was left with the task of hitting the winning run as an easy single through the covers brought Sileby the win and their first ever Charity Cup title.

It was fitting that the Kinch's shared the man of the match award, presented by Talent Cricket's Stuart Widdowson, while it put a 20 year ghost to rest for Nigel, who was a runner up in the final in 1988.

With Sileby already having sealed promotion two weeks ago, it has proved to be another successful season for the Mill Lane outfit with Premier League cricket heading back to Sileby for 2009 - ten years after their first appearence in the top flight.