Sawbridgeworth remain joint top of Saracens Hertfordshire League, Division One after a brilliant century from Rehman Ahmed set up a 107-run victory at struggling Letchworth Garden City on Saturday.

Ahmed struck five sixes and 15 fours on his way to scoring 146 off 141 balls out of the visitors’ total of 301-7 after they batted first in a league match for the first time this season.

He shared a 100-run partnership for the second wicket with Rob Sanders (52) after Alan Ison (27) had struck two maximums in the first seven overs of the day.

Hamish Wardell-Johnson (24) helped to add 68 with Rehman before Matt Billings struck 10 off the last five balls of the innings to see Sawbo top 300.

They comfortably wrapped up their fourth league win in a row as Letchworth were all out for 194 in 42 overs.

Amit Gupta took 3-40 with the new ball before spin partner Danish Zaman returned his best figures for Sawbo of 4-39.

Luke Monger (2-7) and Ison (1-34) were the other wicket-takers for the visitors who are on the same number of points as Chorleywood, who defeated Ampthill Town by 114 runs, at the summit.