DISAPPOINTED Kendal captain Chris Miller wants his team to return to immediate winning ways after seeing his side's batting frailties come back to haunt them.

The Shap Road club saw their three-match winning run come to a meek end - although Chorley's inability to bowl them out meant that they at least picked up a losing draw.

"It was a disappointed performance really," said Miller whose side remain eighth put have lost ground on the teams above them. "I was only saying last week that we were seemed to have found a way to tough it out and grind out wins but it wasn't to be against Chorley.

"Bowling wise, we did alright but it was our batting that let us down just as it had done in the early part of the season.

"We lost wickets in clusters and just couldn't get any momentum going which was the most disappointing thing considering how well we have been playing in recent weeks.

"So it is important for us to bounce right back and we will be looking to do that at Barrow on Saturday."

Chorley won the toss and elected to bat but Kendal made an early breakthrough professional Eldred Hawken dismissing openers Ian Oakes for six and Alexander Howarth for a duck.

But Ian Dickinson and professional Brenton McDonald put together and crucial and what proved to be a match-winning performance.

Dickinson struck eight fours in his knock of 49 while McDonald also registered eight fours and a six in his 56.

Will Moulton hit a quick fire 31 but the efforts of Hawken (3-67) and Saeed Bariwala (4-56) saw Chorley close on a par for the course 202-8.

In reply, Kendal lost Ryan Shepherd in the first over and never really recovered as they failed to get any significant partnerships going.

Paul Dodds followed soon after for four before Darren Nightingale came to the crease who with Saeed Bariwala - once Hawken came and went for seven - gave Kendal an outside chance of salvaging something.

Bariwala smacked smacked five sixes and a four in his quick-fire 48. Once he departed, Shane Hyland (2), Oliver Field (0) and Richard Herron (2) didn't hang around and it was left to Nightingale and Miller to attempt unlikely win which ultimately failed after Nightingale went for 29.

"I said to Darren, let's just work down in tens and take it from there," added Miller who finished unbeaten on 36. "But once he went, the tactics changed and it was a case of just trying to hang in there to pick up what bonus points we could."