CREWE'S recent revival came to dramatic end after a pasting from runaway league leaders Wood Lane.

Simply no contest on this day at the Vagrants as the hosts tumbled back towards the relegation dogfight in NSSC Division One.

Although no real surprise with Lane truly dominant this season, it was all too easy, last Saturday.

The visitors set their stall out with a solid 205-5, well enough as Crewe collapsed to a dismal 54 all out.

Openers Ed Gilhooley (79) and Steve Brierley (36) gave the champions elect a superb start with an opening stand of 89 before Martin Webb made that long-awaited breakthrough.

Widely considered the top pro in this division, Indian star Gagandeep Singh made sure they maintained momentum with a knock of 36 while good back up from Richard Hassall (25) steered the visitors towards a healthy declaration at tea.

Left-arm spinner Webb was the pick of the Crewe attack with fine figures of 4-58 but the rest toiled, Nick Lange (1-52) the only other wicket taker.

With both Mark Hurst and Tom Gower unavailable, the top order was seriously depleted and so it proved

A real nightmare began in the very first over as Lange suffered a run out and things grew worse almost immediately as 0-1 became 2-2.

Professional Ran Bose became Dave Wynne's first victim for just two runs and the writing was all but on the wall.

Mark Spencer, Neil Hurst and Joe Boyle all crumbled with Crewe reduced to 19-5.

Bernie Bishop (10), David Hurst (13) and Matt Dawson (8) tried to rally and add some respectability to proceedings but Wynne added all their scalps for figures of 5-25.

Crewe's lousy total meant only two points as Kidsgrove made up ground in the bottom four.

A vital trip to second-bottom Betley is up next on Saturday, start 1.30pm.