COPDOCK & Old Ipswichians will be playing top-flight local cricket next season.

They comfortably beat Cambridgeshire side Ramsey by 111 runs in yesterday’s promotion play-off for a place in the Gibbs Denley East Anglian Premier League.

After compiling 303 for six in their 50 overs, Adrian Nel top-scoring with 97, Copdock bowled out their hosts for 192, skipper Chris Swallow taking five for 35, to confirm their promotion.

See tomorrow’s EADT and Evening Star for full report, reaction and photographs.