SURPRISE package Enfield continued their march up the Transco Lancashire League with a comfortable win over struggling Nelson -- without having to rely on more heroics from professional Martin Van Jaarsveld.

The South African has swept all before him in racing to 1,000 league runs and played his part in yesterday's 50-run success with a marathon 25-over spell with the ball.

But the match-winning performance came from young all-rounder Liam Jackson, who followed up a fluent knock of 75 with an inspired spell of bowling which brought him career-best figures of 7-33 from just 13 overs.

Three times Jackson took two wickets in an over and was denied a hat-trick only by the bottom half-inch of Martin Heap's bat as Nelson collapsed from 98-1 to 126-6.

But with two collections in the bag, the 20-year-old wasn't complaining.

"I haven't been bowling too much lately so that was all right, and batting, I've felt good but I just keep getting out," he said.

And having made his runs off only 105 deliveries with 13 fours, missing out on three figures once again.

"There were about 18 overs to go when I was out, so I should have done it easily. I've still got to keep going for the hundred," said Jackson, whose best effort to date is an unbeaten 99 against Rishton last season.

Van Jaarsveld is no stranger to making centuries but this time he went for 21, trapped leg before by Nelson professional Wade Wingfield, having given a very difficult chance behind the stumps before he had scored.

Enfield were in danger of losing their early momentum at one stage, once Jackson had gone with the score on 120.

The home side had slipped to 137-5 in the 39th over but an excellent partnership between Sam Reidy and skipper Damian Hartley took the total to 196 when Reidy went for a run-a-ball 32 inside the last over.

The persevering Heap claimed two further wickets at the death but chasing 198-8 was always likely to be a tall order for a Nelson side struggling at the wrong end of the table.

"We thought it was possibly enough," Jackson admitted. "We don't have many wicket-taking bowlers, more containing ones."

And that point was firmly underlined by Neil Holmes and Van Jaarsveld, who took the new ball in the absence of skipper Mark Greenhalgh.

Nelson openers Jonathan Finch and Colin Pemberton scored from just one of the first eight overs and when Pemberton went in the 15th over, the visitors had reached just 23.

However, with the tidy looking Finch beginning to spread his wings and the in-form Wingfield for company at the other end, Nelson looked as though they were building a platform for possible victory.

The pair took the score to 98-1 with 15 overs to go before Jackson took control to nip such thoughts in the bud.

The seamer bowled Finch (42) and Paul Garraghty in the space of three balls and Enfield didn't relax their grip again.

He said: "I thought the opener threw his wicket away a bit and then Paul Garraghty was a big one, because he normally gets runs against us." Jackson then worked his way through the lower order as Wingfield was marooned at the other end. The skipper played beautifully off his legs without ever dominating the Enfield attack, finishing unbeaten on 67 from 112 balls with eight fours and a six.

And it took a no-ball down the leg-side in the final over from Van Jaarsveld for Nelson to scramble even a solitary point as Enfield's push for a top-four place gathered further momentum.

"If we had won some of the games we should have done, like the one against Chuch, we would have been right up there with the best of them. But for such a young side, we're not doing so bad," said Jackson, who epitomised that view perfectly.