London Erratics Cricket Club

Founded 1974 for recreation and refreshment

Saturday 6 September 2003
London Erratics v Bank of England
at Roehampton

A big hit too far

Peter Andrews (he of the broken thumb) had recruited a team, but asked Nasir Khawaja to captain on the day. Unusually, it was the opposition who turned out to be a man short. The Erratics won the toss and elected to field.

A solid but rather slow opening partnership took up over half the Bank innings — finally broken by James Rivington. As the batting side tried to push the score along in the later overs, Tristan Ward helped himself to a fistful of wickets.

BANK OF ENGLAND — batting
1	st Rennell	b Ward	60
2		b Rivington	15
3	c Truscott	b Ward	47
4	st Rennell	b Ward	13
5	st Rennell	b Ward	1
6	c Rennell	b Ward	9
7	not out		3
8	c Prasad	b Stephenson	0
9
10
170 for 7 dec
Fall of wickets: 1–74, 2–110, 3–139, 4–141, 5–167, 6–167, 7–170

LONDON ERRATICS — bowling
	Stephenson	10.3	0	48	1
	Prasad	9	5	12	0
	Neal	4	0	27	0
	Rivington	5	1	14	1
	Truscott	7	2	19	0
	Ward	7	0	42	5

As Chris Dunabin ground out his first fifty for many a year, his team mates on the boundary generously debated whether this was in the best interests of the side. He was finally run out after 115 minutes at the crease. Bill Bush nobly succumbed trying to hit the winning six off the last ball of the match.

LONDON ERRATICS — batting				4s	6s
	Rivington	caught	29	4
	Dunabin	run out	53	5
	Prasad	lbw	30	4	1
	Truscott	stumped	14	1
	Neal	bowled	17	3
	Bush	bowled	8	1
	Ward	NOT OUT	3
*	Khawaja
	Taylor
†	Rennell
	Stephenson
166 for 6
Fall of wickets: 1–65, 2–113, 3–131, 4–152, 5–163, 6–166

Match drawn

2003 Season

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