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GREAT HOUGHTON
— batting
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| 1 |
|
c Meller |
b Rivington |
5 |
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| 2 |
|
retired |
|
100 |
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| 3 |
|
|
b Heller |
19 |
|
| 4 |
|
retired |
|
50 |
|
| 5 |
|
c Andrews |
b Bush |
11 |
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| 6 |
|
not out |
|
17 |
|
| 7 |
|
c Meller |
b Bush |
19 |
|
| 8 |
|
not out |
|
12 |
|
| 9 |
|
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| 10 |
|
|
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| 11 |
|
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| 271 for 6 |
in 35 overs |
|
Fall of wickets:
1–80, 2–133, ?? |
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LONDON ERRATICS
— bowling |
|
Meller |
6 |
0 |
41 |
0 |
|
|
Heller |
9 |
0 |
82 |
1 |
|
|
Rivington |
7 |
0 |
29 |
1 |
|
|
Bush |
8 |
0 |
55 |
2 |
|
|
McKay |
3 |
0 |
26 |
0 |
|
|
Dunabin |
2 |
0 |
19 |
0 |
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| The Erratics won the toss and elected to field. |
| Our special correspondent writes: |
| Very nice place to live, I should think — nice village, good views,
good pub (I enjoyed the food), brand new village hall doubling as a pavilion, nice people, only just
outside Northampton so connected to busy life. |
| Something had possessed James Rivington to tell them that we had a stronger
side than in the Evenley tourney last year. So — particularly since they were having difficulty
raising an eleven — GH put two first teamers in — Afford, the captain, batting average last year
over 80 according to the club handbook, and Strong, who apparently once played for Sussex and Northants,
bowling average last year 4 point something. Several GH players had been up until 4 am celebrating
Afford’s 30th birthday. GH offered a choice of declaration game or overs, and Nasir Khawaja for some reason
chose 40 overs, though he wisely declined an 8 over max. Had not the game been reduced to 35 overs by mutual
agreement when they screamed past 200, even Peter would have had a bowl. |
| The game was clearly all over as a contest after about 6 overs
— they were scoring at 7 an over off Felix Meller and Richard Heller bowling normally. The first team captain hit
the ball ferociously hard, and retired after reaching 100 (out of about 150) in around 20 overs. At one
point Bill Bush deliberately (and with some difficulty) got out of the way of one at extra cover. Peter Andrews was
swapped with him, and in the next over was foolish enough to half stop one — lucky that wasn’t
end of season. The ex-county player retired after reaching 50 having taken 21 off an over from Richard.
James bowled a good spell, the local under 14s had a biff, Bill got a couple of wickets, Peter got a catch and
Felix two, and after the shortening of the innings we held them to 271 for 6 (including the retirements as
wickets). |
| A vignette. Nasir told us he’d given John Truscott the location,
but he’d mumbled something about Normandy. To our delight, with the score about 140 after 18 overs, a
familiar grey haired figure started sauntering around the boundary. Several of us yelled at him to get his
kit on, and wondered if his bowling could save Max et al. from further punishment. It was of course
a baffled local. [Only the blind members of the team ever thought it was Truscott. — Ed] |
| (Lemma — we only had nine players, but GH provided one sub to field
for us; the U14 who did the first half of the innings would have been our best fielder bar Felix and James.) |
| Excellent tea, created at the pub but served in the hall. Particularly
memorable cheese straws. |
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