London Erratics Cricket Club

Thirty years of recreation and refreshment, 1974–2004

Sunday 8 August 2004
London Erratics v Inkpen
at Inkpen

Shouldn’t have been that close!

LONDON ERRATICS — batting				4s	6s
†⁽¹⁾	Head	bowled	23	2
*	Rivington	caught	19	1
	Neal	bowled	21	3	1
	Truscott	NOT OUT	26	4
	Dunabin	caught	11	2
	Druce	caught	7	1
†⁽²⁾	Bush	caught	4	1
	Chester	NOT OUT	4
	Andrews
142 for 6				in 25 overs
Fall of wickets: 1–56, 2–67, 3–81, 4–104, 5–123, 6–132

Notes:

The Erratics arrived with seven players, one of them a hobbling Peter Andrews. Martin Chester was donated by the opposition; another Inkpen player, Ed Druce, would bat for both teams; so both teams would bat nine, and field ten with the loan of a sub. With bad weather forecast, a 25 overs game was agreed.

Inkpen won the toss and elected to field.

Inkpen have only just reformed after a gap of four or five years. As a result their ‘square’, originally laid by German prisoners-of-war in 1944, was more suited to trench warfare than cricket. But in spite of the conditions, the Erratics were able to lay into some fairly friendly bowling.

INKPEN — batting
1		b Truscott	6
2	c Druce	b Neal	0
3		b Neal	1
4		b Truscott	14
5	st Head	b Dunabin	4
6	run out		49
7	c sub	b Dunabin	5
8	c Andrews	b Neal	13
9	not out		17
142 all out				in 24.2 overs
Fall of wickets: 1–8, 2–12, 3–33, 4–39, 5–41, 6–64, 7–114

LONDON ERRATICS — bowling
	Neal	4.2	1	12	3
	Rivington	4	0	15	0
	Truscott	7	0	22	2
	Bush	2	0	17	0
	Dunabin	2	0	17	2
	Andrews	2	0	22	0
	Chester	1	0	10	0
	Head	2	0	6	0

Notes:

The Inkpen batting was supposed to be fragile, and so it initially proved. Skipper James Rivington mixed up the bowling — a bit too much, as the Inkpen tail suddenly wagged. The most immobile person on the field, Peter Andrews, saved the day: first with a run out; then, with all our nerves frayed, taking the slip catch that tied the game.

Match tied

2004 Season

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