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Sunday 16 July 2000
London Erratics v Great Milton
at Great Milton
Reluctant Berrigan smashes Erratics to easy win
The Erratics won the toss and elected to field.
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GREAT MILTON — 178 all out D Collins 0 |
LONDON ERRATICS — 181 for 2 |
| Meller | 6 | 1 | 21 | 1 | Rivington | bowled | 23 | ||
| Brook | 9 | 0 | 50 | 5 | Roberts | caught | 6 | ||
| Heller | 9 | 0 | 37 | 1 | Berrigan | NOT OUT | 96 | ||
| Roberts | 7 | 0 | 39 | 1 | Meller | NOT OUT | 48 | ||
| Rivington | 2 | 0 | 13 | 2 | Brook | ||||
| Dunabin | |||||||||
| catches: | † | Bush | |||||||
| Dunabin, | * | Walker | |||||||
| Meller 2 | Heller | ||||||||
| McKay | |||||||||
| Collins H |
Won by 8 wickets
| NARRATIVE |
| The Erratics lent Great Milton a spare player — Dan Collins — to make it eleven a side. Weather: mostly warm and sunny. |
| All the Erratics bowlers contributed to dismissing Great Milton, but David Brook in particular produced a fine performance of swing bowling. He took four wickets in his first spell (including two slip catches by Felix Meller), and then came back to pick up the eighth wicket. James Rivington somewhat improbably accounted for the final two wickets. But while they had regularly lost wickets, Great Milton had never stopped scoring — thanks largely to their No. 1 who was ninth out for 108 — and they therefore achieved a very reasonable total. |
| Brian Berrigan hadn’t wanted to play at all, and had been unfit to bowl. However, he overcame his reluctance to give an immaculate and powerful display of batting. With the score on 51 he was joined by Felix Meller and together they finished the job. There weren’t quite enough runs at the end to let both of them reach their personal milestones, and through a lack of organisation by their team-mates on the boundary neither was successful. |