Founded 1974 for recreation and refreshment
Sunday 20 August 2000
London Erratics v Pearson TV
in Chessington
Erratics A beat Erratics B
The Erratics won the toss and elected to field.
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PEARSON TV — 171 for 5 dec Roberts 37, Neal 10 |
LONDON ERRATICS — 172 for 5 Neal 1.4-0-10-0 |
| Meller | 7 | 1 | 34 | 0 | Andrews | lbw | 23 | ||
| Heller | 9 | 3 | 36 | 2 | Bingham | caught | 17 | ||
| Hattam | 7 | 1 | 46 | 0 | Meller | bowled | 30 | ||
| Rivington | 3 | 0 | 18 | 1 | Rivington | bowled | 9 | ||
| Rennell | 5 | 0 | 22 | 1 | † | Richards | NOT OUT | 23 | |
| Bush | 2 | 0 | 8 | 1 | Rennell | bowled | 19 | ||
| McKay | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | Bush | NOT OUT | 16 | ||
| Hattam | |||||||||
| catches: | * | Heller | |||||||
| Andrews, | McKay | ||||||||
| Bingham |
Won by 4 wickets
| NARRATIVE |
| To keep the fixture alive, the Erratics lent Pearson TV two players — Matthew Neal and Hywel Roberts — to make it ten Erratics versus a Pearson team of just seven; when the Erratics batted, they lent Pearson a further two fielders — so for much of the time the opposition looked very familiar. Weather: warm, some sunshine. |
| Richard Heller risked reducing the game to a farce right at the start by dismissing two of the genuine Pearson batsmen for nought each. That Pearson TV set such a respectable target was largely down to their captain and opening batsman, who scored 94 not out; he was the beneficiary of four dropped catches and a missed stumping. He was aided in his task by the two loan players: Hywel Roberts, who batted very well in a partnership of 113, until he looped a catch to Peter Andrews off Tremayne Rennell’s bowling; and Matthew Neal, who looked set to score briskly until he hit a James Rivington long hop straight to extra cover. Max McKay’s debut over for the Erratics was very tidy and economical at a stage when the batsmen were looking for quick runs. |
| Peter Andrews and David Bingham got the Erratics innings off to a good start with a partnership of 42. There was a bit of a blip when the score went from 99-2 to 100-4, as James Rivington and Felix Meller fell in quick succession. But the old professionals Tony Richards and Tremayne Rennell batted with great good sense to rebuild the innings. Bill Bush added a cavalier dash as the overs began to run out — in particular punishing some loose bowling from Matthew Neal. The game was won in the penultimate over with four byes. |
| NOTE: Andrews, Heller, Meller and Rivington (along with Martin Parsley) had participated the previous day in the President’s XI victory over Kilndown (star player Peter Andrews). |