Founded 1974 for recreation and refreshment
Sunday 13 May 2001
London Erratics v Alvington & Woolaston
at Alvington
Donner und blitzen!
30 overs match
Alvington won the toss and elected to field.
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LONDON ERRATICS — 125 for 6 in 30 overs |
ALVINGTON — 91 all out in 27.5 overs |
| Andrews | bowled | 30 | Hattam | 6 | 1 | 18 | 1 | |||
| Dunabin | caught | 3 | Cheney | 4 | 0 | 19 | 1 | |||
| † | Khawaja | bowled | 0 | Pati | 3 | 0 | 17 | 0 | ||
| Truscott | run out | 37 | Truscott | 6 | 1 | 17 | 2 | |||
| Richards | bowled | 2 | Meller | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | |||
| Long | caught | 0 | Dunabin | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |||
| Meller | NOT OUT | 25 | Richards | 2.5 | 0 | 9 | 2 | |||
| * | Rivington | NOT OUT | 17 | Rivington | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Hattam | ||||||||||
| Pati | catches: | |||||||||
| Cheney | Dunabin 2, | |||||||||
| Hattam, | ||||||||||
| Meller |
Won by 34 runs
| NARRATIVE |
| It is traditional that we arrive at Alvington with only 10 team members. This year the lucky man to be left behind was Brian Berrigan. Fortunately Mike Long’s brother-in-law had come along as a spectator, and was gratefully drafted in. The game started as a 40 overs match. |
| The Erratics innings was uneven. The first two wickets fell on 14 (Nasir Khawaja unwisely opting third ball for a cross-bat heave). Peter Andrews and John Truscott played well to build a partnership, as thunder began rumbling around the ground. They had just posted the half century when, with 15 overs complete, the heavens opened (spectacular fork lightning across the Severn valley). An early tea was taken, and the game was reduced to 30 overs. The fifty partnership was reached — and Peter was out next ball. Two more wickets fell in the pursuit of quick runs, and the score was suddenly 71 for 5 and looking iffy. Felix Meller came in to share a useful partnership of 26 runs until, after a couple of run-out scares, an exhausted John declined to go for a sharp single and simply walked off to the pavilion instead. A final flurry in the last five overs took the score above 4 an over. |
| Mark Hattam and Patrick Cheney were a useful initial attack, removing both openers with the score on 16 (brilliant catch by Felix off Patrick’s bowling, running in from deep square leg, low down). The next pair of batsmen proved more dangerous: by the 15th over the score had reached 62, and Alvington were well on course. The next few balls transformed the game. John removed the No. 4, Chris Dunabin toppling backwards at slip to take the catch. In the 16th over, Felix flattened the stumps of the No. 3 (making up for having dropped him earlier); and then the dangerous No. 5, trying to steer Felix down to third man, was gobsmacked to see the ball stuck in Chris’s hands at slip. The back of the Alvington innings was broken, and the later bowlers helped themselves to some wickets. |
| Good to get the first game, and the first win, under the belt. |