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Sunday 3 June 2001
London Erratics v Pearson TV
in Chessington
Made to look easy
40 overs match
Pearson TV won the toss and elected to bat.
| PEARSON TV — 171 all out in 38 overs | LONDON ERRATICS — 174 for 2 in 31.1 overs |
| Middleton G | 8 | 1 | 38 | 2 | Andrews | caught | 37 | ||
| Meller | 8 | 1 | 19 | 1 | Dunabin | caught | 9 | ||
| Hattam | 8 | 1 | 37 | 1 | Poulter | NOT OUT | 53 | ||
| Heller | 8 | 2 | 25 | 1 | *† | Khawaja | NOT OUT | 64 | |
| Rivington | 3 | 0 | 26 | 0 | Berrigan | ||||
| Berrigan | 3 | 0 | 22 | 3 | Bush | ||||
| Meller | |||||||||
| catches: | Rivington | ||||||||
| Heller (c&b), | Hattam | ||||||||
| Poulter | Heller | ||||||||
| Middleton G |
Won by 8 wickets
| NARRATIVE |
| Richard Heller had recruited the team, but invited Nasir Khawaja to captain (so that he and his broken thumb could hide at long leg). Pearson TV fielded only ten players. Weather: sunny, but with a cooling breeze. The Erratics lost the toss for the fourth game in a row. |
| Giles Middleton and Felix Meller gave the Pearson openers a torrid time. Good partnerships for the 3rd and 4th wickets got the score up to 4 an over — Mark Hattam’s removal of the dangerous No. 4 just after he had completed his half century was crucial. A tidy spell by Richard Heller pegged the score back, and he was rewarded by bravely hanging on to a return catch in spite of his injury. Batsmen 7 and 8 set about the later bowlers in a dash for runs, scoring 50 in about 5 overs. But then Brian Berrigan stepped up a gear. The final four balls of the 38th over went: bowled – bowled – 4 runs back past the bowler – bowled. So ended the innings, but an interesting target had been set. |
| The Erratics innings started slowly, with just eight runs in the first six overs. Then the runs started to flow, and never stopped. Partnerships of 37 for both the 1st and 2nd wickets put the Erratics comfortably on course. In his first innings since last July, Tony Poulter casually picked up where he had left off, hitting one big six, and getting to fifty just before the runs required ran out. Nasir brutally punished the Pearson bowling, and hit the winning boundary — thereby bringing up the hundred partnership. |