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Saturday 4 September 1993
London Erratics v Hartfield
at Hartfield
Can’t prise them out
Hartfield won the toss and elected to field.
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LONDON ERRATICS — 250 for 7 dec |
HARTFIELD — 155 for 4 |
| Andrews | caught | 18 | Heller | 6 | 3 | 7 | 1 | |||
| Baldwin | caught | 1 | Walker | 8 | 2 | 26 | 1 | |||
| Miliband | bowled | 44 | Bush | 4 | 0 | 14 | 1 | |||
| Berrigan | run out | 114 | Middleton G | 5 | 0 | 20 | 0 | |||
| Bush | bowled | 25 | Rivington | 4 | 0 | 40 | 0 | |||
| Walker | bowled | 24 | Baldwin | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |||
| * | Rivington | c & b | 5 | Dunabin | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | ||
| Dunabin | NOT OUT | 1 | Berrigan | 5 | 2 | 9 | 1 | |||
| † | Khawaja | NOT OUT | 4 | Miliband | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | ||
| Middleton G | Khawaja | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||||
| Heller | Andrews | 1 | 0 | 14 | 0 | |||||
| catches: Bush, Khawaja, Miliband 2 | ||||||||||
Match drawn
| NARRATIVE |
| The Erratics innings was dominated by Brian Berrigan and by the partnerships he shared with David Miliband, Bill Bush and Jeremy Walker — worth 48, 52 and 101 respectively. The scorebook records that Jeremy placed two fours carefully between first and second slip. In his towering innings, Brian hit two sixes — the second of them in one dramatic over where he hit 18 runs, taking his own score from 96 to 114 and bringing up the hundred partnership. Jeremy then ran him out in the next over. James Rivington fell with the score on 246. Nasir Khawaja went in, hit his first ball for four to bring up the 250, at which point James promptly declared. |
| When the Erratics bowlers reduced Hartfield to 34 for 3, there seemed a good prospect of victory. However, the Nos. 4 and 5 dug in, and wouldn’t be dislodged. James tried to tempt the batsmen out of their shells with some ‘flighted spin’; the No. 5, a Frenchman quite inexperienced at cricket, duly helped himself to a couple of sixes, on the way to a surprise half century. The introduction of Brian brought an end to such Gallic flair, to make it 112 for 4. But an assortment of later bowlers were unable to make further inroads, and the No. 4 reached his fifty just before stumps. |