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Saturday 17 July 1993
London Erratics v Withered Lilies
at Magdalen College, Oxford
At last, we’ve beaten them!
The Withered Lilies won the toss and elected to field.
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LONDON ERRATICS — 134 all out |
WITHERED LILIES — 121 all out |
| Rivington | caught | 3 | Heller | 10 | 4 | 23 | 1 | |||
| † | Khawaja | bowled | 2 | Walker | 8.5 | 1 | 18 | 3 | ||
| Dunabin | caught | 1 | Berrigan | 10 | 1 | 35 | 2 | |||
| Stone | caught | 23 | Cheney | 4 | 0 | 27 | 0 | |||
| Berrigan | caught | 15 | Evans | 2 | 0 | 15 | 0 | |||
| * | Evans | bowled | 34 | |||||||
| Waller | NOT OUT | 40 | catches: | |||||||
| Walker | caught | 1 | Dunabin, Khawaja, | |||||||
| Heller | caught | 0 | Rivington, Stone, | |||||||
| Cheney | bowled | 2 | sub (Goldacre) | |||||||
Won by 13 runs
| NARRATIVE |
| Each side had only ten men. The teams batted ten, but fielded eleven with a sub loaned by the batting side (this nearly proved fatal to the Erratics). |
| The Erratics innings was soon in trouble. With the score on 6, the second and third wickets fell — James Rivington caught at slip by substitute Brian Berrigan, and Chris Dunabin spectacularly caught by new substitute Jeremy Walker. Peter Stone and Brian (now playing for the right side) steadied things. After Brian went, Peter carried on and saw the fifty posted — but then fell to an unnecessarily good catch by substitute Nasir Khawaja. Exasperation in the pavilion. From this rocky position, the innings was saved by the combative batting of skipper Michael Evans and Robert Waller. Together they put on 74. However, the return of the opening attack brought the innings to an abrupt halt. Patrick Cheney was last out, another victim of the ever deadly Jonathan Genton (who finished with figures of 11.2–6–8–4). |
| Richard Heller and Jeremy bowled meanly and enjoyed early success. But slowly the Lilies began to establish themselves. The introduction of Brian to the attack brought two quick wickets — notably the scalp of the awkward Mike Goldacre, who lobbed a catch to James. Again the Lilies rallied, and the score mounted dangerously. A fifty partnership for the fifth wicket was frustrating (particularly since the calibre of the fielding substitutes did not seem to match the kamikaze brilliance seen in the first innings), and the Erratics were grateful for a run out to end the partnership. But Genton is still there, and now the hundred is up. In the first over of Jeremy’s second spell, Genton finally miscues high to mid-off and substitute Goldacre has no choice but to catch it. Genton is out for 63, and the score is 116 for 6. In the next over, from Brian (who has been plugging away for hours at one end), the Lilies scramble five runs — 121 for 6. Thirteen runs or three wickets for victory. Surely the batting side should do it. But Jeremy isn’t going to give anything away ... and it is the Lilies who crack. A desperate gamble for a single ends in a run out ... and then another run out! And with his fifth ball Jeremy shatters the stumps of the last man. A glorious, long-awaited and improbable win against the Withered Lilies, greeted with much jubilation. |