Founded 1974 for recreation and refreshment
Sunday 11 September 1994
London Erratics v Nuffield College
at St Peter’s College Ground, Oxford
‘Hours and hours and hours and hours and ...’
| NUFFIELD COLLEGE — 134 all out | LONDON ERRATICS — 91 all out |
| Wallace | 7 | 0 | 21 | 1 | Waller | caught | 3 | ||
| Middleton G | 8.1 | 1 | 27 | 1 | Rivington | bowled | 33 | ||
| Dunabin | 6 | 2 | 25 | 3 | Gardner | bowled | 9 | ||
| Cheney | 6 | 2 | 16 | 2 | Dunabin | bowled | 3 | ||
| Rivington | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | Wallace | lbw | 6 | ||
| Brind | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | Cameron | caught | 0 | ||
| Waller | 2 | 0 | 17 | 0 | *† | Bush | lbw | 9 | |
| Gardner | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | Brind | caught | 9 | ||
| Middleton G | NOT OUT | 1 | |||||||
| catches: | Cheney | bowled | 5 | ||||||
| Middleton G, Wallace | |||||||||
| Fall of wickets: 1–4, 2–29, 3–32, 4–41, 5–44, 6–54, 7–68, 8–84, 9–91 |
Erratics lost by 43 runs
NOTES
1. Ten Erratics lined up against a full Nuffield team. The Erratics team in full: Waller, Rivington,
Gardner, Dunabin, Wallace, Cameron, †Bush, Brind, Middleton G, Cheney. The noise from the main road
was obtrusive.
2. Nuffield only had two proper batsmen, and the innings crumbled when they were out. Bill Bush mixed up the
bowling — eight Erratics got to turn their arms over, six of them with success. But complacency
allowed Nuffield to score more than intended.
3. A partnership of 25 for the second wicket, between James Rivington and John Gardner, was as good as the
Erratics innings got. With the Erratics looking unlikely to get the runs, opener James dug in for the draw,
but the rest of the team came and went at the other end. When it looked as though he might single-handedly
see the Erratics through to safety, James tried to force a single to protect young Giles Middleton from the
strike and was bowled — eighth man out, and the only Erratic to get into double figures. Giles and
Patrick Cheney kept Erratics hopes alive for a little while, but not quite long enough.