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BANK OF ENGLAND
— batting
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| 1 |
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b Stevenson |
17 |
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| 2 |
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b Stevenson |
14 |
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| 3 |
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retired hurt |
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4 |
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| 4 |
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run out |
|
42 |
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| 5 |
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c Evans |
b Eltringham |
23 |
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| 6 |
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not out |
|
62 |
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| 7 |
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run out |
|
4 |
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| 8 |
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not out |
|
9 |
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| 9 |
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| 10 |
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| 11 |
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| 12 |
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| 202 for 5 |
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Fall of wickets:
1–23, 2–42, 3–84, 4–161, 5–174 |
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LONDON ERRATICS
— bowling |
|
Towers |
8 |
1 |
30 |
0 |
|
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Stephenson |
7 |
1 |
35 |
2 |
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Padmore A |
3 |
0 |
16 |
0 |
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Heller |
8 |
0 |
32 |
0 |
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Eltringham |
7 |
0 |
44 |
1 |
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Dunabin |
2 |
0 |
12 |
0 |
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Prasad |
4 |
0 |
20 |
0 |
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| Our special correspondent writes: |
| A twelve a side game had been agreed, to allow the Bank to accommodate
a Dutch tourist, and the Erratics to accommodate all those who had bid to play plus Alex Padmore. And the
Bank asked to bat first, to allow one of their leg spinners to play football during their batting innings.
As it happened, they won the toss anyway. The weather was baking hot, the pitch clearly had a million runs
in it, and the boundaries were enormous — intimidating to think even of walking out to the middle to
umpire, let alone chase down outfield hits. As usual the Erratics (who have a reputation as the Bank’s
latest arriving opposition) were reminded that the start time in the Bank’s card was 1.30; this year
our last arrival turned up at 1.50, but fortunately the requirement that one of our fielders should be
resting (i.e. eleven fielders on the pitch) meant that we could start on time. |
| We had the good fortune during the fielding session to dismiss their
two hardest hitting batsmen reasonably cheaply, one undone by a swinger from Michael Stephenson, the other
by a very sharp slip catch from Michael Evans off Matthew Eltringham (Elzinghauer in the Bank’s book),
sparing the blushes of Peter Andrews and Chris Dunabin who had previously dropped him.
Alex Towers (Þ) ,
Richard Heller
and Alex P kept things tight without much luck (although Alex P retired hurt the number 3 batsman
with a cut chin — three stitches required — depriving the Bank fielders of their right to a rest
later). Alex himself had to retire shortly afterwards with a pulled muscle in his chest, and Richard ended
his spell barely able to see with possible conjunctivitis. The Bank built their innings mainly through
running singles, but on two occasions misjudged the speed of the Erratics fielding. 200 felt like par for
the course, leaving the odds slightly against the Erratics, as they had been at the start, but not
insuperable. |
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