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Saturday 3 June 2000
London Erratics v The Times
at Boston Manor
Generous Erratics give away too much
The Erratics won the toss and elected to field.
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THE TIMES — 122 all out |
LONDON ERRATICS — 86 all out |
| Neal | 8.3 | 3 | 11 | 4 | Rivington | caught | 26 | ||
| Heller | 5 | 2 | 9 | 0 | Rennell | caught | 0 | ||
| Booth | 8 | 5 | 9 | 2 | Davie | bowled | 7 | ||
| Rennell | 3 | 1 | 19 | 0 | Neal | run out | 6 | ||
| Evans | 3 | 0 | 19 | 2 | † | Williams | bowled | 5 | |
| Bush | 3 | 0 | 26 | 1 | Green | caught | 0 | ||
| Parsley M | 2 | 0 | 23 | 0 | Evans | caught | 15 | ||
| Bush | caught | 0 | |||||||
| catches: | Booth | NOT OUT | 9 | ||||||
| Bush, | Parsley M | bowled | 2 | ||||||
| Davie, | * | Heller | bowled | 0 | |||||
| Rivington, | |||||||||
| Williams |
Lost by 36 runs
| NARRATIVE |
| The Times played with only ten men. Weather: hot and sunny. |
| A fiery spell by Matthew Neal saw the Times innings in early difficulties. Changes in the bowling saw the score increase, but wickets still fell — good catches by Bill Bush and Simon Davie earned two scalps for Michael Evans (off a full toss and a long hop, respectively). At 69 for 7 the Erratics looked comfortably in control, but an aggressive partnership of 48 for the eighth wicket took the total well into three figures — the partnership finally broken when, at the second grab, James Rivington held on to a steepling catch at deep mid-wicket off the bowling of Bill Bush. |
| The Times bowling contained a confusing mixture of wild inaccuracy that was difficult to score off and good swing that took wickets. The body blow to the innings came when three wickets (Rivington, Williams, Green) fell with the score on 59. Michael Evans scored his runs in typical fashion (4, 4, 6, 1), before holing out at deep mid-off. The game ended when Martin Parsley and Richard Heller were bowled by successive deliveries. |