Founded 1974 for recreation and refreshment
Sunday 5 August 2001
London Erratics v Black Rose of Highgate
at Parliament Hill Fields
Too slow
40 overs match
Black Rose won the toss and elected to bat.
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BLACK ROSE — 179 all out in 36.5 overs Middleton F 9 |
LONDON ERRATICS — 161 for 8 in 40 overs Middleton F 5-1-19-1 |
| Meller | 8 | 2 | 18 | 2 | Dimopoulos | bowled | 0 | ||
| Middleton G | 8 | 0 | 27 | 3 | Andrews | caught | 7 | ||
| Heller | 7 | 1 | 59 | 1 | † | Khawaja | caught | 35 | |
| Berrigan | 8 | 1 | 42 | 2 | Berrigan | bowled | 8 | ||
| Truscott | 4.5 | 2 | 11 | 2 | Meller | bowled | 12 | ||
| Parsley M | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | Baird | NOT OUT | 45 | ||
| Truscott | caught | 10 | |||||||
| catches: | Parsley M | c & b | 16 | ||||||
| Baird, Berrigan, Meller 2 (1 c&b), Riedel | * | Middleton G | caught | 1 | |||||
| Heller | NOT OUT | 1 | |||||||
| Riedel | |||||||||
Fall of wickets: 1–1, 2–8, 3–22, 4–56, 5–79, 6–119, 7–156, 8–159 |
Lost by 18 runs
| SOME OBSERVATIONS (supplied by a mystery correspondent) |
| During the Black Rose innings, a medical helicopter landed in the next field. Martin Parsley suggested that it was to pick up those injured as the mouthy opposition captain hit Richard Heller for approximately 26 in an over. |
| The first Erratics wicket fell, with just one run on the board, in the sixth over. Peter Andrews afterwards explained that ‘the bowling was too straight.’ He did, however, score a five: he looped an edge over the slips; as he stood admiring his efforts he suddenly realised that Nasir Khawaja had joined him; Peter hurriedly set off for the other end, a fielder pinged the ball at the far stumps, missed and the ball carried on to the boundary. Nasir batted well but irritated the opposition by consistently calling for video evidence to challenge their boundary saves. Alastair Baird batted with very professional skill and perhaps should have been higher up the order; however, with about five overs to go, a lighted roll-up had to be rushed to him in the middle for medicinal purposes. After not scoring for five overs Martin hit their very loud captain successively for a four and six. Debutant skipper Giles Middleton was caught off a real steepler as his brother Felix was brought on for the final over. |