London Erratics Cricket Club

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Sunday 15 September 2002
London Erratics v South Wraxall
at South Wraxall

Selection dilemmas
From a pool of 18 interested players, skipper James Rivington had selected a squad of 13. The Erratics ended up travelling with 11 players, South Wraxall produced just seven, so we played nine-a-side (with a sub to make it 10 in the field). Richard Heller and Peter Andrews nobly volunteered to turn traitor. James won the toss and elected to field.
With Giles Middleton’s radar not properly plugged in, and with James serving up one or two helpful deliveries, the South Wraxall innings made good progress. Particularly insulting was Peter’s contempt for the Erratics fielding, as he played tip and run. Finally he paid the price by trying to cut one that nipped back at him.
The introduction of Bill Bush’s gentle flight and John Truscott’s spin yielded further success, Bill getting two lbw decisions and John removing the other opener with unplayable turn.
Now the paralysed batsmen played out a succession of maidens — not helped by a calamitous run out (good work by Tristan Ward) — and John and Chris Dunabin picked up a couple more wickets.
In his first over since 1996, Simon Davie wrapped things up with a sharp return catch, joyfully celebrated.
SOUTH WRAXALL — batting
1   b Truscott 22
2 PA b Rivington 18
3   lbw b Bush 3
4   c Bush b Dunabin 3
5   lbw b Bush 4
6   run out 4
7   b Truscott 0
8   c & b b Davie 0
9 RH not out 0
76 all out
Fall of wickets: 1–45, 2–59, 3–63, 4–69, 5–74, 6–74, 7–75

LONDON ERRATICS — bowling
Middleton 5 0 20 0
Rivington 7 1 19 1
Bush 5 1 20 2
Truscott 5 2 8 2
Dunabin 3 3 0 1
Davie 0.4 0 1 1
With tea not due for another hour, the Erratics went straight out to bat. Tristan and Chris played the bowling with great circumspection. Given the fragility of the Erratics batting this season, this was prudent, but inevitably attracted comment on the boundary. At tea (taken after 14 overs), the score was 27 for 0.
A run out first ball after tea injected some immediate excitement into the innings. Michael Evans put bat to ball, heaving one delivery one bounce into the scoreboard, and Tristan stepped up the tempo too with some nice shots.
After Michael had swung across the line, Nasir Khawaja strode out to put an end to South Wraxall’s plight, and three overs later was despatching the winning boundary.
Richard Heller’s bowling figures were 6-1-21-0.
Nice to break the win-lose-win-lose sequence for this fixture.

After the game Nasir buggered off, leaving his team mates to get on with losing the BEER MATCH.
LONDON ERRATICS — batting 4s  6s 
Ward NOT OUT  32 2   
Dunabin run out 9    
Evans bowled 15 2   
† Khawaja NOT OUT  14 2   
Middleton    
Davie    
Truscott    
* Rivington    
Bush    
80 for 2
Fall of wickets:  1–27, 2–59
Erratics won by 6 wickets
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