Scorecard

Tedburn St Mary v Erratics Cricket Club Erratics on Sun 12 Oct 2014 at 1.00pm
Erratics Cricket Club Lost by 46 runs

Match report Farewell 2014

A cold damp October day. No rain to stop play, but enough dew on the grass to flush any of the luxury model toilets the Chaves were on their way out to see (having dropped off their superstar son of course). With certain fielding positions on the boundary requiring wellies and with each man wearing at least 3 jumpers, the Erratics took to the field at Tedburn, desperately clinging to the dying embers of the 2014 cricket season, like so many orange leaves in the Autumn breeze.

Skipper Mark Hailwood opened the bowling down the hill, paired with Krupakar at the other end and the pair nicely restricted the home side to just 31 from 10 overs. Such tightness, particularly from Hailwood’s opening 4, was not to last as the openers took the shine off of the ever inflating luminous pink bar of soap we were using as a ball, and then proceeded to cart it all over Tedburn. Krupakar took one wicket from his 8 over spell in his final over, as the most dangerous guy played on, but it could have been 4 after Jonathan Kirby, Danny Williamson and keeper Andrew Forrester all dropped chances. The Erratics were not to take a single catch in the final game of the 2014 season.

It was after this first dropped catch (the most difficult of the three, hard and low to Kirby in the covers), that the disgraced fielder was sent to stand in a quagmire on the boundary, a position he would keep for 30 subsequent overs without touching the ball once. Unperturbed by social media claims of a bullying culture in the Erratics dressing room, the skipper rotated the bowling bringing on Fraser and Danny to try to strangle the opposition’s run rate.

This did not work.

At least not at first as the Tedburn number 3 slapped the bowlers (Williamson, in particular,) around. Despite Fraser consistently beating the edge and Danny constantly finding it (but the ball flying safe), the pair racked up the runs as Tedburn passed the 100 mark. Fraser eventually broke the partnership, bowling their biggest hitter for 49, before Danny took 3 more wickets (2 LBW, 1 bowled) after some dour wicket to wicket bowling and some lavish appealing. Some twirl from Ben Abrahams brought 2 more wickets, the first a well taken stumping by Forrester, the second bowled. However, Tedburn continued to find the boundary getting 4’s and 6’s first to cow corner and then to dead pigeon corner (so named because of what was laying 3 feet from the boundary there). By the time Hailwood wrapped up the bowling (and took a well deserved wicket, knocking over the leg stump), Tedburn had put on 208 for 8.

We took tea indoors (did I mention the cold), and were regaled with tales from the bathroom centre (the Chaves had returned from their lavatory hunting expedition just in time for tea). As we discussed the relative merits button vs handle based flush systems, Fraser and Mark opened the batting. Fraser played beautifully for a lamentably short 10 overs, finding the boundary at least 4 times before holing out to mid-on. Hailwood also hit a nice couple of boundaries before he was caught (literally) trying to accelerate at point. Krupakar and Jonathan kept the board ticking over nicely before Jonathan had a swing and a miss and was bowled. Enter Martin Weiler to form the game’s biggest partnership with Krupakar who was to swish and flick his way to his second consecutive 50, including a 6 onto the pavilion roof! We mused on the boundary that Krupakar probably wished that this was the start of the season, such is his current form. Martin ably backed up Krups, turning the 1’s into 2’s. It all looked like such hard work! At around 135 with 10 to play, it looked possible, if only Krupakar could stay out there. Martin was bowled and Ben Abrahams went out to try and steer home the ship under the watchful eyes of umpire, and his dad, Gary Abrahams.

Ben turned the strike over with some nice dabs down the leg side, but then Krupakar was caught and the good ship Erratics began to take on water. Valiant efforts by Dan Thistlethwaite and Penny Price to get the required 10 an over in boundaries were met with wickets as the ship began to list. As the bowlers tried to get Gary to give out his son run out at the non-strikers end, Williamson rolled the dice and took out the Mongoose for the final 3 overs. 2 deliveries later he was back, and Andrew managed to put on a final few runs before, alas, as the light faded to darkness on the final day of the season, we were sunk.

The words “bullying culture” briefly reared their ugly head again as Jonathan collected the match fees, whilst the Chaves, having decided on a button flush and on 2 taps for the bathroom sink, headed to the pub to save us a table. By the time we were changed and stepped outside, it was dark and the rain had arrived. The 2014 cricket season was over.

Danny Williamson

Tedburn St Mary Batting
Player name RunsMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
 
for 8 wickets
0
208 (0.0 overs)		     
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Erratics Cricket Club Erratics Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Mark Hailwood8.0132132.004.00
Jayakrupakar Nallala8.0035135.004.38
Fraser Chave8.0237137.004.62
Danny Williamson8.0047315.675.88
Ben Abrahams8.0049224.506.12

Erratics Cricket Club Erratics Batting
Player Name RMB4s6sSRCatchesStumpingsRun outs
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TOTAL :
 
for 10 wickets
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162		        
Mark Hailwood Caught  11 43 1 25.58
Fraser Chave Caught  15 30 3 50.0
Jayakrupakar Nallala Bowled  57 59 7 1 96.61
Jonathan Kirby Bowled  11 31 1 35.48
Martin Weiler Caught  21 36 2 58.33
Ben Abrahams Caught  8 19 42.11
Daniel Thistlethwaite Bowled  3 16 18.75
Danny Williamson Caught  0 4 0
Andrew Forrester Stumped  3 5 60.0
Penny Price Not Out  0
Gary Abrahams Not Out  1 1 100

Tedburn St Mary Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
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