Scorecard

Stokeinteignhead v Erratics Cricket Club Erratics on Sun 17 Apr 2016 at 2.00pm
Erratics Cricket Club Lost by 73 runs

Match report What a great way to start the season. After drubbing Clyst St George on their own patch in a sun-baked run fest on the Saturday, we carried our momentum into our Sunday fixture at Stoke-in-Teignhead: we won the toss, put them in to bat, took a wicket with our first ball and never looked back. The wickets tumbled and the runs flowed as we sauntered to two wins from two games. You couldn't make it up.

Except, of course, I just did. It was bloody cold all weekend, for a start, and we only managed a low-scoring draw with Clyst. We nearly took a wicket from our first ball of this game when Stoke's opener 'Inzy' clipped a leg side delivery straight to Skipper Oughton at square leg, but his cold hands let him – and the catch – down. Stoke then settled in for an attritional innings during which we thought we bowled pretty well, keeping the ball in the rights areas on a low slow pitch that sucked the life out of deliveries and shots alike. By the time we reached the tea break (it was a timed game) we had bowled them a remarkably generous 46 overs, from which they had managed just 110 runs. Our reward was a choice of Vicky sponge or chocolate cake (or, indeed, a bit of both) both of which were first rate.

Eating said cakes was the apogee of our afternoon. Even allowing for the fact we were likely to have half a dozen or so fewer overs than we had bowled – as is standard in timed games, of course - our target looked very gettable, especially given the embarrassment of riches represented in our batting line up. As it turned out our batting simply represented an embarrassment. In our collective defence it is not an easy time of year for batsmen (except, that is, for Duncan Chave) as we all struggle to adjust from the true and even bounce of the well-lit nets to doughy uncovered pitches (one for you Boycott Bingo fans there) under leaden skies.

Still, to cut a fairly short story even shorter, no-one managed double figures and we were all out for 37. We did nevertheless allow ourselves a collective pat on the bat when our solitary boundary – struck by Chris Ferro – took us past last year's best/worst Errati-collapse of 32 at Chulmleigh (Or so we thought. Having just double-checked last year's scorecards it turns out our total at Chulmleigh was 38).

To add to the indignity of it all we arrived at the pub for our consolatory pint only to find it hadn't opened yet. As we huddled outside the Wild Goose waiting for doors it was good to see that the eternal optimism of the Erratics remained undiminished, as we assured ourselves we had done a useful job in getting this season's collapse out of the way early. As D:Ream once prophesised, 'Things can only get better…'. And then they did: the pub opened.

Mark Hailwood reports.

Stokeinteignhead Batting
Player name RunsMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
 
for 7 wickets
0
110 (46.0 overs)		     
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Erratics Cricket Club Erratics Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Ben Youngman8.0217117.002.13
Mark Hailwood8.011500.001.88
Ben Abrahams4.002300.005.75
Gareth Oughton8.0212112.001.50
Fraser Chave8.0120120.002.50
A.N. Other17.001829.002.57
Duncan Chave3.01500.001.67

Erratics Cricket Club Erratics Batting
Player Name RMB4s6sSRCatchesStumpingsRun outs
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TOTAL :
 
for 9 wickets
0
37		        
Martin Wright Bowled  1
Ben Abrahams Bowled  9
Jayakrupakar Nallala Caught  5 2 1
Fraser Chave Bowled  6
Duncan Chave Bowled  2
A.N. Other Bowled  1
Mark Hailwood Bowled  0
Chris Ferro Caught  9 1 2
Gareth Oughton Bowled  5
Ben Youngman Not Out  0
A.N. Other1  

Stokeinteignhead Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
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