Stokeinteignhead v Erratics Cricket Club Erratics on Sat 19 Jun 2010 at 14.00

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Stokeinteignhead v Erratics Cricket Club Erratics on Sat 19 Jun 2010 at 14.00
Erratics Cricket Club Won by 17 runs

Match report Erratics 222 for 5
Sid Thomson 94*, Dominic Prosser 39*, Kirby 19.

Stoke-in-Teignhead 205 all out
Nagle 9-2-15-4 Burrows 10.4-0-60-4
Lawrence 90, I.Lang 56, M.Lang 16

Erratics win by 17 runs

Match Report by Jim Thomson..

> This report starts with a riddle the answer to which be revealed in a little while.
> Q: What do you get when you cross a druid with a mongoose?
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> The Stoke-in-Teignhead game was John Pearson's favourite, and it's easy to see why. The opposition are friendly, the tea sumptuous and the view over the Teign estuary to Dartmoor majestic. The ground is on the top of a hill, a little way out of Newton Abbot (not so much the outskirts, suggested Greta, as the outpants), and as long as the wind isn't blowing in over the nearby sewage works, it's a little slice of heaven on a sunny Saturday afternoon.
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> The selector's e-mail had said that this was a two-o-clock start, and 91% of the Erratics team arrived in time for that. Unfortunately, a mix-up in the home team meant that they weren't quite so prompt and that we actually started at half past. Simon Orpen had seen all this before, had seen a few abortive Erratics two-o-clock starts, and he rolled up at quarter past, so calm and confident that I found myself wondering how I could have been so stupid as to have believed in the idea in the first place. He was a bit like the first kid at school who finds out that there is no Father Christmas and sets about making the rest of the year group face up to reality. Not smug, just a bit more experienced and knowledgeable. (Editor's note: Simon had warned his captain that he would be late due to work commitments. The fixture was due to start at 2pm, as fixture list stated as well as the selector. Stoke-in-T had wanted all their fixtures to start at 2pm this season, friendlies as well as league games. However, many of their friendly opponents kept turning up for 2:30pm so some of the Stoke-in-T team got into the habit of doing that too and arrived "late" for this game with the expectation that the Erratics would be no better organised than other opponents. Linda and Penny were both very organised, and the Erratic team as whole proved totally reliable - natch.)
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> Jonathan Kirby was our captain, and he won the toss. Al Brunt and Andrew McRae opened the batting against the tall, bouncy Prestt and the young left-armer Jamie Clinkett. Prestt's bounce unsettled McRae and he soon played over a fast straight yorker. Al Brunt was undone in a similar way, but not before he'd hit a languid extra-cover-driven four. Sid was dropped by a combination of 'keeper and first slip, but it was a difficult chance. Alfie joined Sid at the crease and worked hard to stay in line against the quicker bowlers. Clinkett junior was replaced by Mark Lawrence (or Druid, as he seemed to be known), a lively and accurate medium-pacer, while Clinkett senior came on to bowl his leg breaks at the bottom end. Alfie was bowled, which brought Jonathan to the crease. Run scoring was tricky. Sid survived a sharp caught-and-bowled chance to Clinkett and Jonathan was dropped at point by Mark Lang (I wasn't - the ball was well short of him! Ed.) A strange chap this Lang, with his Ryan Sidebottom hair. He arrived a little late and wandered out to field (mostly very well) still eating a packet of crisps, clearly feeling that a bit of cricket shouldn't be allowed to interrupt his lunch.
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> He was next to bowl from the top end, fizzing in some niggardly off cutters. The run-scoring slowed further. Jonathan was caught at slip off Lang, and Ed Paleit was next in. With his almost Trott-like routine at the crease, he really looked the part for his ten runs, until he fell to the same bowler-fielder combination as his skipper had. Jonathan was pacing up and down by the pavilion. "I want 180," he kept saying. With half an hour to go and the score having laboured to 150, that looked far from certain. And then Sid and Dominic Prosser started laying into the bowling. Russell, Baldwin and the returning Prestt were harshly dealt with as the scoring rate rocketed. A couple of Dominic's sweeps had something KP-ish about them as he smashed them for four well behind square. Suddenly we were past 180, and then 200. The main question now was whether Sid would get to his hundred before tea. Dominic hobbled off with a calf strain, and Sid ran out of steam at 94. Still, the Erratics had 222-5 (part one of a weekend when we would score a total of 491 for seven wickets). Stokeinteignhead had perhaps been over-generous in the field. Not only did they drop six catches (Dominic was missed three times in his brief and blazing 39) and concede 14 byes, but also they managed to get through 46 overs.
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> During an excellent tea we discussed the way that batting seemed to get easier once the hardness had gone off the ball, and decided that our score was a competitive rather than an overwhelming one.
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> Mark Lang, opening the batting with Williams, caused a bit of excitement in the field when it turned out that he was using a Mongoose - a regrettable recent development in batting technology with a longer handle and a shorter, thicker blade. We saw the benefits and disadvantages in his short boundary-littered innings, as Burrows deliveries flew to the offside boundary and then Lang lost his off bail (only that one, mark you, as the leg-side one was undisturbed) to one that cut away slightly and lifted over the lowered shoulder. Williams drove a rare loose ball from John Nagle to mid on where Al Brunt made a slightly tricky catch look laughably easy. Clinkett senior went to the same combination a few overs later, and Stoke-in-Teignhead were tottering. To spice things up a little, Jonathan brought me on, and, though I started with a not-according-to-the-script wicket maiden, I was soon doing my bit to make a game of it. The Mongoose was back at the crease, this time in the hands of Druid (apparently he and Lang share the bat) (I'm not sure what happens if they're ever in together, but I know that James Burrows, Andrew McRae and I would prefer not to be bowling). Another beauty from James removed Barnes's off bail, and at 58-5 the home side's totter was looking more like a stumble.
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> But this was just the storm before the hurricane. Druid didn't take long to size up my bowling and to decide that he rather liked it, and Ian Lang was driving me mad by pulling off-stump half volleys behind square for four after four. I tried to explain to the home batsmen that hitting it so damn hard was counter productive and that a lot of time was being wasted searching for lost balls. The Erratics, I argued, are gentlemen. We hit our fours just over the boundary and we never remove both bails. Jonathan loudly moved a fielder to "cow corner" after one particularly huge scything mow from Druid. "Nice sledging, skipper," I said as Jonathan trotted back to long off. Predictably, my next ball disappeared straight back over my head, over Jonathan, over the hedge and over a couple of startled sheep. So there's the answer to the opening riddle: when you cross a Druid with a Mongoose you get a huge straight six.
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> Orpen replaced Burrows and McRae replaced me (poor Andrew bowled 17 of his 18 deliveries to Druid), and the runs continued to flow. It all went a bit quiet on the field, and 222 started to seem like a very small total. Into the last 20 overs, Stoke-in-Teignhead only needed about a run a ball, and they were scoring at more like ten an over. With the total in the 180s, Jonathan brought John Nagle back from the top end. His fourth ball was a beauty, and Druid's brutal 90 was at an end. When Jerard Baldwin fenced at the next one and feathered an edge through to Sid, I wondered whether they might decide to shut up shop. Not a bit of it. Ian Lang was definitely still trading - he confounded my analysis of his technique by walloping a meaty drive over extra cover and played increasingly well on the way to his first ever 50 - and the rest of the team barracked poor Gray every time he played a defensive shot. With Lang batting so well, it seemed to me that the lower-order batsmen would be well-advised to keep one end going and let the established man do the bulk of the scoring. Gray perished, bowled by Ed Paleit, to a hopelessly hopeful drive, and Jamie Clinkett arrived with the same extravagant ambition. Even after a few quiet overs, the required rate was no more than four or five an over, and there really was no need to panic. Lang fell to another beautifully judged catch by Al Brunt, and Prestt came in. The 200 was passed and the required rate was still only about the same. Heedlessly and needlessly, Prestt was bowled running down the track at James Burrows, and the Erratics had won by 17.
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> Over a pint in the fabulous Wild Goose, we talked about where the game had been won and lost. Sid's perfectly paced innings and John Nagle's two great spells (he finished with figures of 9-2-15-4) were clearly the rocks on which the church of our victory was built. Notable too were Dominic's cavalier 39, Al's near-faultless catching and Ed's important contributions with bat and ball. James's four wickets seemed almost to be forgotten - perhaps we have become so used to him making significant inroads with the ball that we only notice when he takes five or more.
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> Meanwhile, at the frivolous end of the beer garden, Alfie Weiler entertained and confused two of Bill Parker's grandchildren, while their mother, Tamsin, explained that she owed her very existence to the spirit of Erratics cricket (the team that put the lust into Lustleigh).

Saturday 19th June
v Stoke-in-Teignhead @ Combe in T

Al Brunt
James Burrows
Jonathan Kirby (Captain)
Andrew McRae
John Nagle
Ed Paleit
Dominic Prosser
Simon Orpen
Jim Thomson (Report, please)
Sid Thomson (Keeper)
Martin Weiler

Erratics Cricket Club Erratics Batting

Player Name		Runs
extras TOTAL :	7w 14b 10lb for 5 wickets	31 222
Al Brunt	Bowled	11
Andrew McRae	Bowled	3
Sid Thomson	Not Out	93
Martin Weiler	Bowled	9
Jonathan Kirby	Caught	19
Ed Paleit	Caught	10
Dominic Prosser	Retired Not Out	39
John Nagle	Not Out	6
Simon Orpen
James Burrows
Jim Thomson

Stokeinteignhead Bowling

Player name	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	Average	Economy
No records to display.

Stokeinteignhead Batting

Player name		R
extras TOTAL :	1nb 7w 2b 2lb for 10 wickets	12 205 (34.4 overs)

Erratics Cricket Club Erratics Bowling

Player Name	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	Average	Economy
James Burrows	10.4	0	60	4	15.00	5.63
John Nagle	9.0	2	15	4	3.75	1.67
Jim Thomson	4.0	1	42	1	42.00	10.50
Simon Orpen	3.0	0	24	0	0.00	8.00
Andrew McRae	3.0	0	33	0	0.00	11.00
Ed Paleit	5.0	0	27	1	27.00	5.40

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