Scorecard

Erratics Cricket Club Erratics v Newton Poppleford on Sun 27 Jun 2010 at 14.30
Erratics Cricket Club Won by 5 wickets

Match report Match Report by Chris Ferro

Poor Penny! With some Erratics preferring to spend the afternoon blowing their vuvuzelas in support of England's hapless World Cup footballers, our selector had a sore time raising a team for this fixture. The final eleven was an unusual one: Jonathan Kirby and Matt Cook were joined by their significant others, Gabrielle Kirby and Triin Troon, and Peter Thomson was joined by his significant unders, Chris Squire, Duncan Chave and, making his Erratics debut, Fraser Chave. The side was completed by Nigel Rutherford, Chris Ferro and a lad named Tom who was enlisted at the last moment from amongst the opposition supporters. On a hot day, the spectators came close to outnumbering the players as the leafy
Dunsford ground and cool River Teign proved a popular attraction.


Our decision to field first was taken principally to make full use of Jonathan, who had to leave at six o'clock to rehearse for his upcoming Taiko Festival, but it held another advantage for us too. The pitch was firm and slightly uneven so that our opening attack of Nigel and Chris F found some variable bounce that accounted for the first three wickets to fall. After twenty overs, however, the pitch became slower and lower, at which point survival became easier, even if scoring remained difficult.

The Newton Poppleford openers had chanced their arms and Alex Raistrick maintained the momentum with some good shots off the spin attack of Duncan and Matt. Matt was unlucky to have two chances spurned and for the umpire to turn down a strong LBW appeal from a perfect googly, but then Duncan took a fine return catch to put us in control of the game. A run-out followed a neat lay-off by Gabrielle to Matt and then captain Peter turned to Triin to deliver her maiden overs in cricket. Quite possibly Estonia's first woman cricketer to play in England, Triin displayed a promising variety of flat leg-breaks that very nearly
accounted for the elder Raistrick. The same batsman might also have fallen to Jonathan's more grenade-like turners, but it was left to Fraser to wrap up the innings in a destructive spell of accurate medium pace that yielded two wickets, both caught by Matt at square-leg. Newton Poppleford were all out for 158, well inside their allotted 40 overs.


I wonder if cricket teas have changed much over the years. For the record, ours was excellent, both in quality and quantity, with a menu that included cheese and ham sandwiches, quiches, pasties, savoury tarts, fruit, scones topped with jam+cream+strawberry, and cakes of carrot, cherry, chocolate and lemon. Some members of the Parker clan made a welcome appearance, the younger Rutherfords were enrolled in bewildering Thomson-family games involving a tent, the two little Squires skipped and hula-hooped like there was no tomorrow, the laughter of swim-suited children echoed in the trees...


Four an over then. Jonathan and Nigel opened our innings, the former making a distracted 12 before leaving for rehearsals. Nigel and Chris F carried the innings steadily to about seventy before Nigel was bowled for 27, an innings that included some characteristically hard-hit cover drives. Our guest Tom succumbed to the mental tortures of facing his own clubmates and Chris S fell after a brief flurry. Four down for about ninety and the run rate still four an over. Our lower order was largely untried but we still had Matt and Duncan to come before then. Matt was next in and, once he had accustomed himself to the pace of the pitch, he unfurled a series of shots of typical flair, taking four boundaries off the over in which he was caught for 42. The relatively snail-like Chris F was on 43 when Duncan hit the winning runs in the 33rd over.


And so, in the week that England completed three one-day international
wins against Australia, we had completed two wins against the gentle men
of Newton Poppleford. The Royal Oak beckoned, whereat Rita lectured on
the peculiar reproductive habits of cryptogams (sic, Ed), Chris Squire conducted a cricketing auto-psychoanalysis and Triin revealed just how rude her on-field Estonian exclamations had been. Later still, I joined Peter in the Rusty Bike where he and a theatrical colleague related various improbable stories involving pigeons, giant rolls of paper and caber-tossing Scotsmen. Now who would swap any of that for a game of football?

Sunday 27th June
v Newton Poppleford @ Dunsford 2:30pm

Duncan Chave
Matt Cook
Chris Ferro
Gabrielle Kirby
Jonathan Kirby
Nigel Rutherford
Chris Squire
Peter Thomson
Triin Troon
+ 2

Newton Poppleford Batting
Player name RunsMB4s6sSR
extras
TOTAL :
10w 12b 5lb 
for 10 wickets
27
158 (32.2 overs)		     
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Erratics Cricket Club Erratics Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Nigel Rutherford7.0121210.503.00
Chris Ferro6.0019119.003.17
Matt Cook8.012847.003.50
Triin Troon2.002200.0011.00
Jonathan Kirby1.001100.0011.00
Fraser Chave1.20623.004.50

Erratics Cricket Club Erratics Batting
Player Name RMB4s6sSRCatchesStumpingsRun outs
extras
TOTAL :
2nb 8w 5b 7lb 
for 5 wickets
22
160		        
Jonathan Kirby Bowled  12
Nigel Rutherford Bowled  27
Chris Ferro Not Out  43
A.N. Other1 Bowled  0
Chris Squire Bowled  3
Matt Cook Caught  42
Duncan Chave Not Out  11
Gabrielle Kirby  
Fraser Chave  
Triin Troon  
Peter Thomson  

Newton Poppleford Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
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