Erratics Cricket Club Erratics v Brightwell cum Sotwell on Sun 08 Aug 2010 at 14.30

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Erratics Cricket Club Erratics v Brightwell cum Sotwell on Sun 08 Aug 2010 at 14.30
Erratics Cricket Club Won by 9 wickets

Match report Summary - 40 over game:
Brightwell-cum-Sotwell 188 for 9
Burrows 3 wkts, Power 3 wkts, Oughton 2 wkts, Pearson 1 wkt

Erratics 189 for 1
Ferro 95*, Rutherford 45*, Paleit 31

Erratics win by 9 wickets

Match Report: Ed Paleit

Brightwell-cum-Sotwell are a touring side from London via a small Oxfordshire village that carries their name and where one or two of them were born or used to live or something like that. They are led by the looming, grizzly-bearded Mark Searle, an ex-Erratic. Yesterday they disembarked for the game at Dunsford sporting a touring uniform consisting of a pastel-pink polo shirt (with team badge) underneath a blue pin-striped business shirt, over khaki shorts and topped by a straw hat: not, perhaps, an obviously socialist combination. They also seemed to be wearing a compound hangover. The previous day they had beaten Lustleigh and on Friday Halberton in a fifteen-over affair, and seemed between their groans to expect another victory. They are a very friendly and amusing group of cricketers with plenty of talent in their ranks, and lost to Erratics by nine wickets.

A forty-over match was agreed upon. Put in to bat by Jonathan Kirby, Brightwell spent the first few overs coming painfully to terms with the idiosyncrasies of the Dunsford wicket, from which pace and predictability vanished with the spring. Burrows, from the Meadhay end, made early inroads with swing and bounce. From the more difficult Steps Bridge end Oughton began with fabulous pace and movement but found much of his menace neutralised by the dead turf on a good length. Brightwell slithered to 30-odd for four and after a muted recovery lost another two wickets to court oblivion at 63 for 6.

Only the opener Searle, who unleashed a series of drives that skimmed over the outfield like hockey pucks, threatened a major innings. Nonetheless like many touring sides Brightwell’s batting order was unconventionally arranged and when our opening bowlers were rested the middle order capitalized, raising the total to 94 for 6 by the twentieth over. Astute captaincy saw Oughton reintroduced from the Meadhay end. He promptly castled their most dangerous batsman with a quick, swinging yorker. His completed figures of two for nineteen off eight overs understated how well he bowled - catches were dropped and every batsman fended him off anxiously. Burrows then also bowled out his complement to end up with another excellent haul of three for thirty-four.

Brightwell’s later order, however, proceeded to bat intelligently against our later change bowlers. Despite three cleverly purchased wickets by Power and Ferro’s accurate death-bowling, they eventually stretched their total to 188. This seemed a potentially daunting target given the surface, especially when the latter was found to suit the low curving swingers of their opening bowler, who began with a sequence of maidens.

Gradually, however, the opening pair of Ferro and Paleit came to terms with the wicket and found the bad balls increasingly easy to dispatch. An opening partnership of 95 (Paleit 31, Ferro 57) was ended when Paleit was run out strolling into his ground at the end of a third run. This moment of folly was the last joy for Brightwell as Rutherford played himself in before launching some glorious blows including a pull-drive from outside off stump which nearly sailed into the river over wide long-on. He finished on 45 not out, and Ferro with a commanding 95, each depriving the other of a milestone but assisting the team to an emphatic win. Brightwell accepted their humiliation with very good grace and lashings of wit.

Sausages and chips at the Royal Oak completed the day’s proceedings, during which Mark Searle made a rather tearful speech remembering his time as an Erratic (he wished still to be considered one) before presenting Peter Thomson with a small bat signed by members of his side. We hope they had a happy – but of course, suitably subdued – return to London.

Sunday 8th August
v Brightwell cum Sotwell
@ Dunsford
2:30pm
Jonathan Kirby (c)
James Burrows
Phil Ellis
Chris Ferro
Andrew Forrester (did not play)
Gareth Oughton
Ed Paleit
David Pearson
Phil Power
Nigel Rutherford
Peter Thomson (wkt)

Brightwell cum Sotwell Batting

Player name		Runs
extras TOTAL :	for 9 wickets	0 188 (39.0 overs)

Erratics Cricket Club Erratics Bowling

Player Name	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	Average	Economy
James Burrows	8.0	1	34	3	11.33	4.25
Gareth Oughton	8.0	1	19	2	9.50	2.37
Nigel Rutherford	5.0	0	30	0	0.00	6.00
Phil Power	7.0	1	33	3	11.00	4.71
David Pearson	7.0	0	43	1	43.00	6.14
Phil Ellis	1.0	0	7	0	0.00	7.00
Chris Ferro	3.0	1	6	0	0.00	2.00

Erratics Cricket Club Erratics Batting

Player Name		R
extras TOTAL :	2nb 11w 4b 1lb for 1 wickets	18 191
Chris Ferro	Not Out	96
Ed Paleit	Run out	31
Nigel Rutherford	Not Out	45
Phil Ellis
David Pearson
Jonathan Kirby
Phil Power
Gareth Oughton
James Burrows
Peter Thomson
N.O. One

Brightwell cum Sotwell Bowling

Player name	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	Average	Economy
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