Morebath (North Devon Tour) v Erratics Cricket Club Erratics on Fri 17 Jun 2022 at 6.00pm

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Morebath (North Devon Tour) v Erratics Cricket Club Erratics on Fri 17 Jun 2022 at 6.00pm
Erratics Cricket Club Lost 3 Wickets

Match report John Curtis reports...

“Whisper it when”.

Mistaken for homework, your reporter’s notes were unfortunately lost the day before the match, eaten as was required (although prematurely), by an archetypical dog.

In the absence of the traditional aides-memoires, your reporter will therefore be relying on his medium-term memory in order to render this account.

This is unlikely to be a good thing from the point of view either of historical accuracy or of journalistic balance.

Nevermind.

The encounter with the highly affable Morebath CC side, (who assured us that they were the original MCC and were consequently considering instructing their lawyers in a small matter of ‘passing off’ which had come to their attention), was a spirited affair, keenly contested, and one which resulted in that most mundane of outcomes, a losing draw, sometimes referred to in the harsh technical light shed by usual specifications of the 20 over format, as a loss.

From an Erratic perspective Ben Yarde Buller gave a stand-out all-round performance with his 30+ not out being later perfectly complimented by a rolling and spitting Four-for bowling spell of the leg-break persuasion. This latter was an intervention at first-change which signaled an apparent halt to the MCCs opening charge which, after just 4 overs and with the total around 60, had looked sure to overhaul what had initially been confidently regarded as a robust Erratics total of 152, with both Siva and Fraser also having retired with maximum permissible 30s.

For the next 12 overs however, the game’s weave was tightened as the MCC did all that was necessary, (a desultory working of the gaps in the field for singles, interspersed with the occasional rifled four), to keep up with the required rate.

And then came the stellar eclipse, a perfect moment to absolve a reporter from any footling duties owed to accuracy or balance.

Towards the end of the MCC’s innings, in or around the 16th over, just as the batsmen seemed to be reaffirming their faith in their coming victory, Siva ran down a hard-cut, had-to-be-a-four at the boundary’s edge, perfectly square of the wicket. As the admiring hails of “great stop” and “well done Siva” were still mustering in fielder’s throats, he spun and whipped the ball to arc, like fate itself, to the single wicket showing, shattering the stumps and seizing the moment in a perfect stellar alignment.

For a second, the world was quiet.

He had been over the horizon, fielding at deep square, deep down in the mid-Devon Bayou, outside signal. There was nothing sensible to say.

Then Siva came laughing and running back up the rise past his clubhouse-bound victim to a now exulting team on that perfected Friday evening.

The thread played out to the result, which appeared, as in retrospect everything always does, inevitable.

On the hottest weekend of the year thus far, we were to lose the next two NDT fixtures to rain.

But, whisper it when, there would always be Siva’s run-out.

Erratics Cricket Club Erratics Batting

Player Name		Runs	B	4s	6s	SR	Ct
extras TOTAL :	7w 13b 2lb for 4 wickets	22 153
Anuj Tiwari	Retired Not Out	31	18	4	2	172.22
Sivaraman Subramanian	lbw Fussle	8	9			88.89
Ben Youngman	Run out	1	3			33.33
Martin Weiler	ct Fussle	4	6	1		66.67
Jonathan Kirby	Retired Not Out	32	24	7		133.33
Ben Yarde-Buller	Retired Not Out	33	27	5		122.22
Fraser Chave	ct Kelland	10	12	1		83.33	1
Martin Wright	Not Out	12	17			70.59
Matt Crawford
Mark Hailwood
John Curtis

Morebath (North Devon Tour) Bowling

Player name	Overs	Runs	Wickets	Average	Economy
C Kane	4.0	38	0	0.00	9.50
C Fussell	4.0	21	2	10.50	5.25
N Gracie	3.0	23	0	0.00	7.67
S Kelly	3.0	23	0	0.00	7.67
R Timmis	1.0	7	0	0.00	7.00
O Kane	1.0	10	0	0.00	10.00
C Hawthorne	1.0	4	0	0.00	4.00
J Weeks	1.0	2	0	0.00	2.00
J Granfield	1.0	5	0	0.00	5.00
S Kelland	1.0	5	1	5.00	5.00

Morebath (North Devon Tour) Batting

Player name		R
extras TOTAL :	for 7 wickets	0 158 (19.5 overs)
J Granfield	Not Out	41
N Gracie	run out Siva	7
J Weeks	Retired Not Out	31
S Kelland	run out Siva	10
C Hathorn	ct Chave B. Yarde-Buller	0
S Kelly	b Tiwari	19
R Timmis	b Yarde-Buller	3
C Fussell	Retired Not Out	28
G Pascoe	b Chave	9
C Kane	b Chave	5
O Kane	Not Out	2

Erratics Cricket Club Erratics Bowling

Player Name	Overs	Runs	Wickets	Average	Economy
Mark Hailwood	2.0	27	0	0.00	13.50
Matt Crawford	4.0	42	0	0.00	10.50
Ben Yarde-Buller	4.0	19	2	9.50	4.75
Anuj Tiwari	4.0	25	1	25.00	6.25
Fraser Chave	4.0	15	2	7.50	3.75
Ben Youngman	1.5	29	0	0.00	15.82

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