Erratics Cricket Club Erratics v Tipton St John on Sun 07 Jul 2024 at 2.00pm

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Erratics Cricket Club Erratics v Tipton St John on Sun 07 Jul 2024 at 2.00pm
Erratics Cricket Club Lost by 4 Wickets

Match report You can read Tipton's report here:
https://www.pitchero.com/clubs/tiptonstjohn/teams/119302/match-centre/0-5888524/report
They didn't like the overgrown lane...

Andrew's report is here:

With rain showers peppering us in the course of the afternoon, Erratics batted first in a 40 overs game. Their opening bowlers David Birch and Owen Smith who were both white haired bowled their full complement without a break. As it turned out in both innings all batsmen bar one struggled on a pitch that gave some assistance to the bowlers.

Aside from Lee who in his powerfully languid way drove the ball straight and inside out the Erratics batters struggled for fluency. Owen in particular induced false strokes with his consistent length and occasional off cutter. Many of us perished pushing in front of the wicket - Tipton held their catches well it should be said. After Lee went the wickets continued to fall until the tailenders - Martin and JK - showed what was possible and offered needed resistance.

Nonetheless we did not use 13 overs of our quota - a cardinal sin. And 77 seemed an unlikely total to defend.

After a rain delay and a splendid tea - including varieties of chocolate cake - Tipton started their innings the Erratics showed their mettle. Lee and Fraser opened the bowling and from the get go were controlled and threatening and
before long two wickets fell. Soon after one of their batsmen appealed successfully to the umpires to go off as the wind made the bowling unplayable!! On his return wind or no wind he was soon dismissed. Meantime our old friend Buckie (John Buckland) his partner was ominously comfortable whilst giving a running commentary - on his own luck, on the quality of the bowling et al. He gave two finger tip chances to Fraser but otherwise was moving closer to the total required.

However all was not over... Buckie decided to retire at 50 and wickets began to fall again.. the question was was it too late? Mark took a wicket and then Anuj bowled the next two batters for a duck. But they had wickets in hand
and the unlikely turned out to be impossible.

The lesson though is even 100 in these conditions could have been defended.

The sun did shine, we had a full afternoon of cricket, the dogs had a lovely
time... gallant losers we are.

Erratics Cricket Club Erratics Batting

Player Name		Runs	B	4s	SR	Ct
extras TOTAL :	2b 1lb for 10 wickets	3 77
Richard Lindsay	ct D Birch	7	11	1	63.64	1
Andrew Forrester	ct O Smith	3	13		23.08
Fraser Chave	ct O Smith	2	11		18.18
Lee Grant	b M Channon	34	30	7	113.33
Dhruba Jyoti Goswami	ct O Smith	0	2		0	1
Ben Yarde-Buller	ct P Wright	3	22		13.64
Mark Phillips	run out (J Buckland)	0	9		0
Anuj Tiwari	ct O Smith	0	1		0
Martin Weiler	ct M Channon	15	33	2	45.45
Mark Hailwood	b M Channon	4	10	1	40.0
Jonathan Kirby	Not Out	6	23		26.09

Tipton St John Bowling

Player name	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	Average	Economy
David Birch	6.0	0	24	1	24.00	4.00
Owen Smith	8.0	2	20	4	5.00	2.50
Phil Wright	8.0	2	21	1	21.00	2.63
Mark Channon	5.4	2	9	3	3.00	1.59

Tipton St John Batting

Player name		R	B	4s	SR
extras TOTAL :	5w 3b 1lb for 6 wickets	9 81 (19.3 overs)
Sam Stone	b L Grant	2	13		15.38
David Rowe	b F Chave	6	10	1	60.0
Mike Bennett	ct D Goswami b. M Hailwood	3	20		15.00
John Buckland	Retired Not Out	53	44	10	120.45
Patrick Smith	ct R Lindsay b. M Hailwood	1	7		14.29
Reece Whittington	b A Tiwari	0	5		0
David Thayre	b A Tiwari	0	6		0
Owen Smith	Not Out	5	9		55.56
Mark Channon	Not Out	2	3		66.67
David Birch
Phil Wright

Erratics Cricket Club Erratics Bowling

Player Name	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	Average	Economy
Lee Grant	6.0	0	27	1	27.00	4.50
Fraser Chave	7.0	0	35	1	35.00	5.00
Mark Hailwood	3.3	1	12	2	6.00	3.43
Anuj Tiwari	3.0	0	3	2	1.50	1.00

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