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Erratics Cricket Club Erratics v Metronomes on Sat 10 Aug 2024 at 2.00pm
Erratics Cricket Club Won by 14 Runs
Match report
An interesting side the Metronomes, founded on and kept alive through Twitter, or X if it has to be called that. They play friendlies all over the country in aid of a motor neurone disease charity. The players come from all over as well, with their skipper having journeyed from Harrogate. There was however an air of familiarity as they also featured Bernie, who has possibly played for more different teams in Devon than anybody else.
The Metronomes fielded, and opened to a field of 9 slips. The bowler purveying, in his own words, “right arm filth”. Martin and Ben combined in a useful opening stand, and the batting highlight was Matt Crawford’s unbeaten 56. Bernie was appropriately metronomic as ever, taking 3 miserly wickets, and our innings closed on a decent 181.
The Metronomes chase was boosted be a very rapid innings from their South African wicket keeper, who fortunately had to retire on reaching 50. Like the Metronomes, we also used 7 bowlers with the standout spell coming from ByB, who took three wickets on a pitch offering lavish turn. Matt followed his batting by taking three catches, with the fielding highlight coming from Frazer , who held a stunning one handed catch low to his left. The loss of the Metronomes 10th wicket saw the return of the undefeated batsman. With only 15 needed to win, he looked very confident. Ben however resolved matters by removing the bloke at the other end.
A 14 run victory was followed by convivial beers. Talking to Bernie, we worked out that when he was bowling to your correspondent, we had a combined age of 148. This is no longer funny.
Peter Colclough
Erratics Cricket Club Erratics Batting
Player Name
Runs
M
B
4s
6s
SR
Ct
St
Ro
extras
TOTAL :
2nb 9w 16b 1lb
for 7 wickets
28
181
Martin Wright
ct J Thomas
14
25
1
56.00
Ben Youngman
lbw B Wilson
32
55
5
58.18
Lee Grant
ct B Wilson
14
10
3
140.0
Dhruba Jyoti Goswami
b B Wilson
0
11
0
1
Matt Crawford
Retired Not Out
56
67
11
83.58
3
Peter Colclough
ct M Puttick
10
42
23.81
Saul Hewson
b J Thomas
0
6
0
Ben Yarde-Buller
ct T Milton
13
8
3
162.50
Fraser Chave
Not Out
14
10
3
140.0
1
N.O. One
Not Out
1
6
16.67
A.N. Other
Metronomes Bowling
Player name
Overs
Maidens
Runs
Wickets
Average
Economy
T Milton
6.0
0
40
1
40.00
6.67
James Thomas
7.0
1
31
2
15.50
4.43
Graham Fitt
8.0
2
23
0
0.00
2.88
Bernie Wilson
8.0
2
24
3
8.00
3.00
M Puttick
6.0
1
16
1
16.00
2.67
Nick Blyth
4.0
0
20
0
0.00
5.00
Gary Pinnock
1.0
0
9
0
0.00
9.00
Metronomes Batting
Player name
R
M
B
4s
6s
SR
extras
TOTAL :
3nb 13w 1b
for 10 wickets
17
167 (35.1 overs)
T Milton
ct M Crawford
23
J Champion
ct & b. D Goswami
2
James Thomas
b B Yarde-Buller
19
Gerrie De Beer
Not Out 
50
Graham Fitt
ct B Yarde-Buller
24
Nick Blyth
b S Hewson
21
Gary Pinnock
ct B Yarde-Buller
3
Andrew Champion
b F Chave
1
M Puttick
ct B Youngman
4
Bernie Wilson
lbw S Hewson
3
Jim Himsworth
lbw F Chave
0
Erratics Cricket Club Erratics Bowling
Player Name
Overs
Maidens
Runs
Wickets
Average
Economy
Ben Youngman
4.1
0
5
1
5.00
1.20
Dhruba Jyoti Goswami
8.0
1
41
1
41.00
5.13
Matt Crawford
3.0
0
18
1
18.00
6.00
Fraser Chave
8.0
0
52
2
26.00
6.50
Ben Yarde-Buller
5.0
1
20
3
6.67
4.00
A.N. Other
3.0
0
20
0
0.00
6.67
Saul Hewson
4.0
0
10
2
5.00
2.50
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