Scorecard

Denbury v Erratics Cricket Club Erratics on Sun 31 Jul 2011 at Unknown
Erratics Cricket Club Won by 4 wickets

Match report Report: Andrew McRae

Let’s start at the end:

With two overs to be bowled, we needed just seven runs to win, with six wickets in hand. With Denbury’s Durban slinging at pace in the gloom, we managed just one run from the penultimate over, leaving six required from six balls. The final over included a boundary, two wickets, a dropped catch and a missed run-out. It went something like this:

1. Four to Ferro;
2. Ferro caught at cover-point, with the field in;
3. Kothamachu has a huge but inconsequential heave;
4. Kothamachu has another huge heave, gets a top edge and is caught,
some time later, roughly two metres from where he was standing when he hit it:
5. Forrester chips to short mid-wicket, is dropped, and scrambles a single:
6. Burrows plays a classic Burrows shove to mid-off, where the fielder gathers,
has a think about running the five metres to break the stumps, then decides to
have a throw for glory instead.

There was beauty, there was incompetence, and there was victory by four wickets with not a ball to spare.

So how did we get there? Earlier on in the day, before the best tea in Devon, things were looking bad, as Longstreet rattled up a fifty at awesome pace. (Good thing for us he’d left his brother at home.) One six over Ferro’s head had the trajectory and carry of a McIlroy three iron. But skipper Phil Ellis had a masterplan: one over for Ellis, one ball eased passed Longstaff’s outside edge for a stumping, and the game was changed. Ellis retired to protect his average, and earns himself the man-of-the-match award. Legendary stuff.

Either side of this moment, we leaned heavily on Burrows (12-1-3-57), Ferro (13-4-3-56) and Kothamachu (8-0-1-44). We were doing the same with Rutherford until he pulled up lame after five boistrous overs (5-1-0-14). Tight bowling all round made life tough for some of those around Longstreet, and kept the total, on a lively pitch and a quick outfield, to a testing 192. There were fine catches by Thistlethwaite, Kirby (2) and Forrester, and a direct-hit run-out from the man-of-the-match.

In the chase, the secret was partnerships. The dimensions of these partnerships, however, must indeed remain a secret, since our scorers failed to notice the ‘fall of wicket’ section on the scorecard. So let’s just say that Brunt (20) and McRae (30) put on a bunch, McRae and Kirby (69) put on a bigger bunch, Ferro (40) and Kirby put on a bunch more, Weiler (7) shone briefly, and Forrester (4n.o.) and Burrows (1n.o.) did just enough to see us home. The strange, virtually appeal-less run-out of Kirby at a time when the game looked ominously easy for us would have been more of a talking-point had the result been any different. But he’d done enough; this was a team effort.

Denbury Batting
Player name RunsMB4s6sSR
extras
TOTAL :
8nb 4w 11b 2lb 
for 9 wickets
25
192 (39.0 overs)		     
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Erratics Cricket Club Erratics Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
James Burrows12.0157319.004.75
Nigel Rutherford5.011400.002.80
Chris Ferro13.0456318.674.31
Varun Kothamachu8.0044144.005.50
Phil Ellis1.00818.008.00

Erratics Cricket Club Erratics Batting
Player Name RMB4s6sSRCatchesStumpingsRun outs
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TOTAL :
4w 8b 9lb 
for 6 wickets
21
193		        
Al Brunt Bowled  22
Andrew McRae Caught  30
Jonathan Kirby Run out  69
Chris Ferro Caught  40
Martin Weiler Caught  7
Andrew Forrester Not Out  4
Varun Kothamachu Caught  0
James Burrows Not Out  1
Phil Ellis  
Daniel Thistlethwaite  
Nigel Rutherford  

Denbury Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
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