Scorecard

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 RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
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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 nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
T Milton6.0040140.006.67
James Thomas7.0131215.504.43
Graham Fitt8.022300.002.88
Bernie Wilson8.022438.003.00
M Puttick6.0116116.002.67
Nick Blyth4.002000.005.00
Gary Pinnock1.00900.009.00

Metronomes Batting
Player name RMB4s6sSR
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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 NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Ben Youngman4.10515.001.20
Dhruba Jyoti Goswami8.0141141.005.13
Matt Crawford3.0018118.006.00
Fraser Chave8.0052226.006.50
Ben Yarde-Buller5.012036.674.00
A.N. Other3.002000.006.67
Saul Hewson4.001025.002.50