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Lympstone v Erratics Cricket Club Erratics on Thu 22 May 2025 at 6.00pm
Erratics Cricket Club Won

Match report Today’s match against Lympstone coincided with day one of the England v Zimbabwe test match (a four-day test - Annie doubtless approves). The mighty unicorns took the field first, and the first 10 overs had echoes of Zimbabwe’s time in the field.
As well as the obvious similarities between Anuj Tiwari and Zimbabwe’s 6ft 8 opening bowler Blessing Muzarabani, we were similarly wicketless, with all of Lympstone’s top 3 retiring at 30.

But Tennyson would have been proud - our bowlers strived, and did not yield. They bowled with discipline, and no one was susceptible to being taken truly downtown. The run-rate eased, even if our only wicket in overs 1-19 was Ben Youngman cleaning up their number 4 for a first-ball duck …because cricket can be like that.

It should also be said that we were fielding with 10. Though John Perkin made it feel like 10.5. To paraphrase Bane: YOU FIELD LIKE A YOUNGER MAN. JK’s glovework also worthy of note in preventing things from getting too extra. Lee’s ripper of a catch off his own bowling in the final over meant that at the halfway point Lympstone posted a respectable 149 for 2.

Fighting fire with fire may be platitudinous, but how else to describe openers Lee & Richard? Our powerplay (for the number of fielders outside the ring was, curiously, restricted to 2) was every bit as blistering as theirs. Much like 160 years ago, General Grant went to war and then retired. A retirement for Matt Crawford also, having provided crucial anchoring through the middle overs.

The Erratics never let the required rate get away from them, and a nail-biter was maturating nicely. Runs came, wickets fell.

At the start of the final over it was 11 runs to win. Anuj and Dhruba occupied the crease. Continuing a mutually agreed upon methodology from the Met Office game last week, they duly ran 2 for every shot struck. Were there always 2 there? With the pressure on the fielders this bold approach created, the answer seemed to be "yes".

Last ball. 2 to win. As the sun beat down on Winslade Park, our skipper Anuj departed from the aforementioned strategy and smoked a boundary to mid-on. What a Thursday.

The captains deserve plaudits for facilitating such a game, as do Lympstone for being such lovely opponents to a man. All agreeing at the pub afterwards on another platitude – cricket was the winner.


Match report by Oliver Kirby

Lympstone Batting
Player name RunsMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
2w 4b  
for 2 wickets
6
149 (20.0 overs)		     
Jamie Cooke Retired Not Out  34 31 5 109.68
Waite Retired Not Out  32 20 5 1 160.0
Beddowes Retired Not Out  30 23 4 1 130.43
James MacGregor b  B Youngman 0 1 0
W Haylor Retired Not Out  31 21 4 1 147.62
Laen-Gay ct  L Grant 10 11 1 90.91
Clifford Not Out  5 11 45.45
M Rendle Not Out  1 1 100
Gary Abrahams  
Ollie Creighton  
Archer  

Erratics Cricket Club Erratics Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Anuj Tiwari4.003100.007.75
Lee Grant4.0028128.007.00
Ben Youngman4.0024124.006.00
George Mather4.002500.006.25
Jon Perkin2.002400.0012.00
Dhruba Jyoti Goswami2.001300.006.50

Erratics Cricket Club Erratics Batting
Player Name RMB4s6sSRCatchesStumpingsRun outs
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TOTAL :
1nb 8w 2b 1lb 
for 5 wickets
12
152		        
Richard Lindsay b  Waite 29 26 5 111.54
Lee Grant Retired Not Out  30 17 6 176.47 1
Matt Crawford Retired Not Out  32 26 5 123.08
Oliver Kirby b  Beddowes 11 15 1 73.33
Jonathan Kirby ct  W Haylor 6 9 1 66.67
George Mather b  J MacGregor 15 15 1 100
Dhruba Jyoti Goswami Not Out  6 5 120.0
Jon Perkin b  J MacGregor 0 2 0
Anuj Tiwari Not Out  11 6 1 183.33
Ben Youngman  
A.N. Other1  

Lympstone Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
James MacGregor4.0021210.505.25
Archer3.004100.0013.67
Waite4.0018118.004.50
Beddowes4.0024124.006.00
Ollie Creighton2.002300.0011.50
W Haylor3.0022122.007.33