England club team bowled out for just two runs in 427-run chase

The England club team, Richmond CC, set a bizarre record after getting bowled out for just two runs, losing the match by a staggering margin of 424 runs.

The match took place in Division One of the Third Tier of the Middlesex League, when the fourth XI of Richmond CC opted to bowl first against North London Cricket Club’s third XI.

Batting first, North London scored 426 runs in their 45 innings, thanks to Dan Simmons’ 140. The bowling side conceded 92 extras, including 63 wides.

Chasing 427, Richmond’s fourth XI batting lineup collapsed for a record low, and the entire team was bowled out for just two runs inside only 5.4 overs.

 

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North London Cricket Club’s third XI piled on misery as Richmond’s fourth XI’s eight out of 10 batters were dismissed for ducks, while one of their two runs was a wide.

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Tom Petrides remained the only batter to get off the mark, while Rafiqul Haque remained unbeaten on zero runs.

Following the game, North London Cricket Club’s third XI captain Tom Spawton said that they could have bowled out the opposition for zero.

“One of the two runs was a wide, the other was a dropped catch at slip. We came away from the game thinking that we could have realistically bowled them out for zero,” he said in a chat with a local media outlet.

Steve Deakin, Richmond Cricket Club deputy chairman and head of cricket, blamed the unavailability of proper players for the loss.

“Our availability this week was really bad. We had about 40 players unavailable across our five men’s teams.

We were already struggling, and then we had seven dropouts on Thursday and Friday. That trickles down and affects the fourths. The captains were calling friends of friends of friends just to get our teams on the pitch,” he said.

For the unversed, Richmond Cricket Club is a distinguished institution that has been in West London since 1862. Notably, they once had a teenager, Adam Gilchrist, play as an overseas player in the first team before he broke records in international cricket.

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