Richmond cc 4th xi v north london cc 3rd xi: White ball format has changed the attitude towards cricket, where the teams cross the 300 mark in just 20 overs and a batsman has the ability to play 150+ innings alone in 120 balls. However, something happened in England’s club cricket, which is a bit difficult to believe. In fact, a lower-division cricket team in England’s Middlesex County League became all at a score of just 2 runs and the team set a big shameful record.
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According to reports, Richmond Cricket Club’s 4th XI team chased a target of 427 runs and all out for just 2 runs in 5.4 overs. Now it has been recorded in the most embarrassing moments in England’s club cricket history. Richmond CC 4th XI has set this embarrassing record against the North London CC 3rd XI team. Richmond won the toss and decided to bowl first, after which North London CC opener Dan Simmons played a rapid innings of 140 runs. However, Team Richmond also gave 92 additional runs while bowling poorly, including 63 wide balls. In this way, the North London team managed to score 426 runs.
Chasing a huge target of 427 runs, 8 batsmen of Richmond’s team could not even open the account. The only batsman of the team scored 1 run, while a run met Wide. A batsman was runout. In bowling, Spotton took 3 wickets for just 2 runs, while his partner Matt Rosan shocked 5 wickets without giving any runs. However, on the embarrassing defeat of Richmond CC 4th XI, Cricket Club Deputy Chairman and Head of Cricket Steve Dicin said that it was a ‘perfect store’ situation, in which the club did not have the players of their regular team. About 40 players were not present in the five male teams. Then seven more players were out.
Spotton, a bowler of the North London CC 3rd XI, the team, who had been holding the opposition team for just 2 runs, said that we could only cover them at 0, if a wide and a catch would not have dropped.
