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An undated photo of Richmond Cricket Club team. \u2014 RichmondCC<\/p>\n
Richmond Cricket Club\u2019s fourth XI registered an unwanted record after being bowled out for just two runs in a Middlesex League Division One match against North London Cricket Club\u2019s third XI.<\/p>\n
The incident occurred in the third tier of the league, where Richmond opted to bowl first. North London capitalised on the opportunity, posting a massive total of 426 runs in 45 overs. <\/p>\n
The innings was led by Dan Simmons, who scored a brilliant 140, while Richmond conceded a shocking 92 extras \u2014 including 63 wides.<\/p>\n
Chasing a daunting target of 427, Richmond’s batting lineup collapsed spectacularly. The team was dismissed for just two runs in 5.4 overs, with eight batters getting out for ducks. One of the two runs was a wide, while the only batter to get off the mark was Tom Petrides. Rafiqul Haque remained not out on zero.<\/p>\n
North London\u2019s third XI captain, Tom Spawton, reflected on how close they came to dismissing the opposition without a single legitimate run.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the two runs was a wide, the other was a dropped catch at slip. We came away from the game thinking we could have realistically bowled them out for zero,\u201d Spawton told local media.<\/p>\n
Reacting to the record defeat, Richmond\u2019s deputy chairman and head of cricket, Steve Deakin, attributed the result to a severe shortage of available players.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur availability this week was really bad. We had about 40 players unavailable across our five men\u2019s teams. We were struggling already, then had seven dropouts over Thursday and Friday. That trickles down and affects the fourths,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe captains were calling friends of friends of friends just to get our teams on the pitch,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An undated photo of Richmond Cricket Club team. \u2014 RichmondCC Richmond Cricket Club\u2019s fourth XI registered an unwanted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[59633,59632,1406,59634,59636,59631,59635,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-136237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-club-cricket","9":"tag-club-match","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-middlesex-league-division-one","12":"tag-north-london-cricket-club","13":"tag-richmond-cc","14":"tag-richmond-cricket-clubs-fourth-xi","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114580482673701678","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}