Thursday, September 2, 2010
Longest cricket match
- Blunham Cricket
Club sets world record
BEDFORDSHIRE, UK -- Blunham
Cricket Club
's first and second teams went head-to-head
for 105 hours, batting and bowling around the clock for five
days through torrential rain, wind and tiredness -
setting
the new world record for the Longest
cricket match
. 
Photo: Amateur cricketers in Bedfordshire
have set the world record for the
Longest
cricket match
.
Photo
UKPA ( enlarge
photo
)
Steve Harris, vice president of the Bedfordshire
club, said: "We did it, everyone is celebrating in the clubhouse
now, and I think we are all just realising what an undertaking
it was. We are over the moon to have got it back. The New
Zealanders warned us that if we broke their record they would
come back after it so we will see if we have to do it all
over again."
The previous Guinness World Record for
the Longest
cricket match
was 100 hours. Players are allowed a
five minute break every hour. But apart from that the match
is being played to standard ECB rules throughout.
Neil Wildon from the Blunham
Cricket Club
, told BBC Three Counties: "We played
through five days and four nights with no break at all.
"The weather, and particularly the persistent
rain we had for the first 24 hours, made it very very hard
work but the crowd support from the local community made it
so worthwhile."
But as is the way of English cricket, the Australians
did one better the following year, with a club in New South
Wales batting through 66 hours.
Not to be outdone, Cornwall Cricket Club
in Auckland, New Zealand, then upped the ante, with a fixture
reaching 100 hours in January.
The World's
Long
est
cricket match
raised around £17,000. The money will
go towards the completion of a new club pavilion and a number
of charities, principally Breast Cancer Research, Orchid (testicular,
penile and prostate cancer research) and St. Johns Hospice,
Moggerhanger.
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
