A curious coincidence happened this week on adjacent cricket pitches in Essex as the boys’ and girls’ first XIs of Felsted School had matches on the same afternoon that ended in a tie. Not a draw — there have been plenty of those in this weather — but with the scores level when the overs ran out, something rare enough to have happened only 39 times in 50 years of one-day internationals. Douglas Henderson, who chronicles such adventures at schoolscricketonline.co.uk, tells me that Kit Morley-Jacob held his nerve with the last ball of the boys’ game, conceding only a single when Brentwood needed two, while Abby Camp struck a boundary off the last ball against Free Foresters to share the girls’ game.

Source: The Times May 21, 2021 22:52 UTC