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Xtra Time Web Desk: Believe it or not, a county league side was recently bowled out for only 2 runs. Buckden Cricket Club was bowled out for an unbelievable 2 runs only against Falcons in Huntingdonshire County League match. Buckden were forced to field a second XI as most of the first team players were unavailable.  The match was played at Sawtry in Cambridge, The club shared the embarrassing incident on their social media site twitter.

The Falcons batting first had set their opponents a target of 260/6. Faheem and Murad Ali shared a 132 runs partnership to lay the platform for a decent total. Buckden were bowled out for only 2 runs. Most importantly none of the Buckden batsmen could produce a single run. The two runs that they scored were due to a wide and a bye. It would have been even more embarrassing had Falcons not bowled a wide or let go a bye run.

Talking to BBC Sport, Buckden captain Joel Kirschner said, “We only had eight at the start, aged between 15 and 50 – and Graham Pearce arrived 30 overs in because he’d been working. We had 15 players unavailable, two or three were injured, the others had family commitments – and there was one no-show. We are genuinely not a bad team. When we played Falcons before we only lost by nine runs.”