longest-running cricket match: lasted more than 112 years

Bures vs Great Bentley cricket match lasted for more than 112 years: Cricket is a game of uncertainties, where no one has even the slightest idea of ​​what will happen when. In this game, such feats are often seen which leave everyone surprised. Whether it is about catching a catch or a bowler taking 10 wickets. This game is liked all over the world due to such incidents.

If we talk about the longest format of cricket matches till now, then you must have seen test matches of 4-5 days, but there was a match which continued for more than 112 years and its result was after 112 years.

This match was played between two villages located in the UK, Bures and Great Bentley (Bures vs Great Bentley, Essex Country, UK). This match was played for a barrel of beer, the story of which was quite unique. Now fans will remember this match for centuries. Let us tell you the story of the entire match.

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• Actually, in 1845, a cricket match was played between Bures vs Great Bentley, which are two villages located in Essex County, UK. In this match, Bentley's batsmen batted the whole day and retired without giving Bures's team a chance to bat. Bures's batsmen got a chance to bat again after 100 years. In 1957, Bures's team came out to bat and won the match by two wickets. In this way, a cricket match continued for 112 years, the result of which came after a very long time.
• Halstead's cricketer Dennis Walter, who is 87 years old, has told the unheard story of this match. He said that at that time someone had tried to find some documents about a cricket match between Bures and Great Bentley in 1845. Great Bentley scored more than 300 runs in the match, but Bures never got a chance to bat.
• It was written in the old documents that Burress got a chance to play his innings after 100 years. Even after so many years, I am surprised to hear this story that someone discovered the history of the team. Dennis told this story to the Clacton and Frinton Gazette.
• Let us tell you that when the match started again in 1957 after 1845, the opposing team reached the stadium by car, in which all the players were wearing the jersey of the 17th century. The players used old stumps, cricket bats.
• He (Dennis) further said that Dennis's team scored more than 300 runs. Even when we came to know about this when we moved to Halstead for the first time, even then I used to play cricket. I used to go back to Burress and play and my wife used to make tea. I am very grateful that both of us were a part of that special day. I feel that we are a part of history and this is a good memory.

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