The batter’s remarkable scoreless stint at the crease, for the club’s 4th XI, brought him unexpected attention from far and wide.<\/p>\n
At the time, he told the BBC the response to the match had “gone crackers”.<\/p>\n
“It’s gone round the world,” he said. “It has been mentioned in Australia, Pakistan, Qatar.<\/p>\n
“I have had friend requests from around the globe.”<\/p>\n
Mr Bestwick took his steely stand after the opposition – Mickleover 3rd XI – posted a total of 271.<\/p>\n
Darley Abbey finished on just 21-4 after 45 overs – which meant the game ended in a draw.<\/p>\n
Mr Bestwick said: “We had been in the field for three hours chasing leather all over the place.<\/p>\n
“They came off and were dejected, [but] at the end it was like we had won a cup or something.<\/p>\n
“The atmosphere in our dressing room was second to none. It was brilliant.”<\/p>\n
He added: “Towards the end it became a thing where I was determined not to score.”<\/p>\n
Mr Bestwick was a senior trade union representative for Unite at Rolls-Royce.<\/p>\n
A post on the Rolls-Royce and Associates staff forum said: “Ian was a hugely influential character in the company and with the colleagues he represented. <\/p>\n
“He cared deeply about the business and provided helpful and considered challenge around actions to help improve it.<\/p>\n
“Ian will be missed by everyone that had the pleasure to work with him.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The batter’s remarkable scoreless stint at the crease, for the club’s 4th XI, brought him unexpected attention from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-116280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}