Lichfield Nomads Cricket Club : Match Reports 2010 |
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Shugborough v Lichfield Nomads
Scores:
Shugborough 194 for 4; Nomads 103
all out
Nomads maintain
100% record
Nomads
kept up their dismal start to the season with an often lacklustre and
bad-tempered performance. As early as the fourth over Mason K was clearly run
out by at least a foot, but the umpire, poorly positioned, claimed being
unsighted; Mason will have known he was well short of the line but did not
volunteer to help the umpire. (Ed - I wasn't there but sometimes the
runner isn't sure he was definitely out because they are so focussed on gaining
their ground!) Hughes was getting a degree of swing, but was also
being hit firmly whenever he dropped short. For once Forster was bowling a
decent(ish) line and length and only in his sixth over did the batsmen try to
attack him, taking 11 (at which point he was promptly removed from the line of
fire). Fielding can only be described as disappointing as the ball ran under
feet, over feet and round feet as the creaking backs of Nomads’ fielders didn’t
make the bend. Collins replaced Hughes and Heslington replaced Forster, the
latter extracting good lift from full length balls. Collins raised the pressure,
as well as his voice, on several occasions as he exhorted umpires, with phrases
such as “how can you not give that out? – he was right in front’ along with a
little more colour, having to be quietened down by Hughes. Unfortunately bowling
left arm round makes it very difficult
to secure lbw decisions, as I know to my cost, as balls which pitch on off will
almost always miss leg and anything outside off is likely to be played outside
the line of off stump. Eventually Collins did get some reward with the wicket of
Mason K, the umpire this time, not needing to raise his finger. Further fielding
lapses, coupled with some aggressive hitting, along with more toss-arguing about
decisions, saw Shugborough through to 194. Heslington collecting a couple of
wickets from his slower bowling, one well caught by Blackburn senior and a
stumping by Blackburn junior from George junior in what might be the youngest
combination to take a wicket for Nomads for some considerable time.
Stanley
and Hughes opened for Nomads, aware of the need to press on. Unfortunately the
Shugborough opening bowlers were unwilling to join in with the plan, with
Meredith bowling fast balls into the blockhole for eight overs at one end and
Turnock bowling widely swinging deliveries at the other. As a result Nomads
struggled to move the score along at anything more than two an over. Forster,
replacing Stanley early on, seemed to have acquired some of the latter’s fast
scoring skills and moved at the pace of a dead snail after an early four.
Forster, not wearing his helmet, took one lifting ball in the right cheek as he
missed a hook and spent several minutes on the ground as he recovered his
senses, but like an idiot carried on afterwards. It was not until Shugborough
had made sure of their comfortable victory that they brought on their
‘occasional’ bowlers to give the Nomads tail the opportunity to raise their
averages. Even then good humour was not restored as the Shugborough fine leg,
racing to save a wide delivery that had eluded the ‘keeper dragged the ball back
from on the widely-painted boundary line, claiming ‘it hadn’t crossed the
line’…. Quite true, but then that’s not the point, fielder (moral victory to
Nomads for knowing some of the rules/laws). There was still time for Greaves to
volunteer for the gonad trophy with a bizarre dismissal. Facing his first ball
he spooned it to point, and set off for a run. Amazingly point dropped the
golden opportunity however Greaves was now at the far end and when told by
Blackburn he was ‘out’, Greaves responded ‘it’s alright, he dropped it’. ‘No,
run out’, was the reply… but only by 22 yards.
Voting
for MVP was a tricky choice, with ‘wides’ being suggested by several! |
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Lichfield
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Shugborough
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How Out |
Bowler |
Total |
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How Out |
Bowler |
Total |
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Stanley |
c |
Meredith |
2 |
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Mason K |
b |
Collins
K |
20 |
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Hughes |
lbw |
Meredith |
5 |
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Mason M |
c
Blackburn P |
Heslington |
64 |
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Forster |
c |
Turnock
M |
9 |
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Mason S |
lbw |
Heslington |
18 |
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Pinfield |
c |
Meredith |
4 |
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Bennett |
not out |
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51 |
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Blackburn G |
b |
Key |
7 |
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Turnock
P |
st
Blackburn G |
George
N |
6 |
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Heslington |
c |
Key |
5 |
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Brewer |
not out |
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20 |
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George
N |
b |
Turnock
M |
1 |
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Blackburn P |
c |
Goodwin |
10 |
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Greaves |
run out |
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0 |
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Pickering |
not out |
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11 |
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Collins
K |
run out |
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11 |
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Extras w26, nb6,
b4, lb2 |
38 |
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Extras w9, nb1,
b3, lb2 |
15 |
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Total for 10 wickets |
103 |
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Total for 4 wkts |
194 |
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Fall of
wickets: 7, 16, 21, 37, 42, 50, 58, 58, 85, 103 |
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Fall of wickets: not recorded |
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Meredith 8-2-6-3; Turnock P 8-2-21-0; |
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Hughes
8-0-56-0; Forster 6-1-22-0;
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