Lichfield Nomads Cricket Club : Match Reports 2010 |
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Christian Malford
v Lichfield Nomads
Scores: Christian Malford 208 all out : Nomads 77 all out Result: Christian Malford won by 131 runs
Nomads fed to lions
On a hot and sunny July day Nomads fell on their own collective swords to lose
the first of the tour matches.
Hughes began with a mixture of pace and guile, Brannigan and Hoddy opening up.
Christian Malford were soon in trouble as Brannigan extracted considerable
variation and at 12 for 3 Malford recognised the need for consolidation. Dixon
(or is it Dickson?) played an anchor role as first Barrow and then Alcorn bashed
away at the other end. Nomads were particularly unlucky not to get Alcorn well
before his demise as he lofted a number of drives into vacant spaces in the
outfield; however some novel field placings failed to pay off. At 178 before the
sixth wicket fell, Nomads were looking down the proverbial barrel of a gun, but
Brannigan’s return, despite being a little expensive brought, a change in
fortunes. Bowling an interesting mixture of gentle balls and slightly pacier
stuff (presumably saving his energies for the evening ahead) he managed to hit
t’stumps twice and with two run outs (KS will probably tell me that should be
‘runs out’, but it just doesn’t read well!) Malford were confined to just over
200.
An excellent tea in the sunshine with plenty for spectators too, Nomads rolled
back the years with Heslington and Gardner opening. A mixture of disaster and
farce was to follow. Smith was bowling outside off stump and posing no real
threat, although the ball was lifting off the drying pitch. Heslington played
what he believed to be an excellent drive to the cover boundary. He was still
‘in the pose’ with Gardner advancing on him from the other end, when a fielder,
cleverly disguised as a member of the similarly-dressed onlookers emerged to
hurl the ball back in to the bowlers end. By now Gardner had realised that
Heslington was still waiting for the artist to complete his sculpture and made a
valiant effort to regain his ground, though failed by a couple of yards. The
whistle of Gardner’s bat past his ear woke umpire Forster from his dreams at the
bowler’s end and when it flew past his head a second time, the finger was
inevitably raised (‘bat abuse’ should have been the verdict). Heslington was so
shocked by the turn of events that he went into his shell, until a couple of
overs later, he allowed the ball to dribble off his bat and roll onto his
stumps. So gentle was the impact that the bails almost defied gravity as they
hovered in mid air for a full ten seconds before Newton’s laws took over. In the
meantime, the previously wayward Smith was pinning the left-handed Craddock back
on his stumps, repeatedly, until, in an attempt to break the shackles he
advanced a little too much and was stumped. At 17 for 3 things were looking
sticky. Though Pickering and Brannigan hung around for a while, with the latter
inevitably trying to remove the cover from the ball frequently, but also playing
some good defence the run rate was rising. An attempt at a suicidal single
turned out to be just that for Brannigan as he slipped in mid-wicket trying to
turn around and after half getting up and diving for the crease was unlucky to
find the fickle finger of the opposition umpire pointing to the heavens. Nomads
struggled along after that, wickets fell regularly, Hughes tried defence,
Stanley and Pickering struck crashing (?) boundaries, but the end came soon. |
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Christian Malford |
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Lichfield Nomads
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How Out |
Bowler |
Total |
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How Out |
Bowler |
Total |
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Morris |
c Gardner |
Brannigan |
4 |
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Gardner |
run out |
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4 |
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Collings |
c Heslington |
Hoddy |
0 |
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Heslington |
b |
Mason |
5 |
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Dixon |
run out |
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70 |
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Craddock |
c Dixon |
Smith |
1 |
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Smith |
c Brannigan |
Brannigan |
0 |
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Pickering |
c |
Seal |
8 |
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Barrow |
b |
Hughes |
34 |
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Brannigan |
run out |
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30 |
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Purkiss |
c Craddock |
Hughes |
1 |
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Stanley |
lbw |
Barrow |
6 |
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Alcorn |
st Gardner |
Hoddy |
66 |
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Hughes |
c Purkiss |
May |
0 |
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Taaffe |
b |
Brannigan |
1 |
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George S |
c Alcorn |
Alcorn |
1 |
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Mason |
b |
Brannigan |
2 |
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George N |
c Barrow |
Alcorn |
4 |
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Seal |
run
out |
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9 |
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Hoddy |
not out |
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5 |
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May |
not out |
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1 |
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Greaves |
b |
Barrow |
0 |
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Extras w17, nb1, lb3 |
21 |
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Extras w8, nb2, lb3 |
13 |
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Total for 10 wickets |
208 |
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Total for 10 wkts |
77 |
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Fall of wickets: 5; 12; 12; 73; 81; 178; 180; 182; 208; 208 |
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Fall of wickets: 6; 10; 17; 46; 56; 57; 58; 66; 76; 77 |
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Brannigan 8-0-57-4; Hoddy 7.3-1-30-2;
Hughes 6-1-16-2; Greaves 3-0-28-0; Heslington 5-1-23-0; George S 6-0-35-0;
George N 4-0-16-0 |
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Mason 8-2-14-1;
Smith 4-0-9-1; Seal 4-0-27-1; Alcorn 4-1-8-2; May 4-1-7-1; Taaffe 1-0-7-0;
Barrow 0.4-0-2-2 |
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