Lichfield Nomads Cricket Club : Match Reports 2010 |
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Lichfield Nomads v Wall
Scores: Wall 204 for 4: Lichfield Nomads 209 for 6 Result: Nomads won by four wickets
King Collins
tears down Wall
(Jericho revisited)
With Wall struggling to make a
full complement of players, whilst Nomads had an alleged 17 to pick from, Hughes
volunteered to turn out for the opposition. Fortunately he wasn’t brought on to
bowl until it was almost all over bar the shouting and also managed to spill a
catchable chance and shepherd one or two balls to the boundary.
The Wall openers were clearly
in no mood to press their feet against the accelerator early on, making sure
they kept out the bowling of Hoddy and Brannigan. Accurate bowling along with
the reluctance to go for it kept the score down to around 2 an over until well
into the second ten. Hoddy removed Griffiths who finally decided to start
attacking only to hole out to the trusty Collins snr. at mid on, then Collins
himself, replacing Brannigan, struck two more blows, bowling Skermer and
Venables with good flight and deception.
Unfortunately for Nomads later
bowlers, this brought together Davis and Caddick who proceeded to raise the
overall run rate very rapidly, with none of the later bowlers able to stem the
tide and a drop from Hoddy off Forster’s bowling before Caddick had reached 15,
made matters worse. Although Collins jnr. tried hard he was bowling much too
wide for the umpire’s liking. A couple of fielding errors from the bowling of
Collins snr, returning late on, made matters worse. First Blackburn continued to
go for the catch, despite a loud call from Craddock, resulting in what could
have been a nasty collision, but only saw the ball responding to gravity, and
secondly, when Blackburn was presumably caught on the back foot and appeared
rooted to the spot as the ball looped to within a metre of so of where he stood.
A surge from Hatton late on left Nomads with a target of just over 200; gettable
but would need at least one batsman to score well.
Fortunately, Nomads had that
batsman. Gardner started steadily, but Hussein seemed ill at ease against some
accurate bowling and missed a fullish ball that went through the gate. Collins
jnr replaced him with the score on 10 in the fourth over and Hussein was joined
in the ‘pavilion’ by Gardner in the next over. Collins was playing a circumspect
game, crashing anything slightly loose to the boundary and defending stoutly to
better balls. As his innings progressed boundaries of both varieties came more
steadily as 40 of his first 50 came in fours. Brannigan had thrashed 24 at a
surprisingly slow pace, for him, it taking all of 19 balls before an excellent
running catch at cow corner saw him replaced at the wicket by Craddock. From
this point on, more or less to the end, Nomads’ innings was a one-man-show, with
the other batsmen giving Collins as much of the strike as they could, happy to
watch from the other end as Collins demolished every variety of bowling put in
front of him. A fine century duly arrived in the middle of a stand of 40 with
Forster, as the latter scraped a mere 4 in the stand. Westwood arrived at the
fall of the sixth wicket and quickly allayed any thoughts of a collapse with the
end in sight, becoming only the third batsmen to reach double figures, with a
quick-fire 11. Fittingly Collins finished it with a lofty six over the
mid-wicket boundary, to be roundly congratulated for a fine performance by all
players on both teams. According to the Chairman, this makes Collins only the 7th
Nomads batsman to reach the magic ton. What an innings!
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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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Griffiths |
c Collins K |
Hoddy |
8 |
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Gardner |
b |
Venables |
8 |
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Skermer |
b |
Collins K |
9 |
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Hussein |
b |
Davis M |
0 |
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Davis S |
not out |
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71 |
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Collins C |
not out |
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134 |
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Venables |
b |
Collins K |
0 |
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Brannigan |
c |
Foulds |
24 |
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Caddick |
c Craddock |
Westwood |
69 |
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Craddock |
b |
Foulds |
5 |
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Hatton T |
not out |
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28 |
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Caygill |
b |
Foulds |
6 |
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Elston |
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Forster |
lbw |
Davis M |
4 |
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Hatton M |
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Westwood |
not out |
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11 |
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Hughes |
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Blackburn P |
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Foulds |
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Collins K |
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Davis M |
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Hoddy |
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Extras w16, b2, lb1 |
19 |
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Extras w6, b5, lb5 |
16 |
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Total for 4 wickets |
204 |
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Total for 6 wkts |
209 |
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Fall of wickets: 11; 30; 37; 155 |
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Fall of wickets: 10; 13; 75; 102; 137; 177 |
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Hoddy
8-1-23-1; Brannigan 7-0-34-0; Collins K 8-2-39-2; Westwood 7-0-35-1; Forster
5-0-30-0; Collins C 3-0-10-0; Blackburn P 2-0-23-0
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Venables 8-1-26-1;
Davis M 8-1-55-2;
Elson 6-0-46-0;
Foulds 8-0-37-3; Caddick 4-0-15-0; Hughes 2-0-14-0 |
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