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Lichfield Nomads Cricket Club : Match Reports 2012
Opposition: NCI CC. Cambridge
Date : 15th July 2012
Start Time : 1:30pm
Venue : Away - Parkers Piece
Competition : Friendly 40 overs
Result : Nomads lost by 25 runs
Report : J. Hoddy
Toss : Won
Umpires: Hughes & Hughes
Scorer: Opposition
Weather: Fine
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NCI CC v Lichfield Nomads
 Scores NCI 165 for 9 v Lichfield Nomads 140 for 9

Day 1 Although already knowing that the Saturday match had been cancelled, Nomads travelled as planned to acclimatize and for match preparation. After meeting up at mid-day, we went our separate ways for a blend of culture, sight-seeing and pub surveying. My particular highlight was seeing a man singing and playing guitar in a waste paper bin (contact P Gardner for photographic evidence). I went out later to meet most of the Nomads at a pub, “Cambridge Blue”, which had lots or real ale, at prices which were not too southern,  plus a good selection of bottled foreign beers. Later Captain H turned up with MP, CB & LW. After several more pints (an unnamed Nomad - Ed.) tried to hi-jack someone else’s taxi to move on. At this stage I went back to our accommodation for an early night.

Day 2 A bright and early start (for  some) to a good breakfast and blue skies. It seemed likely that the game would be on and an early pitch inspection confirmed our hopes. After mooching round Cambridge in the morning, we all met up early for some fielding practice. Eventually the opposition arrived and we took the field, with a guest player to fill in for Dan Moss who had not been able to make it. Brannigan and Hoddy , as usual, opened the bowling and soon had the opposition in trouble with 2 wickets each. At one stage the opposition were 10-4 and a certain Nomad sheepishly admitted to me later that he had felt sorry for the opposition at that stage. However we always seem to encounter someone who plays well and Young played sensibly and started to accumulate runs. Although he was coming off the back of 5 ducks this season, he played each ball on its merit and having survived a couple of chances ended up with a deserved 97no. Westwood and Heslington came on and bowled well with little reward and then Ball came on and took 2 wickets to catches by Brannigan in the covers , the first a superb one-handed, over-the-head effort which had the batsman gasping in disbelief, the second lodged in the groin area and had Brannigan gasping in pain. Hughes and our guest player came on and Young went after them to try to set a good score. Brannigan came back for 3 overs to complete his spell claiming another 2 wickets. A final score of 165 was a little higher than we would have liked.

A target of just over 4 per over did not seem too unfeasible. Gardner and Heslington opened the batting but neither could dominate the bowling and both were out for 12. Westwood and Stanley came in and pushed the scoring along raising the run-rate from just over 2 to just over 3 per over. We were falling behind the required rate but still matching the score of the opposition in their innings. However they managed to score 70 off the last 10 overs which  was not certain we could emulate. Westwood  was out for 21 and Brannigan came in to knock a rapid 19 off 13 balls. However having struck 3 consecutive fours he tried again and was bowled. Ball barely troubled the scorers and it was left to a valiant attempt by Hughes, with 24 off 22 balls, to gain the runs. However 27 off the last over was too much and Nomads fell short of the target by 26 runs. Disappointing as we felt we should have done better but everyone enjoyed the weekend

[Disclaimer: any offence caused by this article is unintentional, any praise is well deserved.] 

 

NCI CC

 

Lichfield Nomads

 

 

How Out

Bowler

Total

 

 

How Out

Bowler

Total

Taylor, S

Ct Hughes

Hoddy

1

 

Gardner

Ct

Ladd

12

Wilson, P

Ct Ball

Hoddy

5

 

Heslington

Lbw

Clarkson

12

Bradshaw, S

Ct & B

Brannigan

1

 

Westwood

Ct Sneesby

Gould

21

Young, R

n/o

 

   97

 

Stanley

Run out

 

21

Ashfield, E

Bowled

Brannigan

2

 

Brannigan

Bowled

Taylor

19

Sneesby,M

Ct Brannigan

Ball

20

 

Pinfield

Bowled

Taylor

 6

Biss, M

Ct Brannigan

Ball

0

 

Ball

Lbw

Gould

1

Clarkson, R

Bowled

Brannigan

20

 

Hughes, I

n/o

 

24

Gould , J

Bowled

Brannigan

0

 

Pickering

Run out

 

2

Bryant, H

Bowled

Heslington

0

 

Hoddy

Run out

 

0

Ladd, B

n/o

 

2

 

Clarke

n/o

 

0

 

 

Extras

17

 

 

 

Extras

22

 

 

 

165-9

 

 

 

 

140-9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brannigan 8-3-21-4, Hoddy 8-3-14-2, Westwood 5-0-28-0, Heslington 7-1-27-1, Ball 6-0-20-2, Hughes 4-0-28-0, Clarke 2-0-22-0

 

Ladd 7-1-22-1, Bryant 8-2-13-0, Clarkson 8-3-20-1, Biss 2-0-17-0, Gould 8-1-32-2, Taylor 6-0-25-2, Ashfield 1-0-1-0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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