Lichfield Nomads Cricket Club : Match Reports 2012 |
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Stone SP (Swynnerton) v Lichfield Nomads Nomads outgunned
On the event (almost) of his 60th birthday, Hoddy was captain for the
day. Unfortunately, Nomads could not raise themselves to add to his
celebrations.
Hoddy won the toss and elected to bat. Gardner and Heslington enjoyed some loose
bowling early on and raced to 43 in the 5th over. Heslington was
particularly aggressive, being the main beneficiary of the second over from Dale
which went for 19. Uncharacteristically Gardner was then bowled round his legs,
the ball flicking the top of leg stump, as Banks gained some movement in the
air. Stanley arrived, as Heslington continued to take the attack to the
opposition. However, Banks was still troubling the batsmen, removing first, the
left-handed Stanley, as he followed a ball outside off, then the right-handed
Brannigan, first ball, as he repeated the manoeuvre. Rolfe avoided the hat-trick
and was soon joining Heslington in attacking mode but with the stand at 18,
Heslington didn’t quite follow through with a shot and was caught for a bold 36.
Jones showed some classic shots, but was thwarted by finding fielders in the
wrong spots. Rolfe’s brief, but effective, flurry came to an end on 19, leaving
Nomads at a perilous 92 for 5. This soon became 109 for 7, as first Jones was
bowled by ….. Jones, then Westwood followed a lifting ball and got a faint snick
to the keeper. With more than half the overs to go things were not looking
positive for Nomads, however, Hughes lifted the spirits with a 6 from his first
ball, as he singularly failed to follow Gardner’s suggestion of trying to play
it ‘along the floor’!! Hughes and Forster played sensibly as they tried to eke
out the overs, gathering runs wherever possible, but at 18, Hughes fell to
another catch. Greaves started tentatively, but held his ground as the 9th
wicket pair tried to keep the bowlers at bay and he was just beginning to look
like he could do some damage when
Forster was bowled by one of Dale’s few straight balls. A flowing drive for
four, from Greaves and a few singles followed until the last over when Greaves,
in classic fashion, lofted one into the air, barely 5 metres from the bat and
hared off down the wicket, with one hand on his helmet and bat held like a sabre
in the other, as Hoddy watched, unmoved, from the other end. Considering middle
order difficulties Nomads had reached a half-decent score, aided considerably by
the ever reliable twelfth man, “extras”.
A high quality tea, with excellent cakes and Nomads 187 began to look
defendable, despite the excellent batting track and when Brannigan shattered the
stumps of the South African opener with his second ball, they may have even
begun to believe it. However this was not to be as the Swynnerton batsmen took
the attack very firmly to the Nomads bowlers, even placing the ball between
fielders (the audacity of it!!). Unfortunately the rest of the Swynnerton
innings is lost in the mists of time as the data were not received from their
electronic score book until mid-December!! – suffice it to say they, and
particularly Bennett, N took the attack to the bowlers and knocked off the runs
with plenty of time to spare. Of minor amusement is that the electronic records
identify a certain ‘I Huges’ amongst our team! [Disclaimer: any offence caused by this article is unintentional, any praise is well deserved.] |
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Lichfield Nomads |
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Swynnerton |
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How Out |
Bowler |
Total |
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How Out |
Bowler |
Total |
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Gardner |
b |
Banks |
16 |
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Bennett H |
b |
Brannigan |
0 |
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Heslington |
c |
Banks |
36 |
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Bennett N |
c Greaves |
Westwood |
104 |
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Stanley |
c Davidson A |
Banks |
2 |
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Jones A |
c Forster |
Hoddy |
5 |
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Brannigan |
c |
Banks |
0 |
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Davidson A |
not out |
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40 |
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Rolfe |
c |
Jones G |
19 |
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Banks
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not out |
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24 |
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Jones |
b |
Jones G |
5 |
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Price |
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Forster |
b |
Dale |
42 |
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Osgathorpe |
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Westwood |
c Davidson A |
Jones C |
2 |
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Jones C |
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Hughes |
c Hatton |
Osgathorpe |
18 |
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Dale |
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Greaves |
run
out |
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5 |
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Jones G |
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Hoddy |
not out |
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3 |
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Davidson M |
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Extras w26; nb4; b4; lb5 |
39 |
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Extras 9w; 8b; 1lb |
18 |
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Total for wickets |
187 |
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Total for 3 wkts |
191 |
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Fall of wickets: 43; 52; 52; 70; 92; 101; 109; 156; 176; 187 |
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Fall of wickets: 0; 23; 152 |
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Banks 5-1-31-4; Dale 8-0-53-1; Jones C
8-0-43-1;
Jones G 5-0-16-2; Davidson M 5-0-20-0;
Osgathorpe 8-3-16-1; Price 0.3-0-1-0 |
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Brannigan 4-0-20-1; Hoddy
8-0-41-1; Hughes 5-0-26-0; Greaves 6-0-26-0; Westwood 6-0-41-1; Heslington
4.2-0-28-0 |
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