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Lichfield Nomads Cricket Club : Match Reports 2013

Opposition: Bugbrooke
Date : 21st April 2013
Start Time : 1:30pm
Venue : Away
Competition : Friendly 40 overs
Result : Lost by 9 wkts
Report : D. Forster
Toss : Lost
Umpires: Forster/Hughes/Gardner/Heslington
Scorer: J. Hoddy
Weather: Cool
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Bugbrooke v Lichfield Nomads
Scores: Nomads 86 all out: Bugbrooke 88 for 1   

Result:  Bugbrooke won by 9 wickets

Nomads had recorded a good win at Bugbrooke last year and arrived in hope of going 2-0 ahead for the season… but things didn’t quite turn out as they had hoped

Hoddy lost the toss again and Nomads were asked to bat on the artificial surface which would hopefully provide more consistent bounce than last week’s wicket. Opening bowler Cross surprised Gardner with a head-high bouncer, first ball, but after a bye Heslington, facing only his third ball, got a good edge to one that kept a little low and was taken by the keeper.  Weir joined Gardner and the pair moved the score along to 22, helped by a number of extras, when Weir was bowled by Bashir to another one that didn’t get up. Jones attempted to see off the openers with some solid defence but after adding only two, was again bowled. Bourne replaced Jones and after last week’s ‘golden’ was looking to use the experience he’d gained from the Edgbaston nets. This time he got the middle of the bat to his first ball but only managed to guide it smoothly into the waiting hands of Thomas short on the off side. So… an early move for the Gonads trophy by Bourne but others were not to be so easily put off in their attempts to claim the illustrious golden protector as Pickering, Forster and then Greaves all joined him and Heslington on the ‘naughty step’!! Only Collins with some lusty blows and Hoddy with solid defence managed to keep the Bugbrooke bowlers at bay for any length of time, although Hughes had at least reached double figures before being bowled playing a defensive shot!!! Nomads were surprised to find that, as last week, they had reached precisely 86 runs and were heartened by the knowledge that they knew they could defend this total. As previously, Nomad’s trusty twelfth man ‘extras’ had made a sizeable addition to the score, this time adding only slightly under 50% to the batsmen’s total.

A good quality tea, saw Nomads into the field. Heslington and Hoddy opened the bowling and the ball was soon disappearing over the fence on one side and the stream on the other as they had no answer to the powerful hitting of Sidebottom, who reached 50 just after his opening partner had got off the mark. First change bowlers, Collins and Hughes, managed to stem the flow of boundaries a little, but the damage had been done. Although Collins managed to remove Boyd it was not enough and a few boundaries later saw Sidebottom score the winning runs with yet another boundary, leaving him with a personal total of 83 out of the 89 total. Greaves had at least managed to make him think with his mixture of very slow and extremely slow balls. Had he gone early (and one or two fell into spaces between fielders), who knows what could have happened, as the other batsmen scored just 4 in the 14 overs it had taken Sidebottom to win the match!

So Nomads returned home somewhat subdued, hoping to score at least 87 at Longdon next week!

 

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

 

Lichfield Nomads

 

Bugbrooke

 

How Out

Bowler

Total

 

 

How Out

Bowler

Total

Gardner

b

Lyes

21

 

Boyd

c Gardner

Collins K

2

Heslington

c Sidebottom

Cross J

0

 

Sidebottom

not out

 

83

Weir

b

Bashir

7

 

Coleman

not out

 

2

Jones

b

Lyes

2

 

Lamb

 

 

 

Bourne

c Thomas

Lyes

0

 

Bashir

 

 

 

Hughes

b

Shay

10

 

Coleman

 

 

 

Pickering

c

Lyes

0

 

Cross J

 

 

 

Collins, K

b

Cross S

17

 

Cross S

 

 

 

Forster

c Thomas

Shay

0

 

Thomas

 

 

 

Hoddy

 not out

 

1

 

Lyes

 

 

 

Greaves

b

Shay

0

 

Shrek

 

 

 

 

 

Extras w17; nb1; b9; lb1

28

 

 

 

Extras, nb1; lb1

2

 

 

Total for 10 wickets

86

 

 

 

Total for 1 wkts

89

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fall of wickets: 1; 22; 35; 35; 40; 52; 55; 56; 83; 86

 

Fall of wickets: 69

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cross J 4-2-9-1; Bashir 5-0-9-1; Lyes 8-2-19-4; Thomas 4-0-10-0; Shay 6.1-1-16-3; Cross S 4-1-16-1

 

Heslington 4-0-16-0; Hoddy 3-0-27-0; Hughes 3-0-16-0; Collins K 3-0-20-1; Greaves 1.2-0-9-0

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