Lichfield Nomads Cricket Club : Match Reports 2013

Lichfield Nomads CC v Queens Head (Presidents XI)

Scores: Lichfield Nomads CC 193 for 6, Queens Head (Presidents XI) 151 ao. Lichfield Nomads won by 42 runs.

Nomads back to winning ways.

Captain Hoddy won the toss, decided to field and ended up batting in this annual fixture that is always played in good spirit. Openers Heslington and Stanley started with caution against the bowling of Robinson and Ings as the pitch offered irregular bounce to the varied pace on offer. Stanley was out, trying to move the score along, to a good catch by Blackburn P off Robinson’s bowling, who also had Moss bowled and Brannigan, who looked set for a big score, caught by Ball. His good spell 3-43 was only blighted by the last of his 14 overs going for 13 runs. Hughes joined Heslington and a partnership of 67 in 11 overs with plenty of boundaries upped the tempo. Blackburn P claimed the wicket of Hughes to a catch by Ball, but the arrival of George saw the momentum maintained. As the score increased, Heslington finally succumbed, LBW, trying to play across a straight ball that did not bounce, for an 81 of few mistakes. With George batting positively for his 27 not out, Westwood joined the fray and his cameo ensured that the Nomads could declare at Tea with a defendable total.

To defend such totals, the Captain needs to use his bowlers to good effect, today he certainly did. The opening bowlers started well with Moss clean bowling Ings and Hoddy conceding only 1 run from his 5 overs. The skipper was quick to the first change and bought Greaves on to take advantage of the pitch and reward was immediate with St Giles being stumped by Blackburn G. Westwood at the other end then had McCumisky caught by a fine low catch by George, the score was 29-3. Skermer and Ball put on a partnership of 53 before the second change bowling took effect with George claiming both wickets in successive overs. When the third wave of batting power arrived so did Hoddy’s third change of bowling, this time Hughes stepped in and had the dangerous Robinson LBW to a ball he appeared to almost turn his back on. Hughes then had Hill caught by Moss and another LBW, this time Edward. The fourth bowling change arrived and again the wickets fell. Blackburn G had Smith caught by Westwood and Brannigan completed the task by bowling Blackburn P.  

Lichfield Nomads CC					Queens Head (Presidents XI)
	How Out	Bowler	Total			How Out	Bowler	Total
Heslington	LBW	Ball	81		St Giles	Std B’urn G	Greaves	8
Stanley	Cgt B’urn P	Robinson	4		Ings	Bowled	Moss	0
Moss	Bowled	Robinson	0		Skermer	LBW	George	53
Brannigan	Cgt Ball	Robinson	17		McCumisky	Cgt G’ge	Westwood	8
Hughes	Cgt Ball	Blackburn P	33		Ball	Cgt Moss	George	20
George	Not Out		27		Robinson	LBW	Hughes	14
Bourne	LBW	Skermer	0		Hill	Cgt Moss	Hughes	7
Westwood	Not Out		10		Edward	LBW	Hughes	4
Blackburn G	dnb				Smith	Cgt W’ood	Blackburn G	5
Hoddy	dnb				Blackburn P	Bowled	Brannigan	4
Greaves	dnb				Pinfield	Not Out		0
		Extras b7;lb4;w6;nb4;	21				Extras b18; lb1; w8; nb1.	28
		Total for 6	193				Total for 10	151
Fall of wickets: 25, 30, 52, 119. 178, 178.					Fall of wickets: 9, 20, 29, 82, 105, 125, 128, 135, 151 151.
Robinson 14-2-43-3 Ings 9-0-24-0 Blackburn P 6-0-38-1 Skermer 6-0-45-0 St Giles 4-0-23-0 Ball 2-1-2-1.					Hoddy 5-4-1-0.Blackburn G 2-0-10-1 Hughes 6-1-24-3  Bourne 4-0-22-0 Moss 5-1-11-1 Greaves 4-0-25-1 Westwood 5-2-9-1 George 5-1-26-2 Brannigan 2.4-0-2-1.

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