Lichfield Nomads Cricket Club : Match Reports 2013

Abbots Bromley v Lichfield Nomads

10-Man Nomads Pray on Abbotts

Nomads looked to have a strong line-up for the match against Abbots Bromley. This was weakened when a late withdrawal for illness by Nick George was reported the evening before the match. However, a still confident Nomads side were put into bat and a steady start was made by Gardner and Stanley (and Extras who lead the scoring for some 10 overs). The loss of Stanley after 12 overs saw our most nomadic of Nomads, Moss, come in determined to do well after the duck in his previous match. With a resurgent Gardner, the partnership scurried along at 7 per over mainly off some decent slow bowling by Roberts and Bexon. Gardner was finally excellently caught by Hendy. The ball seemed to be sailing over his head but he made good ground to take the catch. Rolfe only briefly troubled the scorers with a 3 ball duck, given out lbw by Stanley who felt the ball was just hitting the top of the stumps. However the entrance of McCumsky produced an assault on the bowling, particularly on Woods, with 76 coming off 9 overs, including 4 sixes. Moss finally fell trying to push for his century but any hope by Abbotts Bromley of the run-rate slowing was dispelled by the entrance of ‘Fearsome’ Fearon who helped himself to 22 off 14 balls. Somewhat shell-shocked, Woods started to bowl a ninth over but the scorer called attention to the fact much to the disapproval of the watching Nomads team who fancied a few more overs from Woods. A total of 253 seemed likely to be a winning score.

  Nomads took to the field after a splendid tea, opening with Heslington and Hoddy who kept the match under control with 36 runs for 2 wickets off 12 overs. Hoddy took himself off and brought on Jones, who had missed out in the Nomads’ “run-feste”. However a recent loss of confidence in his bowling resulted in a succession of wides and no-balls, due to not being able to time the release of the ball. After a 17 ball, 17 run over , Hoddy decided to bring on Gardner who had performed admirably the previous week. With his wicket keeping duties being usurped by Blackburn and McCumsky, Gardner is taking on the role of batting all-rounder rather than batting keeper. Both he and Fearon bowled well not allowing the Abbotts Bromley batsmen to accelerate in the manner that Nomads had achieved. Up to 20 overs the 2 teams had similar scores , ie Abbotts Bromley 79 and Nomads 84, however Abbotts Bromley had lost more wickets and Nomads were confident of victory. Hughes and Moss finished off the innings. Hughes was cruelly robbed of the chance of 5 wickets by Barker who ran out his partner Hendy in a suicide run, but claimed 4 with the last ball of the match after very strong lbw appeals were turned down on the previous 2 balls.

A strong Nomads side achieved victory and bowled out the opposition. No doubt Abbots Bromley will be trying to get their revenge next season.

Nomads					Abbotts Bromley
	How Out	Bowler	Total			How Out	Bowler	Total
P.Gardner	Ct Hendy	Bexon	69		Woods	C+b	Hoddy	5
K Stanley	bowled	Richards	2		Bexon	C Moss	Heslington	8
D Moss	bowled	Hendy	81		Roberts	b	Heslington	5
Rolfe	lbw	Woods	0		J Broad	Hit wicket	Gardner	34
S McCumsky	n/o		39		W Lownes	C McCumsky	Fearon	5
P Fearon	n/o		22		O Roberts	C Moss	Hughes	44
C Jones	Dnb				N Richards	b	Hughes	9
I Hughes	Dnb				S Hendy	Run out (Jones)		14
M Heslington	Dnb				R Barker	b	Hughes	10
J Hoddy	dnb				A Fieldhouse	C Moss	Hughes	10
					D Ferneyhough	n/o		0
Extras			41		Extras			30
Total			253-4		Total			174-10
Fall of wickets: 31,136,136,212					Fall of wickets: 14,14,38,76,79,113,150,156,174,174
S Hendy 8-3-28-1,N Richards 8-0-41-1, A Fieldhouse 1-0-9-0, Bexon 7-0-26-1, Roberts 8-0-39-0, Woods8-0-84-1,Shaw 1-0-4-0					Heslington 8-1-29-2, Hoddy 6-1-14-1, C Jones 1-0-17-0, Gardner 5-0-16-1, Fearon 7-1-19-1, Hughes 8-0-52-4, Moss 5-0-22-0

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