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Lichfield Nomads Cricket Club : Match Reports 2013

Opposition: Abbots Bromley
Date : 9th June 2013
Start Time : 2:00pm
Venue : Away
Competition : Friendly 40 overs
Result : Nomads won by 79 runs
Report : J. Hoddy
Toss : Lost
Umpires: M. Hughes / various
Scorer: Hoddy / Willis
Weather: Sunny and warml
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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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