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Lichfield Nomads Cricket Club : Match Reports 2013

Opposition: Stafford Strikers
Date : 7th July 2013
Start Time : 2:00pm
Venue : Home - Whittington
Competition : Friendly 40 overs
Result : Lost by 5 wkts
Report : J Hoddy
Toss : Won
Umpires: various
Scorer: Hoddy
Weather: Very hot and sunny
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Lichfield Nomads v Stafford Strikers

Scores:
Lichfield Nomads 162 for 9
Stafford Strikers 165 for 5
Result:  Stafford Strikers won by 5 wkts

Nomads Wilt in the Sun

Captain Hoddy, who was looking forward to a day drinking cool beer watching the tennis, was called in to take the place of the injured McCumsky. After the opposition were found loitering on the top pitch , he started well by winning the toss and electing to bat on the hottest day of the year. Some debate was caused by Umpire Forster calling firstly no-ball then dead ball to the opening ball. The spectators debated what arcane law of cricket had been breached to cause this. Later it was discovered that the umpire had not been ready to proceed. Opening with Heslington and Stanley, the pitch soon showed some variable bounce and with some unpredictable bowling it was hard to get a rhythm. Heslington was surprised by a good ball and was dismissed for 9 to bring in Moss who started well but was troubled by Youaraj. Moss found an unusual way to get out (another entry into the Dan Moss Compendium of Odd Dismissals?) by being bowled off his tummy – a disadvantage of being one of the leaner Nomads perhaps. Stanley was playing anchor man whilst others around him flourished briefly then went. Forster again caused controversy when questioning an lbw decision against him. The ball had quite clearly struck the bat first but the opposition had early on got into the habit of appealing every time the ball hit the pads and were taken by surprise when the decision was up held , however they withdrew their appeal and order was restored. Blackburn P. rolled back the years with a brief cameo of 4 fours and Hoddy contributed to take the score from 134 to a respectable 162.

The score though small gave some hopes, but with the hard-hitting Asian batsmen to quell, it seemed likely that Nomads would have to take all the wickets of 10-man Strykers.

Heslington and Hoddy opened the bowling and with the batsmen seeming to want to hit every ball for 6, wickets soon fell and Strykers were reduced to 25 for 4. Hopes blossomed of another Nomad win but Wasim and Nitin started to play sensibly and dug in. More wickets could easily have fallen with some balls just missing the stumps and catches not going to fielders but the 2 batsmen rode their luck and progressed to 133-5 when Heslington bowled Wasim in his 2nd spell. Ramki came in to back up Wasim and seemed determined to run him out by calling for second runs  no matter where the ball had gone, perhaps because with the heat and frustration of not taking wickets, the fielding had begun to get a bit ragged. None of Forster, George or Moss was able to make inroads and Strykers saw out the match with a couple of overs to spare thanks mainly to the efforts of Wasim on an unbeaten 68.

A fairly close match which could have gone to Nomads with another wicket or two. None of our batsmen was able to go on to the big  score which was needed for victory.

 

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

 

Lichfield Nomads

 

Stafford Strykers

 

How Out

Bowler

Total

 

 

How Out

Bowler

Total

Heslington

Bowled

Sri

9

 

Badri

bowled

Heslington

7

Stanley

Bowled

Ram

28

 

Youaraj

Ct George

heslington

0

Moss

bowled

Yuvraj

16

 

Dhiraj

Ct Blackburn G

Hoddy

13

Weir

bowled

DK

15

 

Srichand

Ct  ?

Hoddy

0

Pickering

ct

Wasim

1

 

Wasim

bowled

Heslington

25

George , N

ct

Badri

13

 

Nitin

n/o

 

68

Blackburn. G

ct

wasim

1

 

Ramki

n/o

 

16

Bourne

bowled

Pradash

10

 

 

 

 

 

Forster

n/o

 

2

 

 

 

 

 

Blackburn, P

ct

Pradash

16

 

 

 

 

 

Hoddy

n/o

 

8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Extras

43

 

 

 

Extras

36

 

 

  total for 9 wkts

162

 

 

 

  Total for 5 wkts

165

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fall of Wickets: 19,54,86,98,112,115,132,134,153

 

Fall of Wickets: 5,21,25,25,132

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abhilash 5-0-17-0, Sri 4-0-20-1, Sam 2-0-12-0, Yuvraj 5-2-15-1, Niti 2-0-11-0, DK 7-0-26-1, Ram 7-0-16-1, Wasim 5-0-14-2, Badri 3-0-8-2

 

Heslington 8-2-28-3, Hoddy 8-1-27-2, Forster 6-0-34-0, Ceorge, N 8-0-36-0, Moss 8-1-26-0

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