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Lichfield Nomads Cricket Club : Match Reports 2014
Opposition: Longdon
Date : 27th April 2014
Start Time : 2:00pm
Venue : Away
Competition : Friendly 40 overs
Result : Lost by 4 wkts
Report : J. Hoddy
Toss : Lost
Umpires:
Scorer: J. Hoddy
Weather: Drizzle. Sunny intervals.
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Longdon v Lichfield Nomads

Result:  Longdon won by 4 wickets

Nomads Just Lose in Close Finish

The forecast again looking poor, Nomads travelled the short distance to Longdon. The opposition put us in and Stanley and Gardner opened looking comfortable as the score steadily mounted. Stanley even hit a 6, over a short boundary, much to his surprise. Gardner having achieved yet another 50 began to look to accelerate and edged one to the keeper. Weir came in and 2 run-outs in one over saw the departure of Stanley for a good 28 and Scott for a gonad. However with plenty of batting to come Nomads still looked in good shape. Much was expected of Brannigan, but whether the bowling was tighter or the pitch had worsened due to the light drizzle it had experienced throughout the match, the batsmen found it difficult to score. Wickets continued to fall with little contribution to the score and the innings subsided to 145-9.
A disappointing end to the innings after a good start saw Nomads fall short by at least 40 from what was anticipated. However conditions were not easy for batting with a soggy pitch and slow outfield.

Brannigan and Hughes opened the bowling. Both bowling really tightly until Brannigan began to slip in his run-up in his 5th over giving away 11 runs. Heslington replaced Brannigan but had trouble overpitching and went for 5 per over. Greaves replaced Hughes who had had an excellent spell taking a wicket and conceding only 9 runs. With the opposition at 78-4 off 24 overs, Nomads looked in with a chance of claiming victory but Longdon managed to keep going at the 4 per over required. With only one over to go and 2 to get, Pickering came on to bowl ( as the captain had not worked out how to rotate his 5 main bowlers – Heslington should bowled 4 from each end). The batsman looped up the first ball into the air for an easy to Hughes who unfortunately  spilled it and enabled the batsmen to run a single. The 3rd ball looped up off a top edge over the keeper and thus the match was lost.

This was a match we could have won, a good start should have been extended to give us at least 170 which would have been sufficient. However a good close finish is exactly the type of match we want and everyone enjoyed it

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

 

Lichfield Nomads

 

Longdon

 

How Out

Bowler

Total

 

 

How Out

Bowler

Total

Gardner

Ct

Martitza

58

 

Gibbins

Ct

Hughes

2

Stanley

Run out

 

28

 

Maritza

Ct Weir

Greaves

35

Weir

B

Stoddard

6

 

Yates

B

Brannigan

1

Scott

Run out

 

0

 

N Vyse

Ct Scott

Greaves

25

Brannigan

Lbw

Stoddard

12

 

Stoddard

B

Brannigan

30

Pickering

B

Stoddard

4

 

Taylor

B

Hoddy

32

Rolf

Ct

Yates

0

 

E Vyce

n/o

 

5

Heslington

Ct w/k

Bonser

5

 

H Gibbins

n/o

 

4

Hughes

B

Jones

1

 

 

 

 

 

Hoddy

n/o

 

5

 

 

 

 

 

Greaves

n/o

 

0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

extras

13

 

 

 Total for 9 wkts

 145

 

 

 

Total for 6 wkts

147

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bonser 7-0-29-1, Jones 8-3-27-1, Taylor 6-0-28-0, Maritza 7-2-13-3, Stoddard 7-2-13-3, Yates 4-1-16-1

 

Brannigan 8-4-23-2, Hughes 8-3-9-1, Heslington 8-1-38-0, Greaves 8-0-38-2, Hoddy 7-1-29-1, Pickering 0.3-0-3-0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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