Lichfield Nomads Cricket Club : Match Reports 2015

Longdon v Lichfield Nomads

Longdon 94 all out
Lichfield Nomads 95 for 4
Result:  Lichfield Nomads won by 6 wickets

1^st win of Season at Longdon

Despite a poor forecast the weather was sunny but cold. Longdon batted first and Brannigan opened with another beamer(see Abbotts Bromley) and 8 off his first over but after this it soon became clear that it would be difficult to bat on this wicket as the ball gripped and popped up. This caused 2 early caught and bowled for Heslington as the batsmen played early and popped up easy catches to the bowler. The batsmen really struggled with only 2 into double figures. All the bowlers gave little away and all claimed wickets. Nomads fielding was good with 4 catches taken although 3 were dropped.

A score of only 94 sounds as though it would be easy to reach, but on a track where 120 would be a decent score it was never going to be easy.

This proved the case with veteran openers Gardner and Heslington really struggling against tight opening bowling, particularly from Bonser. Three wickets fell in 14 overs with only 23 runs scored. Rolfe and George upped the pace with some quick running between the wickets but George was unfortunately a victim of Bonser late in his spell after playing a couple of good looking shots. The new bowlers were not quite as tight as the openers and Rolfe and Moss started to score more freely, also running well between the wickets. However with the scores level Rolfe took one risk too many and was run out. Brannigan strode in , cracked one ball through the fielder and strode out again. Match won.

A good performance by Nomads saw the first victory of the season and unbeaten in April.

Longdon					Nomads
	How Out	Bowler	Total			How Out	Bowler	Total
C Gilmore	b	Moss	24		Gardner	Ct keeper	Bonser	3
J Chambers	c/b	Heslington	4		Heslington	b	Bonser	2
N Vyce	c/b	Heslington	0		Rolfe	r/o		41
S Miller	b	Brannigan	8		George,N	Ct keeper	Bonser	7
Stoddard	b	Heslington	0		Moss	n/o		33
M Taylor	b	Hoddy	3		Brannigan	n/o		1
J Bonser	Ct Brannigan	N George	9		Blackburn G
Harrison	B	Forster	4		Forster
T Benson	B	Hoddy	5		Blackburn P
Beveridge	Ct Brannigan	Moss	7		Pickering
C Jones	n/o		11		Hoddy
		Extras	19				Extra	8
		total	94ao				Total	95-4
Brannigan 8-2-16-1, Heslington 8-0-17-3, Moss 8-0-11-2, Hoddy 8-0-14-2, Forster 5-1-13-1, N George 3-1-11-1					Beveridge 5-1-6-0,Bonser 8-4-12-3, Taylor 8-0-30-0, Stoddard 6-0-27-0, Chambers 3.5-1-6-0, Jones 2-0-10-0

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