NOMADS CC

MATCH 12   PINK ELEPHANTS CC v NOMADS CC  at Vincent Square Sunday May 22nd 2011 1.20pm 

 

Result:   Pink Elephants won by 7 wickets

Toss:     Nomads
Umpires:  Richard Moseley & Bob Cruthers    
Scorers:  Various
Debut(s): Ian MacKinnonasdfg

 

NOMADS CC Innings

J Smith      c Massey b Cave-Bigley 33

K Sutherland bowled     Johnson      6

J Lane+      c Sparks b Massey      18

J Gordon     lbw      b Ireland      3

I MacKinnon  lbw      b Fair        11

A Smith      c James  b Fair        22

B Hyam       lbw      b Cave-Bigley  0

GC Lamb      lbw      b Ireland      4

D MacVicar   not out                 2

ME Blumberg  lbw      b Kemball      7

AN Absent

Extras       (b14,lb3,w10,nb3)      30 

TOTAL        (All out,41.5 overs)  135

 

Fow:1-17,2-51,3-60,4-83,5-101,6-101,7-119,8-120,9-135.

 

Bowling-Johnson 7 1 22 1,Kemball 6.5 3 16 1,Ireland 10 1 29 2,Massey 6 0 18 1,Sparks 2 0 10 0,Fair 7 1 12 1,Cave-Bigley 3 0 20,1. 

 

PINK ELEPHANTS CC

S James     lbw         b MacVicar 5

S Massey    c MacKinnon b Gordon   2

G McConnell not out               53

A Johnson   c J Smith   b A Smith 29

J Kemball   not out               28

Extras     (b5,lb5,w5,nb0)        15

TOTAL     (3 wickets,28.3 overs) 136

Dnb:C Sparks,A Mylne,J Ireland,B Buist,N Fair,R Cave-Bigley.

 

Fow:1-6,2-18,3-63.

 

Bowling-Gordon 9 5 14 1,MacVicar 7.3 0 40 1,Hyam 6 0 32 0,A Smith 3 0 22 1,GC Lamb 1 0 4 0,MacKinnon 1 0 8 0.

                                             Pink Elephants Prevail 
Nomads rather underperformed at Vincent Square on Sunday. On a blustery day including one heavy shower which fell upn one half of the ground while the other half was bathed in sunshine. As the afternoon wore on the weather settled but there was little improvement in Nomads cricket. Generous as ever we gave Pink Elephants an eleventh man as we assumed Keith Alexander was on his way.In fact he was enmeshed in hospital visits to wife and daughter whom we hope will be well very soon.  So we substituted a fielder for PE as their tenth man was late and played ouselves,batting and fielding with ten!
 
Nomads won the toss and batted.The pitch had variable bounce  and the bowling was with exceptions erratic providing us with 10 wides and 3 no balls to bolster our total to say nothing of 14 byes and 3 leg byes.Indeed extras were second top score!. Five of our batsmen were adjudged lbw, all to low bouncing balls. That the opposition only succumbed to one lbw was partly due to their batsmen avoiding cross bat shots except for genuinely wide long hops.Sutherland was bowled driving across the line, Lane was caught at mid wicket  failing to hit a leg side long hop  along the ground!. Andy Smith was caught off a skyer after a cameo including two long sixes and James smith who battle away for a long time was caught at deep mid on mishitting an intended boundary blow. The ninth  and  last wicket added 15 before another lbw sent Nomads to tea from 41.5 overs, all out a miserable 135. Some contrast to the runfest the previous Thursday!
 
After tea Pink Elephants started slowly. After 7 overs the score was 7. As a result of 5 overthrows and a 5 wides ball the score accelerated to 18 off 8.  Indeed after 14 overs the total was a mere 34-2. Johnno Gordon bowled very well and on another day may have picked up a fifer.  However on this Sunday the batsmen just played and missed.  He should have had a second wicket when left hander McConnell  was dropped at gully by an outstreched left hand when that batsman had barely scored. Perhaps frustated he bowled  a couple of long hops  to blemish his figures,9  5  14  1. Perhaps a longer spell may have changed the game. However the skipper turned to the spinners Andy Smith and Ben Hyam.
 
When the umpires called 20 overs Pink Elephants required 75 runs to win. Smith removed Johnson for 29,68-3 soon after, but from thereon in too many boundary balls were bowled so that McConnell and Kemble cruised along under no pressure. With the return of David MacVicar and the introduction of Ian McInnon 28 runs flowed from just 15 balls in stark contrast to the start of the innings. Pink Elephants won with 9.3 overs to go and McConnell had completed a fifty. Getting out Simon James proved to be a great mistake!
 
Charles Fellows-Smith  arrived from Lord's just as we were leaving for the pub and joined us as we imbibed several ales trying to understand how we had played so poorly. Mind you Joe Ireland was a happy lad and he had not had a bat! 

 

 

 

Michael Blumberg - Hon Secretary
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