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Sunday July 30th v Hampshire Hogs CC

MATCH 57 NOMADS CC v Hampshire Hogs CC at Wheeley Down Road Warnford Hants SO32 3LG  Sunday July 30th 2017 11.00am- start delayed to 11.35am,20 overs from 6.30pm 

Toss:     Hogs won the toss
Result:   Nomads won by 198 runs
Umpires:  A Whitear & M Blumberg
Scorer:   Linda Judd
Debut(s):
 None  
 
NOMADS CC Innings                     R    B    M   4s 6s 
T Brockton  c Smith       b Bains     47   53  102  5  0  
C Hedges    c Smith       b Bains     84  113  117 13  1
L Brown     bowled          Bains     28   39   43  3  0
R Ormiston  c Haliday     b Burke     14   23   31  1  0
T Marshall  c Smith       b C Browne  32   46   66  4  0
J Massey    bowled          C Browne  77   52   71  9  2
A Marshall  not out                    8    9    8  1  0
A Smith    not out                     0    0    0  0  0
Extras    (b7,lb1,w10,nb8)            26
TOTAL     (6 wickets dec,54.3 overs) 316 Dnb:O Marshall,S Wahi+,C Page.
 
 

Fow:1-131(1),2-164(2),3-188(3),4-188(4),5-297(5),6-316(6).

Bowling-C Browne 14.3 2 60 2,J Browne 14 0 86 0(w2,nb1),Bains 13 2 58 3(w2,nb5), Brereton 3 0 36 0(w2,nb2),Burkie 10 1 68 1.

HAMPSHIRE HOGS CC Innings              R  B  M  4s 6s
S Wildsmith c Brown      b T Marshall  0  7 11  0  0
D Boldt     c A Marshall b T Marshall  6 39 43  0  0
A Halliday  c Page       b Smith       5  3  0  0
B Gunyon    bowled         T Marshall 30 50 62  4  0
M Burke     c Ormiston   b A Marshall 26 19 18  6  0
N Smith * + c Wahi       b T Marshall  1  3  3  0  0
R Brereton  bowled         T Marshall  0  4  4  0  0
J Grant     bowled         O Marshall 22 65 79  2  0
J Browne    not out                   18 90 77  1  0
C Browne    bowled         O Marshall  4  8  8  1  0
P Bains     Missing
Extras     (b3,lb1,w2,nb2)             8
TOTAL      (All out,47.5 overs)      118

Fow:1-1(2),2-8(3),3-32(2),4-68(5),5-69(6),6-69(7),7-72(4),8-112(8),9-118(10).

Bowling-T Marshall 16b 5 47 5(w2,nb2),Smith 6 3 18 1,A Marshall 10 6 8 1,Page 8 0 21 0,O Marshall 7.5 3 20 2.

 

A well “Marshalled” victory 

Nomads recorded   a 198 run victory over The Hampshire Hogs onSunday, however the win was perhaps not as cut and dry as the scorecard suggests.  Heavy rain overnight had resulted in a 30 minute delay and the usual batsman’s paradise at Warnford looked incredibly green and lush (as did the outfield).  The skipper had one job to do, win the toss, he failed and unsurprisingly Nomads were inserted by the Hogs captain Nick Smith.

Skipper Brockton opened  with  Chris Hedges and although Charlie Brown ran in with pace and gusto and a new  cherry the pair added a largely untroubled unbeaten partnership of 110 in just 22 overs. Yes, the pitch was playing the occasional trick (variable bounce) but the bowlers drifted too often into Hedges pads and gave Brockton width outside offstump. Lunch was called at 1pm and the opening pair walked in with a job well done. Hedges had already passed 50 and was careering along at 75 not out having had a fair proportion of the strike.

After lunch the players re-took the field in warm sunshine and blue skies. The plan was to push on assertively and the tall Portsmouth CC seamer Bain’s first ball after the lunch interval was dispatched to the cover boundary by Brockton.The Nomads skipper was then adjudged caught behind off the same bowler for 47 off 52 balls in the following over. The pair putting on 131.   Liam Brown then joined Hedges who looked to continue to score in an assertive fashion. The introduction of Super Mario look-a-like Burkie only accelerated the rate as his loopy off-spin was dispatched for 68 in 10 overs.  Brown was castled by Bain for 28 & Ormiston looked a little out of sorts and larruped a log hoop ball off the back foot to cover to be dismissed for only 14.  Hedges was then caught behind trying to uppercut Bain for a classy 84. Bain had now taken 3 of the 4 wickets to fall and Nomads were pegged back a touch, but still in a positive position at 188-4.

Massey (looking a little worse for wear after a night on the tiles) joined young Tom Marshall and the plan was to get the Nomads up to and ideally over 300 inside 55 overs. Massey clearly had the bit between his teeth and started in an aggressive fashion, with a few slices of good fortune in the process. The pair put on 109 in just 95 balls to take the game completely away from the Hogs. Marshall batted with maturity beyond his years and Massey used the “switch hit” to good effect to biff the ball over the top. He scored a swashbuckling 77 injust 52 balls before being castled trying another Jos Butler esq scoop. Marshal (32) was also dismissed late in the piece, with Charlie Brown taking both wickets, fully deserved for his effort and gusto over two spells

The troops were called in with a mighty 316-6 on the board from 55 overs. With Nomads mainly slow and experienced attack the feeling was the visitors would bowl in the region of 58-60 overs back at the Hogs.  The home side decided tea would be taken at the change of innings, so a quick 20 minute break occurred meaning Nomads had 2hrs and 20 overs back at The Hogs.

Tom Marshall took the new cherry alongside experienced campaigner Andy Smith.  Both took a wicket quickly, Marshall snicked off Wildsmith, well taken by Liam Brown at second slip and Smith had Halliday superbly caught by Chris Page at short cover for just 3. The batsman stood in amazement as his full blooded drive was snaffled by Page who was only five yards from the bat. 

Marshall smelt blood, removed his sweater and roared in. He dismissed the chirpy Kiwi Boldt, who he had just cracked on the lid with a nasty lifting delivery, courtesy of a simple catch from his father at mid-on. Now the key partnership, the obdurate Gunyon and the shot-a-ball Burkie.  Marshall was equal to the task, clean bowling Gunyon, who batted nicely for his 30 (top score for the Hogs), and Marshall(snr) snaffled Burkie who late cut once too many times and was taken easily by Ormiston at second slip. Tom Marshall completed his five wicket haul by snicking off the Hogs skipper for just 1 and castling Bereton for a fourth ball duck.  Hogs wre now in absolute dire straits at 69-7. Andy Marshall (1-8 from 10 overs with 6 consecutive maidens) was replaced by his younger son Owen who bowled very impressively. 

Chris Page wheeled away but was wicketless in his eight overs, although Hedges did drop a very tough chance at silly point under the helmet,and as the twenty overs commenced Hogs needed more than ten an over  with only had three wickets in hand.  Grant and Browne were proving difficult to dislodge so Tom Marshall was recalled in a bid to wrap up the game. He did not take another wicket but continued to run in and bowled with consistent pace. The coup de grass was supplied by young Owen Marshall, a finger spinner, who really gave the ball a rip. He knocked over Grant with a beautifully flighted delivery and then in the 48th over cleaned up Charlie Browne with his quicker ball which just grazed the top off the off stump.

The celebrations could now begin, Hampshire Hogs bowled out for 118 in 48 overs (a full 9 overs remaining in the last 20). The Marshalls had taken eight wickets between them for   combined figures of 33.5-14-75-8,  what a performance !

Our thanks to Nick Smith and the Hampshire Hogs groundsman for their hard work on the morning of the fixture to ensure a full game could indeed be played.

The Nomads, after a  drink  or two at the cricket ground retired for food and further liquid refreshment in fine spirits to the nearby Thomas Lord pub in the pretty village of West Meon.



Previous Matches
2016 Nomads won by 178 runs
2015 Cancelled Deluge
2014 Hogs won by 33 runs
2013 Hogs won by 90 runs
2012 Match Drawn
2011 Hogs won by 4 wickets
2010 Match Drawn
2009 Hogs won by 173 runs
2008 Nomads won by 47 runs