Gentlemen
Need I say more.
Test cricket at its finest and a huge thank you to all
the gentlemen who stepped in at the last minute to make this
another successful NOB's fixture.
Same time next year then ?
Sent: August 20, 2017 9:29 PM
To: rolfthomas@live.com
Subject: NOBs Annual Cricket Match 2017 - The Match Report
Despite rumours to the contrary the NOBs Annual Cricket match went ahead as planned on Sunday 13th August. Our traditional opponents the Burlington Welsh Male Chorus were unable to field a complete side, but two of their number, Barrie Llewellyn (Baz) and John Griffiths (Griff) ,made the effort to come along and provide token representation for the the choir!
The two Ravis brought along a number of Sri Lankan players to bolster the numbers, and together with the NOBs that had committed to attend we managed to make up two sides, "Lucky's Nomads" and the "Clarence Brown All-Stars.
The traditional NOBs cricket rules applied, no-one could be out first-ball, any batsman scoring over 25 had to retire, and all team members had to bowl at least one over.
Clarence won the toss and elected to bowl, forcing Lucky's team to bat first, it was to prove a good decision.
We took to the field bathed in glorious sunshine, with the batting for Lucky's Nomads being opened by JP Ouellette. JP proved that lack of classical cricket technique is no barrier to scoring runs and quickly amassed a total of 29 scoring 4 sixes, 1 four, and a single run..and then had to retire (thankfully). Chuck Schandl then provided the comedy moment of the afternoon by hitting his own wicket, and being given out for 1 run. High scorers for the Nomads included Ravi with 26 Not Out, and Ivan with 22 Not out. The final total was 108 after 20 overs were bowled.
After a short "tea" interval (ie..sandwiches & beer) the All-Stars took up the challenge with Bob Cunningham & Derek Wiggins opening the batting. Despite being hampered by a knee brace, Bob scored a workmanlike 7 before having to retire. Derek went on to score 30 not-out (including 3 sixes and 4 fours), Kishnan hit some magnificent power strokes to clear the boundary on a number of occasions retiring on 25 not-out, and the evergreen Clarence Brown worked his way to a hard fought 26 not-out. The wayward bowling of the Nomads proved to be their downfall with Extras (wides, byes etc) totalling 17 being added to the batting total of 92 for Clarence's team carrying them to victory with 109 runs one over to spare.
It was a great afternoon of fun cricket, and would have been made even better if we had more support from the NOBs membership in the form of players turning up.
A big thank you to everyone who played, brought extra players along, made food for the intervals.
Here are a few photos of the afternoon.
Many thanks,
Derek Wiggins
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