27.07.2018… Leics v Derbs…

Foxes v Falcons

Grace Road… Friday July 27th…

Falcons won by 6 wickets

Ticket: £16 – Scorecard: £1

The rain threatened, but never materialised. Unfortunately for the Foxes, their winless T20 home run continued. Four games, four defeats…

If only they could bring their away form to Grace Road…

Leicestershire Foxes Bat…

Teams…

Leicestershire Foxes; Neil Dexter, Cameron Delport, Mark Cosgrove, Ben Raine, Colin Ackermann (cpt), Mohammad Nabi, Tom Wells, Ned Eckersley (wkt), Callum Parkinson, Mohammad Abbas, Gavin Griffiths

Derbyshire Falcons; Billy Godleman, Callum MacLeod, Wayne Madsen, Anuj Dal, Hardus Viljoen, Gary Wilson (cpt / wkt), Matthew Critchley, Alex Hughes, Ravi Rampaul, Wahab Riaz, Lockie Ferguson

Derbyshire Falcons Reply…

Stats…

Leicestershire Foxes; Dexter (10 – lbw Madsen), Delport (5 – c Riaz b Rampaul), Cosgrove (65 – b Rampaul), Raine (6 – c Madsen b Riaz), Ackermann (29 – n.o.), Nabi (18 – c Riaz), Wells (1 – n.o.)

Did Not Bat; Eckersley, Parkinson, Abbas, Griffiths

Extras; 0nb 4w 1b 7lb – 12

149 for 5 (20 overs)

Bowling; Madsen (2 / 20 / 1), Riaz (4 / 26 / 2), Ferguson (4 / 21 / 0), Rampaul (4 / 32 / 2), Viljoen (3 / 22 / 0), Hughes (3 / 19 / 0)

FOW; 10 – 39 – 55 – 122 – 148

Derbyshire Falcons; Godleman (57 – n.o.), MacLeod (0 – r.o. Ackermann), Madsen (13 – c Ackermann b Raine), Dal (25 – b Dexter), Viljoen (32 – c Wells b Dexter) Wilson (21 – n.o.)

Did Not Bat; Critchley, Hughes, Rampaul, Riaz, Ferguson

Extras; 0nb 1w 1b 0lb – 2

150 for 4 (18.5 overs)

Bowling; Abbas (4 / 36 / 0), Griffiths (4 / 32 / 0), Raine (3.5 / 34 / 1), Parkinson (1 / 6 / 0), Nabi (3 / 23 / 0), Dexter (3 / 18 / 0)

FOW; 4 – 26 -72 – 117

As usual, more pictures on flickr…

23.07.2017… Warks v Derbs…

Bears v Falcons

Edgbaston… Sunday July 23rd…

Bears won by 20 runs

Ticket: £11 (Season Pass)

Attendance: 9,904

A comfortable win for the Bears ahead of Tuesday night’s trip to Grace Road…

Warwickshire Bat…

Teams…

Birmingham Bears; Ed Pollock, Sam Hain, Colin de Grandhomme, Ian Bell, William Porterfield, Grant Elliott, Aaron Thomason, Alex Mellor, Keith Barker, Jeetan Patel, Boyd Rankin

Derbyshire Falcons; Billy Godleman, Matthew Critchley, Luis Reece, Wayne Madsen, Gary Wilson, Alex Hughes, Calum Brodrick, Matt Henry, Daryn Smit, Hardus Viljoen, Imran Tahir

Derbyshire Chase…

Stats…

Birmingham Bears; Pollock (66 – c Henry b Viljoen), Hain (34 – c Tahir b Madsen), de Grandehomme (65 – n.o.), Bell (8 – c Henry b Viljoen), Porterfield (20 – n.o.)

Did Not Bat; Elliott, Thomason, Mellor, Barker, Patel, Rankin

Extras; 0nb 2w 0b 2lb – 4

197/4 (20 overs)

Bowling; Madsen (4 / 38 / 1), Hughes (1 / 6 / 0), Henry (4 / 43 / 0), Viljoen (4 / 48 / 2), Tahir (4 / 34 / 0), Critchley (3 / 26 / 0)

FOW; 100 – 107 – 137 – 197

Derbyshire Falcons; Godleman (8 – c Mellor b Barker), Critchley (17 – c de Grandehomme b Barker), Reece (33 – b Patel), Madsen (16 – c Hain b Elliott), Wilson (2 – c Pollock b Elliott), Hughes (25 – c Mellor b Elliott), Brodrick (14 – r.o. Hain), Henry (9 – c Thomason b Elliott), Smit (18 – n.o.), Viljoen (20 – b Barker), Tahir (8 – n.o.)

Did Not Bat; None

Extras; 0nb 5w 0b 1lb – 6

176/9 (20 overs)

Bowling; Rankin (4 / 31 / 0), Barker (4 / 33 / 3), Patel (4 / 26 / 1), de Grandehomme (3 / 38 / 0), Thomason (1 / 10 / 0), Elliott (4 / 37 / 4)

FOW; 12 – 45 – 74 – 77 – 87 – 116 – 123 – 131 – 166

As usual, more pictures on flickr…

08.07.2016… Leics v Derbs…

Foxes v Falcons

Grace Road… Friday July 8th…

Foxes won by 9 wickets

Ticket: £15

A comfortable victory for Leicestershire on a warm, dry Friday evening…

Leicestershire Bat…

Teams…

Leicestershire Foxes; *Mark Pettini, Mark Cosgrove, Cameron Delport, Kevin O’Brien, Farhaan Behardien, Neil Dexter, +Lewis Hill, Tom Wells, Ben Raine, Clint McKay, Rob Sayer

Derbyshire Falcons; Hamish Rutherford, *Wes Durston, Neil Broom, Chesney Hughes, Wayne Madsen, Jimmy Neesham, Shiv Thakor, Alex Hughes, Matthew Critchley, Tom Milnes, +Harvey Hosein

Derbyshire Field…

Stats…

Leicestershire Foxes; *Pettini (71 – n.o.), Cosgrove (52 – c&b Durston), Delport (38 – n.o.)

Did Not Bat; O’Brien, Behardien, Dexter, +Hill, Wells, Raine, McKay, Sayer

Extras; 0nb 3w 0b 0lb – 3

164 for 1 (15.5 overs)

Bowling; Thakor (2 / 10 / 0), Neesham (2 / 29 / 0), Milnes (3 / 30 / 0), Hughes (4 / 42 / 0), Critchley (2.5 / 31 / 0), Durston (2 / 22 / 1)

FOW; 106

Derbyshire Falcons; Rutherford (13 – c Hill b Raine), *Durston (4 – c Hill b Raine), Broom (59 – b Behardien), Hughes (6 – lbw Raine), Madsen (14 – c Cosgrove b K.O’Brien), Neesham (45 – c Pettini b McKay), Thakor (3 – c Sayer b Behardien), Hughes (3- b McKay), Critchley (4 – r.o. McKay), Milnes (0 – b McKay), +Hosein (0 – n.o.)

Did Not Bat; None

Extras; 4nb 2w 0b 1lb – 7

158 all out (19.5 overs)

Bowling; Raine (4 / 43 /3), McKay (3.5 / 20 / 3), K.O’Brien (3 / 28 / 1), Dexter (4 / 22 / 0), Behardien (4 / 35 / 2), Sayer (1 / 9 / 0)

FOW; 13 – 28 – 42 – 96 – 114 – 121 – 134 – 154 – 158 – 158

As usual, more pictures on flickr…

03.07.2015… Warks v Derbs…

Bears v Falcons

Edgbaston… Friday July 3rd…

Bears won by 60 runs

Ticket: £18

Brendon McCullum scored an unbeaten 158 as the Bears thrash the Falcons in front of a crowd of 8862…

Edgbaston Under Floodlights…

Teams…

Birmingham Bears: *Varun Chopra, Brendon McCullum, Will Porterfield, +Tim Ambrose, Laurie Evans, Rikki Clarke, Ateeq Javid, Jeetan Patel, Recordo Gordon, Oliver Hannon-Dalby, Josh Poysden.

Derbyshire Falcons: *Wes Durston, Hamish Rutherford, Chesney Hughes, Wayne Madsen, Shiv Thakor, Scott Elstone, Alex Hughes, Tom Knight, +Tom Poynton, Wayne White, Nathan Rimmington.

Brendon McCullum in Full Flow..

Stats…

Birmingham Bears; Chopra (51 – c Hughes b White), McCullum (158 – n.o.), Evans (16 – b Thakor), Porterfield (11 – n.o.)

Did Not Bat; Ambrose, Clarke, Javid, Patel, Gordon, Hannon-Dalby, Poysden

Extras; 2nb 1w 0b 3lb – 6

242 for 2 (20.0 overs)

Bowling; Rimmington (4 / 56 / 0), White (4 / 44 / 1), Thakor (4 / 40 / 1), Hughes (4 / 45 / 0), Durston (2 / 25 / 0), Hughes (1 / 16 / 0), Elstone (1 / 13 / 0)

FOW; 160 – 205

Derbyshire Falcons; Rutherford (39 – b Javid), Durston (43 – st Ambrose / b Poysden), Hughes (2 – c Porterfield b Poysden), Poynton (16 – c Clarke b Poysden), Madsen (2 – b Patel), Elstone (23 – c Evans b Poysden), Knight (22 – lbw b Patel), Thakor (3 – c Porterfield b Gordon), Hughes (7 – run out Gordon), White (12 – n.o.), Rimmington (7 – c Ambrose b Hannon-Dalby)

Did Not Bat; None

Extras; 0nb 4w 0b 2lb – 6

182 all out (19.4 overs)

Bowling; Clarke (2 / 17 / 0), Hannon-Dalby (3.4 / 30 / 1), Gordon (4 / 37 / 1), Javid (2 / 27 / 1), Poysden (4 / 51 / 4), Patel (4 / 18 / 2)

FOW; 61 – 76 – 88 – 97 – 105 – 131 – 149 – 154 – 168 – 182

As usual, more pictures on flickr…