Runaway bull stumps cricketers
Match abandoned after attempts to entice rogue animal with cow fail
A cricket match had to be abandoned after a runaway bull charged the pitch.
The North East Premier League fixture at Burnopfield Cricket Club, near Newcastle, was called off on Saturday evening after efforts to remove the animal failed.
Martin Oswell, director of the Tyneside club, said the young bull, probably weighing around 800kg, had escaped from a farm about a mile away and had reached the pitch at around 3pm.
“We couldn’t get rid of it,” Mr Oswell said. “There was no chance that the game was going to restart before the cut-off time.
“At first it was quite novel, it was quite funny – but we never thought it was going to impact on our game being abandoned.”
“The farmer who owns the bull arrived at the ground and tried at first to sort of cajole it and get it into a pen, but it failed,” he said. “The bull was very frightened – it was spooked.”
Safety concerns quickly arose as the bull could be seen charging at players, and farmers attempting to recapture it.
“Two of the farmers tried to stop the bull and it actually hit one of them,” Mr Oswell said. “He was OK but I mean the beast probably weighed about 800kg.
“It was a juvenile bull, incredibly fit, athletic – quite frankly, it was quite dangerous.”
Police were eventually called to the scene, before the bull left “of its own accord”, Mr Oswell said.
Burnopfield CC had scored 226 runs against opponents Hetton Lyons when the match was interrupted.
“We’re second top of the North East Premier League, so it was an important game for us,” Mr Oswell said.
“And it was a game that I think we had a really good chance of winning. It would have been a really, really good game of cricket.”
16/03
A sound all round win for Notts by 63 runs over Warwickshire to win the silverware.
| Venue | Tolerance Oval, Abu Dhabi on 16th March 2025 (20-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Players | Nottinghamshire: 12 (11 to bat and field); Warwickshire: 11 |
| Toss | Warwickshire won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Nottinghamshire won by 63 runs |
| Nottinghamshire innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| LW James | c Hain b Mousley | 25 | 20 | 35 | 4 | - | 125.00 |
| FW McCann | c Miles b Barnard | 10 | 12 | 11 | 2 | - | 83.33 |
| JA Haynes | c Davies b Booth | 83 | 51 | 62 | 6 | 5 | 162.75 |
| *+TJ Moores | b Lintott | 20 | 27 | 33 | 2 | - | 74.07 |
| SIM King | not out | 9 | 3 | 14 | 2 | - | 300.00 |
| M Montgomery | lbw b Booth | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| LA Patterson-White | b Miles | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | - | 50.00 |
| C McKerr | not out | 1 | 5 | 4 | - | - | 20.00 |
| CG Harrison | did not bat | ||||||
| R Lord | did not bat | ||||||
| DY Pennington | did not bat | ||||||
| DJ Schadendorf | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 3 lb, 1 nb) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, innings closed, 83 minutes, 20 overs) | 154 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-17 (McCann, 2.3 ov), 2-67 (James, 8.5 ov), 3-136 (Moores, 17.3 ov), 4-148 (Haynes, 18.3 ov), 5-148 (Montgomery, 18.4 ov), 6-153 (Patterson-White, 19.1 ov) | |||||||
| Warwickshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Barnard | 2 | 0 | 7 | 1 | - | - | 12.00 | 3.50 |
| Booth | 3 | 0 | 30 | 2 | - | - | 9.00 | 10.00 |
| Miles | 3 | 0 | 30 | 1 | - | 1 | 18.00 | 10.00 |
| Mousley | 4 | 0 | 29 | 1 | - | - | 24.00 | 7.25 |
| Ali | 4 | 0 | 33 | 0 | - | - | - | 8.25 |
| Lintott | 4 | 0 | 21 | 1 | - | - | 24.00 | 5.25 |
| Warwickshire innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *+AL Davies | c Harrison b Pennington | 1 | 4 | 4 | - | - | 25.00 |
| RM Yates | c Montgomery b McKerr | 1 | 6 | 7 | - | - | 16.67 |
| DR Mousley | c +Schadendorf b Pennington | 0 | 1 | 7 | - | - | 0.00 |
| SR Hain | c Montgomery b Lord | 18 | 23 | 32 | 2 | - | 78.26 |
| EG Barnard | c McCann b James | 15 | 10 | 17 | 3 | - | 150.00 |
| K Smith | c Haynes b Patterson-White | 27 | 22 | 31 | 3 | - | 122.73 |
| H Shaikh | c Montgomery b James | 17 | 12 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 141.67 |
| MG Booth | c McCann b Harrison | 1 | 3 | 8 | - | - | 33.33 |
| JB Lintott | lbw b Patterson-White | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| CN Miles | b Harrison | 1 | 4 | 6 | - | - | 25.00 |
| TC Ali | not out | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 50.00 |
| Extras | (1 lb, 8 w) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 68 minutes, 14.4 overs) | 91 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-2 (Davies, 0.6 ov), 2-2 (Yates, 1.4 ov), 3-2 (Mousley, 2.1 ov), 4-35 (Barnard, 5.5 ov), 5-47 (Hain, 8.2 ov), 6-85 (Shaikh, 12.5 ov), 7-88 (Smith, 13.1 ov), 8-88 (Lintott, 13.2 ov), 9-90 (Booth, 14.1 ov), 10-91 (Miles, 14.4 ov) | |||||||
| Nottinghamshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Pennington | 3 | 0 | 17 | 2 | - | - | 9.00 | 5.67 |
| McKerr | 2 | 1 | 11 | 1 | - | - | 12.00 | 5.50 |
| James | 2 | 0 | 16 | 2 | 2 | - | 6.00 | 8.00 |
| Lord | 3 | 0 | 24 | 1 | 1 | - | 18.00 | 8.00 |
| Harrison | 2.4 | 0 | 10 | 2 | - | - | 8.00 | 3.75 |
| Patterson-White | 2 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 2 | - | 6.00 | 6.00 |
Notes
--> Nottinghamshire powerplay 1: overs 1 to 6 (50/1)
--> Warwickshire powerplay 1: overs 1 to 6 (37/4)
--> Nottinghamshire innings: 50 in 6 overs, 25 minutes
--> Nottinghamshire innings: 100 in 14.5 overs, 57 minutes
--> Nottinghamshire innings: 150 in 19 overs, 77 minutes
--> Warwickshire innings: 50 in 9 overs, 44 minutes
--> JA Haynes 50 in 41 balls, 45 minutes with 5 fours and 2 sixes
--> LW James (19) and JA Haynes (28) added 50 in 38 balls, 23 minutes for the Nottinghamshire 2nd wicket
--> JA Haynes (33) and TJ Moores (19) added 50 in 43 balls, 27 minutes for the Nottinghamshire 3rd wicket
15/03
Comfortable 6 wicket win against Somerset. Notts win the group and qualify for tomorrow's final against Warwickshire.
| Venue | Tolerance Oval, Abu Dhabi on 15th March 2025 (20-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Nottinghamshire won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Nottinghamshire won by 6 wickets |
| Points | Nottinghamshire 2; Somerset 0 |
| Somerset innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| AM Vaughan | run out (Haynes) | 11 | 15 | 25 | 2 | - | 73.33 |
| ARI Umeed | c Moores b Pennington | 0 | 1 | 3 | - | - | 0.00 |
| TB Abell | c Stone b James | 4 | 12 | 15 | - | - | 33.33 |
| TA Lammonby | st Moores b McCann | 15 | 18 | 31 | 1 | - | 83.33 |
| *+JEK Rew | st Moores b Harrison | 22 | 21 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 104.76 |
| JF Thomas | c Stone b McCann | 5 | 12 | 10 | - | - | 41.67 |
| KL Aldridge | not out | 38 | 27 | 30 | 4 | - | 140.74 |
| C Overton | c Stone b Pennington | 13 | 13 | 20 | 1 | - | 100.00 |
| ARJ Ogborne | not out | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| JT Ball | did not bat | ||||||
| S Bashir | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 lb, 3 w) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, innings closed, 80 minutes, 20 overs) | 113 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-1 (Umeed, 0.3 ov), 2-16 (Abell, 3.6 ov), 3-19 (Vaughan, 5.1 ov), 4-56 (Rew, 10.5 ov), 5-56 (Lammonby, 11.2 ov), 6-67 (Thomas, 13.6 ov), 7-113 (Overton, 19.5 ov) | |||||||
| Nottinghamshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Pennington | 3 | 0 | 16 | 2 | 1 | - | 9.00 | 5.33 |
| Stone | 4 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 7.25 |
| James | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | 12.00 | 2.00 |
| Martindale | 2 | 0 | 14 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.00 |
| McCann | 4 | 0 | 21 | 2 | - | - | 12.00 | 5.25 |
| Harrison | 4 | 0 | 20 | 1 | - | - | 24.00 | 5.00 |
| Patterson-White | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.00 |
| Nottinghamshire innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| LW James | c Lammonby b Ball | 29 | 21 | 27 | 4 | 1 | 138.10 |
| FW McCann | c Bashir b Ogborne | 0 | 1 | 3 | - | - | 0.00 |
| JA Haynes | c Lammonby b Ball | 29 | 17 | 29 | 4 | 1 | 170.59 |
| *+TJ Moores | not out | 21 | 18 | 31 | 1 | 1 | 116.67 |
| SIM King | c Overton b Aldridge | 25 | 24 | 23 | 2 | 1 | 104.17 |
| M Montgomery | not out | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | - | 266.67 |
| LA Patterson-White | did not bat | ||||||
| BJR Martindale | did not bat | ||||||
| CG Harrison | did not bat | ||||||
| OP Stone | did not bat | ||||||
| DY Pennington | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 nb, 2 w) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, 59 minutes, 13.4 overs) | 116 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-5 (McCann, 0.4 ov), 2-60 (James, 6.1 ov), 3-62 (Haynes, 6.6 ov), 4-107 (King, 12.6 ov) | |||||||
| Somerset bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Ogborne | 2 | 0 | 19 | 1 | - | - | 12.00 | 9.50 |
| Overton | 3 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 10.00 |
| Ball | 3 | 0 | 23 | 2 | - | 1 | 9.00 | 7.67 |
| Bashir | 2 | 0 | 15 | 0 | - | 1 | - | 7.50 |
| Aldridge | 2 | 0 | 17 | 1 | - | - | 12.00 | 8.50 |
| Vaughan | 1.4 | 0 | 12 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.20 |
Notes
--> Somerset powerplay 1: overs 1 to 6 (22/3)
--> Nottinghamshire powerplay 1: overs 1 to 6 (60/1)
--> Somerset innings: 50 in 10 overs, 44 minutes
--> Somerset innings: 100 in 18.5 overs, 74 minutes
--> Nottinghamshire innings: 50 in 4.4 overs, 21 minutes
--> Nottinghamshire innings: 100 in 11.2 overs, 51 minutes
--> LW James (24) and JA Haynes (29) added 50 in 32 balls, 22 minutes for the Nottinghamshire 2nd wicket
A win against SACA
You can only beat what is put in front of you and the SACA are no better than a Second Eleven standard, but both McKerr and Lord landed a few good yorkers and showed variety, LPW, Harrison and Farham kept in tight, whilst Montgomery had some invention and fluidity in his brief but effective innings. Banana skins avoided and a resounding thrashing dealt out, anything else would have been disappointing, obviously.
Tom Moores played (let's leave it there). The Adeel Shafique that played for SACA is the same guy that is Nottingham born, has had chances with Notts 2s and now plays ODIs for Oman. Hamidullah Qadri was released by Kent and was famously the first player born this century to play Championship cricket (playing for Derbyshire) at the age of 16, he's now 24. Manraj Johal was released by Warwickshire and played some Second XI cricket for Derbyshire last season.
| Venue | Tolerance Oval, Abu Dhabi on 14th March 2025 (20-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | South Asian Cricket Academy won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Nottinghamshire won by 6 wickets |
| Points | Nottinghamshire 2; South Asian Cricket Academy 0 |
| South Asian Cricket Academy innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| AR Shetty | b Lord | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| AH Khan | run out (Haynes) | 10 | 13 | 32 | 1 | - | 76.92 |
| VL Jani | c Montgomery b Lord | 13 | 14 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 92.86 |
| *AS Basra | c Montgomery b Ahmed | 5 | 6 | 6 | 1 | - | 83.33 |
| I Mohammed | b Harrison | 8 | 15 | 19 | - | - | 53.33 |
| +AA Shafique | c Patterson-White b Ahmed | 18 | 13 | 13 | - | 2 | 138.46 |
| Hamidullah Qadri | c Haynes b Patterson-White | 10 | 13 | 22 | 1 | - | 76.92 |
| C Mullapudi | c and b Patterson-White | 0 | 6 | 4 | - | - | 0.00 |
| MS Johal | b James | 16 | 19 | 31 | 1 | - | 84.21 |
| KK Khanna | c McKerr b Lord | 3 | 8 | 8 | - | - | 37.50 |
| H Mughal | not out | 0 | 3 | 7 | - | - | 0.00 |
| Extras | (1 lb, 5 w) | 6 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 84 minutes, 18.3 overs) | 89 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Shetty, 0.1 ov), 2-23 (Jani, 4.2 ov), 3-28 (Basra, 5.3 ov), 4-29 (Khan, 6.1 ov), 5-56 (Shafique, 9.6 ov), 6-56 (Mohammed, 10.2 ov), 7-57 (Mullapudi, 11.4 ov), 8-75 (Hamidullah Qadri, 15.2 ov), 9-83 (Khanna, 17.2 ov), 10-89 (Johal, 18.3 ov) | |||||||
| Nottinghamshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Lord | 4 | 0 | 22 | 3 | 1 | - | 8.00 | 5.50 |
| McKerr | 3 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 4.33 |
| Ahmed | 3 | 1 | 16 | 2 | - | - | 9.00 | 5.33 |
| Harrison | 3 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 1 | - | 18.00 | 4.00 |
| Patterson-White | 3 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 1 | - | 9.00 | 3.00 |
| James | 2.3 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 1 | - | 15.00 | 6.40 |
| Nottinghamshire innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| LW James | c Mughal b Mullapudi | 5 | 5 | 16 | 1 | - | 100.00 |
| *JM Clarke | b Mughal | 7 | 7 | 9 | 1 | - | 100.00 |
| JA Haynes | c Shafique b Johal | 26 | 17 | 17 | 4 | - | 152.94 |
| +TJ Moores | not out | 13 | 12 | 31 | 1 | - | 108.33 |
| SIM King | c Mullapudi b Khanna | 1 | 4 | 7 | - | - | 25.00 |
| M Montgomery | not out | 29 | 12 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 241.67 |
| LA Patterson-White | did not bat | ||||||
| C McKerr | did not bat | ||||||
| CG Harrison | did not bat | ||||||
| R Lord | did not bat | ||||||
| F Ahmed | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 lb, 10 w) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, 48 minutes, 9.3 overs) | 92 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-13 (Clarke, 1.5 ov), 2-24 (James, 2.6 ov), 3-43 (Haynes, 5.1 ov), 4-49 (King, 6.3 ov) | |||||||
| South Asian Cricket Academy bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Mullapudi | 3.3 | 0 | 32 | 1 | 1 | - | 21.00 | 9.14 |
| Mughal | 2 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 2 | - | 12.00 | 9.50 |
| Johal | 2 | 0 | 11 | 1 | - | - | 12.00 | 5.50 |
| Khanna | 1 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 2 | - | 6.00 | 16.00 |
| Hamidullah Qadri | 1 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 13.00 |
Notes
--> South Asian Cricket Academy powerplay 1: overs 1 to 6 (28/3)
--> Nottinghamshire powerplay 1: overs 1 to 6 (45/3)
--> South Asian Cricket Academy innings: 50 in 9.1 overs, 43 minutes
--> Nottinghamshire innings: 50 in 6.3 overs, 36 minutes
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