Match 47  Nomads  v Woldingham, Craigmyle Glebe Woldingham Surrey Saturday September 27th   2003 1.00pm 

Result:Woldingham won by 5 wickets  
Toss:Nomads
Umpire(s):Brian Wilson          
Nomad Man Of The Match: None

NOMADS  Innings
R Campion   c Van Gelder b Hamilton 10 
R Fanthorpe run out                 20
R Mann      c Seal  b Gomez         21
J Lascelles*c Booth b Van Gelder     4
A Leyland   c Booth b Rees          14
G Mervis    run out                 12
E Scarr     bowled  b De Alwis       0
F Munro     not out                 24
Extras      (b6,lb6,w4,nb1)         17
TOTAL       (7 wkts,38 overs)      122
Dnb:A Clark,W Rodwell,Another(Absent)
 
FoW:1-27,2-55,3-61,4-62,5-85,6-93,7-106.
 
Bowling-Booth 9 4 9 0, Hamilton 9 3 22 1,Gomez 5 2 4 1,Van Gelder 5 0 23 1,Rees 3 0 14 1,Seal 4 1 19 0,De Awlis 2 0 7 0,Jones 1 0 7 0.   

WOLDINGHAM CC Innings               
I O'Helleran bowled Munro 17 
D De Alwis   retired      51
T Tolga      bowled Scarr 25
B Booth      run out      18
D Van Gelder not out       4 
B Brace      lbw b Scarr   0
A Seal       not out       1
Extras     (b6,lb0,w1,nb0) 7
TOTAL (5 wkts,22.5 overs)123
Dnb:H Hamilton,J Jones,G Gomez,R Rees.        

FoW:1-40,2-86,3*-93,4-100,5-120.
 
Bowling-  Munro 6 0 36 1,Clark 7 1 28 0, Scarr 5.2 1 14 2,Rodwell 2 0 25 0,Mervis 2 0 14 0. 

                                      Nomads have an appalling afternoon 

 U p to Friday the team included Jamie Lane and Mark Surridge and had these two played presumably Nomads would have posted a total closer to 200 rather 100 by a fixed tea. In the event Jamie was struck low by a family bug and Mark decided to spend the weekend in the Alps with Barbara. 

Such late withdrawals were difficult to replace with similar prowess. Richard Campion came in and Nomads played with 10. In that several of the ten were veteran and immobile someone was going to have to play very well if this side was to perform. Much was required of Lascelles, Mann and Leyland.

Nomads won the toss and opened with Campion and Fanthorpe. Campion in his heyday would prod forward ad nauseam until the opposition became so fed up they would toss the ball up and Richard would suddenly burst into action and hit boundaries. Thus a typical productive Campion knock would read 10 runs hour one, 25 runs hour two, 40 runs hour three. With a late start and a fixed tea, opening with Richard was a high risk strategy. After 10 overs Nomads reached 11 and in the 16th over Campion perished for 10 with the score 27 having just struck a boundary. 58 runs came off the next 16 overs and off the last 6 overs some 37 runs were scored mostly by Fergus Munro who hit a brisk 24 not out in cameo fashion before tea.  

Shamed by their run rate Nomads felt unable to bat on after tea relying on the competance of their bowling to challenge Woldingham. Munro did bowl O'Helleran but De Alwis found it all too easy as he moved to fifty and promtly retired. Ed Scarr did remove two more batsman and a third was run out but the home side reached their target in 22.2 overs.

Undoubtedly the nadir in Nomads otherwise successful centenary season.