MATCH 60 Nomads CC v Chesham CC Sunday August 4th 12.45pm The Meadow Amy Lane Chesham HP51NE -Time game
 

Result:   Nomads won by 35 runs   
Toss:     Nomads CC
Umpires:  Various 
Scorer:   Several
Debut(s): T Sohi 

NOMADS CC Innings                 
V Kandampully c Moore  b Wainwright 37
M Sohi        bowled     Lissett     8
T Sohi        bowled     Wainwright 67
T Brockton*   bowled     Lissett    48
P Joshi       c & b      Wainwright 44
K Farrell     c Royals b Fowler      4
S Dummer      not out               36
A Kapadia     bowled     Wainwright  0
Extras       (b15,lb7,w12,nb3)      37
TOTAL        (7 wkts dec,49 overs) 271(-10)
Dnb:S Shawl,ME Blumberg,D Ellis+

Fow:1-25(2),2-94(1),3-123(3), 4-204(5),5-222(6),6-271,7-271(8).

Bowling-Lissett 10 0 44 2,Allen 5 0 15 0,Weatherall 2 0 20 0,Tyrell 7 0 51 0,Wainwright 9.4 0 47 4,Allam 6 0 16 0,Thompson 2 0 15 0,Fowler 3 0 18 0,Royals 3 0 4 0.(+19)

CHESHAM CC Innings
G Fowler     c Ellis   b  Shawl   13
C Royals     c Shawl   b  Kapadia 45
A Holloway   lbw       b  T Sohi   0
M Thompson   lbw       b  Kapadia 17
M Weatherall c T Sohi  b  Dummer  12
C Allam      lbw       b  Kapadia  0
P Lissett    bowled       Kapadia  0
E Wainwright bowled       M Sohi  46
H Allam      not out              67
H Moore+     c Kapadia b  M Sohi   6
L Dawson*    bowled       Shawl   17
Extras      (b3,lb5,w2,nb0)       10
TOTAL       (All out,46 overs)   236(+3)

Fow:1-29(1),2-30(3),3-67(2),4-93(4),5-93(5),6-97(6),7-99(7),8-190(8),9-210(10),10-236(11).

Bowling-Shawl 15 3 52 2,T Sohi 7 0 39 1,Kapadia 11 0 50 4,Dummer 5 0 31 1,M Sohi 8 0 51 2.

Nomads hold their nerve thanks to Kapadia’s four for

Nomads made the trip to Chesham CC on Sunday, home of Nomad Chris Royals. A blustery day greeted both sides, and although grey clouds loitered most of the day the contest was played in completely dry conditions. Brockton won the toss and elected to bat, traditional declaration fixture was agreed (of course). Royals abdicated the captaincy to Dawson who advised he had a strong side, but would be staggering the batting order with some of his 1st XI cricketers coming in a lot lower than usual.

Kandampully and Wargrave cricketer Mandip Sohi opened for the Nomads but Sohi was castled playing a very adventurous stroke early in the piece and Vic was joined by Sohi, son of Sohi. A classy young cricketer (17 years of age), but batted with maturity adding 69 with Vic before the latter was dismissed, snicking through to Moore for 37. Brockton joined Sohi who was approaching his 50 and he did so with consummate ease, a gorgeous on-drive to the longer of the straight boundaries. However, he was bowled by the impressive Wainwright for 67, looking to clip a straight ball off his pads. 

Former Windies cricketer Joshi joined the Nomads skipper, adding 81 for the 4th wicket, but with the declaration looming Brockton got one that kept low and was castled for 48. Kie Farrel’s stay was to be a short one, a loose drive pouched by Royals at cover, and with Joshi struggling to find the gaps Nomads were looking at an under par score in the region of 230. However, in-form Steve Dummer strode in and hit his first 8 balls all for boundaries, with his rent-a-crowd (wife and friends getting tucked into some Prosecco) looking on. Dummer single handedly propelled the visitors to a pretty tidy score of 271-7 in 49 overs. Joshi weighed in with an elegant 44, and Dummer 36* from 12 balls ! Wainwright with 4-47 was the pick of the Chesham bowlers.

With a largely spin orientated attack Nomads would bowl approx. 50 overs back at Chesham. 

Sajjad Shawl took the new cherry and young Sohi joined him (premium fixture for the 17 year old debutante). Shawl was quickly into his stride, giving Duncan Ellis a good work out behind the stumps. Pace and bounce from Shawl as he roughed up Royals and Fowler. Ellis dropped (well refused) Fowler and the ball shot between him and Dummer at 1st slip, but Shawl found the edge again the following delivery, taken by Ellis. Sohi (jnr) then trapped Holloway plumb in front for 0, his first wicket for the Nomads. The home side were in a spot of bother at 30-2 but Royals (45) counter attacked to good effect before he found the bucket hands of Shawl at mid-off, the first of 4 wickets for Adnan Kapadia who proved to be the thorn in the Chesham side with the ball. 

Nomads were probably a bowler light, so Dummer filled in 5 tidy overs off off-spin and Weatherall chipped tamely to Sohi (jnr), and when Kapadia then trapped the new hapless Chesham batter for nought, then three balls later cleaned up Lissett with his arm ball the home side were 99-7 and all seemed lost. Ah, but remember Dawson saying they were holding back some of their 1st XI cricketers, and so it proved to be, Wainwright at 8 and Allam at 9 were no slouches with the bat and they began a 2 man assault on the Nomads bowlers. Mandip Sohi restored some calm, knocking over Wainwright who had batted well for 46 and Moore then top edged a pull and was taken by Kapadia (good catch, considering Adnan has played 2 games in the last 2 seasons due to his amateur dramatics commitments).

Skipper Dawson usually bats 3 in the 2nd XI, here he was coming in at no11 with 60 needed from the final 10 overs. Allam had reached 50, a swashbuckling innings, indeed he ramped the returning Shawl for 4, Shawl responded with a quick bouncer that clanked into Allam’s grill. He remained unperturbed, but Shawl managed to get one through Lawson’s defences to bowl him for 17 and give Nomads a 35 run win with 4 overs to go. The Nomads clan repaired to the bar at Chesham CC, and a social evening of chit chat and a few beers followed.

Our thanks to Chris Royals for making all the arrangements and ensuring the Nomads enjoyed a well contested match. We wish Chesham all the best for the remainder of their league campaign 

Previous Matches  
2017 Chesham won by 4 wickets 
2012 Match abandoned as a draw