MATCH 57 NOMADS CC v STOICS CC Ascot Park Wing Leighton Buzzard Bedfordshire LU7 OPR Sunday August 7th 11.30pm 2016

Result:  Nomads won by 59 runs
Toss:    Nomads CC
Umpires: Michael Blumberg & Others
Scorer:  Several
Debut(s):None

NOMADS CC Innings 
V Kandampully  c Nilesh   b Passini    37
P Wakefield    c Wilson   b Passini    21
T Liversidge   bowled       Passini     2
T Brockton     c Strange  b D Brighton 31
J Bannerjee    c Ray      b D Brighton 10
R Ormiston     bowled       T Patel    49
S Wahi*        bowled       D Brighton  7
C Royals       c Kelly    b Mills       9
S Shawl        c Kelly    b Mills      15
C Page         not out                 11
R Liversidge   st Strange b T Patel     0
Extras        (b3,lb8,w4,nb4)          19
TOTAL         (All out,51 overs)      220

Fow:1-40(2),2-42(3),3-76(1),4-103(4),5-132(5),6-140(7),7-157(8),8-181(9),9-210(6),10-220(11).

Bowling-S Brighton 11 4 27 0,Kelly 5 0 28 0,Passini 12 0 32 3,Whelan 6 1 26 0,D Brighton 10 2 46 3,Mills 4 0 31 0,Patel 3 0 15 2.

STOICS CC Innings 
N Patel    c Wahi  b Royals 23
R Ray      c Wahi  b Shawl   7
N Kelly    bowled    Shawl  33
J Passini  c Wahi  b Shawl  28
J Whelan   c & b     Page   39
D Brighton bowled    Royals  3
S Strange  c Shawl b Royals  7
H Mills    c Wahi  b Page   11
S Brighton not out           1
T Patel    c Wahi  b Page    0
A Stoic    missing
Extras     (b2,lb2,w5,nb0)   9
TOTAL  (All out,37.4 overs)161

Fow:1-17,2-52,3-98,4-103,5-116,6-144,7-160,8-160.9-161.

Bowling-Shawl 14 4 49 3,Brockton 1.4 0 7 0,Bannerjee 4.2 1 13 0,Royals 12 1 48 3,Page 5.4 0 45 3. 

Nomads “spin out” Stoics in regulation victory

T he Nomads machine moved once again to the stunning venue of Ascott Park in Wing for a contest vs The Stoics. Nomads had no hesitation on batting first upon winning the toss. Player lateness resulted in the 11:30am start being pushed back to 12pm but Nomads progressed relatively untroubled for the first 45 minutes. Accurate bowling from left armer Steve Brighton (Ealing CC) did keep the run rate at a modest level and the introduction of the Windsor overseas off-spinner got the breakthrough with Paul Wakefield (21), who had looked in good touch, cutting to gully.

Liversidge followed for a 2^nd ball 0, bowled through the gate and Nomads were all of a sudden in a spot of bother with lunch looming. Brockton and Kandampully progressed the score forward positively, but then the burly Blackheath opener was dismissed for 37 in exactly the same mode as Wakefield on the stroke of lunch. Lunch, admittedly lingered a little too long, but the spread was an impressive one and plentiful.

Brockton (31) was then dismissed straight after lunch playing a nothing shot to young Brighton (son of Steve) who is a leg-spinner with a good degree of promise. Ross Ormiston (49) took up the challenge in getting the Nomads up towards a par score, but wickets were tumbling at the other end, mainly from injudicious strokes as Shawl, Royals, and then Ormiston were all dismissed. Saurabh Wahi cracked a maximum off the first ball he faced but was then castled by an absolute beauty from young Brighton and it was left to old stager Chris Page and Richard Liversidge, who kindly stepped in at the 11^th hour to get Nomads up to 220 off 50 overs.

Nomads would bowl in the region of 47 overs back at The Stoics. Unfortunately Brockton then went in the Achilles so the wickets would need to be taken via Page, Royals and Shawl. They did not disappoint. Sajjad was on song from ball one, swinging and seaming the ball around wonderfully, he struck early and in tandem with Royals, who bowled an impressive spell of controlled, accurate leg spin began to make inroads to the Stoics batting line up.

At one point the visitors were poised at 103-4, a tight game we thought but a soft underbelly of a middle and lower order was exposed, with the exception of their skipper who gave Page a rare lambasting. Apparently the two had locked horns before and the skipper was not prepared to let Page settle, running down the wicket or slog sweeping him to good effect. The afore mentioned Page did gain revenge luring the Stoics skipper into one too many heaves to leg (caught and bowled off a massive top edge) and then keeper Wahi then took his 5^th catch of the innings to end the game, Stoics some 59 short of victory. Shawl, Page and Royals each took three wickets in an impressive spell of bowling, and the game was completed with some 11 overs of the 20 remaining.

Nomads and Stoics retired to the pretty setting of the Queen's Head Pub in Wing.In Nomads'case for a some celebratory pints (Brockton got in a round for his 1,000 runs for Nomads for the season) and Chris Page showed what a versatile character he is by saving a small bird from the clutches of a hungry dog, belonging to....... the Stoics captain !

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