Match 38 Nomads CC v Woking & Horsell CC Sunday July 13th 2.00 Brewery Rd, Woking, Surrey GU21 4NA
Result: Nomads won by 6 wickets
Toss: Nomads
Umpire: Andrew Smith & Others
Scorer: Karen Thompson & Others
Debut(s):None
WOKING & HORSELL CC Innings
J Allen c Hill Menon 68
R Pathasarathy c Menon b Shawl 17
S Nagayan bowled Shawl 0
J Day bowled Menon 45
A Hargan not out 41
J Wilson c Brockton b Shawl 8
S Rajenderam bowled Woolliscroft 1
J Ayling bowled Woolliscroft 2
M Wilson lbw b Woolliscroft 0
D Kumar not out 1
Extras (b10,lb9,w6,nb0) 25
TOTAL (8 wickets,40 overs) 203
Dnb:M Myers
Fow:1-45(2),2-45(3),3-148,4-159,5-183,6-188,7-202(8),8-202(9).
Bowling-Shawl 8 1 34 3,B Smith 7 1 32 0,Brockton 5 0 20 0,Menon 8 1 30 2,Peerless 4 0 30 0,Woolliscroft 8 0 38 3.
NOMADS CC Innings
R Style bowled Wasseem 19
A Hill bowled Wasseem 21
V Kandampully c Pathasarathy b Ayling 59
D Williams bowled Kumar 22
S Shawl not out 59
T Brockton not out 5
Extras (b2,lb3,w15,nb1) 21
TOTAL (4 wickets,22.3 overs) 206
Dnb:C Peerless.G Menon,B Smith,ME Blumberg,S Woolliscroft.
Fow:1-41(1),2-49(2),3-114(4),4-181(3).
Bowling-Wassem 7 3 21 2,Myers 3 0 39 0,Ayling 8 0 32 0,Rajenderan 4 0 18 0,Kumar 3 0 31 0,Pathasarathy 2 0 27 0,Hargan 1 0 19 0,Day 0.3 0 6 0.
Woking & Horsell slayed by Sajjad Shawl’s sixes
Nomads continued their winning ways with Woking & Horsell CC, a new fixture replacing Ripley CC. A baking hot afternoon greeted the players, but the wicket looked a little mottled in places, Brockton therefore opted to field upon wining his fifteenth toss in a row!
Sajjad Shawl and young Ben Smith opened up for the Nomads, but Smith was unusually wayward (we later found out he was bravely recovering from a stomach virus) and his first over went for 19! The home side were off to something of a flier but slowly the Nomads started to work on the run rate. Peerless dropped a simple catch at second slip off the bowling of Shawl, Allen the prospering batsman who would go onto score 68. However Shawl was rewarded with the wicket of Parthasapathy and then delivered a fine Yorker to knock over Nayyar first ball. The home side 45-2 from 10 overs. Brockton and Menon continued the good work and the runs started to dry up despite the best efforts of the home side.
Allen and returning 1st XI league cricketer Day then began an onslaught of the off-spin of Charlie Peerless to get the home side back in the ascendancy. The first few overs of Stan Woolliscroft lacked bite and the pair were starting to look immovable as the score began to near 150. It was then that Menon struck, replacing Peerless and in his scond spell he dismissed both cricketers on his way to 2-30 from 8 impressive overs.
Woolliscroft visibly lifted by this display of bowling upped his game and found some purchase from the wicket and started to bowl an immaculate length. However the burly figure of Hargan was swinging merrily, but Woolliscroft was equal to the task and impressive fielding from Rupert Style and Vic Kandampully (as well as a full length sprawling dive from President Michael Blumberg to stop a certain boundary) meant that Hargan was often devoid of the strike. Shawl returned to dismiss Wilson, caught by the tumbling Brockton at backward point and the final over from Woolliscroft yielded just 1 run but importantly 2 wickets. Stan finishing with 3-38 from 8 overs. Woking and Horsell CC posted 203-8 from their allotted 40 overs.
Style and Hill forged an assertive partnership of 41 before both were dismissed in quick succession, seamer Wasseen bowling impressively to take 2-7 in his opening spell. However Kandampully was his usual pugnacious self at number 3 and he and David Williams (who had recorded a career best score of 142 not out the day before) added a much needed 65 run partnership before Williams was deceived by a full delivery from the talkative leg-spinner “Diamond” Kumar.
Nomads 114-3, 18 overs left, match in the balance according to interested spectator Andrew Smith. Enter Sajjad Shawl…. 27 balls and 7 sixes later the game was effectively over. Shawl and Kandampully added a 66 run partnership, to take the game to within a cat’s whisker of victory. Vic was caught at extra cover after reaching another gritty half century, and Shawl/Brockton knocked off the remaining runs to give Nomads a well deserved victory by the margin of 6 wickets with a full 10 overs remaining. The match was fittingly won with yet another Sajjad Shawl 6, the returning Wasseen going for 14 off his last over (double the number he went for in 6 overs with the new ball). Shawl ended unbeaten on 59 with 7 massive maximums. He had lost 5 balls, one ending up over the pavilion, over the car park and in the adjoining road to the ground, another was claimed to be the biggest 6 the Woking & Horsell skipper had ever seen at the ground!
Nomads lingered long into the evening, jugs of beer from Sajjad and Vic as well as a much generosity from the friendly Woking & Horsell side. The first home game they have lost in 2014. We look forward to renewing acquaintances with them next season and for many years to come.
Posted on 06/05/2014
by Michael Blumberg