MATCH 9 PINK ELEPHANTS CC v NOMADS CC at Vincent Square Sunday May 18th 2007 1.00pm
Result: Nomads won by 3 wickets
Toss: Pink Elephants
Umpires:
Scorers: Various
Debut(s):Tom Moran
PINK ELEPHANTS CC Innings
S James bowled Lamb 10
S MacDonald bowled Page 10
J Ireland c Blake b Page 0
N Warde bowled Blumberg 143
C Ullaarthorne bowled Page 0
J Kenball lbw b Blumberg 14
J Bart c Page b MacDonald 4
J Darbyshire not out 9
D Buist not out 8
Extras (b3,lb0,w10,nb5) 18
TOTAL (7 wickets,40 overs) 216
Dnb:J Jones,R Evans
Fow:1-29,2-29,3-,4-,5-,6-195,7-197.
Bowling-MacDonaad 7 0 26 1,Fletcher 4 0 8 0,Page 14 2 87 3,Lamb 13 1 71 1,Blumberg 2 0 21 2.
NOMADS CC Innings
P Wakefield not out 98
J Lascelles c James b Ireland 67
A Hill c Ward b Ireland 0
N Fletcher c Jones b Buist 4
S Blake c Dalrymple b Ireland 12
V Gavin lbw b Jones 4
T Moran bowled Ireland 0
J MacDonald bowled Ireland 12
C Page not out 0
Extras (b5,lb5,w13,nb0) 23*
TOTAL (7 wickets,46 overs) 220
DNB:GC Lamb,ME Blumberg.
Fow:1-138,2-138,3-145,4-177,5-186,6-188,7-212.
Bowling-Kenball 5 0 19,Jones 12 2 61 1,Ireland 18 2 64 5, Evans 30 25 0,Warde 3 0 16 0,Buist 5 0 25 1.*
Wakers leads the chase to victory
A Nomads side with an injection of youth defeated Pink Elephants by 3 wickets. The all too brief return of 'Wakers' from deepest Uzbekistan was most welcome as he top scored with 98*, serious jug avoidance! Jeremy Lascelles scored 67 so an opening partnership of 138 chasing 216 looked to have set Nomads on an inevitable path to victory. However an astonishing collapse(very Nomads) to the guiles of Joe Ireland made the result much less assured.
In the end Wakers needed a six for his century and one to win. He tried, but only stroked a boundary four to finish on 98 not out with one over still to go.
Ireland took 5 wickets and earlier Nic Warde smashed 143 out of 216-7 dec for Pink Elephants. We dropped Nic Warde several times in between him hitting a flurry of huge sixes before being undone by a Blumberg grubber.
Pink Elephants made a very sporting declaration, perhaps too generous.! Thanks Joe!
Previous Matches
2007 Pink Elephants won by 5 wickets
2006 No Play Rain
2005 Nomads won by 4 wkts
2004 Match Drawn but Wakers scores ton
Posted on 27/05/2008
by Michael Blumberg