MATCH 12 Nomads CC v Headley Sunday May 8th at Headley Common Surrey 1.30pm

Result: Headley won by6 wickets
Toss:Headley CC
Umpires: Bob Bartlett & AN Other
Scorer: Several
Debut(s):None

NOMADS CC Innings
A Hill     run out                  50
C Peerless run out                   7
J Lane+    bowled        Waller     41
N Lamb     bowled        Sunderland 26
A Smith    not out                  27
H Morris   st Ashworth b Sunderland 22
R Mann     st Ashworth b Waller      1
M Seiger   c & b         Waller      0
GC Lamb    not out                  10
Extras    (b5,lb4,w3,nb3)           15
TOTAL     (7 wickets,48 overs)     203
Dnb:D Curtis,ME Blumberg*

Fow:1-12,2-79,3-132,4-136,5-177,6-180,7-180.

Bowling-Clark 6 0 30 0,Noble 9 1 43 0,Waller 14 6 24 3,N Pickering 5 0 26 0,Woodall 4 1 22 0,Sunderland 9 2 46 2,Midmer 1 0 3 0.


HEADLEY CC Innings
W Midmer    bowled      Smith 26
A Pickering bowled      Smith 29
A Hughes    not out           60
J Midmer    st Lane   b Smith 68
B Asworth   bowled      Smith 16
C Woodall   not out            0
Extras     (b2,lb2,w1,nb2)     7
TOTAL (4 wickets,26.5 overs) 206
Dnb:C Clarke,G Noble,W Waller,N Pickering,S Sunderland

Fow:1-47,2-59,3-169,4-190.

Bowling-Peerless 10.5 0 86 0,A Smith 13 0 80 4,Seiger 3 0 36 0.

But for another bowler and no run outs

Nomads lost Sunday's match to a young Headley side who won the toss and put us in. Two run outs seriously squashed our ambitions to post ahuge total.Opening and looking very solid Charles Peerless unwisely took on a young fielder's throw and lost by some yards.Later on just as we seemed to be accelerating Nathan Lamb drove mightily straight back at the bowler who in trying to get out of the way diverted the ball onto the stumps so running out Andy Hill who had just reached fifty. Nomads innings was a series of cameos when we needded one or more batsmen to post a major innings.Jamie Lane was elegant as ever and Nathan Lamb timed the ball sweetly until he decided to pull a rank long hop for six.

Unfortunately the ball was straight and kept low. Hugo Morris revealed a prowess totally hidden on tour in Goa last February and Andy Smith sruck a mighty six to spoil Waller's impressive bowling figures: indeed Waller, 14-6-24-3 restricted Nomads scoring rate with an exhibition of accurate seam bowling. Senior Nomads Charlton Lamb struck two boundaries at the end ,perhaps he should havebatted higher.

Nomads needed a much bigger score than this sincewe had onlyone bowler, Andy Smith. Containing a decent batting side over 35 overs on the Headley ground was going to be well nigh impossible.In the event Nomads fielded pretty well and Andy took four wickets. He might easily have had some more, so with another front line bowler or two, this may have been a better contest. Charles Peerless took up the challenge of opening the bowling and when he asked for a break Marty Seiger tossed up three overs in which he bowled one pearler but otherwise received severe punishment. There were a couple of run out chances and a few boundary catches that Colin Bland or Jonty Rhodes would have taken but this wasvery much the home side's day as they raced home in the bright evening sunlight. The original squad incuded James While and Dawood Shah and we sorely missed them both!

This was a match played in very good spiritand Nomads had to be politely asked to drink up as the clubhouse was closing. We did and ended up in a pub in Tadworth for further libation. * For the record-Russ Mann,Hugo Morris and Nathan Lamb declined to bowl and Blumberg and Lamb were injured as far as bowling is involved!