MATCH 45 Nomads CC v Watford Town CC Sunday September 11th 1.00pm Horseshoe Lane Garston Watford Herts WD2 7HH-35 over per innings 7 max overs per bowler
Result: Nomad won by 7 wickets
Toss: Nomads CC
Umpires: John Nicholl & others
Scorer: Various
Debut(s): Azam Saeed,T Pathirathna,Norman Dugdale,G Habib,B Maynard.
WATFORD TOWN CC Innings
M Manzor lbw b Woodhouse 8
E Myburgh bowled Woodhouse 2
C Hazarika bowled Croom-Johnson 0
S Sampat bowled Pathirathna 44
G Hazarika c Maynard b Croom-Johnson 1
S Knox c Riaz b Azam Saeed 31
O Humphrey not out 18
L Grange c Woodbridge b Leachman 1
A Riaz c Dugdale b Azam Saeed 0
A Trill bowled Azam Saeed 0
ANother absent
Extras (b9,lb4,w8,nb1) 22
TOTAL (All out,31.2 overs) 127
Fow:1-5,2-19,3-24,4-36,5-88,6-123.7-123,8-123,9-126.
Bowling -Woodhouse 6 0 17 2,Croom-Johnson 7 0 22 2,T Pathirathna 7 0 25 1,Dugdale 7 0 23 0,Leachman 3 0 26 1,Azam Saeed 1.2 0 1 3.
NOMADS CC Innings
T Riaz c Sampat b G Hazarika 46
G Habib c Humphrey b Grange 1
N Dugdale bowled(p/o) Manzor 1
T Pathirathna not out 60
A Woodhouse not out 17
Extras (b2,lb0,w2,nb0) 4
TOTAL (3 wickets,28.3 overs) 131
Dnb:B Maynard,A Saeed,ME Blumberg,O Croom-Johnson,R Leachman,AN Nomad
Fow:1-3,2-5,3-94.
Bowling-Manzor 7.3 1 47 1,Grange 5 0 23 1,G Hazarika 7 1 29 0,Knox 1 0 6 0,Myburgh 1 0 6 0,A Riaz 1 1 0 0.
Nomads prevail in shortened match
On a beautiful summer's afternoon of which there have been far too few in 2008 a Nomads X beat a Watford X by 7 wickets in a match reduced to 35/35 overs to allow the wet pitch to dry.
Watford batted first and were soon in trouble to the in swing of young Woody and the away swing of veteran Croomers so that four batsmen fell for a mere 36 runs.
The powerful hitting Sampat revived the innings with assistance from Skipper Knox until bowled by Sri Lankan Pathirathana for 44 having added 52. Knox and Grange added a further 35 whereupon Leachman had Grange caught by Woody at deep gully. Next over Azaam induced a miscued pull from Knox to give a spectacular one handed catch from Riaz,123-7 and the tail fell likewise to the 'demon' Azaam thus depriving the President of a bowl.
Habib and Riaz opened only for the former to fall for a single and then Norman Dugdale who had flown from Franfurt to play in this game played on so Nomads were 5-2!
Pathirathna now joined Riaz and these two added 89 before G Hazarika induced an error from Riaz on 46. woody now joined Pathirathna and these two hit off the remaining runs to bring vitory with 6.3 overs remaining.
Much credit must go to Watford for enabling this match to take place and the contribution of Gulfaz Riaz who scored a century for us in this match last year for generously providing us with players and some batsmen.In fact arguably they beat themselves!
The tea was very good too.
It was a great pity on such a lovely afternoon that so few regular Nomads were able to make themselves available.
Asif Padhani a regular tourist with Nomads in Spain in recent years came along to watch the latter overs of the game.
Previous Matches
2007 Watford Town won by 2 wickets despite Chris Page 6-43
2006 Nomads lost by 6 runs with Paul Wakefield on 94 too tired to hit the last ball for six!
Watford Town CC Website
Posted on 06/05/2008
by Michael Blumberg