The Gooding Pinter Lamb Memorial Cricket Match

An annual cricket match originally played by members and friends of Gaieties CC in memory of Ossie St C Gooding and Harold Pinter and for  several years now between Nomads CC and Gaieties CC and also in memory of  G Charlton Lamb.  Ossie and Charlton played for both clubs  

       
Ossie Gooding        Charlton Lamb          Harold Pinter

"For the field is full of shades as I near a shadowy coast,
And a ghostly batsman plays to the bowling of a ghost,
And I look through my tears on a soundless-clapping host
As the run stealers flicker to and fro,
To and fro:
O my Ossie and my Harold and my Charlton long ago!  "

MATCH 77   NOMADS CC v GAIETIES CC Ascot Park Wing Leighton Buzzard LU7 OPR Sunday September 3rd 1.30pm 2018 -Time Game,20 overs from 6.00pm

Result:  Match  Drawn
Toss:    Gaieties CC
Umpires: Michael Blumberg,Roger Davidson & Others
Scorer:  Robert Crowe and others
Debut(s):None

NOMADS CC Innings
T Brockton*  run out                    26
S Beri       bowled           Petrides  30
T Thanawalla not out                   103
K Bradley+   c T Schneider  b Cowley     0
A Ormiston   st T Schneider b Thurston  32
R Ormiston   hit wicket     b Thurston   9
A Arora      not out                    38
Extras.     (b4,lb3,w2,nb3)             12
TOTAL       (5 wkts dec,39 overs)      250
Dnb:SN Shawl, J Hamilton, C Royals,C Page(12th man:A Marshall not batting)

Fow:1-37(2),2-83(1),3-101(4),4-158(5),5-174(6).

Bowling-Khalique 8.1 1 29 0,Petrides 6 0 41 1,Bowden 6 0 30 0,Cowley 7.5 1 41 1,Thurston 8 0 57 2,Trapides 3 0 31 0,Burton 1 0 14 0.

GAIETIES CC Innings
T Schneider+ bowled       Shawl   21
M Sen        c Page     b Arora   36
H Thurston*  c Beri     b Page    45
S Dutta      c Hamilton b Page    47
J Schneider  c & b        Royals  36
S Khalique   c Bradley  b Page     3
J Trapido    st Bradley b Page     2
D Petrides   not out               0
M Burton     not out               0
Extras.     (b4,lb3,w0,nb1)        8
TOTAL       (7 wickets,45 overs) 202
Dnb:N Cowley,M Bowden.

Fow:1-50(1),2-111(2)3-115(3),4-185(5),5-194(4),6-194(6),7-200(7).

Bowling-Shawl 8 0 27 1,Hamilton 5 1 10 0,Marshall 7 1 33 0,Arora 9 2 30 1,Page 9 1 62 4,Royles 7 2 33 1.

A first Century for Tanmay Thanawalla  

Nomads made their final trip for the 2018 season to the stunning venue of Ascott Park in Wing. This time the fixture was vs our old friends The Gaieties (of Harold Pinter fame), the fixture was played in the memory of Ossie Gooding, Harold Pinter and Charlton Lamb, and what a fitting location.   

Hugo Thurston won the toss and inserted the Nomads, Brockton and Beri opening up. The pair added 40 with Beri much the aggressor, he hit 6 boundaries in his 30 all struck with trademark force, but he played one shot too many and was bowled for 30 playing a heave to leg which clattered into the off stump.

Tanmay joined the Nomads skipper, both batting with fluency and Tanmay looking at ease, certainly mature well beyond his years.  However, a mix up resulted in Brockton and Tanmay being at the same end after the latter was dropped at mid-wicket (never run on a miss-field they say) and Brockton was run out for 26.

Tanmay made the most of his good fortune and accelerated to 50, the fact that Gaieties most potent bowler, Sam Khalique had gone in the back and had to be replaced by Nick Cowley did not assist the Gaieties who looked short of a bowler in any case.   Kyle Bradley was dismissed cheaply as was Ross Ormiston (out hit wicket !). However, Tanmay found good support from firstly Alan Ormiston and then latterly Ash Arora who struck a few lusty blows in his unbeaten 38 which was scored in double quick time.

Hugo Thurston shuffled the deck but Trapido went at 10 an over and a gentle over from Matthew Burton returning from injury went for 14. Tanmay reached his ton with a wonderfully timed clip through mid-wicket for 4 to rapturous applause from the Nomads. His first (of many) hundreds, we anticipate. Nomads declared on an aggressive 250 from just 38 overs. The acceleration from Arora had propelled Nomads to a challenging score but nevertheless generous declaration as Gaieties would receive 45 overs back.

Shawl and impressive young seamer James Hamilton took the new cherry looking to take early wickets. Bradley dropped the Gaieties opener off Shawl, but apart from that Tim Schneider looked generally untroubled in the first 10 overs. Shawl then struck in his last over, clean bowling Schneider with an unplayable Yorker.

Andy Marshall was perhaps not at his best, bowling a little too short and he was replaced by “Professor Page” with Chinaman bowler Ash Arora from the other end.  Page lured 4 Gaieties batters to their doom, one courtesy of a cracking catch from James Hamilton at cow corner.

Arora also took a wicket, caught by a tumbling Page at point and Nomads continued to attack to force the win, potentially courting defeat in doing so.  Chris Royals took a little punishment from messers Thurston and Dutta but he had his revenge having James Schneider caught and bowled of a miss-cued pull shot and when Trapido was stumped Gaieties were in the mire needing nearly 10 an over.  Nomads assertive approach has certainly reaped dividends.

Khalique can hit a long ball, we know that, but he was spectacularly caught by Bradley off Page, standing up to the old stager Bradley dived backwards and caught a swept top edge one-handed as the ball looped over his left shoulder. A catch to cherish !

4 overs left, 50 needed. Gaieties shut up shop 7 down. Arora and Royals toiled gamefully but Ascott Park is not a wicket where you can bowl a side out when defence is the only thing in their mind so a draw was the end result.  Tamnay led the Nomads from the field, a day to remember for the young Richmond cricketer.

Nomads retired to the Ship Inn, a couple of miles from Ascott Park in Leighton Buzzard for a post cricket beer.  Roger Davidson & Shomit Dutta from the Gaieties were most welcome company.  Thanks to Nomads President Michael Blumberg for umpiring (he remained stoic in the face of some vociferous appeals late in the piece).

Ossie St C Gooding              G Charlton Lamb          Harold Pinter and the Gaieties Cricket Club

PINTER AT THE PINTER

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