MATCH 32 Nomads CC  v   Delhi Blues CC at South Woodford CC Essex   Wednesday  August 5th 2.00pm -30/30 overs match no retriction on bowlers

Result:   Delhi Blues won by 182 runs
Toss:     Nomads
Umpires:  John Nichol  
Scorer(s):Various
Debut(S): H Harry,S Shambu,S Sheldon,C Curtis,Keith M,Shobuj Ahmed,A Amit,Luke L.

DELHI BLUES CC Innings
G Gaurav    c Alexander b Al-Darraji 48
Robin R     retired                 101
Raghav R    not out                  39
Gagardeep G not out                  26
Extras     (w0,nb6,b0,lb0)            6
TOTAL (1 wickets declared,30 overs) 218
Dnb:S Suraj,K Karanver,N Navdeep,S Sunit,S Shivankar,D Blues,B Delhi

Fow :1-87,2-165

Bowling-Shelton 4 0 27 0,Amit 5 0 27 0,Darraji 5 0 30 1,Keith  M 4 0 21 0,Shambu 3 0 21 0,Luke 5 0 43 0,Shbuv 3 0 29 0.

NOMADS CC Innings 
J Al Darraji c Singh     b Sunit     9
D Tahil      c Gaurav    b Sunit     5
H Harry      bowled        Shivankar 0
S Shambu     c Gagandeep b Shivankar 6
S Sheldon    lbw         b Shivankar 0
C Curtis     c Robin     b Sunit     1
K M          bowled        Navdeep   1
S Shobuj     c Singh     b Navdeep   7
K Alexander  bowled        Navdeep   7
A Amit       not out                 1
L Luke       st Singh    b Suraj     1
Extras       (b0,lb0,w4,nb1)         5
TOTAL       (All out,16 overs)      35

Fow: 1-10,2-10,3-11,4-16,5-23,6-23,7-27,8-29,9-34,10-35.

Bowling- Shivanakar 5 2 6 2,Sunit 5 0 21 3,Navdeep 3 0 4 3,Karanveer 2 1 4 0,Suraj 1 0 2 1.

                                        Nomads utterly Outplayed

That a game was played at all was quite extraordinary.  The weather was foul and rain was falling all over the South East. Perchance the match was switched to South Woodford CC that morning  where miraculously it stopped raining for a few hours. Delhi Blues' full squad turned up so the President stood down to allow another DB to play. Because of the delayed start a 30/30 match was agreed.

Nomads had two senior players in Jemile Darraji and Keith Alexander plus the talented Druv Tahil and two DBs including an opening bowler. For the rest we debuted several youngsters who subsequently played again for Nomads and some of these were in their relevant  county youth squads.

In the past except for the second game in Delhi December 2002 we have put up a decent show against the DBs.  On this occasion the mismatch was terrible to behold.  The DB openers smashed and stroked the Nomads attack  all around the ground and this was a young fit fielding side!      Robin accomplished a fine century without blemish before retiring.  Jemile took our only wicket in a total of 218.

Nomads batting was swept aside by the young DBs  with no one reaching double figures in a mere 16 overs. Three boundaries were struck.

At least the Delhi Blues had a match for they were enduring a miserable wet tour. After the match both sides exchanged momentos and the DBs said some very complimentary words about Nomads which we hardly deserved. Thanks are due to South Woodford for staging the match at such short notice.

Nomads used to play South Woodford 1st XI on a Saturday.  Many moons ago having defeated them SW  persuaded our star bowler, the late Ossie Gooding, to join SW. He did for a few seasons, breaking the league record for wickets in the season and taking them to the league title.  It was good to see Ossie in the team  photographs on the club house wall.  Nomads could have done with Ossie in his prime this day!

Past Matches
2006 Delhi Blues won by 106 runs
2004 Delhi Blues won by 87 runs 
2002 Delhi Blues won by 3 wickets
2002 Delhi Blues won by 202 runs