NOMADS CC v Stowe Templars CC at Stowe School Buckingham Monday July 21st 1997 11.30am  

Toss:    Nomads won the toss
Result:  Templars won by 5 wickets with 5.3 overs left
Umpires:
Scorers: Various
Debut(s):D Hagan

NOMADS CC Innings
D Hagan    not out               140
CR Mann    lbw    b   Lord        11
S Watson   not out               104
Extras    (b11,lb4,w0,nb3)        18
TOTAL     (1 wicket dec,56 overs)273
Dnb:K Sutherland,GC Lamb,C Peerless,ME Blumberg*,C Jeavons+,R Smith,P Frost,A Marshall.  
 *The stand between David Hagan & Steve Watson is presumed to be a club record beating the 204 made by TA Crawford and HE Holt in 1932   

Fow:1-38.  

Bowling-Dewinter 6 2 18 0,Lord 9 2 30 1,Morrison 10 2 57 0,Turner 10 1 26 0,Allport 8 2 35 0,Croom-johnson 5 0 24 0,Curley 4 0 31 0,Michaels 4 0 34 0

STOWE TEMPLARS CC Innings 
I Michaels c Watson b Smith     3 
M Turner   run out             91 
S Allport  bowled    Blumberg  73 
N Grice+   lbw     b Blumberg  27 
A Morrison c Hagan b Blumberg  27 
D East     not out             22 
S Curley   not out             38 
Extras    (9,lb3,w0,nb0)       12 
TOTAL     (5 wkts,58.3 overs) 276 
Dnb:L Turner,R Lord,B De Winter,O Croom-Johnson. 

Fow:1-25,2-168,3-182,4-192,5-227.

Bowling-Marshall 6.3 1 38 0,Smith 9 0 64 1,Blumberg 18 1 67 3,Lamb 5 0 32 0,Frost 7 0 40 0,Watson 2 0 7 0.Hagan 1 0 16 0. 

A Premature Declaration

The skipper insisted Nomads needed 300 but the rest of the team argued that we had enough just because Steve Watson and David Hagan were batting brilliantly setting a new club record for any wicket stand and so in the spirit of democracy the Nomads innings was declared after 56 overs.

In the event Templars won with 5.3 overs to spare with just five wickets down and the Nomads felt right chumps. Nevertheless they stayed and drank with the victiorous opposition for sometime before setting forth back South!

 
A young Marshall with Mum, Dad and Granddad                                        Robert Smith scoring in the sunshine