MATCH 20 Nomads CC v Marlow Park CC Higginson Park Marlow Bucks Sunday July 4th 2010 2.00pm SL7 2AE
Toss: Marlow Park won toss
Result: Marlow Park won by 36 runs
Umpires: Paul Smithies &
Scorers: M Barlowe
Debut(s):Subhir Ali,Sumir Ali
MARLOW PARK CC Innings
A Maqsood lbw b Page 12
P Stephens c Lamb b Shah 0
M Ellis lbw b Shah 0
I Cameron bowled Page 2
W Hellier lbw b Page 54
T Mahmood bowled Page 0
I Hatch bowled Blumberg 6
M Munsha not out 94
D Hawkins bowled Sb Ali 28
P Joslin bowled Shah 0
C Way st Farooq b Lamb 8
Extras (b9,lb4,w16,nb2) 31
TOTAL (All out,37.3 overs) 231
Fow:1-2,2-10,3-23,4-48,5-60,6-70,7-120,8-184,9-193,10-231
Bowling-Shah 8 1 43 3,Subhir Ali 8 1 35 1,Page 8 1 48 4,Sumir Ali 0.2 0 1 0,Blumberg 8 0 62 1,Sattar 3 0 21 0,Lamb 2.1 0 9 1.
NOMADS CC Innings
A Sattar* c Cameron b Stephens 2
A Peters bowled Hatch 86
O Farooq+ lbw b Stephens 6
Sumir Ali run out 1
D Shah bowled Munsha 18
Subhir Ali st Hawkins b Munsha 0
GC Lamb c Hawkins b Hatch 44
C Page bowled Hatch 6
ME Blumberg not out 14
AN Absent
AN Absent
Extras (b1,lb6,w6,nb5) 18
TOTAL (All out,38.4 overs)195
Fow:1-35,2-46,3-58,4-92,5-95,6-144,7-158,8-195
Bowling-Ellis 8 0 45 0,Mahmood 1 0 11 0,Stephens 8 0 29 2,Munsha 8 0 25 2,Josh 4 0 18 0,Hatch 7.4 0 33 3,Helliger 1 0 19 0,Cameron 1 0 6 0.
Nomads undone by generosity
This was a match the course of which would have been very familiar to a former captain of the club, Cambridge Boxing blue Ian Crombie. In his day Nomads were endowed with several good opening bowlers who wreaked havoc with the top order of many of our village opponents. Crombie’s strategy was always to remove the penetrative bowlers and bowl flighted left arm slow fifth until the oppo' had reached a reasonable total, sometimes rather larger as one batsman now well in, flayed the returning quicks.
We had struggled to reach eleven for this game which we finally did only for one player to find himself in Belgium and another to be required by his local club after a new member had dropped out! MP helped us with an tenth fielder throughout their innings.
Marlow Park won the toss and elected to bat. Their innings was soon in some disarray, 23-3 so Abdul removed Shah and Ali and introduced the skilful slows of Chris Page and the less skilful slows of Blumberg with an attacking field. Wickets continued to tumble 70-6 and 120-7 the runs having come mainly from Hellier’s 54 who drove powerfully including some big sixes.
Hawking's joined Munsha and these two added 64 abetted by some dropped catches and indifferent ground fielding. Ali bowled Hawkins at 184 and Dawood returning with less disciplined line and length than before nevertheless bowled Joslin for a duck. By this time Munsha was batting with increasing confidence and with Hatch added 41 for the last wicket.
After an excellent tea Abdul Sattar and Andy Peters opened the innings. As much as Andy was fluent from the start Abdul, this season’s run machine, suffering from the frustrations of trying to raise a side, finding Marlow and making the acquaintance of Chris Page, struggled to score. At 35 he was caught near the long off boundary for 2. Omar Farooq who would normally have opened the bowling but stood in as wicket keeper hit a massive six and then was adjudged lbw to the same young leg spinner as removed Abdul.
So two of our meagre top order were now out early and Sumir Ali was then run out at the bowler’s end off a straight hit by Peters,58-3. Dawood hit several mighty blows before being undone by a low bouncing but straight long hop,92-4. Subir Ali was then stumped for a duck,95-5.
Charlton Lamb now joined Andy Peters and added 49 runs before Andy out of character attempted to hit slow left armer Hatch into the river Thames and was bowled,144-6. Page hit a boundary and then attempted a replica of the Peters shot and was also bowled,148-7. So Blumberg duly joined Lamb and these two club ancients briskly hit 37 more runs with a flurry of boundaries before Lamb was well caught by the wicket keeper diving wide when the ball seemed destined for the third man boundary. Nomads nine had thus ended 36 runs short. Pity about that Marlow last wicket stand.!
Lamb now 73 years old has scored 27,38 and 44 in his last three Nomads’ knocks. The President having batted seven times has amassed 48 without surrendering his wicket yet!
Previous Matches
2009 Lost by 26 runs
2008 Cancelled Rain
2007 Match Drawn
Posted on 18/05/2010
by Michael Blumberg