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Sunday July 4th v Marlow Park CC

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