MATCH 12 NOMADS CC v Follies Farm Old Spots CC at Follies Farm Chiddingfold Sunday June 3rd 2007 1.00pm

Result:Nomads won by 89 runs
Umpires:Paul Maloney &
Scorers: Various
Debut(s):Greg Jones

NOMADS CC Innings 
J Lascelles  bowled      Hix   36
N Fletcher   c Smith C b Leng   5
J Lane       bowled      Perry 17
N Lamb       c Stokes  b Perry 10
K Alexander  lbw       b Saxel 94
G Jones      c Saxel   b Hicks 17
K Thorns     bowled      Leng  22
D Rawat      run out(Powar)     7
GC Lamb      not out            4
M E Blumberg not out            0
Extras      (b2,lb0,w6,nb2)    10
TOTAL    (8 wickets,40 overs) 224 
Dnb:N Cooper

Fow:1-16,2-46,3-64,4-84,5-98.6-201,7-216,8-224.

Bowling-Leng 8 4 13 2,Watson 8 0 43 0,T Smith 3 0 19 0,Hicks 6 0 27 2,Perry 8 0 55 2,C Smith 2 0 19 0,Power 2 0 31 0.  

FOLLIES FARM OLD SPOTS CC Innings
F Francis bowled        Thorns    0 
H Spears  run out                23
S Saxel   lbw         b Jones     0
E Power   lbw         b Thorns    1
M Perry   st Rawat    b Blumberg 36
D Leng    c Rawat     b Blumberg  4
R Stokes  bowled        Lane      0
J Hicks   c Lascelles b Blumberg  3
T Smith   bowled        Fletcher 35
W Watson  bowled        Blumberg 14
C Smith   not out                10
Extras    (b5,lb1,w2,nb1)         9
TOTAL    (All out,30.3 overs)   135 

Fow:1-1,2-5,3-10,4-50,6-74,7-75,8-77,9-106,10-135.

Bowling-Thorns 6 2 7 2,Jones 5 0 14 1,Blumberg 8 0 43 4,Lane 5 1 31 1.Fletcher 4.3 0 17 1,Lamb 2 0 18 0.

Keith Alexander plunders 94 at Follies Farm

With the sun shining at last Nomads won the toss and elected to bat first at Follies Farm.There were murmurings in the dressing room about the state of the pitch but veteran skipper Charlton Lamb said "It will probably get worse.I want a minimum of 5 an over."
  
Well things did get worse as Nomads slumped to 98-5 despite 36 from Jeremy Lascelles and at the drinks interval at 20 overs the total was well under 4 an over.
 
However after a short flurry from Greg Jones the tempo accelerated as Keith Alexander despatched the bowling, both serious and cafeteria, to all sections of the ground. During this merry mayhem Karl Thorns, usually a powerful stroke maker himself, was happy to give the strike to Keith as they added 103 for the 6th wicket of which he contributed 10%.
 
When Keith was out lbw he had hit a quickfire 94 and lifted Nomads total to respectability. A further 23 runs were added despite the President batting out the last over for a maiden against Leng the Follies¹ skipper and pick of their bowlers,8- 4-13-2.
 
After tea Thorns and Jones struck early removing three of the top four cheaply. A fantastic throw in removed the fourth wicket which had added some 40 runs. Blumberg after an expensive first over then accounted for danger man Leng so Follies innings was deep in the pig swill. Blumberg took two more so that the home side were down and out at 8-77. However the last three batsmen then added 58 runs to finish all out on 135 some 89 runs short. In view of the tail's flurry it was thus doubly important we had captured the wickets of Leng and Perry when we did.
 
Karl Thorns finished with 6-2-7-2 and Blumberg's flighted filth returned 8-0-43-4.

Previous Matches
 2006 Nomads win by 74 runs as Tom Lascelles takes a 'Michele'
 2005 Leng steals the show for FFOS who win by 48 runs
 2004 Nomads won by 51 runs
 2003 FFOS won by 3 wickets
 2002 Nomads received a thrashing

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