MATCH 48 Nomads CC v Merrow CC Sunday September 17th 1.00pm,  Epsom Road Merrow Surrey   

Result:      Nomads won by 26 runs
Toss:        Merrow CC
Umpires:     Mark Williams & AN Other 
Debuts:      None 
Man Of Match:Joe Ireland     

NOMADS Innings 
J Lascelles     c Bakker   b Stockwell 40 
N Nayar         c Newman   b Windus A   0 
A Marshall      c Windus   b Windus A  11 
N Cooper        run out                32 
R Fanthorpe     bowled       Bakker    11 
GC Lamb         bowled       Windus P   0 
D Perry         bowled       Bowles     6 
ME Blumberg     c Newman   b Bakker    12 
C Fellows-Smith lbw        b Bakker     6 
M Williams      not out                 0
Extras         (b14,lb2,w20,nb1)       37
TOTAL          (All out,52.4 overs)   156      

Fow:1-2,2-3,3-28,4-82,5-110,6-110,7-119,8-131,9-156,10-156.zxcv    

Bowling-Bakker 14.4 6 25 3,A Windus 13 4 29 3,Stockwell 7 0 42 1,McGill 5 1 21 0,P Windus 6 3 5 1,Bowles 5 3 8 1,C Windus 2 0 10 0.

MERROW CC Innings
M Bakker    c Marshall      b Ireland      61 
S Perry     lbw             b Marshall     12 
D Riddell   c Marshall      b Ireland      17 
T Newton    c Cooper        b Fellows-Smith 1 
K Kennaugh  c Fellows-Smith b Ireland       8 
C Windus    bowled            Ireland       4 
P Windus    bowled            Ireland       4 
N Stockwell c Ireland       b Fellows-Smith 1 
C McGill    c Fellows-Smith b Ireland       5 
A Windus    not out                         0
T Bowles    lbw             b Ireland      11 
Extras      (b3,lb3,w0,nb0)                 6
TOTAL       (All out 32.5 overs)          130       

Fow:1-43,2-79,3-86,4-94,5-100,6-109,7-116,8-128,9-128,10-130.

Bowling-Marshall 5 0 43 1,Fellows-Smith 14 3 49 2,Ireland 11.5 3 29 7,Nayar 2 0 2 0.

 Joe Ireland routs Merrow to snatch unlikely victory    

Nomads finally broke a prolonged series of defeats on UK soil with an ancient side at Merrow on Sunday. Four superb catches in the deep ensured victory and a fine bowling analysis for Joe Ireland thanfully back in form(7-29). Andy Marshall took two catches, one on the run and another with a juggle while Charles Fellows-Smith held firm the other two. This welcome return to catching competance reduced the home side from a headlong rush to overwhelming victory to one of hanging on for dear life with the fielders crowded round the bat.

Earlier Nomads having won the toss had made heavy weather of a sporting pitch against some good bowling. Neeraj Nayar played a uncontrolled pull straight to midwicket. Andy Marshall failed to take his rare opportunity up the order with a wild flash at a short rising ball to be caught behind-2-2. Jermey Lascelles and Joe Ireland added 26 before Joe played a leading edge attempting to drive to the on when a straighter shot was more appropriate.

Nick Cooper joined Jeremy and these two were beginning to settle into a large partnership helped by some gentler bowling when Jeremy drove early and with a hint of bump ball was caught gently at cover-82-4.

Richard Fanthorpe now joined Nick Cooper in a stand of 28 which would have been double had he managed to give Nick some strike. While pondering this predicament he ran out Nick for a useful 32 in an unfortunately comical fashion,110-5 which with Charlton Lamb bowled for a duck was soon 110-6. Our guest hit a curious six runs before being bowled 119-7.

The Hon Sec thus joined Fanthorpe at 119 -7 with at least 50 overs of the match still to go.To the irritation of some of the Merrow players these two and then Charles F-S added a further valuable 37 runs off  16 overs to end all out 156 off 52 overs.

With the Merrow batsmen raring to go and Nomad fielders ready the home team lost several overs from a failure to send out some umpires. However that looked irrelevant as Martin Bakker smote Andy Marshall for 12 off the first over  and S Perry much the same off over two from Charles Fellows-Smith. Although we had taken two wickets the Merrow score stood at 86-2 off 10 overs when Bakker mishit Ireland towards deep mid wicket boundary.  Andy Marshall ran round caught it with a juggle or two and Bakker was on his way for a storming 61 off  little over 30 balls.

That catch changed the game and a remarkable win was achieved as Joe Ireland took another five wickets and Fellows-Smith two. As a result, a significant body of ancient Nomads eventually left the Merrow clubhouse many hours later having enjoyed jugs and rounds from Joe Ireland and umpire/keeper Mark Williams.

However we seemed to lose a lot of friends at Merrow by batting so long!!!!!!

Nomads have been playing Merrow every season since 1961.