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Sunday September 30th v Leatherhead & Cobham CC

MATCH 61 NOMADS CC v Leatherhead & Cobham CC at Fetcham Leatherhead KT22 9AJ   Sunday 30th September 2012 1.00pm 

Result: Nomads won by 3 wickets
Toss: Nomads CC
Umpires:Charles Fellows-Smith &
Scorers:Several
Debut(s):None.

LEATHERTHED & COBHAM CC Innings
D Everest  c Style    b Shawl    22
S McGahie+ bowled       Shawl     4
J Mead *   bowled       Shawl    51
A Leach    bowled       A Smith   1
J McGahie  c A Smith  b Peerless 52
T Craydon  bowled       Peerless  4
H Symes    c Brockton b Peerless  4
B Porter   bowled       Shawl     2
T Garton   bowled       Shawl     4
E Huseyn   c O Smith b Peerless   4
L Craydon  not out                0
Extras    (b13,lb4,nb2,w9)       28
TOTAL     (All out,47.4 overs)  178

Fow:1-10,2-48,3-56,4-145,5-155,161,7-163,8-170,9-175,10-178.

Bowling-Ckark 8 1 22 0,Shawl 14.4 4 29 5,A Smith 12 2 39 1,Williams 7 0 45 0,Peerless 6 0 24 4.


NOMADS CC Innings

R Style     bowled        T Crayden  5
O Smith     c E Huseyn  b T Crayden 14
T Brockton* bowled        Leach     77
S Puri      c J McGahie b T Crayden  1
A Smith     c E Huseyn  b Symes     41
C Peerless  bowled        Symes      4
S Shawl     c L Crayden b T Crayden  4
RJ Clark    not out                 12
A Lee+      not out                  1
Extras     (b6,lb5,w4,nb2)          17
TOTAL      (7 wickets,38.3 overs) 180(-5)
Dnb:D Williams,ME Blumberg

Fow:1-10,2-34,3-38,4-143,5-158,6-162,7-168.

Bowling-T Crayden 11.3 3 28 4,J McGahie 5 0 32 0,Symes 13 0 59 2,Huseyn 3 0 17 0,L Crayden 2 0 18 0,Leach 4 0 15 1.(+5)


Victorious Nomads after the match.It was very dark as Richard Clark hit the winning runs

Tom Brockton writes

After a good win the previous day vs Crouch End Calthorpe spirits were high for the final (UK) game of the 2012 season and Nomads longest standing continuous fixture vs Leatherhead. Although a dry day was forecast the temperature was unlikely to rise above 15 degrees, so long sleeves (and in Andy Smith’s case, long-johns) were in order.

Tom Brockton won the toss and inserted the home side on what looked like a decent batting track. With a plethora of bowling talent available Nomads were confident of being able to bowl out the home team for a manageable total. Sajjad Shawl and the dapperly attired Richard Clark took the new cherry for the home side and although no wickets came in the opening 10 overs both Shawl and Clark troubled McGahie & the seemingly immovable David Everest, beating the bat on numerous occasions. Shawl extracted some unnerving bounce from the wicket meaning that the gloves and agility of wicket-keeper Tony Lee were tested on regular intervals.

Shawl was to provide Nomads with the deserved breakthrough, ripping through the defences of McGahie, uprooting his middle and leg stump. Unfortunately the hands(more like his left forearm!) of President Blumberg shelled a tricky chance off Clark at 1st slip but as the 20 over mark approached Leatherhead were struggling at 50-1. A change of ends gave Nomads their 2nd wicket as Shawl took the prize scalp of Everest, chipping tamely to cover where Rupert Style gladly took the catch. Andrew Smith was quickly in on the act and apart from one wayward over his lengthy spell was full of guile and variation.

Leatherhead were stuttering at 83-3 from 28 overs but an enterprising partnership between their skipper & McGrahie (junior) not only increased the run rate but also launched a somewhat savage attack on the bowling of Darryn Williams whose orthodox slow left arm was dispatched for a flurry of boundaries. Williams dropped McGrahie off his own bowling and it took an inspired change of bowling to get Nomads back in the ascendancy. “Golden arm” Charlie Peerless was introduced to the attack and he immediately took the wicket of McGrahie who had just reached a robust 50, and then Smith removed the rotund Leech as he advanced down the wicket. Tony Lee was ready to complete the stumping but the ball cannoned into the top of off-stump.

After a fine spell Andrew Smith was replaced by Shawl for his 3rd spell of the afternoon and he coupled with Peerless took the remaining wickets to bowl out Leatherhead for 178. Peerless finishing with 4-26 and Shawl an impressive 5-29, amazingly the only 5 wicket haul of the season for a Nomads bowler!

Nomads would receive somewhere in the region of 38-40 overs to chase this total and would need to score at just a shade under 5 an over. Rupert Style opened the innings with Olly Smith but after an all run 4 in the first over Style was bowled neck & crop by the impressive Tom Craydon. Brockton entered at number 3 and he and Smith took he score to 34 before Smith chipped leg stump delivery to square leg where the diminutive Husseyn took the catch, and when Shepherds Bush cricketer Sachin Puri flicked meekly to mid wicket Nomads were in some strife at 38-3. Craydon had taken all 3 wickets to fall.

Veteran Andrew Smith and Brockton then forged a partnership of just over a hundred in the next 20 overs, but as only one ball had been agreed for the entire match finding the boundary was becoming increasingly tricky and with defensive fields set the pair resorted to pushing plenty of singles and hurried twos. Smith perished for a well crafted 41 holing out to long-on where the safe hands of Husseyn pouched the catch. Peerless soon followed, advancing out of his crease only to drag the ball onto his stumps and when Brockton played a disastrous stroke to the innocuous off-spin of Leach to be bowled for 77 Nomads needed 17 off the final 4 overs.

Memories of 2011 and Sajjad Shawl’s onslaught at Leatherhead that brought him a half century off just 17 balls were very short-lived as he skied to mid-off and it was left to Richard Clarke and keeper Tony Lee to scamper 11 runs from the next 2 overs , the final two overs of the match. Clark was very much equal to the task clipping elegantly, Gower-esq off his pads for a much needed boundary and then thumping through extra cover to retain the strike. Three needed off the final over to be bowled by Tom Craydon, but Clarke needed only three balls and his scampered two resulted in Nomads being victorious by 3 wickets in the evening gloom at Leatherhead. President Blumberg and Williams were both padded up ready if required but Clark ensured that was not to be the case.

Back to the bar and Leatherhead’s end of season speeches and awards took place, plenty of ales flowed and tales of daring-do shared together with a vast table full of food much to Umpire Charles Fellow-Smith delight. Michael Blumberg discovered a framed photo from a former Nomads vs Leatherhead contest in 1976, the president sporting a shock of dark hair with John Nagenda in Nomads cap, also present in the Nomads line-up were David Alexander, Ian Crombie, Ken Crombie and others.

2012’s match was certainly one of the closest contests between the two sides and a fitting end to the (UK) 2012 season.