MATCH 86 Nomads CC v Chippenham CC Chippenham Park Marlow Chippenham Cambridgeshire  Tuesday September 18th 2018 12.30pm SL7 2AE-Time game, 20 overs 5.20pm

Toss:    Nomads won the toss
Result:  Nomads won by 2 wickets
Umpires: Derek Manners & Others
Scorer:  Steve Brewer  
Debuts:  J Pretsell

CHIPPENHAM CC  Innings               R  B   M   4s 6s
A Brown     retired hurt            50  92 101  5  0
P Sadler    bowled        Marshall   2  20  12  0  0
S Gibson    bowled        Marshall   1   7   5  0  0
J Heather   c O'Gorman  b Page       8  11  13  1  0
R Saltmarsh lbw         b Marshall   7   7  14  1  0
O Rix+      c & b         O'Gorman 102 102  95 12  0
P Lloyd     c & b         Keess      0   2   2  0  0
A Ozakkhal  c Alexander b Marshall  33  29  17  4  0
H Grant     bowled        Marshall  13  14   2  0  0
A Wright*   not out                  5  12  16  0  0
Extras      (b0,lb0,w0,nb0)          0
TOTAL       (8 wkts dec,49.2 overs)221

Fow:1-3(2),2-5(3),3-28(4),4-45(5),5-125(7),6-201(6),7-203(8),8-221(9).

Bowling-Marshall 19.2 4 62 5,Page 11 1 48 1,Keess 8 0 39 1,O'Gorman 8 1 44 1,Alexander 3 0 28 0.

Keith Alexander & J Laxton swapped wicket keeping duties at drinks 25 overs, neither conceded a bye.

NOMADS CC Innings                   R  B   M 4s 6s
K Alexander+ c Lloyd   b Jordan    19 35  40 3  0
M Blake      c & b       Jordan     6 23  28 1  0
S Hussain    c & b       Ozakkhal  15 18  22 3  0
J O'Gorman   bowled(p/o) Ozakkhal  15 18  22 3  0
N Keess      not out               59 74 100 6  0
J Thornton   bowled      Ozakkhal   0  1   1 0  0
M Armitage   bowled      Ozakkhal   0  1   1 0  0
J Laxton+    not out               17 18  31 2  0
Extras      (b2,lb3,w6,nb0)        11
TOTAL       (6 wickets,43.4 overs)222
Dnb:C Page,A Marshall,ME Blumberg*.

Fow:1-28(2),2-35(1),3-77(4),4-177(3),5-177(6),6-177(7).

Bowling-Grant 7 1 24 0,Jordan 7 3 25 2,Lloyd 6 0 38 0,Ozakkhal 14.5 1 85 4,Heather 9 0 45 0. 

Veterans Nigel & Jerry Scamper away to bring victory for Nomads

This was Nomads first visit to Chippenham CC and its attractive large ground. The village has no shops and the excellent pub is run by the community. The cricket club run a Saturday and Sunday eleven for which players qualify by living in the  village and or two neigbouring villages. For midweek matches guests are invited. One such is Cambridgeshire County Player J Heather who has scored a load of midwek runs and many tons for Chippenham.

On a very windy mid day Nomads skipper won the toss and inserted Chippenham on the basis that the opposition strength was an unknown commododity, Nomads had an attack of slow bowlers and we more likely to chase successfully than bowl the opposition out.

For a while  all went surprisingly well for Nomads as Andy Marshall removed numbers 2 and 3 for 5 runs on the board. Then Professor Page enticed County player Heather to hit powerfully to Long Off where Joe O'Gorman took the catch. Shortly afterwards Marshall had further success trapping number 4 lbw so Chippenham were now 45-4 off in the 16th over. Nomads had visions of a modest total to chase.

Chippenham's tall wicket keeper  Rix joined Brown and these two added 80 before Brown having reached fifty retired hurt. Lloyd was out for a duck to an excellent caught & bowled by Keess. Then after an uncertain start Ozakkhal attacked the bowling and added with Rix another 76 runs before Joe O'Gorman took a caught and bowled catch smashed at him by centurion Rix. Two runs later and Ozakkhal was caught by Alexander at Point off the returning Marshall. Marshall completed a fifer before Chippenham's skipper declared on 221-8 off 49.2 overs bowled in 2 hours 43 minutes including 23 in the first hour!

Chippenham had recovered well from their early losses yet Nomads with a veteran fielding side apart from two had done quite well to constrain Chippenham. Noteworthy was the Extras figure of zero indicating accurate bowling and sound wicket keeping!

After an excellent tea Nomads opened with Alexander and Blake. This experienced pair steadily added 28 before Blake miscued and shortly after Alexander on 19 was caught in the covers off a ball that 'stopped' on him. Nomads two youngsters Shiraz and Joe began to accelerate the run rate adding 42 before Joe chopped the ball onto his stumps, the first of four victims for Ozakkhal. Nigel Keess joined Shiraz and these two added 100 runs off 17 overs whereupon Shiraz on 95 drove loosely and was caught and bowled by Ozakkhal.  Nomads then lost two more wickets bowled as Ozakkhal completed a hat trick. Chippenham sensed victory with ten more overs to take four wickets. In strode veteran Jerry Laxton to join Nigel Keess and these two agile veterans made the required 45 runs for victory with a plethora of scampered singles complemented with  five boundaries.

Nomads and Chippenham repaired to the local Tharp pub to celebrate an excellently contested match and with a century, a hat trick and a fifer, several jugs of ale to consume before the long journey home.