Nomads CC v Barnes CC Wednesday August 13th 1997 2.00pm, Lonsdale Road, London SW13

Toss:   Nomads won the toss
Result: Barnes won by 6 wickets
Umpires:Not recorded
Scorers:Various
Debuts: 

NOMADS CC Innings
R Smith     c?     b Hake    13
AJ Whiteway c?     b Horsham 54
C Peerless  c?     b Asprey   1
R Durden    bowled   Asprey   0
A Abramson  c ?    b King    40
ME Blumberg c?     b Horsham 20
C Jeavons*  bowled   Harris   0
R Insall    bowled   Harris   6
J White+    not out          10
J Stevenson not out          17
Extras     (b&lb10,w&nb8)    18
TOTAL  (8 wkts dec,52 overs)179
Dnb:(GC Lamb or CR Mann missing) 

Fow:1-22,2-25,3-26,4-85,5-136,6-141,7-142,8-169. 

Bowling-Hake 8 2 33 1,Asprey 9 1 24 2,King 7 1 25 1,Martin 12 1 38 0,Horsham 9 4 12 0,Harris 5 1 14 0,Simpson 2 0 23 0.   

BARNES CC Innings 
M Simpson   c & b      Blumberg   8 
? Benfield  st White b Blumberg 100 
N Stevenson c Insall b Jeavons   14 
? Congdon   bowled     Peerless  12 
? Harris    not out              21 
? Horsham   not out              17 
Extras      (b&lb7,w&nb 1)        8 
TOTAL    (4 wickets,39.3 overs) 180 
Dnb:? King,? Asprey,? Hake,?Asprey,? Martin. 

Fow:1-22,2-66,3-106,4-152. 

Bowling-Insall 6 2 9 0,Blumberg 11 2 43 2,Stevenson 5 0 19 0,Jeavons 6 1 29 1,R Smith 6 0 34 0,Peerless 5 0 28 1,Abramson 0.3 0 11 0 

Whiteway's last stand

On a very wet pitch Nomads won the toss and elected to bat perhpas on the basis that not all players had arrived. Indeed two never did due to some administrative mishap and so an intending umpire former British Olympic ski jumper Stevenson played for Nomads.

Although Whiteway was far from well the nature of the pitch helped him as the ball tended to stop and stand up whereupon Whiteway swatted to leg and off for mostly boundaries but this was slow progress. The innings had started fluently with Robert Smith smashing three fours in the first over only to be undone by his enthusiasm impress as a dashing bat. Unfortunately Charles Peerless and Richard Durden failed to impress the scorers so it was Alan Abramson and Michael Blumberg who partrnered Whiteway to some sort of total. The tail wagged especially thanks to guest Stevenson(he had played for Nomads before) and Clyde Jeavons declared the innings closed at the modest total of 179.

Nomads opened with a mix of seam and slow and in general Nomads bowled quite tidily. Had we snapped up the ealy half chances from centurion Benfield it may have been a different result but by the time Blumberg in a second spell lured him forward to be stumped by Nomads septuagenarian wicket keeper Professor John White he had one hundred on the board and the game was already effectively lost. Indeed Harris and Horsham enjoyed an unbeaten stand of 38 to win the game. 

Tony Whiteway had been far and away Nomads heaviest scorer over some thirty years  though his weekend appearances had become rarer as he developed his retail west end business. This was his last innings and a fifty on a difficult pitch. He was admitted to hospital the following Sunday and after analysis the quacks announced he had suffered a mild stroke recently. When asked what he had been up in the last few days he replied " Well I played cricket on Wednesday" and as the medics'  jaws fell open in amazement he added " In fact I scored fifty four". "Incredible" the assembled quacks replied in unison. Sadly while in hospital Tony suffered a muliplicity of further strokes leaving him partially paralised and unable to resume his club cricket career. In the noughties he resumed Nomads CC duties becoming the club's Honorary Treasurer.