Nomads CC 1912

Played 33  Won 10   Drawn 12   Tied 0  Lost 21   Cancelled 7

   Hampstead Nomads started the season with 25 members and finished it with 37. More games were played than ever before, a whole-day and a half day match being arranged for practically every Saturday up to the end of July. The club has relied very much on FC Boully and LG Kirkpatrick, two brilliant all round players:but other good men such as Cattley,Habershon,C Browning and Crawfurd,the last named being kept out of the field for two months by an accident-could not play regularly, and a few who appeared only three or four times do not figure in the averages.

   LF Matthews, who is only nineteen should be of great help to the club in the future:and much is hoped from Austin Bloomfield when he comes down from Oxford. His elder brother,HE, who joined the Indian Civil Service last Autumn,left a gap. At Southgate last year he hit 15 balls out of the ground in an innings lasting under an hour: and tappers of his kind are not easily replaced.

    As reported in CRICKET A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME October 12th 1912

BATTING AVERAGES 

                                      I      N/O     Runs     HS     Ave

GW Cattley             5     0    162    94   32.40 

LG Kirkpatrick        24     3    663   112   31.57

FC Boully             18     1    520   142*  30.57

KR Habershon           6     0    183    83   30.50

C Browning             8     1    205    47   29.28

LF Matthews           15     2    275    46   21.37

A Blomfield            5     0    102    58   20.40 

JS Caulfield          15     2    208    35   16.00

HE Crawford            8     0    128    45   16.00

E Bloodworth           7     0    101    40   14.42

W Johnson              6     0     83    35   13.83

AG Humphrey           10     2    104    28*  13.00

HG Bloodworth         13     1    136    35   11.33

EL Newton             10     1    102    49   11.33

HG Price-Williams      5     1     45    16   11.25  

H Wearne               5     0     56    18   11.20

HG Lafford             6     0     67    16   11.16    

H Browning            26     3    254    41   11.04

WA Hirst              13     4     93    33   10.33

RI Brenton            13     0    130    33   10.00

                                             Runs     Wkts     Ave

FC Boully                   519     61    8.50 

SBK Caulfield               342     37    9.24

EL Newton                   170     18    9.44

HG Bloodworth               316     29   10.89

HE Crawford                 256     23   11.13

D Price-Williams            125     11   11.36

JS Caulfield                140     12   11.66

LG Kirkpatrick             1158     83   13.90

H Wearne                    176     11   16.00

LF Matthews                 338     20   `6.90

In 1912 Stade Francais, a French club based in Paris, and competing in the then extensive Paris Cricket League came on tour to the London area and played Nomads CC on July 17th at the North Middlesex Club, Crouch End, London,N8.

The match was recorded in the Sporting Life Journal.  Scorecards & Caricatures 

This summer 1912 saw the first Triangular Test series being played between Australia, England & South Africa organised b the fledgeling Imperial Cricket Conference. England won! Patrick Ferriday has published his account of the tournament Click here .  Photograph of the three captains        Scorecards & Stats

More recently the Asian Cricket Council has organised an Asian Test Championship contested 1998/99 season in February which Pakistan won and in 2001/2 Sri Lanka won the tournament although India withdew for political reasons.

Yorkshire won the County Championship.The Minor Counties Championship was in abeyance in 1912. Cambridge won the Varsity match at Lord's by 3 wickets  when the Oxford captain contracted measles during the match after scoring 99* in the first innings. Scorecard . Eton beat Harrow by 6 wickets at Lord's July 12/13. Scorecard. Marlborough beat Rugby by 8 wickets at Lord's July 31st/August 1st Scorecard.  Haileybury beat Cheltenham at Lord's August 2/3 by 11 runs Scorecard. Authors drew with Publishers at Lord's rain effected August 21st Scorecard