MATCH 20 NOMADS V GAIETIES CC  National Physical Laboratory Ground Queens Road  Teddington  Middlesex  TW11 0LW    2.00pm  Second Ground 

The game ends, players shake hands, Nathan Lamb had just hit the winning runs

Toss::  Nomads won the toss
Result: Nomads won by 6 wickets 
Umpires:Stuart Croucher  & Others       
Scorers:Several 
Debuts :None

GAIETIES CC Innings

R Crowe     bowled    Brockton 16

S Dutta     lbw     b Plant    60

J Schneider c Sub   b Plant    23

P Bulteel   st Lane b A Smith  19

O Ingrams   bowled    Plant    10

H Thurston  bowled    A Smith  25

I MacKinnon not out            10

W Birch     bowled   J Smith    4

D Thurston  bowled   J Smith    0

M Burton    not out             0

Extras     (b5,lb3,w5,nb0)     13

TOTAL (8 wickets dec,43 overs 180

Dnb:M Warburton

Fow:1-30,2-91,3-112,4-124,5-144,6-171,7-180,8-180.

Bowling-Plant 19 1 57 3,Brockton 10 0 51 1,A Smith 11 2 53 2,J Smith 3 0 12 2.

NOMADS CC Innings

T Brockton bowled    Warburton  80

C Peerless bowled    Burton      6

J Lane     lbw     b H Thurston 18

M Plant    bowled    Dutta      48

N Lamb     not out               9

A Smith    not out               4

Extras    (b6,lb1,w9,nb2)       18

TOTAL     (4 wickets,36 overs) 183

Dnb:J Smith,GC Lamb,ME Blumberg,AN Other,AN Missing.

Fow:1-13,2-55,3-149,4-169.

Bowling-Burton 12 5 31 1,MacKinnon 7 3 19 0,H Thurston 5 0 33 1,Birch 3 0 30 0,J Schneider 4 0 35 0,Dutta 2 0 8 1,D Thurston 2 0 13 0, Warburton 1 0 6 0.

Jamie Lane checks the scores with the Michael Blumberg

          No drama as Nomads canter to comfortable win

With limited bowling resources Nomads skipper invited Gaieties to bat first. After a brief flurry Gaieties struggled against the seam of Brockton and Plant. Crowe fell to a Brockton slower ball and James Schneider was well caught by a sub fielder off Plant. From then on wickets fell steadily with the innings stumbling along. Plant bowled a very long spell of 19 overs, most of it very accurate and disceptive on a pitch bespeckled with bird shit. As the declaration became imminent  occasional bowler James Smith took two wickets with successive balls.

After a good tea Brockton and Peerless opened the Nomads innings and Peerless was soon bowled by Matthew Burton. What had seemed like a generous declaration began to look the opposite as the Nomads innings ground to a halt against Burton and Mackinnon. Lane was lbw to Gaieties skipper Hugo Thurston at 55-2 but from thereon in Plant and a revived Brockton scored ever more freely. Plant fell to Dutta and then Brockton rather carelessly to Mike Warburton with the target well in sight. Nathan Lamb hit the winning boundary with some four overs of the last twenty left. 

Both teams were not as strong as in some previous contests yet it was a good  Nomads win which was celebrated for some length with Brian Philips afterwards at the NPL bar. 

James Smith,  Charles Peerless  &  Andy Smith in the NPL Club House

Previous Matches

2010 Gaieties win by 9 wickets

2009 Match Drawn,Ben Nealon hits ton for Gaieties

2008 Gaieties thrash Nomads by 173 runs

2007 Nomads won by 5 wickets
2005 Match Cancelled Wet Pitch on brilliant sunny and breezy day
2004 Nomads lost by 64 runs

2003 Match Cancelled

2002

2001