Wakers returns and hits 98*

Sunday May 18th v Pink Elephants Won by 3 wickets

MATCH 9  PINK ELEPHANTS CC v NOMADS CC  at Vincent Square Sunday May 18th 2007 1.00pm 

 

 

Result: Nomads won by 3 wickets
Toss: Pink Elephants
Umpires:   
Scorers: Various
Debut(s):Tom Moran

 

PINK ELEPHANTS CC Innings 
S James        bowled    Lamb       10
S MacDonald    bowled    Page       10
J Ireland      c Blake b Page        0
N Warde        bowled    Blumberg  143
C Ullaarthorne bowled    Page        0
J Kenball      lbw     b Blumberg   14
J Bart         c Page  b MacDonald   4
J Darbyshire   not out               9
D Buist       not out                8
Extras        (b3,lb0,w10,nb5)      18
TOTAL         (7 wickets,40 overs) 216
Dnb:J Jones,R Evans

 

Fow:1-29,2-29,3-,4-,5-,6-195,7-197. 

 

Bowling-MacDonaad 7 0 26 1,Fletcher 4 0 8 0,Page 14 2 87 3,Lamb 13 1 71 1,Blumberg 2 0 21 2.

 

 

NOMADS CC Innings
P Wakefield not out               98
J Lascelles c James     b Ireland 67
A Hill      c Ward      b Ireland  0
N Fletcher  c Jones     b Buist    4
S Blake     c Dalrymple b Ireland 12
V Gavin     lbw         b Jones    4
T Moran     bowled        Ireland  0
J MacDonald bowled        Ireland 12
C Page      not out                0
Extras     (b5,lb5,w13,nb0)       23*
TOTAL      (7 wickets,46 overs)  220
DNB:GC Lamb,ME Blumberg.

 

Fow:1-138,2-138,3-145,4-177,5-186,6-188,7-212. 

 

Bowling-Kenball 5 0 19,Jones 12 2 61 1,Ireland 18 2 64 5, Evans 30 25 0,Warde 3 0 16 0,Buist 5 0 25 1.*

 

A  Nomads side with an injection of youth defeated Pink Elephants by 3 wickets. The all too brief return of 'Wakers' from deepest Uzbekistan was most welcome as he top scored with  98*, serious jug avoidance! Jeremy Lascelles scored 67 so an opening partnership of 138 chasing 216 looked to have set Nomads on an inevitable path to victory. However an astonishing collapse(very Nomads) to the guiles of Joe Ireland made the result much less assured.

In the end Wakers needed a six  for his century and one to win.He tried but only stroked a boundary four to finish on 98 not out with one over still to go.

Ireland took 5 wickets and earlier Nic Warde smashed 143 out of 216-7 dec for Pink Elephants.  We dropped Nic Warde several timesin between him hitting a flurry of huge sixes before being undone by a Blumberg grubber.

Pink Elephants made a very sporting declaration, perhaps too generous.! Thanks Joe!