We are missing a lot of data relating to years 1946-1999, some 1922-1939 and most 1904 to 1914. Since the late 1960s to 1997 Tony Whiteway must have scored around 15,000 at a commendable average. Likewise Michael Blumberg is alleged to have scored in excess of 10,000 runs at a more modest average. Granny Alston kept meticulous records so we know he scored 8045 runs 1950 -1984. Mike Ghersie who led a great revival of Nomads fortunes in the mid 1970s was a dashing batsmen who scored a lot of runs for Nomads over nearly 30 years but did not play very regularly after his period as skipper. Peter Brook spoke in awe of Pat Mean’s prowess in the early 50s but we only have his figures for 1953 when hit 1136 runs. Tom Chamberlain nudged and nurdled his way to a mountain of runs in the 1950s.
Granny took 1173 wickets. Sidney Caulfield must have taken a load of wickets or near. He took 37 in 1911 and played 1904-1914 and 1922 to 1939. Likewise VJ Matthews who played before WW1 and was still playing in 1939. Michael Blumberg had taken well over 500 wickets when his shoulder finally gave out October 2010. John Nagenda took several hundred wickets as did Dr Mike Wilkins but over too short a period
Batting & Bowling since 1993
Over this period the heaviest scorer has been Tom Brockton despite starting in 2011 as shown below and Chris Page has taken most wickets overtaking Michael Blumberg who has not bowled since 2010.
If anyone has kept their own record of Nomads runs or wickets do let us know as we can include you. There maybe some more to add to this list.
I have taken the batting back to 1993. Some of the years have score sheets missing particularly 1998, 1996 and 1993. Conversely we retain the original averages for some years where we have mislaid score sheets and or scorebooks. There are only a few scorecards for 1991 and even less for 1992.what we have may be added to these figures soon. If any one retains anything from 1991 & 1992 season do let us know.
This is very much work in progress. The Season 2021 has been added. Some further additions, corrections and amendments continue to be made.
BATTING 1993-2023
*These batsmen had a Nomads career before 1993, Whiteway back to the 1960s while Blumberg & Ghersie to the early 1970s during which period these three scored the vast majority of their Nomads runs.
Qualification-1000 runs
Batsmen       Innings NOs  Runs H'S Average 100s  50s Â
 Tom Brockton     331  93  13496 182*  56.71   31   82   Â
 Jeremy Lascelles   285  26   6591 124*  25.45   6   34
 Paul Wakefield    151  14   4955 147  36.17 13   21
 Victor Kandampully 131 15  4661 117  41.75    9   25  Â
 Andrew Smith     252  35   4229  99  19.49   0   25
 James G-While     81  15   3616 167  55.63   12   17
 Andy Stokes      89  15   3571 126*  49.60   12   17
 Ross Ormiston    142 32   3253  79*  29.57   0   15
 Kie Farrell      70  12   3204 121rt 55.24   6   17
 Sajjad Shawl       154 30  3081 118  24.85    4   15
 Jemile Al-Darraji   67  19   3033 151*  63.62   7   18
 Rupert Style        94  7  2785 131* 32.01    3   16
Michael Blumberg*Â Â 412 242Â Â 2592Â Â 98*Â 15.25Â Â Â Â 0Â Â Â Â 3
 Jamie Lane      112  10   2582  70*  25.31   0   17
 G Charlton Lamb*    158 36  2511  97  21.46    0    8
 Vib Yadav           42  6  2482 155* 68.94    6   14
 Ranjit Latchman    83  25   2476 100*  42.69   2   17
 Charles Peerless*  107  8  2346 129* 23.70    2   14
 Andy Hill       79  7   2294 171  31.86   2   12
 Jon Thornton        93 13  2341 102* 29.26    1   14Â
 Keith Alexander*   110  7   2296 103  22.96   1   15
 Russell Mann*      177 25  2260  76  14.87    0    6Â
 Andy Gregory*      113 31  2129 103* 25.34    2    5
 Joe Ireland      82  16   2026  98  30.70   0   15
 Bill Johnson     84  22   1796  99*  27.21   0   8
James Hamilton 94 32 1773 89 28.60 0 9
John Olufawo        33  6  1680 143* 62.22    5    9
Ahmed Elech 36 4 1626 110 50.81 3 12
 Tony Whiteway*      63 25  1615 102* 42.50    2    8
 Tom Marshall        47 10  1519 101* 41.05    2    9
 Simon Barter        49  7  1501 139  35.74    2   10
 Nigel Hussey        65  9  1479 130  26.41    4    3
 Steve Hambleton*    54  9  1475 100* 32.78    1    7
 Mark Surridge       57  9  1468  85* 30.58    0    9
 Sanjay Beri         42  3  1430 139* 36.67    4    6
 Rob Wycherley*    39  6   1362 135  41.27   3   6
Owen Marshall 29 7 1246 101rt 56.64 3 9
 Alec Smith*         36  2  1240 112* 36.47    2    5
 Phil Bell           49  2  1194  88* 25.40    0    6
 Richard Woolhouse   60  6  1190  91  22.04    0    5
 Mike Blake          53  7  1147  80  24.91    0    6
 Jack Hardy          43  4  1137 113* 29.15    3    5
 Richard Campion*    28  5  1133  102* 49.26    1    7
 Andy Peters         41  5  1102 103  30.61    1   10
 Nathan Lamb      38  6   1094 109  34.19   3   4
 Clyde Jeavons       61  8  1082  67  20.42    0    4
 Mike Ghersie*       34  7  1055  96  39.07    0    6
BOWLING 1993-2022
Qualification 60 wickets
Bowlers Overs Maidens Runs Wickets Average 5wkts B/P
Chris Page 2859 210 14031 637 22.03 20 7-37
Michael Blumberg*+ 3036.3 236 14440 503 28.71 6 7-60
Sajjad Shawl 1945.1 354 5882 377 15.60 13 7-14
Tom Brockton 1721.3 162 4638 262 17.70 3 8-34
Andy Marshall+ 1595.1 260 4919 266 18.49 8 6-26
Andrew Smith 1523.2 168 6368 259 24.59 3 5-12
Charles Fellows-Smith+ 844.4 113 3627 184 19.93 7 7-45
Joe Ireland 955 115 3858 185 20.85 7 7-29
Charlton Lamb*+ 989.1 114 4862 178 27.31 3 7-84
Ben Butcher 816.5 111 3422 169 20.25 4 6-22
Andrew Gregory + 1131.3 145 3982 165 24.13 1 6-73
James Hamilton 1042.3 190 4210 143 25.67   0 4-26
Oliver Croom-Johnson+ 708.2 97 2607 113 23.07 2 6-27
Bill Johnson 543.2 34 2245 109 20.60 3 6-45
David Oatway 521.4 31 2823 108 26.14 1 5-77
Paul Fielding 453.7 67 1787 101 17.69 3 7-25
Jemile Al-Darraji 495.3 55 1678 82 20.46 0 4-0
Paul Wakefield 396.2 26 2312 80 28.90 1 5-57
Suraj Vithlani 352.3 34 1522 79 19.27 2 5-16
James G-While 374.2 46 1596 79 20.20 2 5-48
Tom Marshall 238.2 57 1204 78 15.44 3 5-22
Ash Arora 273 43 1007 70 14.39 2 5-38
Richard Woolhouse 377.3 23 1987 67 29.66 2 7-62
Ross Ormiston 312.1 26 1418 61 23.25 0 4-14
* These bowlers had a Nomads career before 1993. There are some scoresheets from the Shropshire tours missing. This effects mostly Russell Mann, Andrew Gregory and maybe Andy Stokes. Also at present three scoresheets from the March 2001 visit to Sporting Alfas are missing which will effect the figures of Charlton Lamb, Mark Surridge and Michael Blumberg, batting and bowling. Most probably there are some errors in these figures. If you spot some do let us know. Similarly some cricketers keep a record. If you are one of these and the figures above do not tally just let us know and we will correct the stats.
Virgin XI Stats click here.
These stats include Virgin XI figures for 1999 & 2000.
Several Nomads scoresheets are missing 1998, 1996 and 1993.