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 1993-2022

*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   
  Tom Brockton        311  87  12864  182*  57.43    31    78    
  Jeremy Lascelles    281  25   6566  124*  25.65     6    34
  Paul Wakefield      150  14   4845  147   35.63    12    21
  Victor Kandampully  117  13   4342  117   41.75     9    24    
  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       141  32   3246   79*  29.78     0    15
  Kie Farrell          68  11   3034  121rt 53.23     5    16
  Sajjad Shawl        144  29   2882  118   25.06     4    14
  Jemile Al-Darraji    61  16   2863  151*  63.62     7    16
  Rupert Style         88   7   2703  131*  33.72     3    16
  Jamie Lane          112  10   2582   70*  25.31     0    17
  Michael Blumberg*   408 238   2580   98*  15.18     0     3
  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         89  13   2270  102*  29.87     1    14 
  Keith Alexander*    108   7   2268  103   22.46     1    15
  Russell Mann*       177  25   2260   76   14.87     0     6 
  Andy Gregory*       111  30   2128  103*  26.27     2     5
  Joe Ireland          81  16   1993   98   30.66     0    15
  Bill Johnson         77  21   1688   99*  30.14     0     8
  Tony Whiteway*       63  25   1615  102*  42.50     2     8
  Simon Barter         49   7   1501  139   35.74     2    10
  Steve Hambleton*     54   9   1475  100*  32.78     1     7
  Mark Surridge        57   9   1468   85*  30.58     0     9
  Tom Marshall         44  10   1436  101*  42.24     2     9
  Sanjay Beri          39   3   1399  139*  38.11     4     6
  Rob Wycherley*       39   6   1362  135   41.27     3     6
  John Olufawo         26   5   1358  143*  64.67     5     6
  Ahmed Elech          29   1   1294  110   46.29     3     8      
  Nigel Hussey         57   8   1284  130   24.39     4     2
  James Hamilton       73  22   1263   89   24.76     0     5
  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 
  Owen Marshall        25   6   1050  101rt 55.26     2     8

BOWLING 1993-2022

Qualification 60 wickets

  
  Bowlers               Overs  Maidens  Runs  Wickets Average 5wkts    B/P
  Chris Page            2619.2   191    12821   585     21.92   19     7-37
  Michael Blumberg*+    3036.3   236    14440   503     28.71    6     7-60
  Sajjad Shawl          1848     334     5569   359     15.51   13     7-14
  Tom Brockton          1719.3   162     4631   262     17.68    3     8-34
  Andrew Smith          1523.2   168     6368   259     24.59    3     5-12
  Andy Marshall+        1530.5   253     4698   258     18.20    8     6-26
  Charles Fellows-Smith+ 844.4   113     3627   184     19.93    7     7-45
  Joe Ireland            943.1   115     3787   180     21.04    7     7-29
  Charlton Lamb*+        989.1   114     4862   178     27.31    3     7-84
  Andrew Gregory +      1099.3   137     3850   164     23.48    1     6-73
  Ben Butcher            683.3    91     2901   147     19.74    4     6-22
  James Hamilton         894.2   164     3580   143     25.31    0     4-26
  Oliver Croom-Johnson+  708.2    97     2607   113     23.07    2     6-27
  Bill Johnson           538.2    34     2177   109     19.97    3     6-45
  David Oatway           521.4    31     2823   108     26.14    1     5-77
  Paul Fielding          397.5    64     1536    87     17.66    3     7-25
  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
  Jemile Al-Darraji      473      53     1585    76     20.85    0     4-0
  Tom Marshall           214.2    51     1122    71     15.81    2     5-34
  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.
These stats include Virgin XI figures for 1999 & 2000. Several Nomads scoresheets are missing 1998, 1996 and 1993.

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.