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 1990

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 still very much work in progress. The Season 2024 has been added. Some further additions, corrections and amendments continue to be made.

BATTING 1990-2024

*These batsmen had a Nomads career before 1990, 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.We are missing almost all 1992 but have most of 1991 & 1990. Luckily Roger Kinsella kept hos own record 1990 & 1991.

Qualification-1000 runs
  Batsmen          Innings NOs  Runs  H'S  Average  100s   50s   
Tom Brockton 356 101 14115 182* 56.01 32 87
Jeremy Lascelles 286 26 6591 124* 25.35 6 34
Victor Kandampully 154 16 5169 117 37.46 9 30
Paul Wakefield 155 14 5009 147 35.52 13 21
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
Kie Farrell 75 12 3342 121rt 55.24 6 18 Ross Ormiston 142 32 3253 79* 29.57 0 15 Sajjad Shawl 158 30 3125 118 24.41 4 15 Jemile Al-Darraji 72 20 3198 151* 61.50 7 20 Michael Blumberg* 430 245 2948 98* 15.94 0 5 Rupert Style 100 8 2924 131* 31.70 4 16 G Charlton Lamb* 165 38 2635 97 20.75 0 8 Jamie Lane 112 10 2582 70* 25.31 0 17 Vib Yadav 42 6 2482 155* 68.94 6 14 Ranjit Latchman 83 25 2476 100* 42.69 2 17 Charles Peerless* 113 9 2425 129* 23.32 2 14 Jon Thornton 98 14 2415 102* 28.75 1 14 Keith Alexander* 112 7 2306 103 21.96 1 15 Andy Hill 79 7 2294 171 31.86 2 12 Russell Mann* 177 25 2260 76 14.87 0 6 James Hamilton 104 36 2216 122* 32.59 2 11 Andy Gregory* 115 32 2129 103* 25.65 2 5 Joe Ireland 84 16 2036 98 29.94 0 15 Tony Whiteway* 78 27 1912 102* 42.50 2 10 Bill Johnson 88 25 1907 99* 30.27 0 8 John Olufawo 35 6 1703 143* 58.73 5 9 Ahmed Elech 38 4 1689 110 49.67 3 12 Alex Smith* 50 4 1627 112* 36.47 3 7 Steve Hambleton* 62 10 1583 100* 30.44 1 8 Sanjay Beri 45 3 1580 139* 37.62 4 7 Tom Marshall 49 10 1568 101* 40.23 2 9 Simon Barter 49 7 1501 139 35.74 2 10 Nigel Hussey 71 10 1542 130 26.41 4 3 Mark Surridge 57 9 1468 85* 30.58 0 9 Rob Wycherley* 39 6 1362 135 41.27 3 6 Owen Marshall 30 7 1263 101rt 54.91 3 9 Naman Paropkari 40 8 1249 81 39.06 0 13 Kyle Bradley 73 17 1230 109 21.96 1 5 Mike Ghersie* 43 7 1195 96 33.95 0 6 Phil Bell 49 2 1194 88* 25.40 0 6 Richard Woolhouse 60 6 1190 91 22.04 0 5 Clyde Jeavons 65 9 1177 67 20.02 0 5 Stuart Reeve N'wood 38 11 1172 116 40.41 2 5 Andy Peters 42 5 1160 103 31.35 1 11 Roger Kinsella 25 6 1157 121* 60.89 3 6 Mike Blake 56 7 1156 80 23.39 0 6 Richard Campion* 29 5 1139 102* 47.46 1 7 Jack Hardy 43 4 1137 113* 29.15 3 5 Ben Ralphs 49 10 1135 97 29.10 0 6 Huzefa Sajawal 24 6 1112 113* 61.77 4 4 Jonathan Miles 18 6 1101 125 91.75 3 9 Nathan Lamb 38 6 1094 109 34.19 3 4 Chris Page 161 67 1058 57* 11.26 1 0 Jack Massey 23 3 1039 100* 51.95 9 1 Abdul Satter 27 3 1010 142* 42.08 5 3



BOWLING 1990-2024

Qualification 60 wickets

   Bowlers            Overs  Maidens Runs Wickets Average 5wkts  B/P
Chris Page 3301.5 238 15702 718 22.02 23 7-37 Michael Blumberg*+ 3151.3 256 14907 529 28.71 7 7-60 Sajjad Shawl 2089.5 382 6169 403 15.31 16 7-14 Andy Marshall+ 1800 296 6768 323 20.95 11 6-14 Tom Brockton 1723.3 162 4638 262 17.70 3 8-34 Andrew Smith 1523.2 168 6368 259 24.59 3 5-12 Ben Butcher 974.2 137 4014 206 19.49 4 6-22 Joe Ireland 988.5 120 4033 196 20.21 7 7-29 Charles Fellows-Smith+ 844.4 113 3627 184 19.93 7 7-45 Charlton Lamb*+ 989.1 114 4862 178 27.31 3 7-84 James Hamilton 1107.4 192 4392 177 24.81 0 4-26 Andrew Gregory + 1181.5 153 4097 166 26.78 1 6-73 David Oatway 617.4 41 3170 130 24.38 2 6-44 Bill Johnson 658.2 45 3103 127 24.43 4 6-45 Oliver Croom-Johnson+ 732.2 103 2766 121 23.07 3 6-27 Nigel Hussey 636.1 30 3507 119 29.43 1 5-51 Paul Fielding 505 70 2118 108 19.61 4 7-25
Jemile Al-Darraji 580 57 2056 101 20.36 0 4-0
Tom Marshall 269.4 61 1321 89 14.82 3 5-22
Paul Wakefield 401.2 26 2326 81 28.72 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
Ross Ormiston 417.2 29 2089 75 27.85 0 4-14
Ash Arora 313.2 47 1150 74 15.54 4 5-38
Richard Woolhouse 377.3 23 1987 67 29.66 2 7-62

* These bowlers had a Nomads career before 1990.

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 of 1992 are missing but we have about half 1991 & 1990.Thus these missing match scorecards mean that the above figues understate Blumberg,Marshall,Oatway, Croom-Johnson,Lamb and Gregory etc
Please note the the All Time Play Cricket stats do not cover much of the earlier years of this period as yet.

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.

ALL TIME STATISTICS