Season 1953 Golden Jubilee

Nomads celebrated the Golden Jubilee Year with a weeks cricket at the Hurlingham Club. During this week Nomad Eric Warburg was married and held the reception at the Hurlingham Club with the all the cricketers playing at the reception. The club undertook a tour of Cambridge Colleges in August.

HNA(Granny) Alston completed the double for the second time in 1953 1169 runs, average 36.53, and 134 wickets, average 12.77, including a spell of 7-15 v Hornsey (at a sticky end) and a highest score of 79 n.o. Pat Mean also scored even more runs than Granny, 1136 runs’