Sunday july 17th v Hurlingham Club
MATCH 47 NOMADS CC v HURLINGHAM CLUB Fulham London Sunday July 17th 2022 1.30pm - 40/40 overs match,8 max overs per bowler
Result: Nomads won by 6 wickets Toss: Hurlingham Umpires: Sanjay Raval & Nick Stevenson Scorers: Vic Devers Debut: HURLINGHAM CLUB Innings R B M 4s 6s O Hills c Massey b Hamilton 5 13 12 1 0 R Hills+ c Ralphs b Malik 10 20 23 2 0 R Cripps bowled Butcher 71 81 100 13 0 S Featherson bowled Malik 6 13 15 1 0 B Vail bowled Butcher 7 18 21 1 0 M Bazeley c & b Hamilton 51 66 80 8 0 G Brooksbank c Massey b Butcher 0 1 1 0 0 H Beckwith c Massey b Hamilton 11 14 14 2 0 J Featherstone not out 3 5 11 0 0 E Beckwith bowled Beri 0 3 3 0 0 A Paterson run out(Massey) 0 5 5 0 0 Extras (b1,lb3,w1,nb0) 5 TOTAL (All out,39.4 overs) 169 Fow:1-11(1),2-29(2),3-43(4),4-56(5),5-150(7),7-166(8),8-167(6),9-168(10),10-169(11). Bowling – Malik 8 3 18 2, Hamilton 7.4 1 32 3,Butcher 8 1 21 3,Ralphs 8 0 53 0(w1),Beri 8 0 41 1. NOMADS CC Innings R B M 4s 6s J Massey st R Hills b H Beckwith 93 57 75 16 3 V Kandampully c R Hills b E Beckwith 11 19 32 1 0 J De Bahl c R Hills b E Beckwith 4 11 17 0 0 M Richards not out 33 21 35 7 0 T Brockton* not out 5 3 6 1 0 Extras (b7,lb8,w11,nb1) 27 TOTAL (4 wickets,18.5 overs) 173 Dnb:P Malik, B Ralphs, S Dummer, J Hamilton, Ben Butcher. Fow:1-63(2),2-84(3),3-157(1),4-158(5). Bowling – Brooksbank 6 0 47 0, J Featherstone 2 0 16 0(w1), E Beckwith 6 0 46 2(w6,nb1), Paterson 2 0 25 0,H Beckwith 1.5 0 24 1(w4),Vail 1 1 0 1.
Jack Massey blitz takes Nomads to swift victory
The Nomads now back to winning ways and a convincing 6 wicket defeat of Hurlingham, made it 5 wins on the bounce. The XI were in buoyant mood, celebrating the birthday of “Mr Cricket” himself, the one and only Michael Blumberg. The Nomads would toast Michael’s 80th after the game, fittingly with Champagne, but for now on with the cricket.
The game started (or more accurately did not start) in rather bizarre circumstances, with a Hurlingham member’s family fun fair on the ground the day before the Nomads arrived to see half of the rides still erected and the start was delayed by some 45 minutes. Indeed, were it not for the Nomads and HCC rolling up their sleeves the game may not have started at all.
Sy Razvi of Hurlingham won the toss and elected to bat. James Hamilton and the ever-green Pavan Malik taking the new nut for the Nomads. Both were in good form, Malik finding the edge off the first ball of the game and his 8 overs would yield only 18 runs and two wickets in the bank for Nomads. Hamilton took an early scalp too and returned at the death to very impressive effect. However, Hurlingham were making reasonable progress, targeting the shorter of the two boundaries to good effect.
The game changed with the introduction of Beddington’s Ben Butcher who wheeled away with his accurate off-breaks on a helpful surface. His 3-21 from 8 overs were the pick of the figures from a Nomads perspective, but his spell was not without controversy. A snick, a catch claimed but the batsman, Cripps stood his ground. Umpire Stevenson raised the finger but Cripps was unmoved and made his displeasure known. Unbelievably he was reprieved and went onto score 71 (the Nomads noted his 50 was not clapped by a single person in either XI).
At the other end Matthew Bazeley was battling away, and with a few swats and swishes he also made 50 before being one of James Hamilton’s 3 victims. With 8 overs left Hurlingham were seemingly well enough placed on 150-4, but some impressive death bowling from Sanjay Beri and James Hamilton and two wickets in two balls from Ben Butcher would mean only 19 runs were scored from the final 8 overs and 6 wickets lost. Meaning the home side had been bundled out for 169, two balls short of the 40 over limit.
Granted the wicket was hardly a “road” but the feeling in the Nomads camp was that this was a somewhat paltry total and around 50 runs below par.
Skipper Brockton opted to put out a top order to win the game, and win it quickly. Dashing batsmen in the top 5 – Kandampully, Massey, DeBahl, Richards & Beri (with the Nomads captain at 6 and Pav Malik at 7). Indeed, Nomads had depth in batting with Ralphs, Dummer & Hamilton, as low as no 10. By his own admission, Ben Butcher was the only “tailender” in the Nomads ranks.
Massey did not disappoint, dispatching Hurlingham’s star bowling George Brooksbank for back to back boundaries in the first over. After 3 overs Nomads were 25-0 with Massey clearly enjoying pace on the ball. The dismissals of Kandampully for 11 and DeBahl for 4 did not slow the rate, Massey reaching 50 in the 12th over with a massive 6 which went onto the orangery roof of the Hurlingham Club. Mark Richards provided good support, despite a gout-riddled bottom hand (how ???) & he carved 33* from just 21 balls.
Massey, with his century in sight, and a very despondent Hurlingham XI now being sapped by the evening sunshine, decided to try to 1. Switch hit Harry Beckwith and then 2. Charge down the track at him. Sadly the latter would be his downfall and he was stumped for 93. His innings was full of power, and no little skill, facing just 57 balls, striking 16 4s and 3 massive 6s.
Sanjay Beri strode to the wicket and was unlucky to receive an absolute beauty from Ben Vail, his off stump quite literally shattered (a new one had to be retrieved from the pavilion). Richards and Brockton knocked off the remaining 12 runs, Richards ending the game with a crisply timed short arm pull for 4 and Nomads ran out winners with 21.1 overs remaining scoring chasing down the 169 total in 18.5 overs at a scoring rate of just over 9 runs per over.
Hurlingham graciously, and correctly, laid on a couple of jugs of Pimms & Mahou beer for the Nomads and the remaining Hurlingham players.
Supporting spectators included Hugo & Susie Morris, Lucy Beri, Sam Richards, Peter Price, Leigh Brockton, Geoff, Carol & Peter Stork, Annette Tiberghien,Nick Hawks,Malcolm Moss as well as Chris Page who bemoaned his non-selection for this fixture to anyone who would listen.
Previous Matches
2021 Nomads won by 2 wickets
2020 Hurlingham won by 3 wickets
2019 Hurlingham Club won by 9 wickets
2008 Nomads won by 12 runs
2007 Nomads won by 97 runs
2006 Hurlingham won by 3 wickets
2005 Match Drawn Hurlingham hang on
2004 Match Drawn While hits 167
2003 Match Drawn Wakers hits ton
1984
1983
1982 Nomads won by 5 wickets
1981 Nomads won by 125 runs
1980 Nomads won by 4 wickets
1979 Nomads won by 8 wickets
1978 Nomads won
1977 Match Drawn
1976 Nomads won
1975 Nomads won
1974 Nomads won
1973 Nomads won
1972 Match Drawn
1971 Hurlingham Won
Nomads played annually against the Hurlingham Club from 1966 to 1984 and then again from 2003 to 2008..
Nomads hired the Hurlingham ground for matches from 1952 through the 1950s. In 1953 Nomads hired Hurlingham for seven days to celebrate the club’s fiftieth anniversary
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