Sunday July 5th v Old Wykhamists CC

Match 35 NOMADS CC v OLD WYKEHAMISTS CC Winchester College College Street Winchester SO23 9NA Sunday July 5th 11.00am – Time Game,20 overs from 5.30pm

Result:       Match Drawn
Toss:         Nomads CC
Umpires:      Fiona Leighton & Graham Fink
Scorer:       Michael Blumberg
Debut:        Nitish Karnik
Match Manager:Vic Kandampully

OLD WYKEMAMISTS Innings                    R  4s  6s
Arthur Adams     c J Ellis b Ne Karnik    20  3   0
Tom Perry+       c J Ellis b Trivedi      34  7   0
A Hockey         lbw       b Ne Karnik     9  1   0
Jack Howell      bowled      Ne Karnik     0  0   0
Henry Axtell     bowled      Trivedi      30  4   0
Freddie Blackett c Singh   b J Ellis      53  9   0
Rollo Quinault*  c J Ellis b Trivedi      12  2   0
Angus Robinson   lbw       b Baker-Stewart 0  0   0
Euan Evans       not out                  23  4   0
Alex Classe      not out                  23  3   0
Extras          (b21,lb1,w4,nb3)          29
TOTAL           (8 wkts dec,50 overs)    233
Dnb:J Roe(12th man not batting Henry Bertlin).

Fow:1-56(1),2-67(3),3-67(4),4-96(2),5-127(5),6-156(7),7-167(8),8-202(6).

Bowling – Neil Karnik 10 1 40 3(nb3),Nitish Karnik 3 0 24 0(w3),J Ellis 9 0 27 1(w1),Trivedi 14 4 40 3,Baker-Stewart 12 2 58 1,Joshi 2 0 15 0.

NOMADS CC Innings                        R  4s 6s
Vic Kandampully *   c ?     b  Classe    35 4  0
Arnav Kulkarni      bowled     Bertlin    2 0  0
Gudaraes Singh      bowled     Classe     0 0  0
Jack Ellis          run out              22 3  0
Dhruv Tahil         c & b      Bertlin   46 8  0
Frank Stuckey       c & b      Roe        7 0  0
Neil Karnik         bowled     Evans     50 6  1
Nitish Karni        bowled     Evans      7 1  0
Louis Baker-Stewart not out               2 0  0
Vishal Trivedi      not out               0 0  0
Extras             (b13,lb1,w17, nb2)    33
TOTAL              (8 wickets,47 overs) 203
Dnb: Duncan Ellis+(12th man not batting Arvind Joshi).

Fow:1-2(2),2-3(3),3-54(4),4-69(1),5-110(6),6-171(5),7-179(8),8-203(7).

Bowling – Classe 14 1 48 2(w7),Bertlin 16 2 87 2(w7),Roe 6 2 20 1(w1),Axtell 5 1 17 0(w1),Evans 6 1 14 2(w2,nb2).

Nomads chase loses momentum so draw

On a beautiful morning Vic won the toss and invited Wykehamists to bat. There had been a flurry of late selection activity due to drop outs and Vic was uncertain as to his revised team’s batting strength. One of the replacements was Big Frank Stuckey returning after twent years absence.

After a bright start Wykehamists slumped to 127-5 with Neil Karnik taking three wickets and Vishal two. Somewhat lame Freddie Blackett(53) revived the Wykehamists innings before falling to Jack Ellis by way of a A catch by Gudaraes.The tail wagged taking the score to 233 – 8 before declaring.

In reply Nomads lost numbers 2 and 3 very early. However skipper Vic and tall Jack seemed in command adding 51 before a most unfortunate run out occurred removing Nomads best bat for 26. Shrtly aftrward Vic was out. Big Frank now joined Dhruv Tahil and these two added 29 which may have been 49 if Frank could have run! Neil Karnik joined Dhruv and immediately attacked the bowling with success such that the target seemed feasible. At the start of the twenty overs Nomads required 124 runs to win but curiously scored only 2 runs from the fist four overs. Nomads did score 80 runs from the next 16 with Neil Karnik scoring 50 and Dhruv Tahil 47 ending 30 runs short. Euan Evans bowled a tidy spell at the death 6-1-14-2.

Wykehamist weary after several days cricket and a very late night celebrating American Independence were wary of their chances against Nomads. Likewise Nomads skipper Vic after selection difficulties was none too confident so both sides felt satisfied with the draw.

Wykehamists and Nomads repaired to the nearby Queen’s Head Pub for some libations and were all most disappointed to find they were at a pub which closed the bar at 8pm. Even worse was the closure of the M3 making the journey home longer than desired.! Notwithstanding these late set backs this was a very good day’s cricket with very hospitable hosts.

Nomads and Wykehamists have drawn for three years now so next year will be interesting as both sides strive for that elusive result.