Tour to Spain La Manga & L’Alfas Del Pi October

October 2007

La Manga & Albir

Tour Summary Won 2,Lost 1 Cancelled 3 

Full tour:ME Blumberg, Ranjit Latchman, Asif Padhani & Yvonne Burke,Tony & Anna Lee,Chris Page,Neeraj Nayar & family,David Morley-Clarke & Partner,Sunny Bowry,Dilip Triveda,Waseem Sherwani. La Manga only  Andy Smith,Jeremy Lascelles(leaves Thursday),Ilija Krunik,Nick Krunic,Albir/Alfas only Simon Barter & Katrina, Mark Woolley & Franscesca, Father/Mother Barter,John Jack Hyams, Mike Thewlis & Stephanie, Vince & Helen, John & Elaine Cooper

The foul Mid Summer English weather of 2007 followed Nomads to Costa Blanca causing the cancellation of three matches and some disjointure of the tour as a whole which was a pity! Nevertheless we had some enjoyable games in sunshine,some fine dinners and some entertaining nocturnal diversions.

Yvonne took the ‘The Strictly Ballroom’ award by miles. The Persistant Endeavour award went to Ilija Krunic despite his absence in Albir. Sunny Bowry took both the ‘Whim of the Moment’ and ‘Arbitrary Location’  awards. Neeraj Nayar won the ‘Peace and Harmony’ award. ‘Dreamer on the Field’ was jointly shared by David Morley-Clarke and Simon Barter. We only had one proper fielder and he played only one match, Mark Woolley took that accolade closely followed by Tony Lee who started the  Saturday game subbing for Dileep Trevedi but took five dismissals and, of course, the ‘Magic Moment’ had to be Neeraj’s catch at short mid wicket to remove Stanners on Monday.   Innings of the tour goes to Ranjit Latchman 94* against Mojacor despite not repeating it on Saturday against Sporting Alfas. Most wickets were taken by ever cheerful Chris Page and absolutely ‘Prat of the Tour’ went to the Monarch representative at Alicante airport -” In real life I am a nice person but here I am the Monarch Gauliter! closely followed by the Chief Stewardess on the  Tuesday flight home who accused Dileep Trevedi -a teetotaler, in particular, and our party, in general, of being drunk and at 10.30am!

At La Manga

Tour Match One   Tuesday October 16th atLa Manga Resort Upper Cricket Ground Nomads CC v La Manga CC No play Foul Deluge..a few determined players met at Shanti's for a beer.   
Tour Match Two    Wednesday October 17th at La Manga Resort Upper Cricket Ground NOMADS CC   232-2,40 overs(Latchman 94*,Padhani 60.A Smith 30) beat MOJACOR CC   212,40 overs(Beal 96,Houseman 38,A Smith 3-22,Page 3-46) by 20 runs   
Tour Match Three    Thursday October 16th at La Manga Resort Upper Cricket Ground Nomads CC v La Manga/Mojacor Combined XI No play. Although the deluge did not reach La Manga until lunchtime the match was called off by 11am. 

At Colombus Oval Albir

Tour Match Four     Saturday October 20th at Colombus Oval Albir L'Alfas Del Pi  SPORTING ALFAS CC    160,38.2 overs(Wasim Ul Rehman 60,S Crompton 46,Blumberg 3-15,Thewlis 3-21) beat  NOMADS CC    144,37 overs(Latchman 27,Stansfield 22,Wasim 4-25,Pennick 2-26) by 16 runs 
Tour Match Five  Sunday October 21st at Colombus Oval Albir L'Alfas Del Pi   SPORTING ALFAS CC     v   NOMADS CC     No play. A 5 am downpour flooded the lower part of the ground.    
Tour Match Six Monday October 22nd at Colombus Oval Albir L'Alfas Del Pi  12 -a-side NOMADS CC 183,39.5 overs(Barter 62,Nayar 54,Nix 5-44,Braithwaite 4-40) beat FORTY  CLUB Of SPAIN CC 90,35.2 overs(Evans 23,Page 4-24,Nayar 2-4,Barter 2-6) by 93 runs

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