Tuesday July 28th v Sudbury Court CC

MATCH 50 NOMADS CC v Sudbury Court CC East Lane Vale Farm Middlesex HA0 3LE  July 28th 2.00pm – Time game

Result:  Sudbury Court won by 32 runs
Toss:    Sudbury Court CC
Umpires: Derek Miles  & Others
Scorers: Various
Debut(s):N Naresh,B Boswell

SUDBURY COURT  CC Innings 
K Hannam    lbw        b Blumberg 26
M Webster   c Johnston b Blumberg 16
M Kirman+   not out               77
C Gray      c Bharat   b Surve    22
R Singh     bowled       Leahy    34
F Defreitas not out                0
Extras                             9
TOTAL (4 wkts dec,45.3 overs)    184
Dnb:C Meyers,M Liffen,C Thomas,Ron Ewen & Don Brown?.

Fow:1-41(1),2-46(2),3-117(4),4-180(5).

Bowling-Johnston 9 2 36 0,Leahy 13.1 3 21 1,Blumberg 10 1 29 2,Surve 8 0 45 1, Bharat 3 0 14 0,Oatway 1 0 18 0,Dunley 1 0 9 0.

NOMADS CC Innings
A Dunley     bowled     Defreitas  4
A Surve      lbw      b Defreitas 29
N Naresh     c Kirman b Defreitas 29
ME Blumberg* c Thomas b Meyers    33
A Fairfax    bowled     Meyers    11
D Oatway     c & b      Liffen     5
B Boswell    bowled     Liffen     1
N Johnston   c Thomas b Singh      8
G Bharat     c & b      Gray      14
J Leahy      c?       b Defreitas  7
B Beshaw     not out               0
Extras       (b4,lb1,w0,nb1)       6
TOTAL        (All out,37.3 overs)152

Fow:1-10(1),2-57(3),3-70(2),4-95(5),5-106(6),6-122(7),7-124(4),8- 144(8), 9-151(9), 10-152(10).

Bowling-Defreitas 10.3 1 35 4(w1),Thomas 3 1 26 0,Meyers 13 0 54 2,Liffen 6 1 19 2,Singh 2 0 5 1,Gray 1 0 6 1.

Kirman and Defreitas scupper Nomads plan 

This was our only visit to Sudbury Court the club that bred a family of Defreitas cricketers. In 2004 the club closed and joined Wembley CC. Many moons later we were to encounter again Charlie Meyers with Montenotte and Wembley and Mike Kirman played for us against Tiddington. 

Nomads’ opening bowlers bowled tidily and when Blumberg came on and removed the openers a low score seemed probable.However Mike Kirman ground out an unbeaten 77 forging useful partnerships with first Gray and then Singh so Sudbury declared on 186-4 off 45.1 overs.Nomads would have 43 overs in reply after Tea.

We set off chasing a target of 185 with some confidence as the two youngsters from Indian Gymkhana,Atul Surve and Naresh were good players and Surve had scored 79 against Stowe Templars. In the event Defreitas, a brother of the England player,removed our top three but it was a mid order collapse that put paid to our ambitions precipitated by Charlie Meyers removing Blumberg and Fairfax.There was a bit of a flourish from our 8th wicket pair but then Gray and a returning Defreitas finished the innings with Nomads 32 runs short.

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