Wednesday August 12th v Ditchling CC

Match 51 NOMADS CC v DITCHLING CC Ditchling Sussex Wednesday August 11th 11.30  – Time Game, Lunch 1.30-2.14 and tea 4.31-5.00

Toss:   Nomads  CC won the toss
Result: Ditchling won by 3 wickets  
Umpires:Derek Miles & AN Other
Scorers:Several
Debuts :D Jester,D Fawlie,I Moody. 

NOMADS CC Innings 
AJG Symondson c Smythson b Rickard 21
NJ Harden     run out              28
S MacDonald   c & b        Wright  20
ME Blumberg*  bowled       O'Meara 15
MG Willis     bowled       O'Meara 23
J Leahy       c Barter   b O'Meara  5
D Foulie      bowled       O'Meara  0
I Moody       not out              20
S Baldwin     lbw        b O'Meara  2
D Jester      lbw        b O'Meara  1
(A Dunley) ?  bowled       APW      4
Extras       (b10,lb7,w1,nb2)      20
TOTAL       (All out,59.2 overs)  159
Andrew Dunley was expected and his name is written in the scorebook but then crossed out. The substituted name is not clear presumably a Ditchling youngster.

Fow:1-51(1), 2-60(2),3-93(3),4-105(4),5-125(6),6-126(7),7-126(5),8-134(9),9-146(10),10-159(11).

Bowling – Rickard 13 1 28 1,O'Meara 15 7 32 6,APW 15.2 4 33 1,Linn 6 2 15 0,Wright 10 2 31 1.

DITCHLING CC Innings
C Such*     lbw      b Leahy     27
J Bradley   run out              40
G Wright    bowled     Blumberg   0
J Smithson  lbw      b Leahy     54
B Baxter    c Moody  b Blumberg   5
K Rickard   bowled     Blumberg   9
R Wright    not out               7
P Fleming   bowled     Blumberg   0
APW?        not out               0
Extras     (b11,lb3,w1,nb3)      18
TOTAL      (7 wickets,48 overs) 160
Dnb:R Linn,O O'Meara.
We ought to remember who APW is.If anyone knows please inform us! 

Fow:1-65(1),2-66(3),3-93(2),4-107(5),5-147(4),6-155(6),7-156(8).<p>

Bowling-Leahy 24 4 69 2,Baldwin 4 1 12 0,Blumberg 20 2 61 4.

Depleted Nomads Only Just Lose

Despite the popularity of this fixture in Ditchling's splendid cricket week Nomads suffered a load of drop outs so Ditchling kindly made up numbers. Nomads had a decent top order but a series of cameos resulted with no one making a big score and the tail folded so 159 was always going to be a difficult score to defend and Nomads had none of their front line bowlers. 

James Leahy and Michael Blumberg bowled 44 overs and took six wickets which might have been more with a bit of luck. Ditchling's victory was the result of two decent scores, 54 from Smithson and 40 (run out) by opener Bradley. Ditchling won with one over to go, R Wright hitting two 2s off James Leahy's 24th over. In the event a close run thing! 

Despite the defeat Nomads lingered long into the night as was traditional in those days for Ditchling’s hospitality was renown and yet everybody arrived home safely. 

Matches Scorecards & Reports 1981