Nomads travelled to Eltham to play the team for whom Ben Fewson turns out in the Kent Feeder League on a Saturday. It was a slightly makeshift Nomads line-up due to the understandable reluctance of several players to travel to a place with an 'E' in the postcode.
LESSA were restricted to about 156 for 9 from their 35 overs. A forfeit system was in place in the field whereby any Nomads fielder dropping a catch had to wear a hat in the shape of a turkey's head. Emil Todorow avoided this indignity with a stunning catch on the boundary from a skier. Todorow also impressed with a hyper-economical spell of 9 runs from his 7 overs but the highlight was a hat-trick from Gopi who took a total of 4 wickets. Prasanth was next best with 3.
In Nomads' innings, Ben Fewson put his LESSA team-mates' bowling to the sword with a very rapid 46 before being brilliantly run out. This took a lot of pressure off the batsmen lower down, the highest scorers of whom were Ajmal with about 25 and Gopi with 22. Chris Kennedy also played a good anchor man role with a valuable 14, holding together the late middle order. No.10 Emil Todorow came in with the scores level and about 4 overs to go but victory by 2 wickets was sealed with a wide.
Man of the Match was Gopi for only about the third hat-trick in Nomads' history and 22 runs. Fielder of the Day and full match stats to follow
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