2009 Season - A report by John Crossland

The season ended rather disappointingly with another defeat by Energy Exiles; our third loss to that team in 2009. We normally only play any side twice in a year . In fact this may be the first time we've played a team three times in one season.
On the whole though, the season was a fairly good one; winning thirteen, drawing one and losing six. We had seven batting partnerships in the 90s and one century stand. A lot of this was down to Mark Bradshaw but it was Ben Fewson who really stole the show. After the 2008 season I thought Ben might not play for us again but he did return and had a very productive time with the bat scoring three centuries and making nearly 600 runs. He finished top of the batting averages with 49.42 and was also voted Player of the Year.
Hassan Khan and Prasanth Pattiyil also batted well and Niall McConnell in his four innings looked like a very useful batsman indeed. Whether he'll be around next season I just don't know. Prasanth's availability for next season is also uncertain at the moment. His friend Gopi turned out to be a real gem. His bowling looks innocuous enough but he surprised quite a few batsmen and finished top of our bowling averages with 25 wickets at only 5.88. He always has a smile on his face and really enjoys his cricket, but like Prasanth and one or two others he may not be with us this season. We'll have to wait and see.
Ajmal and Amin both had relatively good seasons as all-rounders. Ajmal set a new club record with 33 wickets. He also took ten catches into the bargain and played in every game, as did John Crossland, for the second successive season, and Emil Todorow.


MR CONSISTENT - by John Crossland.

Like myself, Emil Todorow rarely misses a game and I mean rarely! I asked Nick Lefebve to check on Emil's appearances and the info he sent me was amazing.
Emil has played in 138 successive matches for the Nomads. He has been ever-present for the last seven seasons. I knew his appearance record was very good but not that good! It's incredible really. The last game he missed was at the end of the 2002 season (v Albamorphics.) His 100th successive appearance was in September 2007 v Old Leagonians.

P.S. The last match in which Emil was absent, mentioned above, was captained by John Chance. He was another player who seldom missed a game.

2010 Season

The first fixture of the 2010 season will be on Sunday 2nd May v Barnes Occasionals at Barn Elms Ground in Barnes. 2 pm start