Clapham Nomads v Streatham & Marlborough - 21/8/16

Nomads hosted a youthful Streatham & Marlborough side in a conference fixture at the Del Ballard Rec in Dundonald Road, Wimbledon, on Sunday and took our unbeaten streak against this well-organised club to 4 games.
Nomads batted first and recorded our highest score of the season - 211 - in a see-saw innings.  The early dismissal of Darwin, which should probably have been called for a high no-ball, was followed by an excellent stand of 93, our highest partnership of the season so far, between Mahesh Vyas and Paul Murphy.  4 wickets then fell for 1 run in the mid-90s before a hard-hitting 67 not out - including 13 boundaries, from Javed Iqbal, with good support especially from KK, took Nomads well over 200 against a bowling line-up that tried their best.
Streatham shot out of the traps with 35 off the first 3 overs, but Nomads gradually bowled their way back into it and a great spell of hostile fast bowling from Abbas seemed to have swung the pendulum in the Home side's favour.  At this point, in steady drizzle, the visitors took a fairly unilateral decision to leave the field and call things off.  It is not clear whether they feared getting into trouble for arriving home wearing sopping wet kit, or that they felt the game had begun to turn decisively against them.  There was a rumour that it was the latter.  Anyway, the rain stopped after 30 minutes.  Although the Away side were fractionally ahead on run rate (6.14 to 6.03), the minimum Nomads will claim from this game is a draw and I might consult Messrs Duckworth and Lewis to see if we did, in fact, win.  Not that we are desperate, of course.

UPDATE....I have just checked out Duckworth-Lewis and, guess what; Nomads won by 12 runs.  Call us lucky, call us winners, call me a sad *****, but just don't ask me to explain.  Anyway, congrats to Nomads on our 6th win of the season.


Clapham Nomads  211 for 8 from 35 overs

M. Vyas (wkt)  38
D. Gunawardena  0
P. Murphy  38
R. Khan  0
Zia  1
Safi  5
J. Iqbal  not out 67
KK Khusro  16
Abbas Khan  7
N. Lefebve  not out 0
Did not bat; E. Todorow (capt)

F.O.W. - 1, 94, 94, 94, 95, 132, 190, 207

Streatham & Marlborough  129 for 5 from 21 overs

Nomads' bowling;

Zia  5-0-31-1
R. Khan  5-0-35-0
KK Khusro  5-0-32-0
Abbas Khan  5-0-23-3
Safi  1-1-0-1

Nomads either drew or won - further details to follow

UPDATE - Clapham Nomads won by 12 runs.  (Duckworth-Lewis formula)

Man of the Match was Javed Iqbal, though Abbas might well have claimed this, with another wicket or two, had he been able to complete his spell.  Zia was Fielder of the Day.