Surbiton ran out comfortable winners against a Nomads side a bit light on bowling strength at Colets in Thames Ditton last Sunday.
The home side chalked up 234 with Siddik top-scoring with 80. Imperials skipper, the hard-hitting Leicester City fan Jonny also played a vital hand as opener with an unusually careful, for him, 40-odd. This was potentially a vital innings as there were rumours going round that Surbiton had a long-ish tail. Sadly, we never really got to find out whether this was true. The main bowlers, Emil, Andrew and Abdul did OK while the star of the change bowlers was the 14-year-old Musa who did a fine job with 2 wickets on his debut.
Missing Riaz and Hassan, 236 was a big ask but Mark Bradshaw immediately showed he was on song with a cracking, trademark Square Cut for 4 off the useful Jimmy George. Mark went on to accrue an impressive 66 not out, one of his best innings since he returned to the club, and didn't give the bowlers a sniff until the final over. He basically held our batting together though there were some other useful contributions from Gul and Abdul and the lower order did an improved job compared to the previous week.
I will give more detail once I have the scores, but that might be a while as I am in the doghouse with Club Scorer John Crossland as I forgot to bring the scorebook and he had to keep score on various bits of paper (happily not Andrex as has been suggested to him on previous similar occasions.)
Regular readers of this blog - if there are any - will be shocked to the core to hear that controversy once again reared its head at a Nomads match. This came in the form of the Mobile Phone Incident. A tense stand-off involving one of Nomads' most vocal players (clue - he is a big-boned Medium Pace Bowler.) Some people described this as Handbags at 10 Paces. Hmm... possibly true if the handbags contained baseball bats. Seriously though, no blows were struck though the air did turn quite blue with the C-Bomb being uttered a quite remarkable number of times. I don't know what the respectable residents of Thames Ditton - probably more used to refined discussions about Leylandii and why the Conservative Government is so left-wing - made of it all.
Anyway, Nomads continued their reasonable batting form with a total of 170 for 6, rounded off with a sumptuous On-Drive from Emil in the final over.
It was good to welcome Prasanth back from injury and he marked his return with a fine running catch. Possibly an even better catch was taken by Darwin, who got through a lot of good work in the field and wins Fielder of the Day. Man of the Match was Mark for his high-class knock.
Oh well, at least the next match should see a break from all this controversy. Who are we playing? Oh, the Energy Exiles. Ah.........
Surbiton Imperials 234 for 6 from 35 overs
Nomads' bowling
A. Khan 7-0-41-2
West 7-1-30-0
Todorow 7-0-38-0
Gunawardena 7-0-66-0
Musa 4-0-33-2
Gul 2-0-17-2
Pattiyil 1-0-7-0
Clapham Nomads 170 for 6 from 35 overs
Bradshaw 66 not out
Gul 27
M. Vyas 0
Pattiyil 4
Gunawardena 6
A. Khan 20
Lefebve 14
Todorow 5 not out
Did not bat; Crossland, Musa, West
F.O.W. - 58, 59, 65, 76, 128, 161
Nomads lost by 64 runs.
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