Nomads made a decent return from our Ramadan and Eid break with a good performance to get slightly the better of a draw against our oldest cricketing friends the Barnes Occasionals.
It is good to see the Occasionals have returned to their traditional tribal home at Rocks Lane. The facilities have been upgraded. I didn't play in this one myself but John and Emil were impressed.
Barnes won the toss and skipper Tom Hooker inserted Clapham, knowing that this pretty much guaranteed the Home side a draw at least, given their experienced batting line-up.
Nomads made a slightly shaky start with Javed, happily recovered from his illness in the previous game, run out in the first over. Mahesh continued his fine form with 24 but 3 early wickets had us in a little difficulty. Happily, the middle order was consistent with just about everybody chipping in with runs, led by Zia who hit a magnificent 67. It was good to see our popular swing bowler Sami make a return. Nomads reached 221 for 7 at tea which made a defeat, at least, seem unlikely.
Led by classy strokemaker Roger Price, Barnes started impressively and were in the hunt for victory at one stage with Price making 71 and number 3 Solanke hitting 49. Steady Nomads bowling and a few wickets tipped the balance back towards the Away side, Sami's cousin Faseeh, was possibly the pick of the bowlers. Barnes called off the chase and finished on 154 for 6 for a comfortable draw. There was some discussion as to whether skipper Emil Todorow should have declared but, with capable defensive players such as D.M Webster, Keith Seed and Ollie Hogg to come, we would have needed at the very least another 10 overs to have had any chance of dismissing Occasionals and declaring 10 overs earlier would have left us with only around 165 runs on the board which would not have been a safe total.
Anyway, apparently it was an enjoyable afternoon and we look forward to the return fixture in September.
Clapham Nomads - 221 for 7 from 32 overs
M.Vyas b Edwards 24
J. Iqbal run out 0
R. Khan b Hooker 12
H. Khan ct -------- b Hogg 12
Zia ct Price b Chandra 67
D. Gunawardena b Chandra
Faseeh not out 41
KK Khusro b Hogg 4
Sami not out 11
Did not bat; E.Todorow (Capt), J. Crossland (Wkt)
F.O.W. - 0, 17, 35, 151, 152, 165, 186
Barnes Occasionals - 154 for 6 from 36 overs
R. Price c H.Khan b R.Khan 71
A. Metcalfe c Zia b Hassan 6
R. Solanke c Vyas b KK Khusro 49
G. Chandra c Faseeh b Zia
JP Mauro b Faseeh 0
P. Carey b R.Khan 9
T. Edwards not out 6
T. Hooker not out 1
Did not bat; DM Webster, O. Hogg, K. Seed
F.O.W - 29, 118, 123, 124, 136, 148
Match Drawn
I will update this report when I get the scorebook back.
Man of the Match - Zia.
Fielder of the Day - I think we took 4 catches but I heard there were quite a few drops as well. I will ask John Crossland who he thought the best fielder was........and then stand well back. UPDATE - Catches were taken by Zia, Mahesh, Faseeh and Hassan. Mahesh has just informed me that his was a diving catch so that automatically gives him Fielder of the Day.
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