A brilliant 102 from Hassan Khan led Nomads to a 100-run victory over Wimbledon United at Cottenham Park. What more can you say about the man? He is a genius. He is now getting close to 5,500 runs for the club. This was his third century of the season and his 8th or 9th - or possibly even 10th - for Nomads.
Nomads batted first by agreement to enable United to set up a post-match barbecue to mark their captain Dave Hitchman's last game for the club this season - I originally thought this was his last-ever game as he is going to work in Greece (he would surely have qualified for the Greek National Side within a few years and maybe played in the final of the 20-20 Balkan Cup against a Bulgarian line-up managed by Emil Todorow); however, it turns out he will be back next year which is good as he is a nice guy, even if he tends to score massive amounts of runs against us.
Anyway, it was good to see Abdul back for the Nomads and he opened the batting with the ever-consistent Mahesh Vyas.. An early-ish wicket brought Javed to the crease. He won this match for us last year and showed similar form here with a very entertaining 40. The team score was only 69 when he was out so it was a dominant knock. Hassan then took over with a masterful, controlled innings, with best support coming from Darwin(28) and KK(27). Nomads rattled up 258 for 8 off the full 40 which is the largest total by either side in a match between these 2 sides.
Our chances of victory (? 90%) went up to about 99% when Dave Hitchman fell to Sami second ball - a rare failure against the Nomads. Sami maintained his form for a fine spell of 2 for 15 off 5 overs. United do bat pretty much all the way down and their number 6 hit a rapid 90-odd but a very impressive and hostile spell of pace bowling from Abbas kept is in the box-seat and 3 wickets in 11 balls from Javed at the end wrapped up a satisfying victory - our 5th in 11 games (6 defeats) against these opponents.
Clapham Nomads 258 for 8 from 40 overs
Mahesh 24
Abdul 5
Javed 40
Hassan 102
Darwin 28
Zia 3
KK 27
Abbas not out 5
Emil 0
Sami not out 3
Did not bat; John
F.O.W. - 17, 69, 81, 159, 183, 231, 255, 256
Wimbledon United 158 all out from 31.5 overs
Nomads' bowling
Sami 5-0-15-2
Zia 8-0-48-0
Abbas 8-0-25-4
Hassan 3-0-25-0
KK 6-0-33-1
Javed 1.5-0-6-3
Clapham Nomads won by 100 runs
Man of the Match - Hassan
Fielder of the Day - Zia
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