Clapham Nomads made a great return from our break for Ramadan and Eid with one of our most convincing wins over local rivals Energy Exiles at Nursery Road on Sunday.
Exiles were missing a few regulars; notably Simon Gundry, Keith Roberts, Chris Plume and Bernard Leuvennink, and it was pretty much a full-strength Clapham selection but it was still a fantastic win.
Exiles won the toss and, after a good start, collapsed somewhat but then made a recovery with a fine 10th wicket stand of about 40 between experienced campaigners Andy Wingfield and Phil Ling. Emil claims credit for eventually breaking this stand by getting fielders to come up and crowd Ling. The final total was 180 which Exiles felt was 30 or so below par, but Nomads' keeper John Crossland said later he felt the game might have slipped away. I haven't seen the bowling figures but it was our best bowling of the season so far. Emil, despite being at his own admission not at his awesome best physically, bowled a good spell of 5 overs and took a wicket.
Exiles new "Tea Lady" provided quality refreshment before Nomads began their reply.
It was good to have Abdul back at the top of our order but, despite obdurate resistance from Mahesh and some quick runs from Darwin, Exiles had us in considerable trouble at 48 for 3. Fortunately we had the reliable firm of Hasan and Zia - "destroying opposing attacks a speciality" - in reserve and they did not disappoint. A fantastic unbeaten partnership of 135 took Nomads past the home side's total with around 8 overs to spare. Both Hasan (top scorer) and Zia made half-centuries.
John picked out Zia as the pick of the bowlers. I'll have to check the stats to see if this was our most convincing win over the Exiles - it must have been close; a great win.
MORE DETAIL TO FOLLOW WHEN I HAVE SEEN THE SCOREBOOK....
Energy Exiles - 180 all out in 38.1 overs
Nomads' bowling;
Sami 8-1-35-2
KK 6.1-0-25-1
Abbas 8-1-45-3
Zia 8-1-34-3
Riaz 3-2-5-0
Emil 5-0-29-1
Clapham Nomads - 183 for 3 from 32.1 overs
Mahesh 4
Abdul 5
Darwin 18
Hasan 76 not out
Zia 64 not out
F.O.W. - 8, 30, 48
Did not bat: Riaz, Abbas, KK, Emil (capt), Sami, John (wkt)
Clapham Nomads won by 7 wickets.
Man of the Match - Zia
Fielder of the Day (2 catches) - Abbas
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