Keith Alexander hits 94  
Blumberg takes 4 wickets

3/6 Nomads beat Follies Farm Old Spots by 89 runs
MATCH 12   NOMADS CC v Follies Farm Old Spots CC  at Follies Farm Chiddingfold Sunday June 3rd 2007 1.00pm  

Result: Nomads  won by 89 runs
Umpires:Paul Maloney &  
Scorers: Various
Debut(s): Greg Jones

NOMADS CC Innings
J Lascelles  bowled      Hix   36
N Fletcher   c Smith C b Leng   5
J Lane       bowled      Perry 17
N Lamb       c Stokes  b Perry 10
K Alexander  lbw       b Saxel 94
G Jones      c Saxel   b Hicks 17
K Thorns     bowled      Leng  22
D Rawat      run out(Powar)     7
GC Lamb      not out            4
M E Blumberg not out            0
Extras      (b2,lb0,w6,nb2)    10
TOTAL    (8 wickets,40 overs) 224
Dnb:N Cooper

Fow:1-16,2-46,3-64,4-84,5-98.6-201,7-216,8-224.

Bowling-Leng 8 4 13 2,Watson 8 0 43 0,T Smith 3 0 19 0,Hicks 6 0 27 2,Perry 8 0 55 2,C Smith 2 0 19 0,Power 2 0 31 0.

FOLLIES FARM OLD SPOTS CC Innings
F Francis bowled        Thorns    0
H Spears  run out                23
S Saxel   lbw         b James     0
E Power   lbw         b Thorns    1
M Perry   st Rawat    b Blumberg 36
D Leng    c Rawat     b Blumberg  4
R Stokes  bowled        Lane      0
J Hicks   c Lascelles b Blumberg  3
T Smith   bowled        Fletcher 35
W Watson  bowled        Blumberg 14
C Smith   not out                10
Extras   (b5,lb1,w2,nb1)          9
TOTAL    (All out,30.3 overs)   135

Fow:1-1,2-5,3-10,4-50,6-74,7-75,8-77,9-106,10-135.

Bowling-Thorns 6 2 7 2,Jones 5 0 14 1,Blumberg 8 0 43 4,Lane 5 1 31 1.Fletcher 4.3 0 17 1,Lamb 2 0 18 0.

Keith Alexander plunders 94 at Follies Farm 

  With the sun shining at last Nomads won the toss and elected to bat first at Follies Farm.There were murmurings in the dressing room about the state of the pitch but veteran skipper Charlton Lamb said "It will probably get worse.I want a mimum of 5 an over."
    Well things did get worse   as Nomads slumped to  98-5 despite 36 from Jeremy Lascelles and at the drinks interval at 20 overs  the total was well under 4 an over.
    However after a short flurry from Greg Jones the tempo accelerated as Keith Alexander despatched the bowling, both serious and cafeteria, to all sections of the ground. During this merry mayhem Karl Thorns, usually a powerful stroke maker himself, was happy to give the strike to Keith as  they added 103 for the 6th wicket   of which he contributed 10%.  
   When Keith was out lbw  he had hit a quickfire 94 and lifted Nomads total to respectability. A further  23 runs were added despite the President batting out the last over for a maiden against Leng the Follies¹ skipper and pick of their bowlers,8- 4-13-2.
   After tea Thorns and Jones struck early removing three of top four  cheaply.a fantastic throw in removed the fourth wicket  which had added some 40 runs. Blumberg after an expensive first over then accounted for danger man Leng  as Follies¹ innings was deep in the pig swill.blumberg took two more so that the home side were  down and out at 8-77. However the last three batsmen  then added 58 runs to finish all out on 135 some 89 runs short. In view of the tail¹s flurry it was thus doubly important we captured the wickets of Leng and Perry when we did.
   Karl Thorns finished with 6-2-7-2 and Blumberg¹s flighted filth  returned 8-0-43-4.

Previous Matches
2006 Nomads win by 74 runs as Tom Lascelles takes'Michele'
2005 Leng Steals the show for FFOS who win by 48 runs
2004 Nomads won by 51 runs
2003 FFOS won by 3 wickets
2002 Nomads received a thrashing