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The November meeting took place at the Duke of York Pub on Thursday 30^th November 2000 Minutes of meeting

The 50 club draws were held for October and November 2000. The winners were as follows

October 2000
1st  No.4 Ray Jennett (£15)
2nd No.28  S. Pinfield (£10)

November 2000
1st No. 24 K. Greaves (£15)
2nd No. 21 Foundation for Conductive Education (£10)

The first meeting of our 20^th season will be held at the Duke of York Pub (Bring your light enhancers) on 30^th November 2000 starting at 8.30pm  Notification Details

MA Heslington - Club Secretary.

The Nomads plan to go to the Test Match at Trent Bridge next year against the Aussies.

Demand for Ashes Test tickets is always high and this year is expected to be higher than ever. Social Secretary Darren Cartwright is arranging for the tickets to be purchased. If you want any contact him asap. Full Details

The Nomads AGM will be held at 8pm on Thursday 26th October at The Duke of York, Lichfield. Click here for details.

For an exclusive look at this year's secretary's report click here

Ross Heslington: Club Secretary

The Nomads Annual Dinner took place on Friday 20th October at The Shoulder of Mutton, Lichfield.

Dave Forster was voted 'Nomad of the Year', Paul Fearon won 'Performance of the year' for his 4-12 against Friary which helped clinch the Stewart Ellison trophy, Pete Gardner won 'Fielder of the year', Pete Willis won the Fantasy Cricket trophy and Darren Cartwright won the 'Gonad of the Year'. Awards Details

The Nomads now have their own domain name.

www.lichfieldnomads.com

The Nomads Annual Dinner will be held on Friday 20th October at The Shoulder of Mutton, Lichfield. As usual this will incorporate the annual prize giving ceremonies and speeches. Please Contact Darren if you would like to reserve your place. A menu is available for pre-selection.

The Nomads AGM will be held on Thursday 26th October at The Duke of York, Lichfield. Click here for details.

Ross Heslington: Club Secretary

Cheers, Pete.

With the chance of a free curry to the Nomads, if they won the last match to make it a winning season. There was dissapointment all round as early forecasts of a hot day were confounded by torrential rain and the game was called off.

Nomads were beaten by Five Ways Old Edwardians by 6 wickets in a declaration match. Nomads were put in to bat and made 165 for 7 off 51 overs (Gardner 63, Pinfield 36, Williams 3-32) on a slow pitch. FWOE won with a bit to spare thanks to 47 from opener Khan and a rapid 57 not out from Barratt. Scorecard

Cheers, Pete.

The September draw took place at Selly Oak Hospital Sports and Social Club.

The winners were

1st : No. 45  Alan Birch (£15)

2nd : No. 9  Darren Cartwright (£10)

Full 50 club results

On a sultry hot September afternoon the Nomads beat Norton CC by 76 runs. Nomads were put in to bat and made 168 for 8 off 40 overs (Gardner 33). Norton reached 92 for 9 (all out) with Fearon taking 3-12. Barry Howcroft making his debut scored 24 and took 2-13.

Pete.

Nomads game against Birch Coppice was cancelled. 2 teams turned up to play Coppice.

Pete.

Pete.

The draws for July and August were made at Holland Sports and Social Club, Barton as follows.

July

1st: No. 34 K. Fisher

2nd: No. 47 K. Fisher

August

1st: No. 23 J. Healy

2nd: No. 31 Mrs Jennett

The curse of the plastic was laid to rest as the Nomads put together a good team performance to defeat Sunseekers by 30 runs at Barton.  Skipper Hussein won the toss and batted first. 160 for 5 off 40 overs was slightly below par on a dry, fast outfield. The usual suspects scored solid contributions. Heslington 37, Fearon 36, Gardner 28 and Pinfield 23 assisted by 16 not out in calypso style by Hussein. After some handy catching practice before the match Fearon took a stunning catch off Forster to dismiss the dangerous Nicholls for 14 and Forster clean bowled Rout next ball but was denied the hat trick. All the Nomads bowlers chipped in (Fearon 2-18, Greaves 2-21, Heslington 2-22 and Forster 2-22) but the Nomads only started to look favourites after Fearon returned to the attack and had  top scorer Bull (27) caught on the long on boundary by Forster. Heslington then cleaned up the tail in the next over to make it 6 wins and 6 defeats so far this season.

This week our star pupil is Heslington with 395 while our duffer is Pinfield on 145. There was a wide spread this week but the points mainly going according to previous form.  Full details.

Nomads avenged their earlier heavy defeat with a morale boosting 113 run victory at Rugeley Power Station. Vice captain Hoddy was skipper for the day and saw the Nomads post 205 for 5 off 40 overs. A confident 50 opening partnersip between Gardner and Heslington (8) was overshadowed by a scintillating 113 run partnership between Gardner (86) and Rob Allison who scored a classy 72. An understrength Beau had every chance of winning with Cowley (35) and T. Elson (31) batting well before Elson retired hurt. Beau then collapsed from 71-0 to 92 for 8 (Greaves 3-3, Rowland 3-11) to give the Nomads their fifth victory of the season by a comfortable 113 runs.

This week's Golden Goose has proved to be Akin - the only player to top 300, helped along by the efforts of Stewart and Walsh. The Bernard Matthew's Award goes to Darren with a fairly dismal 125. With the top three covered by only 278 points and Pinfield's famous Essex openers Nurdle and Nudge in prime form (another 2nd place this week) much can still happen.  Full details.

PGW

The game against Trentside was called off after both sides struggled to raise a team.

Generally a low scoring week with only three players over the 200 mark, Pinfield top scored with 240. Full details.

After the Tamworth game was called off, a hastily arranged fixture against Wishaw was also cancelled and the Nomads were left without a game on one of the sunniest Sundays of the year.

A big scoring week with both Heslington and Evans snr over the 400 mark. Willis just missed the mark but maintains a small lead over the April Showers. Full details.

Nomads suffered a heavy defeat mainly thanks to Steve Gallier's impressive 177 not out and an unusually 'thin' bowling attack. Beaudesert 252 -1 (Gallier 177*, Cowley 53, Hemmings 1-31), Nomads 96 all out (Pinfield 20, S. Elson 4-18).

Hurrah for Hussein! Helped by Stewart's England performances the Sheikh tops this weeks scorers, followed by Sardines and then a gaggle of players all around the mid 200 mark. Crofty's Finger seems to have got stuck in Derek Randall's Grin as they joint bottom scored and leaving Fearon rather adrift at the tail. Full details.

Another hard fought draw. Barton 201 for 9 (Swannick 68, Asprey 49, Hoddy 4-38, Forster 3-53), Nomads 177 for 5 (Pinfield 36, S. George 1-18).

A low scoring week, this one. I was surprised to have top score with a mere 279. The post-Heslingtongate team was second up on 270 and Martyn improved with 260. Still everything to play for as MERPs meteoric rise to third proves.

PGW.

Full details.

Nomads travelled down to Northamptonshire and drew with Bugbrooke despite a heavy downpour midway through the game.

Nomads 173 for 8 ( Heslington 61, Gardner 59, Gilthorpe 3-12), Bugbrooke 109 for 7 ( Street 42, Greaves 3-19, Heslington 3-38).

Heavy points for MERP scoring over 400 this week with Martyn and the Sheikh also over 300. Full details.

The Nomads were totally outplayed in their Mercury Cup semi-final clash away at Armitage. Armitage batted first and quickly stamped their authority on the contest. With some big hitting and the help of some hapless Nomads fielding, Armitage rattled up a mind-boggling 228 for 1 off only 15 (8 ball) overs. Nomads reached a respectable 81 for 2 in reply in murky conditions. Match Result : Nomads lost by 147 runs

A depleted Nomads team with only 9 men were saved by the rain or cruelly denied another match winning opportunity depending on your point of view. Woore batted first and some tidy bowling restricted Woore to only 168 from 40 overs when 200 seemed on the cards. Nomads reached 83 for 4 before the heavens opened and the game was abandoned with 12 overs to go.