The final chapter: I’m going to go and talk to your girlfriend, because I’m better looking than you.
 
So the final chapter comes. A long season, a few miles, plenty of wickets, quite a few runs and some more glassware to put up on the shelf.
 
Plan A returned - vindaloo, bowl first, bowl well, wobble, knock them off, eat fast food, drink some Jagerbombs.
 
Carly bowled well on a pitch that suited seam bowling, Scribe bowled averagely on a pitch that suited seam bowling.
 
Carl bowled 18 overs and got 7 for 57, Scribe bowled 10 overs and got 2-52. Cuckfield got 144 but would have been bowled out for 80, had it not been for some choice carving from Patto.
 
A wobble at the top of the order as Horse and LGoW were dismissed cheaply but the returning Shep and Wakers made sure that the MNM remained steady and they collected the bulk of the runs in the middle order with support from the rest of the engine room.
 
And so the fifteenth win out of nineteen games, not the 17 that it could have been but a sterling effort nevertheless.
 
The tale of the tape is here.
 
Four bowlers in the top 7 in the league averages and Carl’s faultless display of 64 wickets at 12.5.

An opening new ball partnership that yielded 103 wickets and set up a fair proportion of the victories during the season.
 
As the lesser half of that pairing, although I had by far my best personal year to date in men’s cricket, I feel very privileged to have bowled the other end to Carl this year, I always have done, he is up there with the best I have played with or against, but this year has been all the better as I felt I have contributed more effectively and we smashed it weekend after weekend. Riggy also bowled very well this year and finished with 34 wickets to his name his and Carl’s demolition of Eastbourne must have been a highlight, as well as bouncing out the captain of Brighton and Hove. This year Kash was able to sit back and let us do some more of the work but still bowled with the discipline that he has been renowned for in recent seasons finishing with 30 wickets. Four bowlers getting over 30 wickets, in comparison East Grinstead only had one and Horsham’s nearest bowler to Bates (62) got 22. That was the difference this year. Its the Nomad’s Way, everyone contributes.
 
In the engine room Joe’s rise will hopefully continue in the professional ranks when he gets the opportunity with the county and he performed well for us on occasions, most memorably in the 20/20 finals day and against Horsham at the SCMG.

Nomads batters don’t rally at the top of the runs charts, purely because there haven’t been the runs to get, but three batters averaged over 40 with Rob Wakeford having a top year including the 88 ball 100 to win the game against Cuckfield at home.

Everyone fired at some stage and a list of these can be found here.

And who can forget the idiot behind the stumps, 39 dismissals. And a slip cordon that could grace most sides in the country I am sure.
 
But at the end of the day it’s been great fun, winning always helps, but I for one couldn’t have spent my summer with a set of nicer blokes.

And so concludes the 2009 campaign. Just how epic was it? Getting towards this epic:

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