Arran Receives the Coveted MOM Award, 3 for 19.

Our U15s took on a hot looking Worthing side at Blackstone for a huge opportunity to progress towards the regional rounds.  This competition is the corner stone of Junior club cricket which gives U13s and U15s a chance to play at Lords in the final. Our 15s are no strangers to this concept having reached the Regionals aged 13. They are on the trail again with a home game against Ashtead (Surrey) on 5^th July 2026.  Nomads have reached the regional finals 4 times in my time here but that illusive progression to the National semi has just been at arm’s length.  Can 2026 be the year?

Huge congratulations to Manager Ralph his team and all connections on a wonderful win at Blackstone.  Your media host on the night GCB takes up the story. Huge thanks to him for his expert coverage.

U15s win Sussex ECB U15 final

Blackstone hosted the u13 and u15 finals last night on a balmy evening. Our boys were on the immaculate main south ground with Ralph and his squad looking to do the double after winning the u13 trophy in 2024

Worthing CC won the toss and chose to field. Olly Hewitt got us off to an electric start taking 18 off the first over before being dismissed in the next for an electric 15. Skipper Harry and Eyaan consolidated taking us to 54-2 before the wickets started to fall with some regularity. Worthing had a good array of seamers and several of the wickets were from good balls. It took our semi final hero Eddie Spence, cunningly moved to bat 5, to ensure we didn’t fully collapse. His bruising 41 off 18 helped us to 128 all out in the 16th over. It didn’t feel enough and the boys were aware they had committed the sin of not batting their overs.

It was going to require a strong fielding performance. Their top 3 looked promising with Clarke and Clapp both hitting powerful boundaries in the opening overs. Skipper Harry nipped one through though to send Clarke on his way. Rather like Nomads they then had a solid partnership taking them to 50-1 but they were travelling slowly with our boys fielding like tigers and very few wides.

The scoreboard pressure started to tell and Arran produced a magic spell of 3-19 off his four overs to leave them 56-4. From there the only question was whether their star man H Clapp who had himself taken 3-13 when bowling and was 23* watching the carnage at the other end could single handedly get his team over the line.

But a fine stumping from Eddie saw to that and Jo Doubler, Freddie B and Ollie Baker oversaw a very professional “close out”. Worthing all out for 84, losing their last 9 wickets for 34. Nomads win by 44 runs. It’s tremendous seeing what team Scrase are doing with this bunch. They are such a strong team, playing for each other and finding ways to win.

The u15s will play Surrey winners Ashtead at home on Sunday 5th July

My MoM was Arran for his fine spell of bowling.