Reed get into top gear – as the “Bloodhounds” get agitated!!
The best weekend of the season so far with a “120 Point” SHCL Saturday (albeit with a 30Pt concession to our 4th Xl!) and a comprehensive win at Reed for our Sunday 1st Xl. The [...]
Norfolk goes missing from the National Village Cup – but I’m still on route for a Lords double!
Another good weekend for our Club spoilt only by the rain wiping out our 1st Xl fixture at Ampthill where we had made a good start reducing the home team to 23-2 off 10 overs [...]
Does an MBA Culture spell the end of Recreational Cricket as we know it?
It was in the mid 1980’s that the educational establishment’s fixation with MBA Degrees (Masters of Business Administration!) really took off. As the increasingly huge volume of degree clutching hordes exited the Universities and Polytechnics [...]
“Mugged 4 Times in a Day!”
Morning Rita – “How are you? I ask as my jolly cleaner comes into the house after being away ill for a few weeks. “A lot better thanks” she replies, and almost immediately continues “I [...]
Respecting and humouring the man in the White Coat!
As a player in his 50th year of competitive Cricket, a part-time SHCL “Dispensated Umpire”, and a regular watcher of the game at all levels, the psychology of some of those playing the game never [...]
Time for a “Jimmy” to appear at Reed!
Past halfway now in the 2013 SHCL League campaign and things are going pretty well for us at Reed. In Division 1 our 1st Xl are comfortably consolidating their position in the top Division, sitting [...]
The Aussies are down … the English Cricket Broadcasting Media is almost out … and the Golden Goose is hijacked!
So the much vaunted, and highly hyped, Ashes Series is upon us and somewhat predictably the “in transition/in melt-down/low grade” Aussie side is at the moment taking a pasting. Even with the previously imperious Alastair [...]
Spot Fixing suspicions! Drug Testing called for! and “Wot – No Beer Match!
The unaccustomed lengthy spell of very hot weather was forecast to drift away last Saturday with thunder and lightening promised for the Reed area from around 2pm. That prospect seemed destined to deny local cricket [...]
The Aussies are back up … is the DRS tail wagging the dog? … and the Reed League Season moves to a Climax hindered by Premier League practice matches !!!
So the Aussies were down but not out. Or were they? When is anyone in or out in Test Cricket anymore? You can be Out but then back in, or In and then Out. Playing [...]
As the Season comes to an end might we be approaching a “Tipping” Point?”
Promoted to Herts League Division 1 this season our 1st Xl have performed marvellously well winning 7 of the 15 matches played to date. At times in recent weeks we have also put out winning [...]