Reed travelled to Hitchin for the semi final of the John Barker cup on Tuesday night hoping to reach the final of the competition for the first time in the clubs history. Despite heavy rain falling the morning of the game it went ahead and the visitors surprised their hosts taking two early wickets through the bowling of Michael Berks leaving the Herts division one side 2-2 after the first over. However, Hitchin did consolidate and looked like making a good score at 35-2 after only 6 overs. Despite this mini-recovery, Reed continued to battle with a superb all-round bowling and fielding display bowling the home side out for 95 in the 19th over. The wickets were shared around but Clarke (3-26 off 5 overs) and Johnson 4.5 overs 13-2) were the pick of the Reed bowling attack.

Reed went out to bat requiring just under 5 an over to win. They reached 16 without loss placed just below the run-rate before S Jackson fell to the first of 2 tight lbw shouts given out by the home umpire. However this only brought Chris Jackson to the crease whom along with James Heslam playing a controlled captains innings guided Reed to 65-1 with plenty of overs remaining. Geoff Wornham then supported Heslam to all but see Reed to victory leaving Ray Kingshott to hit the winning runs with 3 overs to spare. Reed celebrated their memorable midweek win preparing to face more division one opposition in Letchworth in the final on Friday night. Reed Midweek captain James Heslam commented ‘In my first year of competitive Mens team captaincy its been a great achievement for our young side to get past not only division 2 but also division 1 opposition to reach the final of the John Barker cup. The team has showed its true potential and with our excellent all-round team displays in this competition it’s been nothing short of what we deserve.’