Reed bounced back from Saturday league defeat with an exciting win
over Chippenham on Sunday. Reed won the toss and decided to bat. The
Reed openers of Baz Curtis and Peter Baker gave the home side a good
start putting on 78 for the first wicket. Baker was the first to go
for 37. Curtis soon followed when the score reached 96 and he had
made 45. Reed suddenly found they had lost 5 wickets for 44 runs and
the run rate slowing quickly. Nick Caller making his debut and Graham
Hazard tried to push things along, but it was Simon Roberts’s 28 that
pushed Reed past 150. When the overs ran out Reed had posted
171-9.
Scott Rouse got an early break through for Reed when he forced
Heather into a mistake. With Peter Costen bowling very tightly at the
other end Chippenham found it hard to get the ball away.Costen bowled
6 maidens from his 7 overs, plus picking up a wicket. Duncan Price
replaced Costen from the pavilion and then bowled 16 overs unchanged
picking up 3-59. Price was also making his debut. The game was evenly
poised until Phil Divers was introduced into the attack. He ripped
through the Chippenham middle order taking 4-28 in 6 overs. He was on
a hat trick after a fine piece of work by Mark Peart behind the
timbers who had the bails of in a flash giving Hughes no chance to
get back. In the end Chippenham were just 13 runs short.
