A seven wicket win for Dunstable II doesn’t start to tell the
story of this exciting game. Reed were put into bat and made a good
start against some tight Dunstable bowling. Baz Curtis and Simon
Jackson put on 54 for the first wicket before Curtis was dismissed
for 42. Simon Roberts joined Jackson and was making good progress
until a break for rain. This reduced the game to 40 overs a side.
Roberts had made 27 before he was removed by Watts. Jackson was now
getting into his stride and along with Jason Nolan had moved Reed on
to 154 when Nolan was well stumped for 23. Reed needed to push on now
and Trevor Saunders did just that. He hit two sixes, one into a very
stronger wind and with some fine running by Jackson they reached a
very respectable 192-3 off 40 overs. Jackson had carried his bat for
61, and Saunders was 20 not out.
Dunstable II made a very solid start and put on 134 for the first
wicket. They never really got ahead of the run rate, but kept wickets
in hand. Andrew Emms was unlucky not to get an early break through.
It was left to Ray Kingshot to make the break through when he had
Gypps caught on the boundary by Saunders for 56. Simon Roberts got
the vital wicket of Kilduff for 76 and Reed now had 2 new batsmen to
bowl at. Kingshot kept it tight from one end and Simon Roberts bowled
a tight, eight over spell. Kingshot picked up his second wicket when
the score was 175. Dunstable needed 10 off the last over with
Kingshot to bowl it. Moody decided to go down the ground and was
lucky to get away with it. He was dropped on the boundary, but to
make matters worse the ball went for six. After that 4 runs from 5
balls was no problem and Dunstable got home of the penultimate ball,
by seven wickets.
