Reed’s last league game of the season finished on a low note.
Despite a good effort by the bowlers they were once again let down by
the batting. Reed decided to bat first. Baz Curtis and Paul Watts got
Reed off to a reasonable start putting on 46 for the first wicket
before Curtis went for an aggressive 38, but Reed were soon reduced
to 51-4 just 4 overs later. William Clarke and Ed Blissett got Reed
to 76-6 when Clarke was run out. Reed lost two more wickets on 76.
Blissett the last of them for 9. That included an amazing 7 when a
fielder picked up the wicket keepers glove to field the returning
throw, thus giving away 5 more runs to add to the 2 the batsman had
run. Richard Robertson hit his highest league score of the season
with some lusty blows and he was the last man out for 24.
Reed’s opening bowlers really fought hard to get Reed back in the
game. Both William Clarke and Peter Costen caused problems to the
home side’s batsman. Reed had the league runners up in all sorts of
trouble at 40-4. Both bowlers had picked up 2 wickets each. Graham
Wilson held a great catch in the deep to give Costen his second
victim. Eversholt’s strength is their batting and apart from
Robertson removing Davis for 45, Eversholt had no other alarms. In
the end it was a comfortable 5 wicket win for the home side.
