Reed’s 2nd XI stormed to victory on Saturday with an excellent 8 wicket win. Winning the toss, skipper Baz Curtis put the visitors into bat on a wicket that he hoped would prove helpful to his young pace attack. Overhead conditions provided some swing as well.
Kallum Ward took full advantage taking the first four wickets to fall including a superb caught and bowled. His opening partner Rupert Martin was late to the party, but picked up two wickets late in his spell.
At 30-6 Bentley Heath looked dead and buried. Jaslina and Tarimzi rebuilt the inning. Jaslina batted extremely positively and hit the ball to parts or Reed.
The home side seemed to lack ideas and their early work seemed to have been wasted. Julian Fynn had replaced Martin and thanks to a superb one handed diving catch at gully by Simon Jackson, he removed Jaslina for 66. The pair had put on 85 for the 7th wicket. Tarimzi tried to go on the attack, but was caught for 4 and the very next ball Fynn struck again. He finished with 3-22. The final wicket fell with a run out and Bentley Heather were all out for 124. Ward finished with 4-11 from 7 overs.
Baz Curtis opened with William Heslam and their main aim was to see of the new ball. Bentley Heath got some early swing, but the pair put the bad ball away and had reached 39 without much alarm before Curtis was caught for 17, with the score on 39. Matt Bowles added 17 with Heslam before he to was caught.
Richard Johnson joined Heslam and the pair looked in total control. Heslam hit 11 boundaries in his 58 not out and Johnson with his usual excellent timing was 26 not out as the home picked up a maximum 30 points for the second week running.
