At the Fitzwilliam College ground Reed won the toss and chose to bat first against the premiership side of Granta. It was clear they were a well honed side and the Reed batsman faced some fast pace bowling. Even so they stood tall with Reece Fitzgerald (c) and Jack Caine making an opening partnership of 15 before Jack was caught on 8 runs off of Bedford. Owen Hughes came in and also faced up the intimidating bowling, then the wicket of the captain fell to a catch off the bowling of Mann. Owen and Connor Poulton managed to stick it out until the 11th over with a partnership of 20 Connor finding the boundary and having to duck a mean bouncer.
He saw the wickets of Owen and Jack Childs go in the 11th over and then succumbed himself in the 12th over bowled by Ho for 15. After loosing Sam Rice for no score in the 15th over, Owen Church came into partner Freddie Stuart for his debut of the season. Owen made startling well needed cameo over the final 5 over’s, finding the boundary 5 times Owen took Reed to a final total of 80 with an unbeaten score of 22, Freddie finished 6 not out.
Reed felt they had done their best and were still confident that they could defend the small total. Granta’s opening batsman picked off the runs with ease and by the 7th over had got to 50. It was nip and tuck as to which batsman would retire first, Cox got to 32 in the 10th over, Granta only needed 7 to win. Freddie Stuart took the next batsman’s bails for no score. With 5 runs still needed Pepper was bowled by Zac Conley for 28 before he could retire. A collapse was not to ensue however and Gilmore finished off the innings with a 4 to take Granta to a 8 wicket victory in the 12th over.
