Reed won the toss and chose to field. It was cloudy and rain was in the air. With Cambridge Granta being top of the Premiership Reed knew they were up against it. However, Grantas opening batsman did not get the ball away scoring slowly and losing a wicket in the 6th over to Connor Poulton (4-1-30-1). By the 7th Granta were only scoring at 4 an over. A couple of expensive overs then saw Granta pick up the run rate. 2 more wickets fell, 1 to Josh Poulton and a stumping by Ian Curtis off of the bowling of Rhodri Hughes. Excellent fielding all round kept Granta to 118 for 3 after 20 overs. Granta’s top scorers being Robert Marmion 24 and Tom Cox 31 no.
Going into bat Reed new they were in with a chance, at a run rate of 6 per over and with the rain setting in the pressure was on the fielding side. By the 7th over Reed were above the run rate by 8 runs but two wickets down. Josh Poulton had to retire with a score of 33 and it was up to the middle order to keep the run rate up. Two quick wickets fell in the 9th and 10th over and the run rate slowed. Jack Caine put in a sterling performance of 20 no, undaunted the Reed batsmen never gave up but fell short by 26runs. The winning side having to work hard for their win.
