On Sunday Reeds transition side played against Knebworth Park transition side at Knebworth Park with Keiran Ward as captain and won the toss disided to field because we had a strong bowling attack of M Cooper fast bowling (1-47) and N Haslem (0-30) opening the bowling.
Then J Bloor with his attacking spin bowling making it hard for the batsmen to play it wasn’t long untill the batsmen missed and T Greaves quick of the mark to get the stumping. Then the wickets started to fall with J Bloor finishing on (1-36) O Smith with his 1st game of the season finishing on (2-25) also strong bowling from M Giblin (0-20) and K.K Ward (0-29). Knebworth park finishing on 219 4 of 40 overs.
Reed got off to a good opening start with P Baker and T Greaves untill T. Greaves was giving out for LBW on 19 and P Baker a few overs later given out LBW for 19. J Bloor come into bat with a strong start hitting the ball about for a quick 12. Then M Cooper coming in to bat getting of the mark quickly with a firery 46 with 10 4’s but getting caught on the shot he hoped to get 50 with. K.K ward (not out) came in and made up for his bowling smahing 4 4’s and a 2 in 8 balls hoping to raise some team spirit. Reed were all out for 148. Even though we lost it was a good game of cricket and kept us all on our toes and would be a good game to play again.
