Reed IV travelled to Waltham Cross Rosedale IV in a must win game between two teams near the bottom of the table. Conditions were not conducive to high scoring on the slippery artificial pitch with a wet, slow outfield. However, after winning the toss and choosing to bat Peter Baker (39) and Richard Robertson (14) made a solid start to build a good foundation for the innings.
After the loss of a couple of quick wickets, Cemal Ramadan then came to the crease. After hitting his first ball for 6 Ramadan continued to entertain smashing 41, with a number of partners. Freddy Stuart (15), Jack Childs and Joe Graves all batted sensibly to take Reed to 172 all out in 43 overs.
After a very good tea, Reed started to attack the home side’s batting, with brilliant bowling from Alan Ward (19.3-8-24-4) and the young Graves (11-1-28-2).Ramadan entertained with his unconventional style wicket keeping for the first time. With the home side always under pressure to get the runs and losing wickets it became a race for Reed to take the wickets before the overs ran out to secure the win. Jack Childs (4-0-31-2), skipper Rob Willoughby (8-2-18-7) and Sam Rice (4-0-9-2) all kept the score down bowling tightly. It was left to Ward to take the final wicket in the final couple of overs to make Reed victorious.
