Reed won the toss and opened the batting well with a good partnership between Dominic McOmish (retired at 50) & Josh Poulton (37). The remaining 3 batsmen worked well to bring the score to a good 125 for 2 wickets off 20 overs.The second innings saw most of the team bowling at least one over, the two wicket takes being Tom Walsingham (4 overs for 7 runs with 1 wkt.) & D Mcomish 3.3 overs for 27 runs & 1 wktThis was not a bad start to the season, losing to the side that all but shared the lead at the end of last season (Reed won on a technicality). The new team are finding their feet, needing to work on increasing the run rate, and developing bowling confidence to reduce the number of extras given away.

Due to depleted numbers Reed allowed Thriplow to bat first. Connor Poulton and Jack Caine opened the bowling and the 2nd & 3rd over saw the Thriplow openers bowled by consecutive balls. Debut of Josh Coldicott-Stevens in the 6th over saw his first wicket for the club caught by Connor coming in from the deep. Tight bowling by all 9 bowlers along with exceptional fielding gave Reed regular wickets and meant the opposition never got going. With Thriplow still a man short Owen Hughes despatched the last wicket with his second ball in the 16th over leaving Reed a run chase of 64 to win. Best of the bowling Reece Fitzgerald 4-0-5-2.Reed were by no means complacent in their reply. The Thriplow bowlers were not going to make it easy and Reed openers Reece Fitzgerald and Connor Poulton bided their time. Going at 2 runs per over for the first few overs they played sensibly picking off the bad balls when they came. Reed lost the wickets of Reece and Owen Hughes to LBW decisions leaving Connor and debutant Josh to finish up the innings. Both ended up on 17 not out Josh finished the innings with his second boundary taking Reed to 67, Connor Poulton carried his bat.

Sawston won the toss and chose to bat. Obviously an experience batting side they moved the ball around the field picking up singles with the odd boundary. Although Reed could not get wickets, Sawston were not exactly piling on the runs. At the halfway point they were on target for around 110 which Reed would have been happy with. The second half of the innings was much the same. Reed’s wickets came too late 5 in the last 4 overs but then Sawston done the damage at the end with a good final over leaving Reed a run chase of 127. (Not the 110 they were hoping for). Sawston opener Z Ives made it to the 18th over for 34 runs other contributions came from L Goss 11 and R Mison 21 off around 6 balls! Zac Conley was the pick of the bowling 1-0-3-2.In reply Reed were always just behind the run rate. After loosing 2 early wickets Connor Poulton and Josh Coldicott Stevens built a good partnership till the 11th over when Connor lost his wicket to a catch by Mison on 19. Josh went on to top score with 24, but Mison struck again taking his bails in 18th over. Reed were never in with a shout and ended innings on 85 for 7, 41 runs short of victory. Best of the Sawston bowling attack was W Rolph, 3-0-11-4.

Reed won the toss and put Royston into bat. Royston got off to a flying start and were running at a healthy 7 per over before they lost the opening bat of Lorcan George in the 5 over. This was no setback however; Robert Hall (recently returned from Letchworth) took up the baton and ran with it. Harking back to Mildenhall 2 and 3 batsman were a force to be reckoned with Connor Little and Robert Hall took the total to 57 when Freddie Stuart snaffled a catch off of Owen Hughes bowling leaving Connor Little on 26. Hall then took advantage of the under par fielding of Reed piling on the runs while Oscar Ayliffe (11) kept up the other end, an impressive partnership of 78. Although Reed managed 3 more wickets at the end from Freddie Stuart, Sam Rice and Jack Childs, Hall was still safe 75 not out with 15 4’s, and had taken the Royston side to 161 for 5 for their 20 overs.In reply Reed started slowly and lost the early wicket of Freddie Stuart in the 2nd over, a catch to Goldman off of Max Ayliffe’s bowling. A good partnership of 34 between Owen Hughes and Reece Fitzgerald put Reed in better position then full toss from Owen Readers first over hit by Reece somehow managed to hit the stumps. From then on Reed were always going to be playing catch up. With an impossible run rate of 12 per over next best performances were Owen Hughes personal best 23 (went to a fantastic one handed catch from Justin Leavers), Connor Poulton 10, Jack Childs again kept himself in for the remaining overs and finished 14 not out, while [...]

Royston Won the toss and put Reed in to bat. Reed scored steadily for the first half of the innings, despite losing the early wicket of Tim Banks in the 3rd over, Reece Fitzgerald and Connor Poulton both scored frequent boundaries taking Reece to 32 when he had to retire and Connor to 28 when he was bowled by Lorcan George. Had the batting side managed to keep up the run rate for the second half we could have been in with a score of around 120. As it was Reed finished on 107 for 6 with only 20 runs off the last 7 overs. Best of the 9 bowlers used by Royston was R Ponting 4-1-2-8.When Royston went into bat it was early wickets that Reed needed to gain the advantage. The opening bowlers were not finding these but when Owen Hughes came on and took two wickets with his first two balls this rallied the home side. Loran George was caught by Jack Caine for 11 and Max Ayliffe fell for 0. The change of bowlers definitely slowed Royston’s scoring rate but it then picked up and for the second half of the innings they scored steadily. The wicket of Evan Goldman (25) second catch for Jack off of Connors bowling lifted Reed again. It was always going to the wire and an inspired death bowling over from Owen Hughes (4-0-2-18) secured the win for Reed by just 4 runs. Best of the rest was Reece 4-1-1-12.

On an unsettled cold evening Reed went into bat with rainy clouds looming. They made a slow start and lost 4 wickets between 6th and 9th over. But opening batsman Reece Fitzgerald and No 6 Freddie Stuart made a fine stand between them taking the final total to 103 for 4 both not out 45 and 18 respectively. There was little choose from Mildenhalls 6 bowlers they all bowled tightly Clark, Haywood and Kingdom sharing 3 wickets the 4th to a run out.Reed still felt they were in with a chance especially when opening bat Palmer was caught by Sam Rice off of Freddie Stuarts bowling in the 3rd over. However, the sibling partnership of M and J Allen proved too much for the Reed bowlers. They just could not find a ways past these two accomplished batsman. J Allen finally retired not out 51 leaving his brother and no 4 bat to mop up the innings in the 14th over finishing 106 for 1. M Allen finished on 32. Runs were spread evenly between the Reed bowlers. Considering the difficult wet conditions Reeds fielding was commendable