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Early season Herts SHCL Division 1 leaders Reed let their lead slip away as they lost away against Old Finchleians. Reed finished the match with only a 5 point return as they paid the price for putting their opponents in to bat and then failed to secure the win.Despite the previous days rain the wicket proved less helpful to the bowlers than they had hoped and the home side passed 50 without loss as the Reed bowlers offered too many loose deliveries and failed to exert the required and expected pressure. The introduction of Mitchell Cooper and Tom Greaves into the attack improved Reeds fortunes somewhat but approaching the halfway stage of the Finchleians innings they were comfortably placed only 3 wickets down and well past the 100 mark. The home side went on to declare after 51 of their possible 53 overs with their score at 226-7. Tom Greaves proved the pick of the Reed bowlers with 4 wickets.In reply Reed got off to a steady start but skipper James Heslam fell for 18 with score at 30. Brother Will fell for 19 soon afterwards and Smith and Jackson also made it into the teens without going on to a threatening score. Tom Greaves briefly threatened to put Reed back into the match with a sprightly 40 but after he departed only Sean Tidey with 38 and Richard Johnson, cruelly adjudged LBW when looking promising, made any significant runs. Reed were eventually all out for 180, 47 short of their required target with 8.4 overs still available to them.

Bang Tidey! Reed Get Back on Track in style! Reed returned to winning ways in style on Saturday with a convincing win over 2nd place Old Finchleians. Reed were pleased to lose the toss and be put in the field on a day when rain was forecast and the main chance of a win seemed to be to bowl the opposition out cheaply and knock the runs off quickly. Reed needed a good start and that is exactly what they got with Mitchell Cooper and the increasingly prolific Jack Tidey bowling well early on. Cooper (7-0-13) was unfortunate not to take a wicket but Tidey grabbed two early ones forcing Old Finchleians onto the back foot at 47-2 after 13 overs. However, no-one could have predicted what was to come next as Tidey and Hertfordshire stags bowler Tom Greaves swept through the visitors middle and lower order to skittle them for just 75 in 22.3 overs. Greaves picking up 4-11 and Tidey 5-46. Some excellent fielding and tempo by all of Reed’s players supported their bowlers superbly inparticular an impressive direct hit run out by Will Heslam. With the forecast remaining very uncertain Reed moved pinch hitter Sean Tidey (26) up the order to try to get the game won as quickly as possible and he followed orders in some style hitting the 2nd over of the innings for 22. James Heslam (43 not out) took a similar policy and despite a misjudgement by Heslam resulting in the run out of Greaves Reed finished the game off in some style reaching 79-2 in just 9 overs with Will Heslam also not out on 8 at the end. The result puts Reed into 4th place, one point behind Old Finchleians in [...]

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