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Club Chairman’s Report, 2022

2022 will be remembered for the incredibly hot summer we had. It was the first time I can remember playing in a game where the overs were reduced due to it being too hot. We played Sandridge and I lost the toss and we were in the field. Simon Jackson was keeping and when he told me he was tired I knew the bowlers must be struggling. On the pitch there were the usual highs and lows. Personally, getting to Captain the 2's for a full season was very enjoyable. It meant I could get a bowl which usually only happened on the last game of the season if we had nothing to play for. My second ball of the season was a very short very slow ball to Hewitt from Welwyn. He should have hit it to Barkway but somehow managed to hit it straight back at me for a caught and bowled. I'm sure there's an old saying there somewhere. It was good to see the 1st Team get some new players in to strengthen the side. Chris Chambers returned to the club after about 20 years away and Head of recruitment, Bill Mansfield managed to get Bertie Scott to join. It was also great to welcome Zak back from Australia. I think the 1st Team have a lot of strength in depth now and hopefully 2023 will be successful for Tom and the team in both the league and cup. Where I think 2022 has been most successful is with the development of the young players at Reed. There were a number of outstanding performances from young players across all 3 adult teams. Scott Nash's 3rd team regularly fielded a number of [...]

By |2022-12-10T05:06:08+00:00December 10th, 2022|Categories: 2022, 2022 AGM, 2022 Season Review, AGM, Season Review|Tags: , , |Comments Off on Club Chairman’s Report, 2022
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Thank you to our Advertisers and Sponsors in 2022

Shirt Sponsors 2022. Reed Cricket Club thanks our two shirt sponsors for 2022: The Spice Cabinet and Atspace Ltd. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Match-Ball Sponsors 2022. Reed Cricket Club is indebted to John R Ford, Janelle Lankester, Look Smart Ltd and Peter Baker who will sponsor Matches Balls. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Advertisers 2022. Reed Cricket Club is grateful to all its Fixture Card advertisers for their support in our Sixty-seventh season. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CLICKING ON THE LOGO OF OUR PARTNERS AS THEY APPEAR ON OUR HOMEPAGE WILL TAKE YOU TO THEIR OWN WEBSITES. PLEASE MAKE USE OF THEIR SERVICES / PRODUCTS. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Match-Ball Sponsorship 2022. Please consider you personally or your company or organisation sponsoring either one match or a group of matches at £20 per ball. To do so, kindly contact Peter Baker, Tel: 01379 644660 or 07379 331962 or petergbaker54@gmail.com Your support would be most welcome - thank you in anticipation. PGB Vice-President, RCC

By |2022-05-01T05:46:26+01:00April 6th, 2022|Categories: 2022, 2022 Season Review, News, Season Review|Tags: , |Comments Off on Thank you to our Advertisers and Sponsors in 2022
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3rd XI REPORT 2021

After missing out on promotion by 2 points two years ago. This time we managed to go up thanks to a four-point margin over third-placed Pinner, even though we made it difficult for ourselves at the end of the season by taking it to the very last game. The 3rds had a good season overall gaining promotion, if the weather hadn’t intervened, we might have come top instead of Bamville. Everybody contributed throughout the season and had important impacts in certain games, which was nice to see. This season did come with its difficulties in the 3’s having poor availability, but this did give me opportunities to give three Under 15s their “adult” debuts, which they did well in these games. Sometimes we did have to call on older heads to come and help us out. Unfortunately, we started the season with two rained off games to Letchworth and West Herts, with two strong teams available for these games, that we could have probably won as well. So, our first match started in our 3rd game of the season against Bamville, on a wet and cold day. That also nearly got called off. Bamville won the toss and elected to bat which seemed to be an odd decision on a wet pitch and outfield. We managed to bowl them out for 101, could have been a lot less if it wasn’t for two dropped catches. We managed to get 96-7 off 35 overs when the heavens opened, creating puddles on the pitch, though bamville still wanted to play with puddles on the pitch. We won on run rate thanks to a gritty 37 from Scott Nash and 33 from George Adam hitting the spinner for [...]

By |2021-11-28T09:50:43+00:00November 28th, 2021|Categories: 2021, 2021 Season Review, Season Review|Tags: , |Comments Off on 3rd XI REPORT 2021
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2nd XI REPORT 2021

It was great to have cricket back to some form of normality this season with the clubhouse and changing rooms open. It was a very interesting season for us in the Seconds where early on in the season I thought we had a good chance of promotion but then midway through the season I thought there was a chance of relegation as injuries and availability hit us. We eventually finished a very respectable 4th, winning 8 losing 7 and having 3 no results. Frustratingly if we hadn’t suffered injuries to key players such as Chris Jackson and Marcus Martin who we lost for over half a season I really believe we could have challenged for the second promotion position, especially as we comfortably beat West Herts in the home fixture who came 2nd by a distance. Lutonian were far too good for the division and won all 16 games they played by large margins. Although availability was a real challenge this year we did have a core group of players who I would like to mention. Matt Bowles and Julien Fynn were fantastic with the ball taking 17 and 16 wickets respectively, they both also contributed with the bat at important times. Rupert Martin and Anirudh a new player for this season both also took more than 10 wickets and were very reliable when called on. With the bat Kallum Ward was extremely consistent scoring over 350 runs. Talking of attacking batsman Mike Robertson was great for us this season too averaging over 20 and always giving the innings impetus that we required. I’d also like to thank Richard Barlow for stepping up to keep wicket a couple of times when required and doing a [...]

By |2021-11-28T09:46:51+00:00November 28th, 2021|Categories: 2021, 2021 Season Review, News, Season Review|Tags: , |Comments Off on 2nd XI REPORT 2021
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Club Chairman’s Report, 2021

After getting only half a season in 2020, it was great to be able to get back to a full season of cricket this year. There were still lots of restrictions in place but heading into April there was a real sense of optimism. The 1st Team also had the excitement of a first full year in the Premier League with all the ‘Big’ sides making the trip to Reed. Whereas Covid caused games to be cancelled last year, this year it was the weather and unfortunately lots of fixtures were lost to rain, which was a real shame. We always knew playing Premier League cricket was going to be tough and with injuries and availability issues for some of our best players, it certainly turned out that way. Personally though, I really enjoyed the experience. Having players like Owais Shah play at Reed was great. Being in the Premier League meant the 1st Team players could not play in the Village Cup. So our Second team got the opportunity to play a couple of really good matches at the Green that were really well supported. We ended up losing to a very good Preston side. The stand out adult team this year was our Third team which was led extremely well by Rhodri Hughes. Some really good performances meant promotion, which was a fantastic achievement. Rhodri has now got a new job that is out of the area which is unfortunate for us, but I wish him well and hopefully he will be back for the odd match. Where we struggled for availability this year, we were able to give a lot of the younger players an opportunity in adult cricket. To see the [...]

By |2021-11-28T09:57:17+00:00November 13th, 2021|Categories: 2021, 2021 AGM, 2021 Season Review, AGM, Season Review|Tags: , , |Comments Off on Club Chairman’s Report, 2021
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Honorary Secretary’s Report, 2020

I am assuming that you won’t want my annual report to be peppered with all those words that we had never needed to use in our cricketing lexicon before, so let’s get them out of the way in the first paragraph – unprecedented, truncated, sanitizer, restricted, lockdown, PPE, running-lane, Covid, furlough, Coronavirus, pandemic, remote, roadmap for return, virtual, self-isolation, facemask, government advice, bubble, social distancing – the list goes on and I’m sure you can add a few of your own. I’ll try not to repeat them! At the AGM in November 2019 Sean Tidey departed the General Committee because he was too old to remain the Under 25 Representative! Rhodri Hughes succeeded him. Rhodri was also elected as the Third Team Captain and Matt Bowles became Vice-Captain of the Second XI. Julien Fynn joined the General Committee (Without Portfolio) and after several decades, Jonathan Fynn decided to cease auditing duties and nominated another of his sons, Alec, to take over from him. The General Committee consists of 24 people and it met in January and March as normal then via Zoom from June onwards. Whilst never getting a full-house, (the best was 21 attending in July), overall average attendance was 76.56% over the year with 5 members having a 100% record. Additionally the Executive Committee met three times. Exigent Club business and all periphery issues affected by the Government’s and ECB’s rules continued to be administered by close contact between Committee members using available electronic wizardry. Good news on the Inspection front - North Herts District Council, (NHDC), assessed us as being low risk relating to the Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013. And the annual inspection of our Fire Extinguishers was satisfactory. [...]

By |2021-02-27T18:00:35+00:00January 21st, 2021|Categories: 2020, 2020 AGM, 2020 Season Review, AGM, Season Review|Tags: , |Comments Off on Honorary Secretary’s Report, 2020
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End of Season Reviews, Captains & Colts’ Managers

1st XI REPORT 2020 A lot of positives to take out of a very strange first Premier League season. We managed to get 8 games in and although we only won 1, we pushed most teams hard and made a bit of a name for ourselves in the League that we won’t be push overs. Will Heslam made a sublime 100 whilst chasing 227 over at Welwyn. A game in which ex-Test match player Owais Shah was playing. We ended 7 runs short in one of the games of the season. This ended up being a bit of a habit and probably a lack of experience at the top level cost us a couple of times. However huge positives were to be taken from performances by Jack Tidey in particular. Home grown and proving to be the number 1 bowler in the Premier League at his first time of asking was a huge achievement and I’m sure only a small sign of things to come. Mitchell Cooper also played superbly well averaging well into the 40s showing great maturity with the bat coupled with ball striking on another level. We hope that things get back to some kind of normality for the 2021 season. With plenty of positives to take into the spring my hope is that we can maintain our Premier League status, look to continue to build our squad and play lots of entertaining cricket at the green. In the meanwhile I hope you all stay safe, and that current times will all be a distant memory soon. Fingers crossed I’ll share a cold one with you all during the summer. Go well! Tom Greaves, Club Captain, RCC. ************************************************** 2nd XI REPORT 2020 [...]

By |2021-02-27T18:02:46+00:00January 21st, 2021|Categories: 2020, 2020 Season Review, Season Review|Tags: , , |Comments Off on End of Season Reviews, Captains & Colts’ Managers
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End of Season Reviews, Captains & Colts’ Managers

1st XI REPORT 2019 A view from inside the boundary, an end of season review. It’s been a little under a month since the end of the cricket season now and I think it’s about time I put my reflections on an unbelievable season down on paper! It all started on May 4th (a fairly significant date for me!) when we made the trip over to Potters Bar to give it our best shot of upsetting the big boys in the Herts T20 Cup Group stage. As usual we were first game on, having travelled furthest to get there. We arrived with a little bit of optimism but fairly confident that we would be in the car on the way home in a little over 3 hours! Our opponents North Mymms, who we knew very little about, other than they had a few Minor County representatives and a medium pacer from Langleybury playing for them. I felt our best chance of winning the game was to have a bowl and see what we had to chase. Mymms started well reaching 45 without loss, before I brought on our star Aussie import Zac McGuigan. Having only landed in the country a few days before nobody, including myself, really knew what to expect but with his first ball on English soil he nicked off the NM opener with a fairly sharp nut and then things started happening. As per usual our bowling attack was tidy and before we knew it NM were on the ropes at 60-5. This was followed by the introduction of my spin twin Sean Tidey, who quickly wrapped up the innings and in what seemed like a blink of an eye, we had [...]

By |2019-11-29T09:02:59+00:00October 31st, 2019|Categories: 2019, 2019 Season Review, News, Season Review|Tags: , |Comments Off on End of Season Reviews, Captains & Colts’ Managers
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Honorary Secretary’s Report, 2018.

Honorary Secretary’s Report, 2018. My annual report usually begins with a round-up with the changes to the Club’s General Committee made at the previous year’s AGM. Whist there were some new faces, the most important thing I wish to highlight is the incredibly poor attendance at the AGM last November. Only 19 members turned-out. That is from a membership approaching 100 people and of those 19, only 6 were active players! A ridiculously low number. Whilst a quorum was reached to enable many items to be voted-on and some Committee members elected, the Club Rules state that certain positions may be voted on only by playing members. Simply, because fewer than one-fifth of the total paid-up players were in attendance, Captains, their deputies and Playing Sub-Committee members could not be “elected”. As far as I know this was unprecedented and in order to resolve the situation the decision was taken to keep the status quo by the existing role holders to remain in post then for the General Committee to co-opt people to fill any vacant roles later. The upshot was those who did not wish to be re-elected to the General Committee were Marcus Baker and William Heslam. Brought-in were Sam Summers, Paul Garrott, Michael Robertson and Rob Lankester. Sean Tidey took over as the Under 25’s Representative. A new role on the Committee was created when Bill Mansfield became the first Facility Manager. Later, MJE Baker stood down from the 3rd XI captaincy to be replaced by Paul Garrott. I thank all those past and present members who have served on the General Committee. Despite some ups-and-downs, our Club remains solvent and runs smoothly thanks to the hours of work and commitment these [...]

By |2018-11-01T10:10:51+00:00November 1st, 2018|Categories: 2018, 2018 Season Review, News, Season Review|Tags: , |Comments Off on Honorary Secretary’s Report, 2018.
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End of Season Reviews, Captains & Colts’ Managers

1st XI REPORT 2018 A fairly disappointing season for the First Team this year! We once again held our own in the league and beat most sides but consistency throughout the season in selection let us down. However, there were lots of positives to take away from the season. Our bowling attack went from strength to strength with all 5 of our main bowlers taking over 20 wickets on some fairly flat pitches which was very encouraging. With the bat we passed 300 on a couple of occasions and 4 hundreds were scored but sadly we could not score consistently and this probably cost us a top 2 spot. We had some impressive performances from the first team fringe players, Richard Barlow impressed when selected, as did Matt Bowles and Jack Caine, hopefully these guys can kick on from here and really push for a place in the side on a more permanent basis. Unfortunately our campaign to defend our NVC crown this year never really got going, losing to Langleybury in the first round, although we did have our revenge on them in the final game of the league season, beating them and sending them down into Division 1. With that said we wish them all the best and hope to see them back in the championship in the near future. Moving forward into next season, I’m fairly sure there won’t be any cricket season weddings which should help out with the availability! We will be starting winter nets in February and hope to have a big pre-season so we can hit the ground running in May, where we will be playing for a big promotion push and also another trip back to Lord’s. [...]

By |2019-08-25T22:45:59+01:00November 1st, 2018|Categories: 2018, 2018 Season Review, News, Season Review|Tags: , , |Comments Off on End of Season Reviews, Captains & Colts’ Managers
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