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Fynn and Catt instrumental in Seconds’ win

Reed Seconds produced another scintillating performance on Saturday against Harpenden Thirds at The Green. Winning the toss, they asked the visitors to bat, both opening spells by Julien Fynn (10-1-30-2) and Charlie Walters (10-0-46-0) were tight. The first wicket fell on 42 when a superb piece of fielding from Fynn ran-out Williams for just 8 off of Walters' bowling. This brought the skipper Newton to the crease and he and opener Gilson built a solid partnership and the run rate began to increase. A short delay led to the match being reduced to 48 overs each, however the Harpenden batsmen continued on. Fynn returned and bowled Gilson for 88 and picked up the wicket of Frost for just 3 in the next over. Newton wasn't to be denied his century and he ended 110 not out and a quickfire 16 not out from Gosling took the visitors to a challenging 264 for 3 in their 48 overs. Reed started like an express train, with 19 off of the first over although Frenay fell LBW for just a single. Jack Caine and Mike Catt took the score to 47 before Caine edged the ball behind, having scored 17, a second wicket for J. Card. Kallum Ward joined Mike Catt and they continued with a run rate in excess of seven an over. Ward assumed the lead role in the partnership and he brought up his 50 off 45 balls before he became J. Card's third wicket with a 53-ball 61. 14-year-old Charlie Walters played a mature knock of 18, playing the short balls extremely well until he fell with the score on 190 in the 30th over. Mike Catt in the meanwhile had reached his fifty [...]

By |2021-08-03T17:53:51+01:00August 3rd, 2021|Categories: 2021, 2021 Match Report, Match Reports|Tags: , , , |Comments Off on Fynn and Catt instrumental in Seconds’ win
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Greaves and Wharton thwart the Whitewash!

After a tense finish on Harpenden Common the Firsts edged a draw to prevent this season being a total whitewash. This was in no small measure due to some excellent individual performances, notably by Tom Greaves and Ed Wharton. A familiar pattern seemed to be emerging when, on a superb batting track, James Latham and 16-year-old Danyaal Khaliid built a chanceless 235-run partnership for Harpenden's second wicket. When Khalid slapped Wharton in his second spell to Greaves at silly mid-wicket for 84 a total beyond 300 appeared inevitable. However, Wharton curtailed Harpenden's ambitions with a typically aggressive spell, exerting bounce out of the placid wicket to finish with 6 for 72 in a total of 271 for 6 declared after 52 overs. This included three wickets in his final over as well as the scalp of Latham for a magnificent 147. Reed replied in customary fashion losing two quick wickets, but Rob Lankester and Greaves repeated their stand earlier in the season against their hosts, putting on 91 invaluable runs. When Lankester was out L.B.W. for a patient 51, Greaves and Wharton took over in more characteristic Reed style, smashing another 68 runs in just 10 overs leaving Harpenden beginning to rue their early declaration. However, with Wharton's departure for 29 Reed's vicissitudes started to show. Earlier Sunil Patil had been drafted into the team to keep Wicket after the late withdrawal of Sean Tidey and Michael Juckes had bravely stepped up for his first team debut as Sam Osborne, last week's top scorer, was suffering from back spasms. Worse was to follow when Patil badly jarred his shoulder when keeping. As a result, the lower order looked particularly vulnerable. Greaves did his best to [...]

By |2021-08-03T17:50:35+01:00August 1st, 2021|Categories: 2021, 2021 Match Report, Match Reports|Tags: , , , |Comments Off on Greaves and Wharton thwart the Whitewash!
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Greaves’s and Lankester’s efforts in vain again

Two half centuries by Tom Greaves (50) and Rob Lankester (58) failed to gain the Firsts a win in this top division once again. After losing both openers early on, the two came together to take the score to 103-2 despite some very tight bowling by the entire Harpenden attack. Indeed captain Nick Lamb made 11 bowling changes to keep the batsmen (and bowlers!) on their toes, which finally wore down their patience as both were out trying to force the run rate to match their opponents 187. Another left arm spinner, Ashleigh Sivirajah, caused them their main problems with his unrelenting accuracy, finishing with figures of 10-3-12-3. The last 8 wickets fell for 45 as the lower order subsided against his spin and fast pace of Chad Barrett (3-22). Earlier, Reed's bowlers toiled manfully to keep a skilful batting unit to 187 all out. The wickets were shared evenly, although there was another notable performance by leg spinner Kapil Dave (2-29) including both Harpenden's top scorers , Lamb (39) and Barrett (49) as his victims. Ed Wharton (2-27) and Mitchell Cooper (2-13 plus a run out) removed the tail for just 23 runs. Reed took all 7 bowling points, but fell agonisingly 2 runs short of a second batting point. Nevertheless the sharp running between the wickets and much better accuracy of the bowling (just one wide and one no ball) gave hope for better results to come. It needs more batsmen to come to the party however. Match report submitted by Peter Wholley.

By |2021-05-30T15:34:35+01:00May 30th, 2021|Categories: 2021, 2021 Match Report, Match Reports|Tags: , , , |Comments Off on Greaves’s and Lankester’s efforts in vain again
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