Summer League Archives - Reed Cricket Club

Summer Frustration continues for developing U13s

In the second of four summer league matches, a developing Reed team travelled to St. Margaretsbury, who fielded a team strengthened by their district and county players. Reed won the toss and elected to bowl. SM started strongly, with boundaries in the first 2 overs, but Daniel Vincent took a liking to the Zinger stumps - sending the flashing bails flying on three occasions, finishing on 3-0-3-10. Callum Ricketts supporting with 0-11 off his first 2 overs (ending with 3-0-0-18) Gethin Hill followed with a wicket off his first ball, ending with 2-0-1-8. Eddie Cook trapping the SM batsman LBW for 0, ending 2-0-1-10.... At this point, Reed were on top, with SM on 54 for 5 off 9 overs, but the SM middle order proved resilient against the developing Reed bowlers. With Reed deciding to share the bowling among every player, SM took advantage - scoring strongly in the middle overs and putting on a 50+ partnership before Aaron Nash took the 6th wicket caught and bowled. Two superb run-outs curbed the run rate, with SM finishing on 126. A tough target with several of Reed's stronger batsmen missing from the line-up. The opening pairing of Eddie Cook and Callum Ricketts were subjected to the county-representative opening bowlers, Eddie mis-judged a ball when it kept low after 4 successive bouncers in the first over - departing without troubling the scorer.... Young Sam Dawson arrived at the crease. Up until now, Sam had faced a maximum of 13 balls in an innings and had a top score of 3 runs. Callum and Sam dug in... And while the run rate stuttered, the sight of Sam truly enjoying himself in the middle put a smile on [...]

Reed U13s suffer in the Summer heat

In the first of the Summer League matches, Reed hosted Bishops Stortford 2 in the blazing summer sun. A world apart from the start of the season, where rain threatened every match... however, the BS2 team proved as strong as ever. Reed won the toss and elected to bat, a decision largely based on the soaring temperatures. BS bowled with their usual accuracy, with opener Daniel Vincent unable to get the ball away, taking an unprecedented 11 balls to score his first run. With Lewis Abdul-Karim supporting at the other end, Reed eventually developed a partnership, with 20 runs off the first 4 overs until Lewis fell in the 6th. Tom Green joined Daniel.... but not for long, scoring a quick-fire 8 before falling in the 7th over. The match had developed into one of attrition. With runs hard to score off the bat, extras were becoming the leading scorer. Reed had (at last) learned to run byes at every opportunity. Charlie Cannon joined Daniel but retired hurt (temporarily) after being struck by a fierce delivery. Eventually returning later in the match to amass 7 runs. With the most experienced pairing of Callum Ricketts and Daniel Vincent at the crease, there was hope that the run rate would accelerate, but the BS bowling was relentless and runs were at a premium. When the opening bowlers returned, Reed had scored 36 for 2 off the first 9 overs. Callum fell on 2, quickly followed by Daniel for 7. Reed were 42-4. Youngsters Aaron Nash and Josh Heslam managed to inject some urgency into the innings, but the wickets kept falling. Aaron Nash (5), Charlie Cannon (7). When Josh fell for 11 runs in the 16th over [...]