Toby cracks a Ton!
A maiden century from Toby Fynn, usually performing with the new ball rather than the bat, was the highlight in the friendly fixture against regular guests, Forest Gate, on the Green on Sunday. In an accomplished innings of 115 not out, Toby carried his bat as he was firstly accompanied by Bill Mansfield (10) and John Kershaw (17) when Reed set-off at 5 runs an over. Taking his opportunity up the order at number 4, Owen Hughes partnered Fynn adding 123 for the 3rd wicket. Hughes was close to a deserved half-century when he was LBW for a well-made 49. Enjoying the remaining few deliveries, Reed ended their 40 overs on 226 for 4. Wickets were even harder for Reed to snaffle when Zafran, (44), Yasin (86 not out) and Sarwed (76 not out) set about winning the game at a canter. Steve Hughes was the only successful Reed bowler when skipper, MJE Baker, stumped the hard-hitting Zafran but no one else was able to apply the brakes and Forest Gate used only 32 overs to achieve the target. Match Report submitted by PGB.
The “Honey Monster” completes a super all-round weekend as Josh takes 4 for 5!
Reed Sunday XI versus Forest Gate CC at Reed on Sunday 24th July 2016. When 3 deliveries from Joe Graves’s first over had disappeared to the boundary it looked like it would be a long, hard afternoon in the field for the Reed Sunday XI. Fortunately, Josh Conley, fresh from his batting heroics of the previous day, kept tighter lines and the run-rate was immediately halved to just 6-an-over after two! More free-scoring shots by Yashin peppered the field and Forest Gate’s opening stand progressed to 26. Suddenly, that became the bogey score as Conley took 2 wickets and Graves 1 without addition to the total. Young Cormac Hosie was introduced into the attack and his leg-breaks accounted for 2 more visiting batsmen with another going to Conley then a couple falling to Sammy Rice. Seven Foresters were clean-bowled seemingly trying to make boundary shots when perhaps a more circumspect approach would have been more beneficial. This left them at a vulnerable 65 for 8. Then Mahmood, the number 4 who had watched helplessly at the non-striker’s end as the wickets had tumbled was given some welcome support by number 10, Irfan. However, Neil Haslam had him top-edging to Marcus Baker at mid-wicket for 26 when the score became 97 for 9. Last man, T. Khan also supported Mahmood in a final stand of 40 bringing them to a more challenging 137 all-out once Conley had returned to remove Mahmood for 49. Astonishingly, Conley’s statistics were 4 wickets for a mere 5 runs from 6.2 overs. Once watered and fed, Reed’s teen-aged opening pair of Jack Childs and Mike Catt made batting look easy. Childs’ cutting behind point was impressive as he collected a succession [...]