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Under 9s back to winning ways

Reed Under 9s who hadn't won since early May got back to winning ways on Friday evening at home to North Enfield. The whole focus of the team is for enjoyment, improving the young players, giving all players games which does mean continual rotation of the players. After winning the toss Josh (9) and Seb (14) got Reed off to the normal good start with them taking us to 236 at the end of 4 over despite losing a wicket on the last ball of the pair. Our middle order of Frankie, Poppy, Isaac (making debut at 6 years old) and Toby set us up for a great platform for Jack (21) and William (17) to take the game to North Enfield and smash the ball all over Reed, giving Reed a total of 307-3 net - which was our highest score of the season and importantly the least amount of wickets we had lost. All Reed bowlers bowled well and tight and we bowled the least amount of wides we had done in a game. Poppy and Frankie have progressed massively over the season and despite going wicketless they only went for 10 and 7 runs in their 2 overs. However the game changed in the 8th over of the innings when Seb (3 for 8) got a superbly bowled hat-trick. Then in over 15 Josh (3 for 8) got 2 wickets in an over. Coach Simon Jackson was ".... so pleased with the performance and the improvement the players have made in all parts of the cricket game over the season. Each game we always have some stand out batting and bowling which is always great to see but at the same time [...]

Under 9s get off to winning start

Reed Under 9s were playing their 1st game of the season against an older Sawbridgeworth team on Thursday evening. The Reed team was made up of 1 under 9s, 6 under 8s and an under 7. And only 3 players had played 1 game each before! But the age and inexperience did not show and they loved every minute of their first game. They were led with the bat by Grace and Rebecca scoring 10, whilst Jack scored 12 but lost 5 runs when he was unfortunately out with a direct hit run out. Seb, Josh, Grace, James J, Rebecca, Harry and Jack all scored boundaries taking Reed to a score of 301 (Net). There should also be a good mention to James D, who has massively improved with the bat since training started 2 weeks ago. But with tight bowling from all the players Reed did not give Sawbridgeworth many bad balls or as many extras. Harry, Grace and Josh all took wickets, Seb a catch and Harry a run out in restricting Sawbridgeworth to a score of 276 (Net). All the players had a smile on their face from the 1st ball to the last ball….and until the game finished they hadn’t a clue they had won by 25 runs! The Reed coach was so pleased “bearing in mind only 1 player had trained with the club in 2020, the players had only had 2 training sessions this season and cricket is not an easy game to pick up they got it straight away. The players looked comfortable batting and bowling they bowled a good line and length which is amazing as they had not even played on a cricket wicket this season [...]