A convincing win

On a pleasant evening at Cricketfield Lane, the boys won with ease against Reed in our latest Herts Under 12 Group 1 game.

Bradley Moon, skipper for the evening, won the toss and elected to bat. After losing Will Bowman for 6, Brad soon retired having struck a rapid 25, including a six and three fours. James Clark came and went quickly, but Chris Millns and Niall Trimble put together an impressive partnership, with both playing some elegant shots as the innings progressed. shots. Niall retired on 28, Chris on 25, as both posted their highest scores for the club.

Debutants Aaron Trehan and Sean Sterling both scored their first runs, while Zac Izod came in at the end and carried on his hot streak with the bat, striking the last three balls of the innings for four.

Our total of 135-3 was always likely to prove too much for Reed, and Sam Gardner's pacy opening burst immediately put the visitors on the back foot. Backed up by some tidy fielding and good wicketkeeping from Niall, Sam was too quick for Reed's top order and sent one of the openers and the number 3 on their way without scoring.

Ryan Randall then continued to bowl tightly and reaped the rewards for his accuracy, bowling Reed's number 4, also for a duck.

Charlie Finch came on for his first bowl of the season and sent down four tidy overs, getting his reward with his penultimate ball as Zac took a simple catch. And there was still time for James Clark to enjoy a rare bowling spell,which he marked by taking a fine caught and bowled.

Lalli, Reed's technically correct opening batsman, ended 16 not out, and if it hadn't been for our unusually large number of wides and no balls the winning margin might have been greater than 64 runs.