Rain stopped Reigate Priory in their tracks Saturday at Cranleigh after 14.2 overs after they had the host team on the rack at 36-4.
The only consolation was that all five games in the Premier Division were abandoned for rain, no side managing more than 20 overs. Each team therefore advanced by four points.
Andy Delmont had Cranleigh opener Lewis Bedford leg before with the third ball of the game after Reigate had won the toss and elected to field with clouds gathering overhead. For Bedford it was a long trudge back to the pavilion as the previous week the former Surrey Academy batsman had been dismissed against Wimbledon with the first ball of the game.
Will Hodson (pictured last week) then took three wickets in six overs – all of them leg before – as he posted figures of 3-10 from a final seven overs.
Jack Beaven, the Reading opening bowler finally saw action in a 1st XI game. His debut in the league was supposed to have been at the Priory against Cranleigh last year, but that game was rained off also.
Then Beaven was on the team sheet for last week’s game against Sunbury but he had to cry off on the morning of the game because of the ‘flu.
This then was a case of third time lucky for Luke Beaven’s younger brother and while he gave away nine runs in his first over, his second ball in the next over was ‘the best ball of the game’ according to wicketkeeper Ali Raja.
But the ball, however good, did not get him a wicket and there was no third ball of the over as umpires and players scurried to the pavilion as the rain fell.