The sun continues to provide a stunning backdrop to our cricket season as we had 10 matches this week. Very much a split series with the senior teams (some by ability and some by age) winning and the more junior teams coming up short.
1XI Beat Civil Service LSC
W1XI Beat The Hills LSC
W1XI Beat Pembroke
2XI Beat Balbriggan
W2XI Lost Rush
3XI Lost Ashbourne
4XI Lost Clondalkin
5XI Lost Swords
6XI Lost Clontarf
TAVS Beat Gravediggers
Representative Congratulations
Both George Dockrell 101 not out for the Leinster Lightning and Gaby Lewis 137 for the Scorchers had days to remember during the week. Ina addition both George and Ben White were named in Irish squads for forthcoming games v West Indies.
Review of the Week
1xi Beat Civil Service by 120 Leinster Senior Cup
It was the "Park Classico" or the "Dog Pond Derby" v our near neighbours at the weekend. Batting first we were indebted to a magnificent 103 from Shane Getkate with support from Tyrone Kane with 43 as we had a Phoenix collapse from 177/3 to 209 all out (thought we had consigned the epic collapses to the history books). Any thoughts of a shock win for Civil were extinguished quickly as Tyrone Kane with 3 , James Maginnis with 2 and a few run outs saw them rolled for 89 - Away to Clontarf in the quarter final
W1XI Beat The Hills by 8 wickets Leinster Senior Cup
The W1 started their defence of the LSC with a great away win against last years beaten finalists. Gaby Lewis 37 and Navedha Saravanarajan 35 not out with good support from Alice Tector and Zara Craig saw us to 138/2 chasing with 3 overs to spare. Run outs for Zara and Alice and Arisha Foysal plus wickets for Arisha and Ali Keenan had set the platform.
W1XI Beat Pembroke by 1 Run
If Tuesday was fairly comfortable , Thursday's win away to League Champions Pembroke was one of the great results. Gaby Lewis with 87 off 61 anchored our 157/4 with excellent support from Zara Craig 41 not out and the bowlers and in particular Zara bowling the 20th held their nerve in a nail-biting finale. Make no mistake this was a brilliant result from our young team.
2XI Beat Balbriggan Leinster Cup
The 2's (Div 5) had a litmus test of their improvement when facing Balbriggan (Div3). Batting first Johit Mungal 38 and Joe Cotgreave 29 had us off to a solid base but a collapse had us 100/6 before Callum O'Byrne 40 and skipper Ash Bain 34 plus a useful combined 24 from our youthful tail of Rory, Danny and Aadil got us to 201 all out. We first looked in trouble as they reached 70/1 in reply but Levon Shields took 4 as we got them to 86/5 before various partnerships had them looking favourites. However spirit and skills never flagged and Ash took the 9th before Rory McColl enticed Emad Uddin to pull and AJ (the younger Andrew John) snaffled the chance, cue great joy - the 2's move to 3/3
W2XI Lost Rush 7 Runs
The W2 made their debut in Div 3 following their promotion and were well up to the improved level. Our young attack of Juliet Gargan, Rhea Nair, Alannah Staunton and Lily McDonagh held Rush to 107 and while Rhea, Juliet and Deepa Jaltade tried to chase the runs down we were always slightly short and thus were beaten by 7 runs. A good first outing in a higher division
3XI Lost Ashbourne
The 3's could be 3/3 but are 0/3 as another close one got away. Anudeep Yalumuru with 55 got us to a competitive 228 but although Yousef Shah 3 and Gurusharan Singh with 2 took wickets, extras and dropped catches proved costly.
4XI Lost Clondalkin
Vinayak Latti 38 and Umesh Bairwa 31 got us to 155 but we couldn't take enough wickets and fell short by 5 wickets
5XI Lost Swords
Sriniketh Suragouni on debut with 62 and Mayank Chauhan with 42 and Rohan Praveen 37 had us on top at 225/7 batting first. An inability to break through and extras though saw Swords comfortably chase
6XI Lost Clontarf
Ahmed Ali 31 and wickets spread around our young players were unfortunately not sufficient to defend 85 v Clontarf
TAVS Beat Gravediggers
A good rearguard bowling performance saw us limit the Diggers to 119 and solid batting by John Anders, Ben Scott and Emmet Staunton saw us win with a few overs to spare