Scorecard

Y.M.C.A. Cricket Club 1st XI v Strabane on Fri 05 Jun 2009 at 12.30pm
Y.M.C.A. Cricket Club Won By 5 wkts.

Match report YMCA v Strabane
At Claremont Road
Bob Kerr Irish Senior Cup - 2nd Rd.


On Friday a depleted Strabane travelled to Dublin to play a depleted YMCA in a Bob Kerr Irish Senior Cup first round refix. It wasn't just the teams that were depleted: one of the umpires didn't show (his cry-off hadn't registered at Chung HQ), so your correspondent had to do striker's end while Marty Block did the hard work.

Strabane quickly lost Niall McDonnell, caught at slip by Alan Lewis off James Parkinson, but Terence Patton and Jonathan Beukes gradually started to work the ball around, and saw off Parkinson and Reinhardt Strydom. Beukes started to play some nice shots through the covers, mainly off the front foot.

The score had reached 69 when Patton miscued Etesham Ahmed to Parkinson for a solid 35. This brought in Peter Gillespie, who was quickly into his stride and saw his partner to fifty. On 54, Beukes was dropped at extra cover, and the score accelerated past 100. YM's attack was sufficiently threadbare that Angus Dunlop had to do his full set of 10 with his offies.

To everybody's surprise, especially Dirty Den's, he bowled Gillespie for 27, and six runs later Beukes (71) lofted Strydom to Ross Johnson at long off to make a very threatening 125-2 into a precarious 131-4. Ciaran Patton and Ryan Gallagher saw Strabane to 156, when they both departed in quick succession together with Paul McNamee.

YM had targeted a score no higher than 200, and 170-7 was well on course for that. But big Darren Moan had other ideas, and thumped his way to 39 good runs in company with Tommy Barr and Phil Eaglestone (17) to get to 231 all out off 47.3 overs, a decent score which required proper batting to be got.

Strydom took 3/42, Parkinson 2/40, Dunlop 2/46, Ahmed 1/45 and skipper Warwick Armstrong a fraught 2/53. Wazza has captained the side long enough and has two former Ireland captains to help him, especially when he's bowling himself, not to let things slip as easily as he did.

But he got a performance out of each of those golden oldies. Reinhardt Strydom and Alan Lewis saw off a good opening spell from Eaglestone while milking the substandard offerings from the other end. I ran out of room in my little notepad counting the overs of Ryan Patton, Peter Gillespie, Darren Moan, Ciaran Patton and Ryan Gallagher before Moan and Tommy Barr settled down to bowl something vaguely resembling line and length.

By this time “Rainy” was well past fifty, the partnership well past the ton, and YM well on top. Lewis had a couple of escapes in the twenties, but got to 51 before slapping a waist-high pie to Ciaran Patton on the fence. Marty Block assured the Living Legend that it wasn't a no ball and that he had to go.

Eaglestone then bowled out in an attempt to put pressure on the home team. He had Strydom lbw for 87, and Dunlop caught behind for 24 (another request for steward's inquiry fell on deaf ears). In between, “Shammy” had played a loose shot to be caught at mid off, and there was a wobble at 191-4, still forty runs short and nothing much left in the locker.

James Parkinson and Ross Johnson got most of the arrears knocked off before Parky holed out for 17. When the scores were level in the 46th over, Peter Gillespie bowled his umpteenth no ball, this time deliberately, and Johnson whacked it back over Den's head for six.

I later checked with my good friend the LCUSA Training Officer that this six didn't count – the match was over with the no ball – so Johnson finished on 22*, and Gillespie on 1/31. Eaglestone's figures were 10-1-42-2, Moan's 8-0-45-1 and Barr's a very good 9-0-28-1.

The Stu Daultry Column.

Strabane Batting
Player name RunsMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
 
for 10 wickets
0
231 (0.0 overs)		     
T.Patton ct  Parkinson, Bowled Ahmed 35
N.McDonnell ct  Lewis, Bowled Parkinson 1
J.Beukes ct  Johnson, Bowled Strydom 71
P.Gillespie b  Dunlop 27
C.Patton b  Dunlop 14
R.Gallagher lbw  Armstrong 4
D.Moan ct  & Bowled Strydom 39
P.McNamee ct  Tynan, Bowled Parkinson 1
T.Barr lbw  Strydom 8
P.Eaglestone ct  McCoy, Bowled Armstrong 17
R.Patton Not Out  1

Y.M.C.A. Cricket Club 1st XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Reinhardt Strydom10.0242314.004.20
James N. Parkinson9.0240220.004.44
Ehtesham Ahmed10.0145145.004.50
Warwick V. Armstrong8.3053226.506.24
Angus R. Dunlop10.0146223.004.60

Y.M.C.A. Cricket Club 1st XI Batting
Player Name RMB4s6sSRCatchesStumpingsRun outs
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TOTAL :
 
for 5 wickets
0
238		        
Reinhardt Strydom lbw  Eaglestone 87
D. Alan Lewis ct  C.Patton, Bowled Barr 51 1
Angus R. Dunlop ct  McNamee, Bowled Eaglestone 24
Ehtesham Ahmed ct  T.Patton, Bowled Moan 7
James N. Parkinson ct  C.Patton, Bowled Gillespie 17 1
Ross Johnson Not Out  28 1
Graeme A. McCoy Not Out  0 1
Niall Tynan   1
Tim Shannon  
Lee C. Cole  
Warwick V. Armstrong  

Strabane Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
P.Eaglestone10.0142221.004.20
R.Patton2.001500.007.50
P.Gillespie4.4037137.007.93
D.Moan8.0045145.005.63
C.Patton4.002100.005.25
R.Gallagher5.003100.006.20
T.Barr9.0028128.003.11
J.Beukes3.001500.005.00

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    Official Umpires
  • Scorer :
    L.McGeehan