Scorecard

Leinster v Y.M.C.A. Cricket Club 1st XI on Sat 22 May 2010 at 1.00pm
Y.M.C.A. Cricket Club Lost By 8 wkts.

Match report YMCA CC V Leinster
At Rathmines
Division 1 League

It was that sort of weekend: nothing was exactly as it seemed. I dragged the wife (mine, of course) out of bed and asked her to drive me down to Rathmines so I could spend the day watching Leinster v YMCA.

She agreed, because it meant she'd be able to indulge in her normal bout of oral sex with Alan Lewis (talking about it – what did you think I meant?). But when we got to the 'Mines we discovered that Lewie wasn't playing, and that we were an hour early – starts are now 1 p.m!

So while we watched the U11Bs strut their stuff, I discovered that other absentees would include Rob Nandi for YM and George Dockrell and Craig Mallon for Leinster. Reinhardt Strydom won the toss for YM and had no hesitation in making first use of a decent looking deck.

He and James Shortt negotiated the first few overs from Carlos Brathwaite and Will Lennon until Will got one to fizz past Rainy's outside edge. There was a noise, and up went Jim McGeehan's finger, but Rainy wasn't a happy camper when he arrived back to the pavilion.

Next over Shortt played a cracking shot past Peter Byrne's left hand at point, but when he attempted an encore it flew up in the air straight to Byrne. 16-2 became 16-3 when Etesham Ahmed nicked off but, again, Shammy wasn't best pleased with John Andrews's decision-making when he arrived back in the hutch.

On 21, Simon Wilson-Moore nicked Brathwaite through to Andy McConnell behind the stumps, and YM were very deep in the doo-dah. Paul Beacroft and Sean Macauley dug in, and latched on to some loose stuff in the ninth and tenth overs.

Peter Byrne replaced Lennon and then Mark Kelly had a go from the Mount Pleasant Avenue end. The score still rattled along as Beekers and Macauley went for their shots, reaching 65-4 at the end of the 15-over power play.

But in the 16th over Byrne induced Beacroft (22) to slog the ball straight to Anton Scholtz at mid wicket, and in the 17th Kelly, who is all shoulder action with his medium pacers, bowled Macauley for a 28 that included some fine shots.

71-6 was end-of-story, gates, all-over-Rover, put it how you like. Matthew Quirke was very neatly stumped by McConnell down the leg side off Byrne, James Parkinson had a whack at Kelly and holed out to Rob Miley, and Steven Walsh was lbw to Byrne.

Carlos Brathwaite came back to bag a bunny, which he would have done if Mark Jones had hung on to an edge from Lee Cole to slip. Jonesey grassed it, and Cole reckoned he'd have a single. Jonesey is not as green as he's cabbage-looking, grabbed the ball and relayed it to Brathwaite, who threw down the stumps.

YMCA were 92 all out in 22.4 overs, Brathwaite taking 3/32, Lennon 1/20, Byrne 3/20 and Kelly 2/17. There was a glimmer when Jones was bowled for 1 in Strydom's first over but, thereafter, although he and Parkinson did beat the bat a couple of times, Brathwaite and JP O'Dwyer settled in and began to play their shots.

Carlos started to walk down the wicket and loft Strydom straight, JP tucked into some loose stuff, and after 13 overs Jonny Harte had a dart from the Mount Pleasant Avenue end. Brathwaite's eyes lit up, a couple of boundaries followed but on 38 he skied one to Strydom.

Anton Scholtz (4*) kept JP (48*) company as the end was reached with a boundary off Macauley half way through the 18th over. Tea was taken after the match, and then we all settled down for a long, hard night in the bar with little to talk about and no Lewie for a bit of chirp. Seasoned campaigners that we are, we managed.

Stu Daultrey Report.

Y.M.C.A. Cricket Club 1st XI Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
extras
TOTAL :
 
for 10 wickets
0
92		        
Reinhardt Strydom ct McConnell Bowled Lennon 7 1
A. James Short ct Byrne Bowled Brathwaite 5
Simon B. Wilson-Moore ct McConnell Bowled Brathwaite 1
Ehtesham Ahmed ct McConnell Bowled Brathwaite 0
Paul K. Beacroft ct Scholtz Bowled Byrne 22
Sean C. Mcauley b Kelly 28
James N. Parkinson ct Miley Bowled Kelly 7
Matthew W.C. Quirke ct McConnell Bowled Byrne 4
Lee C. Cole Run out  7
Steven D.G. Walsh lbw Bryne 3
Jonathan C.W. Harte Not Out  0

Leinster Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
C.Brathwaite6.4132310.674.80
W.Lennon5.0020120.004.00
P.Byrne6.012036.673.33
M.Kelly5.001728.503.40

Leinster Batting
Player name RMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
 
for 2 wickets
0
94 (0.0 overs)		     
M.Jones b Strydom 1
C.Brathwaite ct Strydom Bowled Harte 38
J.P.O'Dwyer Not Out  45
A.Scholtz Not Out  4
R.Miley  
P.Byrne  
A.McConnell  
W.Lennon  
M.Kelly  
H.McDonnell  
J.Nagle  

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

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
James N. Parkinson6.002400.004.00
Reinhardt Strydom7.0139139.005.57
Jonathan C.W. Harte3.0021121.007.00
Sean C. Mcauley1.30800.005.33

  • Umpire :
    J.McGeehan & J.Andrews
  • Scorer :
    L.McGeehan &