A total of 23 games, in a packed week of Club T20, Clear Currency All Ireland Cups, Youth & Senior Representative action.
IP50 Championship
Two home games to report on from the Richard Beamish Grounds, Cork.
Table-topping Reds suffered a big defeat by 145 runs to the Warriors, but then came back with a 19-run DLS win over the Knights.
Munster Reds (90/10) lost to North West Warriors (235/10) by 145 runs.
Munster Reds (265/7) beat Northern Knights (246/10) by 19 runs (DLS).
Clear Currency Irish Senior Cup
The two MCU entrants had mixed fortunes. Cork County got a walk-over against North County.
Donemana CC (174/10) beat Cork Harlequins (76/10) by 98 runs.
Cork Harlequins made the long journey to Co. Derry, where they lost to a strong Donemana CC side at the picturesque Holm ground. Brandon Kruger 4/18, Kieran O’Reilly 3/76.
Clear Currency Irish National Cup
Four teams represented Munster in the Irish National Cup.
Limerick, Midleton & Kerry all had home advantage and made it pay with wins to progress to the next round & join UCC who had a walkover from The Nedd CC.
No scorecard is available from the Midleton game.
Limerick Cricket Club (174/9) beat Wexford (171/10) by 1 wicket.
For Limerick, Tim Smithies 30, Arslan Anwar 56 & 3/19, Muhammad Khan 4/41.
Kerry Cricket Club (220/7) beat Muckamore 219/9 by 3 wickets.
For Kerry, Imran Pathan 59, Moshin Taj 55, Khuram Iqbal 3/51.
MCC Tour
Two games were played in the MCC (Ireland) visit to Munster, against invitational & Heat sides.
Munster Heat (186/2) beat MCC Ireland (181/9) by 8 wickets.
First up was a 40-over game hosted by Cork Harlequins at Farmers cross where the Heat
won by 8 wickets. Cormac Hassett 106*, Brandon Kruger 50, Byron McDonough 3/40, Ryan Joyce 3/34.
Munster Invitational XI (96/10) lost to MCC Ireland (208/6) by 112 runs.
Down to the Kerry, Oyster Oval, where the MCC beat the Munster Invitational XI by 112 runs.
Limited Overs Leagues
No games as we are in T20 season.
Division 2 T20 Cup
Six games between two festivals on Sunday at the Richard Beamish & Lisronagh Castle Grounds.
United Clonmel 1 (149/3) beat Limerick 3 (143/8) by 7 wickets.
In the Lisronagh Castle grounds, the home side took on Limerick in the first match, Clonmel winning by 7 wickets.
Limerick 3 (152/5) lost to Kerry Cricket Club 3 (156/7) by 3 wickets.
In the second game, Limerick lost to Kerry by 3 wickets.
Kerry Cricket Club 3 (144/10) lost to United Clonmel 1 (179/6) by 35 runs.
The day’s final game saw Clonmel close out victory over Kerry by 35 runs.
Festival Top Performers
Kerry – Farrukh Hussain 44, Asadullah Raza 34, Adil Rahil 2/33.
Clonmel – Muhammad Khan 43, Ashan Wijesinghe 31 & 43no, Babar Ali 72*, Arun Nair 5/19.
Limerick – Yousaf Sarwari 53, Kumar Divyesh 30, Sathya Sivakumar 30, Karthik Sridhar 36, Zaheer Udin 3/24.
Cork Harlequins 3 (152/5) beat Cork County 3 (139/7) by 13 runs.
At the Richard Beamish Cricket Grounds, Mardyke. Cork County hosted Harlequins, losing by 13 runs in the first game.
Midleton 3 (92/5) lost to Cork Harlequins 3 (96/5) by 5 wickets.
In the second, Harlequins closed out a victory over Midleton by 5 wickets.
Cork County 3 (153/4) beat Midleton 3 (144/8) by 9 runs.
In the final game, Cork County beat Midleton by 9 runs.
Festival Top Performers
Cork County – Craig Taylor 58, Kevin O’Sullivan 38 & 38, Ayush Dubey 30, Abdul Younus 3/28.
Midleton – Michael White 47, Arunraj Thalappilly 30, Sumeeth 31, Avinash Nagarajan 3/8.
Cork Harlequins – Jatin Jaitley 39 & 57, Chris De Jager 60, Kanishk Kumar 3/8.
Division 3 T20 League
Six games in two festivals on Saturday at the Carriganore & Castlelands Cricket Grounds.
Lismore 1 (136/8) beat Cork County 4 (104/10) by 32 runs.
At Lismore in the Castlelands Cricket Grounds, the home side played Cork County, winning by 32 runs.
United Clonmel 2 (62/10) lost to Cork County 4 (65/3) by 7 wickets.
In the second game, Cork County had a 7 wickets win to Clonmel.
United Clonmel 2 (137/8) beat Lismore 1 (96/8) by 41 runs.
The final match saw Clonmel beat the hosts Lismore by 41 runs.
Festival Top performers
Lismore – Gireesh Girija 71 & 3/21, Nathan Bryan 3/15.
Cork County – Hamza Asif 30, Rahul Sethi 36, Ashwani Tomar 3/28, Cronan Healy Browne 3/11, Jithin John 3/8.
Clonmel – Babar Ali 28.
Waterford & District 1 (166/5) beat Limerick 4 (58/10) by 108 runs.
Down the road, at Waterford, the hosts won by 108 runs in the first game against Limerick.
Clare Cricket 1 (192/2) beat Limerick 4 (70/10) by 122 runs.
In the second match, Clare beat Limerick by 122 runs.
Waterford & District 1 (105/9) lost to Clare Cricket 1 (106/3) by 7 wickets.
The final game of the day saw Clare win by 7 wickets over Waterford.
Festival Top Performers
Waterford – Senthil Kumar 62, Uppili 42, Anbazhagan Aroumont 3/21, Gautham Kumar 3/4, Salman Raza 3/29.
Limerick – Ashok Jayaraman 24.
Clare – Deepak Dubey 49, R Shahid 32 & 48, Richie 4/21, Jude Joseph 3/27.
Division 4 T20 League
Cork Harlequins 5 (59/10) lost to Clare Cricket 2 (251/5) by 192 runs.
One game on Sunday at Farmers Cross where Harlequins were beaten by 192 runs at the hands Clare.
Clare performers, Shafiq Bajwa 107, Raj Sahota 36, Adeel Mukhtar 3/16, Jatinder Singh 3/8.
Youth Competitions
U13 T20 League
Cork County U13A scored 100/1 to beat Cork Harlequins U13, 99/2 by 9 wickets.
For Cork County, Connor Aherne 23*, Adam Kamel 24*.
For Harlequins, Joshua Khan 26*, Martin Borisov 24*.
U15 Super League
Cork County U15 scored 179/8 in the 30 overs playing Limerick U15 who made 79/10, to win by 100 runs.
For County, Sam MacKenzie 50* & 2/11, Abas Faizi 41,
Mark Donnelly 36 & 2/5.
For Limerick, Zaki Khalid 22, Abhishek Babu 3/5.
Summary
Week 6 of 25, is a good weekend for Munster sides with 5 of 6 through to the next rounds of the Irish Senior & National Cups.
A mention for Galway who are in the competition for the Connacht Cricket Union, their game was rained off & is refixed for this weekend.
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