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Weekend Review: 20th & 21st May

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2017

Cork County faced a tough weekend of fixtures with the 1st XI taking on North County 1 in Leinster Division 1 and Co. Galway 1 in the Munster Premier Division while the 2nd XI travelled to Manor Fields in Adare to take on Limerick 2 in Division 1.

Leinster Division 1

County went into the tie in search of a much-needed win after disappointing recent results and following defeat in the Irish Senior Cup away to Bready. After a pleasant start to the day weather wise, the rain set in which meant the match ended up being reduced to 33 overs a side.

CCCC never really got going against North County and despite a not out 55 from captain Stephen Grobler the home side reached just 136 all out. For North County, Eddie Richardson (3-23) and Andrew Sheridan (3-27) were the pick of the bowlers. A target of 137 to win never looked enough and so it proved with North County winning by four wickets in the 26th over despite a flurry of late wickets for the Cork men. Gary King was the pick of the Cork County bowlers taking 3-28 in an excellent spell of quick seam bowling.

Cork County 136-8 (Grobler 55*, Coleman 29, E Richardson 3-23, Sheridan 3-27) lost to North County 141-6 (Grassi 41, Andrews 40, King 3-28, Saddique 2-33) by 4 wickets at the Mardyke. scorecard

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Munster Division 1

While the 1st XI faced the stiff test of North County 1 at the Mardyke, the 2nd XI made the trip up the N20 to face Limerick 2 at Adare. After losing the toss, the Cork men were put in to bat in damp conditions which suited the seam attack of Limerick. A steady start from Robert Duggan (49) followed by a powerful 73 from Anthony O’Reilly and finished off with 41 not out from Scott McNamara, saw the Leesiders to a sizeable 270-9.

In reply, early wickets from Justin McGurk and Saleem Mir (3-23) meant the Limerick innings never got going despite a big hitting 77 from Shane Burke. The hosts were finally all out for 191 and the win puts the 2nd XI top of the table with two wins from three. Next up they welcome Tipperary County 1 to the Mardyke in the Junior Cup Quarter Final.

Cork County 270-9 (O’Reilly 73, Duggan 49, McNamara 41*) beat Limerick 191 all out (Burke 77, Mir 3-23, Duggan 3-33) by 79 runs at Manor Fields, Adare.  scorecard

Munster Premier Division

Following a disappointing home defeat to North County, the 1st XI faced a stiff test in the Premier Division against Co. Galway who have always proved difficult opposition in both league and cup. With the wicket at the Mardyke still appearing a little green after the rain on Saturday, the hosts lost the toss and were asked to bowl with Gary King and Adil Hameed taking the new ball. 

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Despite the early loss of Mohammad Ali, Co. Galway relied on steady partnerships to reach 207-9 off their 50 overs despite some slack fielding from Cork County which included a number of dropped catches. The pick of the Cork County bowlers was young Diarmuid Carey with 4-40.

With 208 required to win, the home side lost opener Scott McNamara for just 3 after a steady start alongside Ross Durity. Robert Duggan came in a three and in partnership with Durity began to chip away at the Galway target despite some tight seam bowling from the visitors. County reached the target for the loss of just the one wicket thanks to the superb partnership of over 190 between Durity (102 off 132 balls) and Duggan (79 off 111 balls) which meant County have now won two from three in their quest to retain the Premier Division title. Next up are table toppers Limerick at the Mardyke on Sunday, 28th May.

Cork County 210-1 (Durity 102*, Duggan 79*) beat County Galway 208-9 (Carey 4-40) by 9 wickets at the Mardyke.  scorecard

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Weekend Review: 13th & 14th May

Tuesday, May 16th, 2017

Irish Senior Cup

It was that time of the year again when the 1st Round of the Irish Senior Cup took centre stage and Cork County made the longest trip to face North West side Bready at Mason Road near Derry. A weakened squad due to injuries, suspensions and unavailability made the 800km trip to the North West. 

In a rain affected game Bready reached 264-8 in their 46 overs. Bready overseas professional Samarasooriya was their top scorer with 81 with Gary Kings taking 4-55 for County.

In reply, Cork County reached 30-0 after 9 overs with Durity and Coleman well set at the crease before the rain set in and a further reduction set the away side a DLS target of 206 in 32 overs. Unfortunately, once the batsmen resumed their innings the wicket had quickened up and the skiddy conditions made the run chase all that more difficult. In Cork County’ 149-7 from their 32 overs, Stephan Grobler scored 35 and young Diarmuid Carey finished on 20* leaving Bready 56 run (DLS) winners.

Bready 267-8 (Samarsooriya 81, Rankin 35, King 4-55) beat Cork County 132-7 (Grobler 35, Carey 20*, Barr 3-35) by 62 runs on D/L at Mason Road.

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Munster Division 2

Cork County III made it two wins from two with a hard fought victory over North Kerry at the Mardyke. Openers Abdul Jabbar Younus (86) and Paul McDowell (97*) led the way with an excellent opening partnership to set the visitors a target of 262 to win. Sajid Khan did the damage for County taking 3-19 as North Kerry were reduced to 200-8 off their 40 overs.

Cork County 261-3 (McDowell 97*, A.J.Younus 86) beat North Kerry 200-8 (Packet 56, S Khan 3-29) by 61 runs at the Mardyke.

May Bank Holiday Weekend Results

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017

A very mixed weekend of results for Cork County with the 1st XI suffering two disappointing defeats to Clontarf 1 and County Kerry 1 in both Leinster Division 1 and the Munster Premier Division, respectively. However, there were big wins for the 2nd and 3rd XI’s as they both opened their respective league campaigns with full points.

Cork County finished on 100-6 from 24 overs before bad light stopped play which meant they lost by 55 runs on DLS to the Leinster Champions. Clontarf finished on 208-7 from 43 overs. Cork County were penalised 24 runs for slow over rate which resulted in a final ‘effective’ total of 232 which was DLS adjusted and resulted in a target of 248 in 43 overs.

Cork County’s innings was interrupted at the end of the first over with the score 2 for no loss. When play resumed, Cork County reached 100-6 from 24 overs when play was called off due to bad light. The DLS par at that time was 155.

In Munster Division 1, the 2nd XI recorded an impressive 8 wicket victory chasing 249 in just 30 overs against County Kerry 2 at the Oyster Oval on Saturday. Despite the blustery and showery conditions, Cork County reached their target almost 5 overs to spare thanks to excellent centuries from Marc Smith (124) and Robert Duggan (110*).

The Oyster Oval

On Sunday, the 1st XI sought to make it two from two in the Premier Division but came up short by 17 runs chasing just 157 on a good wicket at a blustery Oyster Oval. Marc Smith once again led the way with 44 but no one gave the necessary support to see County home with Yakub Ali (4-10) causing most of the damage. The result and performance will hopefully be a wake up call for the champions who will need to up their game once league action returns in a few weeks!

The 3rd XI got their Division 2 campaign off to a winning start on bank holiday Monday with a 78 run victory over Lismore 1 at the Mardyke. 64 from Paul McDowell helped the home side to 207-8 off their 40 overs. In reply, Lismore were bowled out for 129 with Saleen Mir (4-25) and young Eshan O’Sullivan (3-0) doing most of the damage.

Weekend Results:

Saturday, 29th April

Leinster Division 1

Clontarf 232-7 (Mooney 59, Gallagher 39) beat Cork County 100-6 (Mooney 3-16, Delany 3-19) from 24 overs by 55 runs (DLS) (including 24 penalty runs for slow over rate) at the Mardyke.  scorecard

Munster Division 1

Cork County 248-2 (Smith 124, Duggan 110*) beat County Kerry 247-7 off 45 overs (Ahmed 68) by 8 wickets at The Oyster Oval.

Sunday, 30th April

Munster Premier Division

County Kerry 157 all out (Y. Ali 38, Kelleher 3-15) beat Cork County 140 all out (Smith 44, Y Ali 4-10) by 17 runs at The Oyster Oval.

Monday, 1st May

Munster Division 2

Cork County 207-8 (P. McDowell 64) beat Lismore 129 all out (S. Mir 4-25, E. O’Sullivan 3-0) by 78 runs at the Mardyke.
 
 

County clinch Leinster Division 2 title in dramatic style

Tuesday, September 6th, 2016

IMG_0204Cork County clinched their first Leinster Division 2 title following a dramatic afternoon of action both at the Mardyke and in Rathmines. The standings prior to the final round of games saw Leinster in first position on 222.5 points while County were not too far behind on 218 points. A win for Cork County against Balbriggan at the Mardyke would at least confirm a promotion playoff place against the second bottom team in Division 1 and depending on the result of the Leinster v Terenure fixture, could even clinch the title!

Balbriggan also had their eyes firmly on a promotion playoff place and so the final fixture at the Mardyke would prove pivotal to both teams. Winning the toss, Cork County skipper Stephan Grobler had no hesitation putting the visitors in to bat following a delayed start due to the wet ground conditions.

The 32 over a side game got off to a flyer with Balbriggan openers, Warsop and Ahmed, taking the attack to the County bowlers at almost a run a ball. After the dismissal of Warsop, overseas professional Farrukh continued the frantic pace with some fiercely struck cut shots off the bowling of Morne Bauer.

Once Junaid Amin took the prized wicket of Farrukh (30) which left Balbriggan on 98-4, the Cork County attack continued to take wickets at regular intervals to reduce the visitors to 135 all out. The spin twins of Abubakar Saddique (3-26) and Stephan Grobler (3-13) inflicting most of the damage to the Balbriggan middle and lower order.

In response, Cork County lost their skipper Grobler (11) with the score on 22 and he was soon followed by the in-form Bauer to LBW for just 2. Hassett joined Ross Durity at the crease and the two went about rebuilding the innings putting on 45 for the third wicket before Hassett fell victim to a sharp short pitched delivery from Nulty.

Duggan and Durity continued the rebuilding job and looked to be guiding the home side to within touching distance of the 136 required to win with both batsmen scoring reasonably freely. While looking to cut a short of length delivery from Nulty, Duggan directed it a little finer than he hoped and found the safe hands of Paddy Martin in the slips leaving County on 93-4.

Ross DurityWith plenty of batting to come, it was hoped that the remaining 43 runs shouldn’t prove too difficult but a mini collapse by the lower middle order caused much anxiety in the crowd with Mubeen Ali (5), Abubakar Saddique (4) and Aidan Kelleher (1) all falling cheaply to leave the home side on 119-7 and still requiring another 19 runs to win and overs to go rapidly disappearing.

After reaching an excellent half century despite the fall of wickets at the other end, Durity (51) was caught and bowled by Farrukh while looking to take the attack to the spinner which left County needing 8 to win with two wickets remaining. The clam heads of Tim Clifford and Junaid Amin saw County home to a nail biting 2 wicket win with just 5 balls remaining and confirm their place in the promotion playoff.

However, the drama wasn’t done just yet! Leinster and Terenure were still scraping it out in Rathmines with Terenure closing in on the target of 136 to win (ironically the same as what Cork County had to chase). The final over saw Terenure requiring 10 to win – in the event they managed 9 and a tie which denied Leinster the crown.

Leinster will now play-off for promotion against either Railway Union or Merrion for the Division One slot, while Cork County are automatically promoted as Leinster Division 2 CHAMPIONS!!!

Leinster Division 2:

Cork County 136-8 (Durity 51, K Bilal 3-37, Nulty 3-27) beat Balbriggan 135 all out (Mehdi 33, Farrukh 30, Grobler 3-13, Saddique 3-26) by 2 wickets at the Mardyke.  scorecard

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Cubs star for Munster XI in U14 Challenge match

Thursday, August 25th, 2016

Congratulations to the Cork County Cubs players who starred for the Munster U14 XI who beat Cork Harlequins by 6 wickets at Farmers Cross on Wednesday, 24th August. The Cubs players involved were Eshan and Rioghan O’Sullivan, Alex McAllen, Haroon Saffi, Masroor Salam and Daniel Kennedy.

Each of the Cork County youngsters contributed on the day with the O’Sullivan brothers and Haroon each taking a wicket as the Munster team dismissed Harlequins in 31 overs for just 79. Best of the Harlequins batsmen were Hickey (24) and Higgins (12). Egerton was the stand out Munster bowler with figures of 3-10 off 6 overs.

In reply, the Munster XI chased down the target of 80 in 25 overs, with C. Egerton 17*, E. O’Sullivan 13 and S. O’Reilly 12 the best of the Munster XI batsmen.

Our sincere thanks to Cork Harlequins for organising the challenge fixture at Farmers Cross.

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Crusaders defeat UCC Pirates to retain Cork T20 crown

Tuesday, August 16th, 2016

cork-t20-cupThe Cork County Crusaders side were victorious in defending their title against the UCC Pirates at the Mardyke on Monday 15th August.

Winning the toss the Crusaders opted to chase and put the Pirates into bat, bowling them out for just 97. Excellent bowling and catching saw the wickets shared across the Crusaders attack with Brian Kelleher (3-13 from 3), Hugh O’Brien (2-15 from 2), Justin McGurk (2-16 from 4), Sachin Saxena (1-17 from 4), Haroon Saffi (0-10 from 2) and Sam Zai (1-21 from 3).

The chase was lead at a good pace by Aidan Kelleher (54 off 36 balls) and Scot Jeffers (32 off 36 balls), with Hugh O’Brien and Andrew O’Reilly at the crease to see the final winning runs onto the board in the 13th over of the reply.

Mention must go to John Simon and the Youth players involved throughout, especially Haroon Saffi, Daniel Kennedy, and Rioghan and Eshan O’Sullivan who all contributed in the various matches they took part in, and received their winners medals as part of the squad.

Thanks go to Umpires, Stephan Grobler and Muhammad Haroon for their adjudicating of the final and presenting the awards.

Congratulations to UCC Pirates for reaching the final and contesting it in good spirit, and especially to Kevin O’Sullivan in particular for his performances that saw him named Player of the Tournament. ‪#‎threepeat‬ ‪#‎WeAreCounty‬

County cruise to victory in Senior Shield Final

Monday, August 15th, 2016

Cork County put in a dominant display against County Kerry to clinch the 2016 Senior Shield by 7 wickets at the Mardyke on Saturday, 13th August. The Cork side had come into the Final decider in excellent form in both Munster and Leinster league competitions.

The Final of this early season round robin competition has been delayed due fixture conjestion following two Semi-Final fixtures in late April.

County Kerry won the toss in the decider and decided to bat first in humid conditions at the Mardyke. Despite some frantic stroke play from Usman Khan early on, the County seam attack of Bilal Bhatti, Junaid Amin and Brian Kelleher kept the run rate from the men from The Kingdom in check.

A patient 33 from Owais Bacha kept the incisive probing from the County bowlers at bay but once he was stumped by Coleman off the leg spin of Grobler then the they turned the screw despite some defiance from Sohail (22). Eventually County Kerry were bowled out for 138 in the 38th over.

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In response, the County openers of Ian Coleman (29) and Mubeen Ali set about their task with purpose by taking the attack to the Kerry opening seam attack of Shani Alam and K Khan. The high being a 6 over deep square leg from Coleman off the bowling of Kerry pace man Khan.

In form Cork County batsman Ross Durity (41*) continued the where Coleman and Mubeen had left off and despite the loss of Hassett to an ill judged run saw County home to a 7 wicket victory with Duggan at the finish.

2016 Senior Shield Final

13th August, The Mardyke.

Cork County 139-3 (Durity 41*, Mubeen 41, Coleman 29) beat County Kerry 138 all out (Bacha 33, Grobler 4-15, O’Sullivan 3-18) by 7 wickets.

Weekend Review – 6th & 7th August

Monday, August 8th, 2016

A busy weekend of action saw mixed fortunes for each of the clubs representative sides in both Munster and Leinster competitions.

Leinster Division 2

Cork County 1 204-5 (Durity 68, Grobler 39, Duggan 35*) beat Malahide 1 203 all out (Muntha 55, Reynolds 37, Riches 32, Grobler 3-35, Duggan 2-38) by 5 wickets at Malahide. scorecard

Division 1

Cork County 2 152 all out (Coleman 23) lost to Cork Harlequins 2 222-9 (Shah 45, Brewster 38, Rehman 30, Kelleher 3-52) by 70 runs at the Mardyke.

U14 League

Cork County Cubs 118-5 (Z. Pirzada 26 (retired), E. O’Sullivan 21*, McAllen 17*) beat Midleton 117 all out (O’Reilly 29 (retired), H. Safi 3-17, E. O’Sullivan 2-18) by 5 wickets at Midleton Town Park.

Division 2

County Kerry 3 191 all out (Alyamar 55, Khalid 44, Mian 4-38) beat Cork County 3 98 all out (AJ Younus 20, Saleem 20, Alyamar 3-19, Krishnappa 3-16) by 93 runs at the Oyster Oval.
 

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County do double over Rush to enter promotion race

Thursday, July 21st, 2016

ross-durity-balbrigganCork County took a big step towards dragging themselves back into promotion contention in Leinster Division 2 following a 7 wicket victory over Rush at the Mardyke on Saturday, 16th July. In what proved to be an important weekend overall with some surprising results which could have a major bearing on the final standings at the end of the year.

The big surprise of the day was the win by bottom team North Kildare over Leinster, a result that really opens up the race for promotion. That result in addition to Cork County’s sees the Leesiders as the third team in likely contention for promotion back to Division 1.

Rush batted first and got off to a good start with an 86 run opening partnership between Stephen Doheny (56) and Lynal Jansen (37). But thereafter it became something of a procession and Rush were all out for 147. The turning point in the game came with the introduction into the attack of Stephan Grobler and Bilal Bhatti. In a spell of 9.4 overs Grobler emerged with the remarkable figures of 6-15, ably supported by Bilal (3-15). Cork did not have too much trouble chasing down the score which they did in the 27th over with Grobler (62) again in the runs.

Leinster Division 2:
Cork County 148-3 (Grobler 62, Bauer 33*) beat Rush 147 all out (Doheny 56, Jansen 37, Grobler 6-15, Bhatti 3-15) by 7 wickets at the Mardyke. scorecard
 

Leinster Division 2

P W T NR L BP Pts
Dublin University
7
4
0
0
3
46
206
Balbriggan
7
5
0
0
2
16
136
Leinster
7
5
0
0
2
33
133
Cork County
8
5
0
0
3
24
124
Malahide
8
3
0
0
5
12
92
Terenure
8
2
0
0
6
24
84
Rush
7
3
0
0
4
19
79
North Kildare
8
3
0
0
5
22
72

 
Approximate standings as of 18th July 2016.
 

County win away at Balbriggan to make it 3 in a row

Tuesday, July 12th, 2016

Cork County 1st XI made it three wins from three in Leinster Division 2 following an impressive 49 run win on D/L away at high flying Balbriggan. Stephan Grobler and his side were coming into the match on the back of two comprehensive 9 wicket victories against North Kildare (H) and Terenure (A), respectively.

Following a slow start to the season, the return of Morne Bauer and Abubakar Saddique to the side has given a menacing look to the bowling attack with some top quality seam bowling from Bauer and Aaron Cawley in particular causing much of the damage against North Kildare and Terenure. However, on this occasion it was an impressive 138 run opening partnership between Ross Durity and Grobler put County in a commanding position to chase down the Balbriggan’s total of 257 before the rain came and put an end to proceedings.

The win at Balbriggan has left County in 4th position in Division 2 and in pursuit of both Leinster and Balbriggan in the two positions above them. Dublin University sit on top of the pile having completed their seven fixtures (receiving double points for each result) but are not permitted to be promoted so the chase for the final two promotion slots is really up for grabs following County’s upturn in form.

This season sees the introduction of a play-off match between the second last team in Division 1 and the second placed team in Division 2 to decide who goes up and who goes in the other direction. Next up for Cork County is an in-form Rush side at the Mardyke on Saturday (1 p.m.) with the north Dublin side coming off the back of a win a National Cup Quarter Final win against Balbriggan.

Leinster Division 2

P W T NR L BP Pts
Dublin University
7
4
0
0
3
46
206
Balbriggan
7
5
0
0
2
16
136
Leinster
6
5
0
0
1
29
129
Cork County
7
4
0
0
3
19
99
Malahide
7
3
0
0
4
11
91
Rush
6
3
0
0
3
17
77
North Kildare
7
2
0
0
5
11
51
Terenure
7
1
0
0
6
21
51

 

Approximate standings as of 12th July 2016.

Browse through some images from the match below courtesy of Joe Curtis ©