Cork County followed up their tight opening round win away to Pembroke II with a thoroughly impressive 180 run win over Malahide II at the Mardyke. Determined to set a marker for the remainder of the season, the home side capitalised on a steady start to lay the perfect platform for Morne Bauer to display his full repertoire of strokes as he punished the Malahide II attack to all sides of the Mardyke. Morne finished on 94 with significant contributions also from Mark Fallon (56) and Captain Andy Wootton (31) leaving the home side on 263 all out from their 50 overs.
In response Malahide II were immediately on the back foot at 16-5 following a devastating opening spell of fast bowling from Bauer who blew away their top order ably supported by the tight line and length of Andy Wootton (1-13). Brown and Gallagher provided some resistance in the middle order for Dubliners but Abubakar Saddique (2-28) and Ahmed Bilal (2-21) combined to snuff out any comeback. Fittingly, Bauer finished off the match by taking the final wicket of Richardson, superbly caught by young wicket keeper Ian Coleman, which also gave him his fifer and the excellent figures of 5-13.
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Team |
P |
W |
L |
NR |
BP |
Pts |
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Cork County |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
45 |
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North County 2 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
6 |
26 |
| 3 |
Clontarf 2 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
25 |
| 4 |
Malahide 2 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
22 |
| 5 |
Laois |
2 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
21 |
| 6 |
The Hills 2 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
6 |
6 |
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Pembroke 2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
5 |
5 |
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YMCA 2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Tickets for the eagerly anticipated ODI between Ireland and England at Malahide on Friday, 8th May, are now available from Club Treasurer, David Griffin. With Ireland performing so strongly at the ICC World Cup in Australia/NZ, there is sure to be high demand for the tickets so don’t miss out and contact David to purchase your tickets!
