DUBLIN – Leinster Lightning announced their intentions to dominate the Inter-Provincial T20 Trophy by comfortably beating Munster Reds in the morning game at Pembroke on Friday.
After being asked to bat first, the Munster Reds batsmen seemed composed early with Jack Carty (31) and PJ Moor (18) adding a quick 38-run opening partnership in 34 balls. Murray Commins then took control of the proceedings and continued his batting form from the 50-over fixture into the T20 format on friday with a brilliant 51 off 34 balls - hitting 3 fours and 3 sixes during his 56-minute stay at the pitch.
Reds skipper Tyrone Kane hit a cameo of 20, but a rash of late wickets slowed the Munster side's innings, as they finished with 148-7 from 20 overs.
David O’Halloran, the tall 20-year old pacer from Malahide, put up an impressive show claiming 2-20 from his four overs, that caused the Reds batters a moments of worries on a batting-friendly pitch.
In reply, the Lightning lost the wicket of Kevin O’Brien early but man of the match Simi Singh (44) and Andrew Balbirnie (20) steadied the innings with a 49-run partnership. Singh looked in great touch and picked 22 runs off the first five deliveries of Fionn Hand’s first over, however on the last ball of the over he struck a hard low delivery back down the pitch, and Hand – moving in the opposite direction – stuck out a hand and held on to a brilliant catch.
When Balbirnie was dismissed shortly after, the Reds sensed an outside chance given the opponent's longer than usual tail, however, the in form batters of George Dockrell (48*) and Lorcan Tucker (28*) took the match away in a rush smashing the last 73 runs in 37 deliveries to seal a 7 wicket win with 29 balls left.
MATCH SUMMARY
Leinster Lightning v Munster Reds, Inter-Provincial Trophy, Dublin, 18 June 2021
Reds 148-7 (20 overs; M Commins 51, J Carty 31; D O’Halloran 2-20)
Lightning 149-3 (15.1 overs; G Dockrell 48*, S Singh 44; A Cawley 1-22)
Lightning won by 7 wickets
In cricket news, despite a strong start by Northern Knights, registering 48 runs from 37 balls, North West Warriors wrestled control of the match by taking five wickets for 35 runs.
A promising partnership by McCollum and Luke Georgeson of 41 runs went in vain as North West Warriors bowlers Graham Hume, Graham Kennedy and Ross Allen displayed an impressive performance.
Hume took two wickets but Kennedy (2-21) and Allen (1-15) proved troublesome for the Northern Knights batsmen.
Warriors head coach Gary Wilson gave his batsmen the freedom to express themselves, which paid dividends with power hits and dynamic shot selections, resulting in the run chase finishing after 11.1 overs.
Stephen Doheny scored 54 runs in 27 balls (including 2 sixes and 8 fours) and was awarded player of the match.
Shane Getkate played a supporting role, scoring 36 runs from 13 balls with William Porterfield (15), Nathan McGuire (14) and William McClintock making appearances.
The Match 9 of the Ireland Inter-Provincial Limited Over Cup, 2021 will see the clash between North West Warriors and Leinster Lightning at the Eglinton Cricket Club, Eglinton on Tuesday 25th May, 2021.
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The host group is coming into the arrangement with a triumph in the as of late closed Indian T20 Cricket Leagues arrangement, be that as it may, this one will be an alternate ball-game.The last time these two teams met in a 50-over conflict was the semi-last of the 2019 World Cup when England steered Australia convincingly.
All the more so after the ODI World Cup Super League has included a decent piece of setting and significance to practically every one of the restricted overs games, finishing every single dead elastic.Australia continued playing after a bizarrely long break of five months and did very well to not be whitewashed when the danger looked up and coming.
All things considered, those three games have just adjusted Australia to the fuming power of global cricket.Australia have been a splendid pack in the shortest form of the game and a triumph in the third and last game at Southampton likewise made sure about their crown in the ICC rankings.
Their spat the 50-overs fantasy game has been a long way from good and they have had the option to win just two of the nine arrangement over the most recent three years.After they met England in the WC experience, Australia have lost five of the seven games they have played, including a 0-3 whitewash against South Africa prior this year.
It should, consequently, not be amazing to see Aaron Finch saying something about his group's consistency.
"Driving into this one-day arrangement we're simply appearing to be as steady as could reasonably be expected, we realize that our reality positioning mirrors the irregularity we've had in the one day design… ", the Australian captain expressed in the pre-arrangement collaboration with the media.Then again, England have played six ODIs with everything taken into account after the decisive WC last against New Zealand a year ago, and have drawn an arrangement 1-1 against South Africa and vanquished Ireland 2-1 as of late.
In the first match of CPL 2020 or Caribbean Premier League to be played at the Brian Lara Cricket Stadium in Trinidad, Jamaica Tallwahs will take on Trinbago Knight Riders.
After the COVID-19 heartbreak the T20 cricket is finally back on the Caribbean ‘s T20 land.
The match is scheduled to start from 3.00 AM, onwards Live on Star Sports Network.
