ALL-IRELAND SUNDAY – CRICKET LEINSTER TEAM NEWS! (MAY 24TH)

Just two weeks since a safe passage to Round 2 was secured for 12 CL teams in their respective All-Ireland competitions, they now do battle in round 2. The stand-out ties see Pembroke once again being set to face one of Belfast’s giants in Instonians, whilst closer to home, one of the top three in the CL Premier League of 2025 is guaranteed to be knocked out, as Clontarf visit Rathmines to take on Leinster.

IRISH SENIOR CUP

LEINSTER

Opposition: Clontarf (Home)

Round 1 Result: Beat Laurelvale by 5 wickets

Star Man: Saqib Bahadur (6/22)

Team This Weekend: Bilal Azhar (Capt), Rian Cassidy (WK), Joey Carroll, Tom Johnson, Mark Tonge, Jai Moondra, Monil Patel, Tom O’Connor, Saqib Bahadur, Younas Ahmadzai, Ruben Newton

CLONTARF

Opposition: Leinster (Away)

Round 1 Result: Bye

Star Man: Samuel Morgan

Team This Weekend: Fionn Hand (Capt), Séamus Lynch (WK), Yash Bala, Andrew Delany, Eoghan Delany, Kartik Joshi, Nawaz Khan, Cillian McDonnell, John McNally, Sam Morgan, Luke Thomson, Mitchell Thompson

MALAHIDE

Opposition: Donemana (Home)

Round 1 Result: Beat Coleraine by 9 wickets

Star Man: Jeremy Martins (5/22)

Team This Weekend: Jeremy Martins (Capt), Matthew Langan (WK), Alex Brown, Kelvin Donnelly, Adam Doyle, Greg Ford, Robbie Foulkes, Timcy Khanduja, James Newland, Alan Reynolds, Mohit Sane, Andrew Sheridan

MERRION

Opposition: Rush (Home)

Round 1 Result: Beat St Johnston by 6 wickets

Star Man: Corne Botha (41*)

Team This Weekend: Sean Stanton (Capt), Oliver Mollins (WK), John Anderson, Corne Botha, Seb Dijkstra, Jamie Forbes, Tom Ford, Danny Forkin, Peter Forkin, Swapnil Modgill, Mikey O’Reilly

RUSH

Opposition: Merrion (Away)

Round 1 Result: Beat Cork Harlequins by 321 runs

Star Man: Isaac Bird (169)

Team This Weekend: Nathan McGuire (Capt), Finn McGee (WK), Asher Abbasi, Isaac Bird, Conor Butterly, Craig May, Sean McCormack, Jack McGee, Alex Neary, Hashir Sultan, Nasir Totakhil

PEMBROKE

Opposition: Instonians (Away)

Round 1 Result: Beat Waringstown by 8 wickets

Star Man: Tim Tector

Team This Weekend: Jack Tector (Capt), Greg Hollins (WK), Tim Tector, Macdara Cosgrave, Addison Sherriff, Sanil Gupta, Dan Murray, Joe Prendergast, Paul Lawson, Mark Berry, Byron McDonough

RAILWAY UNION

Opposition: CI

Round 1 Result: Beat Newbuildings by 3 wickets

Star Man: Abhay Tipnis (78*)

Team This Weekend: Philippe le Roux (Capt), Bruce Whaley (WK), Farman Afridi, Rob Carr, Hayden Hamilton, Srihan Karpe, Sumit Kumar, Liam McCarthy, Digamber Mishra, Rob O’Brien, Ashil Prakash, Abhay Tipnis

BALBRIGGAN

Opposition: Woodvale (Away)

Round 1 Result: Bye

Star Man: Chris de Freitas

Team This Weekend: Dylan Lues (Capt), Connor Fletcher (WK), Cameron Rowe, Chris de Freitas, Jordan Hollard, Andy Darroch, Seb De Oliveira, Ruan Strauss, Aaron McGeehan, Prash Naidoo, Farooq Nasr, Ryan Keenan

NATIONAL CUP

NORTH KILDARE

Opposition: Glendermott (Away)

Round 1 Result: Beat Cregagh by 5 wickets

Star Man: Asadullah Ahmadzai (29 & 3/11)

Team This Weekend: Yash Kalasannavar (Capt, WK), Sayed Medhi Shah, Asadullah Ahmadzai, Josh Uddin, Adnan Ahmadzai, Ankit Pareek, Nurulain Boda, Akhilesh Sharma, Abdul Aryan, Nazmus Monon, Ali Elahi

SANDYFORD

Opposition: Terenure (Home)

Round 1 Result: Beat Bonds Glen by 37 runs

Star Man: Manan Ishtiyaq (4/13)

Team This Weekend: Apoorv Gupta (Capt), Joel Jeba Kumar (WK), Abhishek Pandey, Ajay Shastry, Jawad Khan, Skanda Rao, Siddarth Gupta, Prathamesh Samant, Manan Ishtiyaq, Rachan Potluri, Aman Kadam

TERENURE

Opposition: Sandyford (Away)

Round 1 Result: Beat Killyclooney by 6 wickets

Star Man: Sid Nair (64*)

Team This Weekend: Henry Dall (Capt), Gareth Morgan (WK), Mick Cotter, Zeeshan Mumtaz, Sid Nair, Tom Shand, Bhavic Tukrel, Vishnu Sadanandan, Kripesh Shetty, Aamir Bafanda, Benjamin Dillon

THE HILLS

Opposition: Saintfield (Home)

Round 1 Result: Beat Midleton by 153 runs

Star Man: Matthew Weldon (6/15)

Team This Weekend: Matthew Weldon (Capt), Liam Blackford (WK), Muzamil Sherzad, Yaseen Sherzad, Joe Fletcher, Nathan Rooney, Andy Kavanagh, Stefano di Bartolomeo, Tomás Rooney-Murphy, Will Archer, Killian McGrane