MCCARTHY TO THE FORE AS PEMBROKE MAKE PERFECT START

It was a fine batting performance from Barry McCarthy which set up a 55 run victory for Pembroke in today’s featured game in the SportsHub Senior League Cup.

Having won the toss, Terenure elected to bowl, but Pembroke made a solid start and built a good base primarily around a half century from Robin Kelly who made 52. Aidan Doyle briefly disrupted matters for the home side by taking two wickets in two balls to dismiss Diarmaid Tucker and Theo Lawson.

Wickets for Sadiq Safi and Bhavic Tukrel restricted Pembroke to 130/5 at which point Paul Lawson and McCarthy came together and shared a stand of 68. Lawson was dismissed by Zubair Khan for 20 bringing Joe Prendergast to the crease who made 23 In a stand of 56 with McCarthy before the Irish international was dismissed for 92.

Aidan Doyle took three late wickets to finish with figures of 5/63 from 10 overs, along with Tukrel’s excellent 1/29 off 10 he was the pick of Terenure’s bowlers as Pembroke ran up 271 all out from the final ball of their innings.

Terenure started nicely with boundaries from Séamus Lynch before he lost opening partner Danny Wicks bowled by McCarthy for 5. Henry Dall joined Lynch and the pair shared comfortably the biggest partnership of the innings of 94.

Lynch was dismissed by Piyush Sharma for 70 just after Dall had been given a reprieve by a dropped catch. When Dall was dismissed stumped by some wonderfully smooth legside glovework by Lorcan Tucker from the same bowler, Pembroke turned the screw and Sharma finished his spell 3/39 from 10 overs before Patrick Morris took a brace of wickets to leave the visitors 146/6.

Another wicket from Morris, alongside a brace of dismissals for debutant Donncha Tucker saw Terenure bowled out for 216 and a 55 run victory for Pembroke.

SPORTSHUB SENIOR LEAGUE CUP

GROUP A

At Castle Avenue

Clontarf 106/1, 17.2 overs (PJ Moor 60, A Vincent 36*)
beat
Cork County 103/10, 33.2 overs (P Ryan 3/6, D Delany 3/21, R Cronje 3/27)
by 9 wickets

At Anglesea Road
Merrion 123/1, 17.2 overs (S Modgil 51*, J Carty 49*)
beat
North Kildare 122/10, 41.4 overs (W Azmat 38; A Sidhu 3/19, C Malan 2/14)
by 9 wickets

At Kenure
Rush 278/10, 48.1 overs (L Johnson 154, J McGee 45; M Tonge 3/63, J Carroll 2/39)
beat
Leinster 270/10, 49.0 overs (S Bahadur 112, J Carroll 39; J McGee 4/46, A Abbasi 2/35, D Coffey 2/48)
by 8 runs

At Balbriggan
YMCA 231/8, 50 overs (J Tector 64, C Campher 43, R Anders 40; K Ali 4/29, A Darroch 4/51)
lost to
Balbriggan 232/8, 48.3 overs (A Darroch 82*, F Nasr 33, N Rooney 32; R Wilson 2/21, T Anders 2/47, M Thompson 2/51)
by 2 wickets

GROUP B

At Sydney Parade
Pembroke 271/10, 50 overs (B McCarthy 92, R Kelly 52; A Doyle 5/63)
beat
Terenure 216/10, 43.1 overs (S Lynch 70, H Dall 48; P Morris 3/21, P Sharma 3/39, D Tucker 2/49)
by 55 runs

At Malahide
Malahide 164/9, 47.1 overs (R Hackney 35, M Frost 26*; A Cawley 4/30, D Ranolia 2/18)
beat
Phoenix 160/10, 42.3 overs (O Hald 49; C Riches 4/24, A Frost 3/28)
by 1 wicket

At College Park
Railway Union 174/10, 49 overs (D Vincent 4/24, J Atkinson 2/19, M Humphreys 2/26; K Carroll 51, H Sultan 50)
lost to
Dublin University 175/3, 31.4 overs (N Pretorious 54, G Hoey 44*, D Vincent 28)
by 7 wickets

At Inch
North County 272/6, 50 overs (E Richardson 116*, A Sheridan 50; T Rooney-Murphy 2/38, D Blignaut 2/89)
beat
The Hills 268/8, 50 overs (M Donegan 87, D Blignaut 48; A Ghaffar 4/61)
by 4 runs