WINS FOR TERENURE & ADAMSTOWN IN VITALLITY FIRST TEAM LEAGUE (3.8.25)

Both Terenure and Adamstown completed their fourth league wins of the season and in doing so closed some of the points gap between themselves and North Kildare who top the Vitallity Sports First Team League table with six wins with the same number of games played. Civil Service remain in second place despite losing today at Airlie Park.

Adamstown made light work of Civil Service, bundling them out for just 74 in the 28th over – all the Adamstown bowlers contributed to this success in particular their all-rounder, Prabhanshu Kamal who ran through the middle/lower order to finish with 5/15 off 6.3 overs. There were wickets also for Dinesh Antony (2/4) and Nithin Namburu (2/13).

In reply, the Adamstown openers wasted no time in chasing down the modest target as they put on 57 for the first wicket inside the first 11 overs - Sidharth Biju (26) and Aditya Gupta(23). Both departed to the bowling of Shreyansh Khanna who finished with 3/13 as Adamstown experienced a middle-order wobble with the finishing line in sight. In fact once Biju departed, Adamstown managed just 10 runs for the loss of 4 wickets off the next 27 balls. In the end, the home side prevailed by 5 wickets in the 19th over of the chase.  

Terenure were put into bat on their home ground by Cork Harlequins and in response the Terenure openers, Gareth Morgan (96) and Mick Cotter (83) combined to post exactly 200 for the first wicket off just 33.4 overs. Cotter’s innings included 7X4s and 6x6s whilst Morgan made his runs off just 104 balls before falling just 4 short of a well-deserved hundred.

Terenure openers Mick Cotter (83) and Gareth Morgan (96) put on 200 for the first wicket

Both openers were removed in relatively quick succession by Charlie Magee (who was the sixth bowler used by Quins as they struggled for the break-through). Sid Nair and overseas player (Hankce Von Rauenstein) then plundered a further 99 runs off the next 10 overs for the third wicket. Nair was particularly severe on the tiring Quins bowlers as he finished 71* off just 47 balls with the Terenure innings closing on 342/3.

The Quins reply quickly foundered as Dylan Cleary ripped into their top order reducing the Cork side to 15/4 in just the seventh over. The experienced Seanan Jones then launched a mini counter-attack as he struck 38 off just 25 balls before becoming Thomas Shand’s second victim. Shand bowled his 10 overs unchanged (2/48). Quins were now 65/5 off 16 overs. Tharun Bharathi Senthil Kumar Kavitha (batting at 3) continued to accumulate runs at a steady pace whilst wickets continued to fall at the other end. Kavitha reached his fifty off 91 balls with the score on 121/7 after 28 overs. Jinal Khatri chipped in with three wickets for Terenure as the Quins innings subsided for 149 in the 34^th over. A big win for Terenure by 194 runs.