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Match Report by Johnny Fitzsimons
Avondale/NWCC I v North County III on Sat. 29/08/09 at Balrothery – Sen. 3 League
Innings of North County						Scores
1	D Rooney	run out				23
2	J Murphy	caught Cohen				0
3	M Singh	ct Cohen				4
4	I Bertram	caught Cohen				1
5	C Mcloughlin	bowled Fitzsimons				23
6	S Mooney	? Drane				13
7	N Mcgovern	stumped Fitzsimons				12
8	D Bertram	? Drane				0
9	K Clark	? Hastie				16
10	D Staunton	not out				38
11	A Sheridan	ct fitzsimons				17
	Total Extras					16
	Total All out in 42 overs					163
Innings of Avondale/North Wicklow						Scores
1	N Fusco	caught Bertram				6
2	T Madigan	bowled McLoughlin				31
3	D Drane	ct Murphy				10
4	J Fitzsimons	not out				96
5	D Joyce	lbw Singh				3
6	J Joyce	not out				0
7	A Hancock	dnb
8	R Hastie	dnb
9	N Clifton	dnb
10	C Cohen	dnb
11
	Total for 4 wickets in 45th over					167
	Avondale/NWCC Bowling	O.	M.	R.	W.
1	D Drane	10	2	32	2
2	C Cohen	10	1	50	3
3	R Hastie	10	1	38	1
4	J Fitzsimons	9	1	35	3
5	N fusco	3	0	6	0
RESULT:- Avondale/North Wicklow won by 6 wickets
Match Report by Johnny Fitzsimons
On Sat 29/08/09 North Wicklow/Avondale 1sts made the trek up to Balrothery to take on North County 3rds. The news from the toss was that we were to field first. In the abscence of Bridger, Chris Cohen and David Drane took the new ball and Chris soon set about the business of removing the top order.In an excellent opening spell he had the ball 'kissing'(in the words of gus) the surface of the North County mat and doing just enough to catch the edge of the bat on three occasions into the eager hands of the catchers behind the wicket. With the change bowlers coming on we continued to take wickets regularly and also leaked a few boundaries but remained pretty much in control having them 6 for 70 odd and then 8 for 100.An excellent 10th wicket partnership from a couple of promising juniors then frustrated us for a while until the last wicket was taken in the 41st over with the total to chase 163. After tea,Tom Madigan and Nikki Fusco strode to the crease with the team quietly confident of chasing the runs.The start was very watchful from the opening pair with North county bowling fairly tight lines and when Fusco edged one to the keeper Drano soon followed in the same fashion leaving us 2 wickets down for 30 odd. We made the North County bowlers work very hard for their third wicket as Madigan(31)and Fitzsimons(96 not out) went on to add over 100 runs in partnership, in the process batting North County out of the game. We lost a couple of late wickets but went on to hit the winning runs in the 44th over with 6 wickets in hand. Return to Top of Page