Edited by Gerard Siggins Sportsgear I Ltd. 22 BLESSI NGTON STREET, (Off Dorset Street), Dublin 7 Tel. 304280/381367 1A CAPEL STREET, DUBLIN 1 (At the Bridge) Tel. 744658 WE CATER FOR ALL SPORTING EQUIPMENT AT THE KEENEST PRICES SPECIAL RATES FOR CLURS & SCHOOLS All leading brands stockei: DUNCAN FEARNLEY, GRAY NICHOLLS, ST.PETER, COUNTY etc, etc ... The Largest Stockists of Cricket Gear & Equipment in Ireland IRISH (.RICKET Page 2 Insh rnrn~rnm~TI Editonal M agaz ine In this second issue of "Irish Cricket" we carry exclusive Contributors Issue Two, interviews with Gordon Greenidge, l arry Gomes and Joel QUENTIN LETTS Garner, and superb photographic coverage of the West Indies August 1984 OAVID METCALF II. Ireland match. As promised in the last issue, we extensively cover Women's Editor cricket with a report on the Claremont II. Clontarf Marigold Layout, Typeserring & GERARD SIGGINS Cup Final, but unfortunately our coverage of cricket outside Design: l einster IS st ill restricted. 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Mount Juliet, outside rhe Young England parry of thirteen Thomastown in Co, Kilkenny, have what to play three representative games. is reputed to be the loveliest cricker Mary Pat Moore of Phoenix has bee" ground in the world, and plan to celeb, K, Larimer (YMCA 3)",,,,,,,,,,9-40 selected Irish captain for the internat ' ' rate their lOOth Year in style, Test and M,McGrane (Knockbrack 2),,8·29 ional match. County players are rumoured to bion M, Kelly (A er Lingus) """",8·39 their way for a special match, with one K. O'Kelly (Leinsler 5)"""",,8,73 The tour kicks off in Rathmines T.Mullins (Clontarf 6)""""",7· 4 with a game between the tourists and /, 1~Sotham a likely combatant, The D, Taylor (Halvtmtown)"""".7·79 8 South Leinsrer/ North Leinsrer Mount Juliet club h8s seen visits in the G,Angel (North Kildare 2)",,7·24 combined XI over 25 overs. patH from many Test playe~, and a N,Donnelly (CYM 4)"".",.",,7·38 Sunday sees the Young Ireland centenary history is due to be published 8,Cross (Bray),,,,,, ..... ,,,,,,,,,,,,,7·21 side (U·23sJ in opposition at Mullingsr this month. Issue 3 of "Irish Cricket" D.O'Brien (Railway Union 6).7,42 (hours of play 11,30-6,30), while will feature a special report on the M,Halliday (Phoenix)""."""",744 Monday sees the Full International Centenarv of this historic club, J, Mooney (Balrorhery)",,, ... ,.,,7·44 side take on the tourists at Clontarf, for more information on the Mount Caldicott (Phoenix 2)",,,,,,,,,,,7,49 with the same hours of play, Juliet Centenary, write to the Han. The Munster ladies withdrew fro'" Secretary Maurice McPherson, c/o the Tetrapak Interprovincial series, Mount Juliet e.C., Sallylinch, Thomas leaving it a 3 cornered affair, 80th town, Co. Kilkenny, South and North Leinster have defeatP(/ LEPRECHAUNS A.G.M. REFIXED, Ulster already, by 4 wikets and 100 Tony Leon tells us that the postponed runs respectively, The stage is thus set A GM of the Leprechauns will take for a thrilling finish to the campaign at place on August 7th in Dawson Street. MQlahide on August 12rh when the tw( sides of the Liffey do oottle I ENGLISH ROSES WIN UNI VERS­ ITI ES CHAM"'IONSHIP, The British & Irish Universities cham,:. ionship which was played in Dublin last month was a great success and five fine days saw some excellent cricket, FINE PERFORMANCES BY The Irish side had a mixed set of RAILWAY UNION STALWARTS. results, winning just one of their games. After a long career in Leinster They started well, beating the Unicorns cricker, Joey O'Meara of Railway Union in Clontarf, with J, A,Prior scoring a 50, finally chalked up his maiden hundred, but fell to Scotland by 6 wickets. They O'Meara, hocky international, coli· C, Heneghan (Old Belvedere 41. Ni7 a came up against the Roses in the semis ected the long-awaited ton in the match and were comprehensively beaten, and G,Farrelly (Addinstown)... with Old Selvedere, scoring 773, lost again to Scotland in the 3rd/4th J. Mooney (Balrothery)"."" Another first for a long·serving Place play·off. D,Ooheny (Pembroke 4)".",,7 Park Avenue man was achieved in the The Roses, captained by Lancashire D,Ooheny (Pembroke 4).. """b Schweppes Cup tie with Donac/oney 2nd XI regular Steve Crawley and con· £. McTiernan (Clontarf 2)""",6·26 when Maurice Whelan took six for 20, tailling five players on county books in 8.Cross (Railway Un, 4)" ...... 6·31 which included the hat· trick I England, were too strong for every other J,Keafle (Rush)"""""", __ •• ",,6·31 A final Snippet of news from Ra. P'O'Neill (Malahide 4),,,,, .... ,,,6·36 team, although they were beaten by 3 TMooney (Balrothery), .... , ..... 6·43 way concerns Ginger O'Sf/en, who has WIckets on a dodgy track in Carlisle, C Rarhy (Leinster 5) .. """"",,6·44 won the club's PI'!yer of the Month Roses scored an emphatic victory in the S,Freer (Phoenix).. ,..... ,,,,,,,,,,,6·45 Award for June, with scores of 55, final with fine displays by Crawlev. J,. ~fLAree (Malahide 4)""""",6·94 45,32, 45, 87 and 65, Parkisnon and Moray Forbes. IRISH CRICKET MAGAZINE Page 4 OPENING SHOTS .. , Quiz Answers: (1) John Prior, (2) FOUR FULL CAPS IN U-23 John Edrich, (3·i) Clontarf INTERNATIONAL PANEL (ii) Leinster (iii) Merrion. A thirteen man squad for the Irish Crossword Answers: CLUES ACROSS BATTING HALL OF FAME Kuggeleijn (6) Lord's (7) Ealham U-23 tour of the English midlands was (1) The top 25 scores in Leinster (8) Cakes (9) Under(wood) (11 )April announced recently. The squad is as Cricket in the last month. (12) O(ssie) C(olhounj (14) Readers fof(ows: Garfield Harrison (Warings­ (15) N(eil) F(oster) (16) N{ot) O(urj town), Peter O'Reilly (Warwickshire), (17) Sister. CLUES SOWN: Alan Lewis, Jonathan Garth (YMCA), (1) Kallicharran (2) Gerry Kirwan AJ.O'Riordan (Old BelvJ ..... '32~ Michael Shannon fHoIYWQod), Michael (3) Essex (4) England (5) Norman WWhite (CYM) ..................... 13' .. Rea (Bangor), J.Kirkwood (Lisburn), (9) Ulcers (10) Ronnie (13) Asks. D.ALewis {YMCA) .............. 109 .. Junior Mc8rine (Donemana), Ross B.J. Gilmore (MalahideJ ......... l06· McColfom and P.McCrum (Lurgan), BRAY v KNOCK BRACK IN P.Carroll {Addinstown 2)..... 102· M.8ruce (Ballymena), K.Finlay (Stra­ INTERMEDIATE FINAL T.Byrne (The Hilts 2J ........... 101 • bane), Peter Dineen (Cork wanderers), A.Deacon (Merrion 3).......... 101 The various cup competitions organ The side will play five matches, P.A.Moynan (Malahide) ......... 100 .. ised by the LCU Junior Branch have including t}NO against Leicestershire R.Stanton {ltferrion 2J.......... loo· and Warwickshire. all reached their final stage. You can N. Harper (Balrothery) ............. 98 read about the Middle Cup final else· WWhite ,·CYMJ ...................... 97 where in the news section, while 4th W. White (CYM) ....................... 96 LEINSTER WIN MIDDLE CUP. August sees the Senior 2 final between M.Cohen (Carlisfe) .................. 93 · the 2nd Xis of Old Belvedere and B.