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Ulster Shield final beckons for mighty Muckamore

Thursday, 29 July 2010

Craig Drummond, bearing the marks from heroics on fielding duties, fires another delivery last weekend.

MUCKAMORE were on their travels again on Sunday, this time to the North West to play Ardmore in the semi-final of the Ulster Shield in a 40 over match.
Indrajeet Kamtekar suffering from a damaged finger on his left hand had bravely decided to play and with Johnny Kennedy replacing Bryan Baguley, the team was largely the same as played against Holywood on Saturday.
Captain Andy McCulloch won the toss and choosing to bat first sent Wayne Horwood and Kamtekar in to open the innings.
With Horwood taking the lead the Ardmore bowling was battered all around the ground as he cruised to his half century of runs in only eight overs.
The score reached 99 runs in the 12th over when Kamtekar mistimed a shot and was easily caught by mid off fielder T Brolly for a valuable 38 run innings.
Craig Drummond joined Horwood and another 12 runs were added before the latter was caught on the long on boundary by C Brolly off a McDermott delivery.
Wayne had scored 68 runs, faced 46 deliveries hitting eight fours and three sixes in his 64 minutes at the wicket in another remarkable innings.
Ralph Coetzee was the new batsman and the run chase continued as this pair added another 41 runs in six overs before a slight hesitation in going for a quick single saw a disappointed Drummond run out for 15 runs.
Trevor Neill was next and with Coetzee they took the score to 209 runs before the former was smartly stumped by Murphy off a Brolly delivery.
Neil Gill came to the wicket with nine overs of the innings remaining. In six overs another 53 runs were added before Coetzee was also stumped by Murphy off a Brolly delivery.
Ralph had batted for 89 minutes, faced 70 deliveries hitting nine fours and two sixes in his 88 run innings.
The score moved on to 269 runs into the 39th over before Gill, who had scored 38 runs, played on to a G Brolly delivery.
Then Sunson Stephenson was caught at long on and Gary Nicholl was run out to leave Jordan Mairs and Johnny Kennedy to take the final Muckamore score to 280 runs for eight wickets.
P Brolly and McAllister opened strongly for Ardmore taking the score to 30 runs into the sixth over before the former was dismissed by a brilliant Mairs catch as the ball flew to his right.
Murphy, Ardmore's Caribbean professional, joined McAllister, the run rate increased and the Muckamore pace bowlers took a hammering as the score raced to 62 runs in just 10 overs.

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