The first silverware for Pembroke this season was won on Friday night as the Under 19's beat Clontarf in the final at Sydney Parade.

Paul Lawson was deservedly Man-of-the-Match as first his runs gave Pembroke a defendable total and then his wickets hastened the end as he removed Clontarf danger-man, Jordan Coughlan.

However, mention must be made of the opening bowlers, Barry McCarthy and Fred Mann, who bowled with hostility and pace that knocked over the top order and swung the game in Pembroke's favour.

Jack Balbirnie and Sam Byers went on to collect second winners medals on Sunday. They must think this is an easy game this cricket.... 

 

The Under 17 took on North County on Tuesday evening under glorious summer's evening sun. Unfortunately that was the most pleasant part of the evening. Pembroke had fielded first and North County had set a target of 200. When your reporter arrived things looked promising with Pembroke at 92/2 with Hugo Mays on 44 and looking to push along. But once Hugo departed, the rest of the innings subsided like a rock fall in Mayo. Dirty and messy. Four run outs show just how much Pembroke contributed to their own downfall.

 

 

 

Sam Byers reports.... In a week which saw a number of youth players making their marks in Men's cricket they also performed well at youth games.
North Kildare vs Pembroke U.15's - Pembroke won the toss and opted to bat. Sam Byers and Jack Balbirnie opened the batting and compiled a 60 run opening partnership. Jack went on to score 77 runs, whilst Sam scored 25 runs. Maybury got 30 runs and Lorcan Tucker got 35 runs. Pembroke finished on 250 runs. In North Kildare's reply of 70, Lorcan Tucker took 5 wickets, whilst Chris Wallace took 2 and David Poff one for none. A good comprehensive win. The next round is versus Terenure Titans Under 15's on Friday at home.

Merrion vs Pembroke U.15's - Pembroke lost toss and fielded. Max Byers took 4/15 and David Poff 2/10 in a total of 180. Despite failing to chase this total, Jack Balbirnie scored 35 (retired), Sam Byers and A. Maize both got 20. Pembroke got to within 10 runs, but just couldn't get to another win.

Pembroke vs Bedford Modern. U.13's - Pembroke won toss and batted. Max Byers got 54 runs. Jack Balbirnie got 38 runs. David Poff got 39 runs. Pembroke totalled 210 runs from their allotted overs. Pembroke managed to restict Bedford Modern to 170 with Jack Balbirnie taking 2/19, L. Mulville 2/24 as Pembroke won by 40 runs.
by Sam Byers.

Many congratulations to Ruairí Willis, David Poff and Sam Byers, who all scored their first half centuries for the Fifth's, Sixes and Fifth XI's last week. Not to mention the contribution of other youth players in adult games, including Jack Balbirnie and Chris Wallace. The future of Pembroke cricket would seem to be in very secure hands.... 

 

 

 

U11C v Leinster: Leinster won by 3 runs

 

 

 

 

Barry Tucker writes....
Wednesday June 9th - U11B v Railway Union
PCC 124 for 8 lost to Railway Union 135 for 4 by 31 runs.

U13B v Clontarf
Clontarf 108 for 5 off 20 overs:
Diarmaid Tucker 2 for 6: Nathan Johns 2 for 14
Pembroke 109 for 6 off 19.2 overs:
Jack Maybury 27 retired: Andrew Scanlon 22

Thursday 10th June - U15 20/20 v YMCA
Pembroke 106 for 6: Kim Garth 26no
YMCA 108 for 1.
Pembroke lost by 9 wickets

Saturday 12th June - U13 v Merrion - Cup match
Merrion 75 for 9 off 20 overs: Andrew Doran 3 for 7
Pembroke 79 for 3 off 16.1 overs: Lorcan Tucker 25; Fiachra Tucker 19no; Andrew Scanlon 11no.
Pembroke opened up their cup campaign with a comfortable win against Merrion on Saturday morning in Sydney Parade. Pembroke won the toss and elected to field and their grip on the game was never relinquished after that. A very good fielding and bowling performance restricted Merrion to 75 off the 20 overs with the pick of the bowlers Andrew Doran who got 3 wickets.
Pembroke went after the bowling from early on and were scoring over 6 an over despite losing Max Byers to a very good delivery by Elena Tice. An early finish looked likely. However, Lorcan Tucker, who scored a quick 25, was well caught at mid wicket and the innings then consolidated. Fiachra Tucker and Andrew Scanlon saw the team home with some ease and overs to spare.

Sunday 13th June - U11B v Phoenix.
Pembroke 97 for 3: Oisin Moore 11; Oliver Jacobsen 7
Phoenix 85 for 10.
Pembroke won by 47 runs
 

Tuesday 1st June - Pembroke U11B continued their good run with a 20 run victory over neighbours YMCA.
Pembroke 105 for 4 (net 85): Henry Sheehy O'Shea 10, Levi Pratt 6
YMCA 115 for 10 (net 65): Elliott John 4 for 9

Wednesday 2nd June - U13A v YMCA at Claremont Road. Pembroke won by 7 runs
Pembroke 111 for 3: A Mays 26no, D McCarthy 22no, L Tucker 22
YMCA 104 for 6: L Tucker 2 for 20

Saturday 5th June - U11 cup first round.
Leinster 98 for 7 off 20 overs: Diarmaid Tucker 3 for 8, JJ Garth 2 for 13.
Pembroke 97 for 4 off 20 overs: Sam Murphy 25 retired, JJ Garth 20.
In a very exciting contest Pembroke were edged out by 1 run in a game that they dominated for the most part but were undone by inexperience in the last 2 overs. Leinster won the toss and elected to bat. They were quickly out of the blocks and had scored 56 for 2 off the first 8 overs. They were pegged back by a superb spell of bowling by Diarmaid Tucker who bowled his 4 overs for only 8 runs and took 3 wickets. He was assisted by JJ Garth who was unlucky to get only 2 wickets and Sanil Gupta who bowled very well without taking a wicket. The Leinster total of 98 is a large score in an under 11 cup game.

Pembroke started their batting tentatively and Sanil Gupta was unlucky to be run out when a crazy run was called by his partner. Sam Murphy however made up for this error by scoring a stylish 2 5 with runs all around the ground and shared a partnership of over 50 with JJ Garth. JJ was out for 20 well caught at extra cover and unfortunately Sam had to retire on 25 shortly after. The runs dried up in the next few overs and Pembroke lost 2 further wickets and fell behind the rate required. Pembroke required 15 off the last 2 overs with Mark Hernan and Sahil Mehra at the wicket. Mark hit the first ball of the second last over for 4 and then there were 3 wides off the second ball. Sahil then pulled the 3rd ball for 4 and suddenly Pembroke only need 4 to win off 9 balls. However panic then set in after a couple of dot balls with both Pembroke batsmen attempting extravagant shots when singles were all that were required. Only 1 single and a bye were scored before the end of the innings when the game was lost by 1 run. A major disapointment but this team will be back as most are under 11 again next year and will have learned a lot from the experience.
 

U11a on Saturday 22nd May
Pembroke 73 for 5: JJ Garth 15, Diarmaid Tucker 15, Sanil Gupta 13
Merrion 83 for 4: JJ Garth 2 for 10

U11C on Tuesday 25th May
A great first victory over Leinster for the team who have progressed a huge
amount since their first match two weeks ago
Pembroke 108 for 10: Kai Haughey 19, Oliver Jacobsen 11, Mitchell Jacobsen 9
Leinster 84 for 8:  

U13b v Leinster on Wednesday 12th May was called off by Leinster due to the
weather/square protection.

U11c v Railway Union on Thursday 13th May
Pembroke lost heavily to an extremely strong Railway Union team containing
many of their A team. Our team is made up of mostly 8 to 10 year olds who
are new to the game and it is  hoped that their results will improve as the
season progresses.
 

U13a v Terenure (formerly CYM) on Monday 17th May in Terenure
Pembroke 91 for 8 off 20 overs: Lorcan Tucker 34 Max Byers 15 no
Terenure 64 all out 17.5 overs: Fiachra Tucker 3 for 3 David McCarthy 2 for 5

 

It was good to see President Billy Gallagher in attendance, as was past Presidents Mary Sharp and Craig Senior, all of whom were lending their support to Barry Tucker, his team of coaches and the Pembroke players.

Unfortunately, rain intervened and caused the abandonment of the fixture.