The Northern Knights Development XI suffered two defeats in their games with Munster Reds at Terenure CC on Friday 19th.

Batting first in Game 1 the Knights were in difficulty from the off losing the wickets of Michael Gilmour and Adam Berry, Allan Eastwood and David Murphy each picking up a wicket in their opening overs.

Eastwood went on to claim 3-27 in his 4 over spell while Murphy finished his allocation with 2-19 and Mudassar Aziz an economical 3-15

Jamie Holmes was the only Knight's batsman to make a mark with 52 and the Knight's total of 117 was never likely to be defendable with the short straight boundaries.

So it proved with Stephan Grobler scoring a quick fire 53 ( 3x4, 4x6) and opening partner Arslan Anwar 30 (4x4, 1x6), putting on 64 for the first wicket.

A further 32 for the second meant that the Reds were able to cruise home by seven wickets with almost a quarter of their overs unused.

At Terenure CC - T20 Game 1
Northern Knights Dev. XI - 117/9 (20 overs) J Holmes 52, A Eastwood 3-27, M Aziz 3-15
Munster Reds - 118/3 (15.1 overs)

Munster Reds win by 7 wickets.


Game 2 proved no easier for the Knights as the Reds ran up a formidable 204/5 in their twenty overs.

Conor Mullan (69) and Cormac Hassett (38) led the way before a final push by Mubeen Ali whose 26 not out contained 3 fours and two sixes.

In the Knight's reply only Alex Haggan (32) and Steve Lazars (26) provided some middle order resistance but Aaron Cawley's 3-32 and 2 wickets each for Bauer and Saddique meant that the Knights were never in the hunt as the Reds ran out 105 run winners.

At Terenure CC - T20 Game 2
Munster Reds - 204/5 (20 overs) C Mullen 69, C Hassett 38, R Jones 31, R Bryans 2-27
Northern Knights Dev. XI - 99/10 (17.3 overs) A Haggan 32, S Lazars 26, A Cawley 3-32

Munster Reds win by 105 runs