In case any member is unable to travel to tomorrows final in North County, there will be live coverage of the game during the day on NEARfm, 90.3fm  (weather permitting!).

The broadcast can also be heard on the web at www.nearfm.ie

Best wishes to Joe M. and the squad.

Fergus C.

Both the 1st Team and the 2nd Team have made it to their respective Cup Finals. Well done one and all.

The 1st’s Cup Final will take place tomorrow Saturday 1st August at 11am in North County CC against North County.

The 2nd’s Cup Final will take place on Sunday 2nd August at 12pm in Clontarf CC against The Hills.

Lets try get as many people out as possible to cheer the lads on and give them the support they deserve. A double 6644 TARF TARF TARF

Please note the 2009 Joe Kyne Memorial will be staged at Roganstown Golf Club on the 11th September 2009.

The tee time is booked from 12.10 to 15.30 and the cost per team of 4 is a recession beating €280. Also you can sponsor a Green or Tee Box for just €100.

Please contact Paddy Lee for Tee Time availability or Hole Sponsorship on 087 9060834.

Along with the Senior 2 cup final- Clontarf 2 v The Hills 2 (Sunday August 2nd, 12pm start) Monday will see Ireland play Scotland in a Womens O.D.I. at 10:45 am. If anyone is available to help out please contact Stella at secretary@clontarfcricket.com. Many thanks.

Just a quick reminder to everyone that our 2nd’s are playing The Hills 2nd’s in the Leinster Senior 2 Cup Final, in Clontarf this Sunday the 2nd August. Win, lose or rain affected play, there will be a session afterwards, with a DJ to celebrate the occasion. So lets get everyone down on Sunday to cheer our lads on to victory. 6644 Tarf Tarf Tarf

The Hills v Clontarf I- no play.  Another attempt will be made tomorrow evening to resume the semi-final.

At Castle Avenue: Clontarf IV 178 for 9 (40 overs) (R. Abbott 73, B. Cotter 31*, F. Sullivan 30) Leinster 14 for 0 (4 overs).  Match not completed due to rain.

Assuming there is no more rain today there will be a 6:30pm start in the Hills tonight, with Clontarf needing 54 more runs with 5 wickets in hand and 19 overs left to play.  All support welcome.

There won’t be any more updates here regarding the weather in the Hills since the website staff are playing a game this afternoon.

Speaking of which if you can’t wait until 6:30pm for a cricket fix, the 4ths play Leinster at 1:30pm in Castle Avenue!!

Best of luck to Joe and the lads tonight

An inspection at 10:30am tomorrow will determine if Clontarf travel to the Hills and attempt to resume the cup semi final.  Clontarf need 54 more runs with 5 wickets and 19 overs remaining, with Rod and Alex at the crease.

We will bring news of any potential restart time as we get it tomorrow.

There haven’t been many match reports of late so here’s what happened when the 6ths played Rush on Sunday. We arrived in a very wet Rush and it was clear we wouldn’t be starting on time. After some creative work on the run ups by the Rush lads however we eventually got going for a 28 over game. I won the toss and decided to bat thinking I didn’t fancy chasing a total on a soggy mat.

With 4 runs on the board we lost our first wicket and I was wondering had I got it wrong. Marguerite Burke and Kevin O’Connor slowly built their partnership and started to look comfortable. It ended up being the highest partnership of the season so far of 94 runs with both batting very well. Kevin fell on 41 with a couple of overs remaining while Marguerite finished with an unbeaten 43 as we were 102/2 after our 28 overs.

I was pleased with the score and thought we had a good chance of defending it if we bowled well. Unfortunately the bowlers never really found their line and with only 10 fielders it was difficult to plug the gaps to the small boundaries. Rush raced towards the total and reached it comfortably in the 21^st over with five wickets down. Vidyha was the pick of the bowlers with 2-16.

It was disappointing having posted a relatively good score to be beaten, but having not played in a month bowlers and fielders looked rusty. The exception to this would be two great catches from Orwell and Vidhya and Kevin and John Mullins who in their first game for the 6ths fielded superbly and showed the rest of us how it should be done. With six games to come in August there should be no such problems with rustiness and hopefully we can put together a bit of a run as we head towards the business end of the season.