Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Luke Georgeson	c Garth b Little	31	18	35	3	1	172.22

James McCollum	c O'Brien b O'Halloran	25	17	17	6	0	147.05

Ruhan Pretorius	c †Tucker b Dockrell	31	25	32	2	1	124.00

Harry Tector (c)	c Dockrell b O'Halloran	3	6	10	0	0	50.00

Mark Adair	c O'Brien b Simi Singh	17	13	15	1	1	130.76

Neil Rock †	c McCarthy b Little	15	12	16	1	1	125.00

John Matchett	b Little	23	16	22	0	3	143.75

Ross Adair	not out	21	12	22	2	1	175.00
David Delany	not out	4	1	5	1	0	400.00
Extras	(lb 3, w 1)	4
Total	20 Ov (RR: 8.70, 88 Mins)	174/7
Did not bat Graeme McCarter, Ben White
Fall of wickets 1-37 (James McCollum, 4.2 ov), 2-76 (Luke Georgeson, 8.1 ov), 3-84 (Harry Tector, 10.3 ov), 4-93 (Ruhan Pretorius, 11.4 ov), 5-115 (Mark Adair, 14.2 ov), 6-124 (Neil Rock, 15.2 ov), 7-152 (John Matchett, 18.5 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	WD	NB
Josh Little	4	0	26	3	6.50	15	0	0
8.1 to LI Georgeson, Georgeson swings hard at the ball, it heads in the air towards the cover boundary. Garth doesn't have to move and takes the catch.. 76/2 15.2 to NA Rock, tries the same shot again, doesn't get as good a connection and McCarthy runs back from mid-on take the catch. 124/6 18.5 to J Matchett, This has been very impressive death bowling from Little, gets the ball to come back in off the pitch. Matchett winds up for the drive and his stumps get's knocked out of the ground. 152/7
Barry McCarthy	4	0	40	0	10.00	11	1	0
David O'Halloran	4	0	46	2	11.50	5	0	0
4.2 to JA McCollum, McCollum looks to hit the ball back over the bowlers head, doesn't hit it as cleanly and picks out O'Brien at mid-off. He takes the catch and rolls the ball back to the Umpire.. 37/1 10.3 to HT Tector, Tector hits the ball towards cow corner, Dockrell takes the catch on the boundary. Then he looks down to make sure that he hasn't stepped on the boundary rope. He hasn't and Tector has to go. 84/3
Simi Singh	4	0	32	1	8.00	8	0	0
14.2 to MR Adair, hits the ball in the air towards long-off, it seems to hang in the air for a long time which means O'Brien runs in off the boundary to take the catch. 115/5
George Dockrell	4	0	27	1	6.75	11	0	0
11.4 to R Pretorius, gets down low and looks to sweep the ball, gets a little edge and Tucker takes the catch behind the stumps. 93/4

Leinster Lightning (T: 175 runs from 20 ovs)

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Kevin O'Brien	c GR Adair b McCarter	4	8	7	0	0	50.00

Simi Singh	b MR Adair	10	15	28	0	0	66.66

Andy Balbirnie	st †Rock b Georgeson	42	33	48	6	0	127.27

George Dockrell (c)	c Matchett b GR Adair	7	8	11	1	0	87.50

Lorcan Tucker †	b GR Adair	2	2	2	0	0	100.00

Jamie Grassi	b White	4	6	6	1	0	66.66

Tim Tector	b White	27	18	17	1	2	150.00

Jonathan Garth	b White	2	4	9	0	0	50.00

Barry McCarthy	not out	24	12	20	1	2	200.00
Josh Little	not out	27	14	18	4	1	192.85
Extras	(w 3)	3
Total	20 Ov (RR: 7.60, 86 Mins)	152/8
Did not bat David O'Halloran
Fall of wickets 1-8 (Kevin O'Brien, 1.6 ov), 2-41 (Simi Singh, 6.5 ov), 3-60 (George Dockrell, 9.3 ov), 4-63 (Lorcan Tucker, 9.6 ov), 5-69 (Jamie Grassi, 11.3 ov), 6-73 (Andy Balbirnie, 12.6 ov), 7-100 (Jonathan Garth, 15.3 ov), 8-101 (Tim Tector, 15.5 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	WD	NB
Mark Adair	4	0	33	1	8.25	6	1	0
6.5 to Simi Singh, Adair bowl outside off-stump, Simi looks to drive the ball, takes the inside edge and chops the ball back onto the stumps. Knights pick up their second wicket. 41/2
Graeme McCarter	2	0	14	1	7.00	5	1	0
1.6 to KJ O'Brien, O'Brien doesn't last very long today, hits the ball towards Ross Adair at backward point and he takes a simple catch. 8/1
David Delany	4	0	30	0	7.50	10	0	0
Ross Adair	3	0	24	2	8.00	8	1	0
9.3 to GH Dockrell, Dockrell looks to hit the ball down the ground, can't get enough power into the shot and Matchett catches the ball just in front of the long-off boundary. 60/3 9.6 to LJ Tucker, Adair sttikes again, its a full ball, Tucker ends up playing down the wrong line and middle stump ends up on the ground. Lightning in some trouble here now. 63/4
Ben White	4	0	27	3	6.75	9	0	0
11.3 to J Grassi, Grassi goes down on one knee and looks to slog sweep the ball into the legside, misses the ball with the bat, the ball hits the stumps and Grassi has to go. 69/5 15.3 to JJ Garth, Garth goes downn on one-knee and looks to slog sweep the ball into the legside, he can't get any bat on the ball and his off-stump goes crashing to the floor.. 100/7 15.5 to TH Tector, White picks up his third wicket, all bowled. Tector looks to reverse sweep the ball, can't get any bat on the ball and his off-stump is knocked back.. 101/8
Luke Georgeson	3	0	24	1	8.00	5	0	0
12.6 to A Balbirnie, Balbirnie looks to come down the pitch to Georgeson, misses the ball and Rock takes off the bails. Umpire Black raises the finger at square leg and Balbirnie is stumped. 73/6

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Match Details

GroundPembroke Cricket Club, Sandymount, Dublin

TossLeinster Lightning, elected to field first

Series

Cricket Ireland Inter-Provincial Twenty20 Trophy

Season2021

Player Of The Match

Ross Adair

Match days19 June 2021 - day (20-over match)

Umpires

Alan Neill

Roly Black

Match Referee

Kevin Gallagher

PointsNorthern Knights 4, Leinster Lightning 0

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