Carrick ease to home victory over Greer’s men

Visiting captain Richard Greer won the toss and asked Carrick to bat first. After losing a wicket in the first over, Jamie Holmes hammered a series of boundaries that saw the 50 up for Carrick in just the eighth over.

Holmes and skipper Iain Parkhill took the score along to 93 off 17 overs before Holmes, who had just completed a finehalf-century off just 40 balls (including 10 boundaries and a six), was caught at point chasing a wide delivery for 51.

Spinners Chris Busby and Robert Smith put a brake on the Carrick scoring rate for a while, with only 20 runs being scored in the following 10 overs.

Busby caught Parkhill off his own delivery for a patient 22. When the two spinners had completed their accurate spells, Ryan Eagleson and Indrajeet Kamtekar once again started to score freely for Carrick. The fourth wicket pair added 112 runs in 22 overs, with the score passing the 200-mark just before Kamtekar was run out for a superb innings of 64 off 71 deliveries, which included eight fours and two sixes.

Eagleson and Alex Haggan hit a further 50 runs off the final six overs of the innings to leave Carrick with an impressive toal of 266 for 4 at the end of their 50 overs. Eagleson’s contribution was a brilliant unbeaten 70 which include five sixes.

Templepatrick’s openers took 29 runs off the first eight overs, before Carrick’s Richard Hood struck with the wickets of Jackson and Greer in his first over.

Opener Jay Hunter and Bob Homani added a further 34 runs, but they were falling further behind the required run rate, with Kamtekar bowling a series of maidens.

He had Homani brilliantly caught in the deep by Haggan with the score on 65 after 19 overs.

Another fine catch in the covers by Stephen Grant off Holmes saw top scorer Hunter’s innings end for a gutsy 34. At 76 for five off 24 overs the result was now a formality, but Templepatrick survived for another 15 overs, and by the time their final wicket had fallen, their total had moved on to 125 with Jordi Fettis contributing 21 late in the innings.

Kamtekar conceded just 10 runs from as many overs, and was rewarded with three wickets, while fellow spinners Eagleson and Holmes picked up three and two wickets as Carrick completed a convincing win.

n Carrickfergus 266/4 (R Eagleson 70 no, I Kamtekar 64, J Holmes 51, I Parkhill 22)

Templepatrick 126 (J Hunter 34, J Fettis 21, I Kamtekar 3-10, R Eagleson 3-15, R Hood 2-18, J Holmes 2-31)

Carrickfergus won by 140 runs

Carrickfergus

junior results:

Graham Cup 2nd Round – Carrickfergus Under-15s beat Waringstown by 27 runs

Carrickfergus 98/4 (Samuel Osborne 44, Max Burton 30)

Waringstown 71/9 (J Carson 25 no, Jack Buchanan-Rolleston 4-6 including a hat-trick, Michael Brady 2-15, Max Burton 4 stumpings).

Under-11 League – Carrickfergus beat Bangor by four wickets

Bangor 69/6 (Charlie Burton 2-9, Scott Gardner 2-10)

Carrickfergus 70/6 Tyrone Simms 22 no, Ben Martin 19 no, L Kenny 3-8).