The 3rd XI showed both their good and bad sides again in a high scoring encounter with Pembroke on Wednesday. The team has come on in the last few weeks and looked a more solid outfit. However, they slacked in patches during their trip to Dublin 4 and were made pay for it.
The 3rd Team averages see Akshay top of the batting with a healthy average of 24.36 and a highest score of 59. Top wicket taker is Joe Brady with a total of 18 wickets to date. View this article for the latest 3rd Team batting and bowling averages.
Thirds beat Knockharley by 5 wickets
(17th August 2009)
Civil Service 3rd XI got back to winning ways with a 5 wicket victory over Knockharley at Veldonstown last weekend. After slumping to a heavy defeat to title-chasing Balbriggan a week earlier it was just the tonic the 3rd XI needed ahead of at the start of a hectic run which will see them play 4 matches in 11 days.
Synopsis of the last few 1's matches
(17th August 2009)
Apologies for the delay in posting this. It's just a brief synopsis of the last few First team matches which saw us win 4 out of 5, beating The Hills, Railway, Pembroke and Malahide and losing to Merrion.
Scorecard - Civil Service 1 vrs Clontarf 2, 20 June 2009
(14th July 2009)
A 40 from Gaurav and an excellent partnership between Ashan (42) and Darren (26*) gave Service a reasonably competitive total of 177. However, it wasn't enough as Clontarf reached their target with 2 wickets to spare. Darren picked up 3 for 35, Ahsan 2 for 29 and Urvin was unlucky to go finish wicketless after going for only 14 off his 10 overs.
