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Re Ryan Conn's 213 against Drumaness

Was this the game where Drumaness travelled with 8 players to fulfil the fixture and Laurelvale won the toss and batted 1st??

213 is a great score for a team, never mind an individual in a 50 over game but if it was with only 6 fielders it takes away from it a little bit

Just following on from the Primary School cricket. We at Cregagh along with Simon Johnston and Belfast City Council are running our 2nd Kwik Cricket Competition at our club tomorrow with 5 local primary schools.

It was a great success last year and the kids loved it. This HAS to be the way to develop our sport, we have to get into the Primary schools and compete with football and rugby if we don�t I fear for the sport we all love.

I remember playing rounders at Primary school but we never once played Cricket!!!!

I have a child at a local primary school and as far as I can see the schools are keen for outdoor organisations to come into the school and promote their sport, we must make sure we aren�t missing an opportunity!

John - I suggest that before you start any analysis of Nathan McCurry's innings you want to check the background of this young man and the fact that he was recently the subject of a serious assault that left him critically injured. I, together with many at Muckamore, am delighted to see the extent of his recovery and that he is back playing cricket.

On club development , it's a case of each to their own, from my own clubs point of view it was brilliant to see the start of our under 11 practices last night and 20 kids from p1 - p3 joining us to add to the others already involved, a real boost for the coaches who have been working in primary schools for a number of years and the current NCU under 17 squad shows the progress we are making

Liam
Thanks for the clarification. All the best in London and hopefully local cricket (at whatever level) hasn't lost you forever.

re C Boomer

I think for cricket and clubs to grow the greatest emphasis has to be on the Primary School kids. If we can get youngsters hooked on the game at an early age and get them playing for fun in Kwik Cricket and then developing skills we will then see them wanting to play cricket at Secondary education level, in the parks etc.

Guys

Im only giving my opinion on Junior 1 from umpiring the last 2 years.

Re david.
In your careful analysis of the muckamore ivs v ci 4s you failed to mention the mccurry score of 99. Perhaps a better player than 4th eleven?

Nobody like anyone to lose by over 300 runs but this is a natural consequence of a club who has a strong 1st XI v one that has been severely weakened over the winter. It is going to happen from time to time. It just happened to be CI this time. Probably the reason everyone is getting so excited

I'm perhaps already preaching to the converted, but here's an encouraging topic for the N.C.U. development committee to chat about and build on amongst other things, when they meet up next week.

Quick cricket started again yesterday at Moira Primary for the P.6 & P.7 pupils, the teacher there is very keen on it and having a vested interested myself, I naturally called up early to watch.

Boys & girls of varying ability, all getting involved and most importantly everyone seemed to be having great fun, but here's the bonus and the added knock-on effect, when my son came home today he informed me that both himself and his schoolmates had organised to meet up on Saturday at Moira Park for a game of cricket !

If that's not good news....I don't know what is !

Re David.

That is not an admin mistake, I now live and work in London so will not be a regular fixture in any CI team, last weekend i was home visiting friends and family which i booked months in advance, it just so happened that it fell on the first weekend of the season, consiquently i was selected to play for the 2s on the saturday. I recieved a phonecall from the 4s captain previous to the weekend asking if i could play for him on the sunday due to him loosing a player from his side as he had heard i was home for the weekend, as i no longer live in the country i have since been de-starred as i will only be playing probably 1 more weekend of cricket in the ncu for the rest of the season.

Re Liam Jenkinson
I would like to add my congrats to Michael Hingston for his double hundred and agree with what Liam Jenkinson says about a talented crop of youngsters coming through the youth ranks at CIYMS having seen some of them in action.
My concern is that the L Jenkinson who has played regular 1st XI for CIYMS over the last couple of years and scored 85no for CIYMS 2nds on Saturday is the same L Jenkinson who scored 50 for CIYMS 4ths the following day in Junior league 8.
Surely the CIYMS starrings should be looked at or is this just an example of working the system?

RE: Craig McKinley

If Junior 1 is "the same if not a better standard of cricket than Senior 2 and 3" why has there not been more 2nd XI winners of the Junior Cup over the last 10 years?? Senoir 2 winning that battle 6 - 4 and even more in the last 7 with a 5 - 2 success rate.

Academy's 4 wins in 6 years seems to have escaped you considering along the way had some very tough games against 2nd XIs and in perticular Waringstown 2's each of the 4 years.

There are a number of cricketers playing in Senior 2 in perticular who could do a job in the higher league but chose to stay there to play with their mates who they've played with for years or who stay to support there home town club through thick and thin!

I don't think anyone is taking away from the achievement of a double hundred by michael. I would personally say 200 runs for me would be a career total. i think the deabte is that should it should have been mentioned as a individual achievement and not in the context of the game ie winning by 362 runs. As for obus scoring his runs it was in the premier league and when you play there you expect the publicity. i do not honestly believe, knowing michael and his excellent approach to junior cricket coaching, he would have wanted this publicity in light of the result. having said that i am sure his target is to break back into a very strong CIYMS side and this achievement hopefully will help. great knock

Well done Mike - a ton is an awesome achievement at any level - any ground, any game, any day - a double ton - most of us can only dream of that.........credit where it is due. Side note - top man also & immense CIYMS Clubman!