Last week, despite the poor weather saw the start of the 2018 Leprechaun Cup, a hardball competition for Primary schools throughout the province. The competition continues to act as the flagship for the Leinster development programme offering hardball inter-schools fixtures for boys and girls at primary school level. In the coming weeks, similar age-group competitions will commence – Super league, 4th Class cup & Fingal girls. Cricket Leinster are most thankful to Blue Insurance who will again sponsor this year’s primary schools competitions. Results to date, along with next weeks confirmed fixtures are as follows:

Scores from last week’s fixtures:

'Blue Insurance' Leprechaun Cup

Wednesday, 11th April 2018

Venue: Terenure CC

St. Kilian’s SNS v Whitechurch NS

St. Kilian's SNS 104/5 20 overs (Olan Storey 30* retired, Killian Lowth 10, Harry Saint Ledger 2-10, Jack Young 1-6)

Whitechurch NS 105/3 17.1 overs (Ethan Clarke 30* retired, Harry Saint Ledger 30* retired, Sam Purcell 2-17, Chris Thomas 1-23)

Whitechurch NS won by 7 wickets

Friday, 13th April 2018

Venue: Corkagh Park 1

Devine Mercy Balgaddy vs Adamstown Castle ETNS

Devine Mercy Balgaddy NS 107/8 20 overs (Shane Dolan 9*, Kevin Aladi 7*, Arvind Olag 2-14, Medhi Agarwal 2-20)

Adamstown Castle ETNS 80/8 20 overs (Alvita Paskaukate 5, Anfal Alfridi 4, Lee Brennan 2-9, Vlad Varzari 1-5)

Devine Mercy NS won by 27 runs

Friday, 13th April 2018

Venue: Corkagh Park 1

Taney Parish NS v St. Joseph’s BNS

Taney Parish NS 67 all out 15 overs (Daniel Jones 8, Annabel Squires 7, Arman Rahman 4-6, Savin Shamim 3-15)

St. Joseph's BNS 53/8 20 overs (Arman Rahman 21, Matthew O' Neill 4, Daniel Jones 3-3, Aoife Cameron 2-11)

Taney Parish won by 14 runs

Tuesday, 17th April 2018

Venue: Malahide 2

St Francis (Priorswood) v Our Lady Immaculate, Darndale

St Francis NS 77/9 20 overs (Dillon Murphy 16, Michael Flood 4-14 )

Our Lady Immaculate, Darndale 78/7 17.2 overs (Cian Ward 15*, Kane Walsh 4-21)

Our Lady Immaculate Darndale won by 3 wickets

Tuesday, 17th April 2018

Venue: Castleknock College

Castaheany ET v Castleknock NS

Castaheany ET 54/8 20 overs (Srihan Karpe 12, Sam Morris 1-7, Benjiman Thomson 1-10)

Castleknock NS 42 all out 14.3 overs (Lucy McDonagh 6, James Surgue 5, Avyay Mynampati 5 for 3 (Including 4 wickets in a row), Srihan Karpe 3-5)

Castaheany ET won by 12 runs

Wednesday, 18th April 2018

Venue: Porterstown Park

St. Patrick’s NS (Diswellstown) v St. Mochta’s NS

St Patrick’s NS (Diswellstown) 43 all out 12.3 overs (Calum Gormley 2, Eevi Delaney 2, Tanay Gupta 3-5, Ethan Kenny 3-4)

St Mochta’s NS 44/ 3 11.5 overs (Tanay Gupta 6*, Eevi Delaney 1-5)

St Mochta’s NS won by 7 wickets

Thursday, 19th April, 2018

Venue: Tymon Park

St. Kevin's NS v Esker ET

St. Kevin's Boys NS 91 all out, 20 overs (Sam Sheridan 14, Wasi Nasir 3-5, Shawais Atif 3-7)

Esker ETNS 90/8, 20 overs (Shawais Atif 27, Wasi Nasir 18*, Jack Ellis 2-19, Waleed Ahmed 1-6)

St. Kevin's NS won by 1 run

Friday, 20th April 2018

Venue: Castleknock College

St John Bosco’s v St Brigid’s Castleknock

St John Bosco’s 86/7 20 overs (Elliot Smith 21*, Matthew Doyle 3-19, Jack Coyle 2-9)

St Brigid’s 64/8 20 overs (Jack Coyle 14, Eddie O’Connor 8, Elliot Smith 2-11)

St John Bosco’s won by 22 runs

This Week’s Fixtures:

Monday, 23rd April 2018

• Castaheany ETNS v St. John Bosco’s - Castleknock College (Leprechaun Cup)
• Howth Road NS v Springdale NS - Castle Avenue (Leprechaun Cup)
• Rathfarnham Parish v Whitechurch NS - Terenure (Leprechaun Cup)

Tuesday, 24th April 2018

• Scoil Una Naofa v Drimnagh Boys - Pearse Park, Crumlin (Leprechaun Cup)
• Milverton v Balrothery - TBC (Fingal Girls Cup)
• CUS v Star of the Sea - Bird Avenue (4th Class Cup)
• St. Mary’s College v Willow Park - Kenilworth Square (4th Class Cup)

Thursday, 26th April 2018

• Ranelagh MDS v Sancta Maria CBS - Observatory Lane (Leprechaun Cup)
• St Luke’s NS v Tyrellstown ET - Porterstown Park (Leprechaun Cup)
• St Andrew’s Malahide v Holy Family NS - Malahide 2 (Leprechaun Cup)
• Oliver Plunkett’s v St. Andrews Malahide - Malahide 2 (Fingal Girls Cup)

Photographs courtesy of Rodney Smythe