and the Reds win it! Moor pulls the ball through mid-wicket, Little can't stop it and it runs away to the boundary.
Leinster vs Reds, 8th Match at Bready, PRO T20, Jun 25 2021 - Match Result
Reds won by 7 wickets (with 12 balls remaining)
What a fantastic win for the the Reds, PJ Moor was brilliant with the bat and his 95* is by far and away the best batting performance of the IP20 so far.
After losing those early wickets, Moor and Carty did well to blunt the Lightning attack and build a steady partnership. Matt Ford then came in and gave Moor the strike to power the Reds forward.
That's three losses in a row now for the Lightning, that's never happened before, although in truth they were well beaten today. Apart from those two early wicket for McCarthy, they never looked like taking another wicket.
The Lightning are now bottom of the table.
The truth is that the Reds deserved that win today, better with the ball, better with the bat and showing that they are here to compete, not make up the numbers.
The Reds have also moved into second place in the table, ahead of the Knights on runrate.
You won't be surprsied to here that PJ Moor has just been named player of the match. Well deserved.
What a first day we have had here at Bready Cricket Club. What will tomorrow bring? Hopefully a bit less wind and some more great action out in the middle!
Thanks for following along today, hopefully you'll be back to join me tomorrow morning from 10am, until then this is Justin Smyth saying goodnight, Goodnight!
Moor clears the front leg and hammers the ball over long-on, scores are tied
hits the ball to wide long-on
Simi tosses the ball up, Ford is in two mind and ends up just pushing the bat at the ball, lucky not to edge it in the end!
Ford gets the reverse sweep out, you see quite a few of them in this neck of the woods. Hit's it very cleanly and it goes fine past the short third man fielder
steps forward, guides the ball to short third man
spins the ball too far outside off-stump
Reds need 13 off the last 18 balls for the win
pulls the ball towards deep square leg for a comfortable single.
Ford misses with the sweep shot, Dockrell screams the appeal at the Umpire as the ball hits Ford on the pad. Looked to be going down leg
driven clamly up to long-on
Moor gets down low and sweeps the ball down towards the long leg boundary, there is a fielder in the deep but he has no chance to stop it as it's hit so well
leans back in the crease, manages to edge the ball past the keeper. Runs away fine and McCarthy gives chase, can't stop it
hits the ball into the ground, heads back towards the bowler
guides the ball out to the cover sweeper to keep the strike
McCarthy can't nail the yorker, it's a full toss above waist height. Moor is hitting the ball so cleanly now that it flies back over the bowlers head and just gets over the boundary. Free hit coming up
full ball, looks to play it from the crease. Hits it back towards the bowler, McCarthy dives to his left to stop the ball
Moor looks to have damaged his bat hitting that ball, a couple of new bats gets run out. Brings up the 100 for the Reds too
shot! It's in the slot, Moor swings through the line and hits the ball straight down the ground. Thumps into the sightscreen and that's the highest score by any batter in the IP20 so far
Moor looks to drive the ball down the ground, misses and it goes through to the keeper.
Moor hits this one like a rocket, hammers the ball over the top of extra cover and it races to the rope
hits the ball in the air towards extra cover, Simi leaps up in the air and just isn't tall enough to get to the ball.
Bready Cricket Club, Magheramason, Bready | |
Toss | Munster Reds, elected to field first |
Series | |
Season | 2021 |
Player Of The Match | |
Match days | 25 June 2021 - day (20-over match) |
T20 debut | |
Umpires | |
Match Referee | |
Points | Munster Reds 4, Leinster Lightning 0 |