League leaders Lisburn made it six wins out of six with Adam Berry starring in an emphatic eight wickets win over North Down. Berry, fittingly, hit the winning run to finish 87 not out, from 79 balls (nine fours, three sixes), sharing an unbroken partnership of 105 with skipper Neil Whitworth who added another 36 to his run of unbeaten scores. Earlier, it was a partnership of 76 between Peter Davison and Jaxon Dines that had rescued the visitors from 64 for seven to set Lisburn a target of 147. Ryan Macbeth took four wickets and Mark Adair had figures of 1-13 from five overs in his first match of the season, ahead of next week’s T20 internationals against West Indies.
CIYMS claimed their fourth win of the season with a six wickets victory over Woodvale at Belmont. The visitors made 159 for five in their 35 overs with 50s for Ludwig Kaestner and Finn Restieaux but CI got home with 11 balls to spare. Jake Egan was run out by Ruhan Pretorius for 62, with his side just 10 runs short of victory. Pretorius bowled his seven overs for just 13 runs but could take only one wicket.
Marc Ellison and Adam Dennison matched each other run for run at The Lawn but it was Dennison who scored the quicker and had the better support as Waringstown continued their winning form with a seven wickets (DLS) win over Civil Service North. Ellison (83) and James West (50) put on 109 for the first wicket for the visitors but it took 24 overs and although they added 70 in the remaining nine overs, with Sean Davey hitting 28 off 23 balls, Waringstown made light of their target of 189 in 30 overs. Dennison’s 83 came off 70 balls with eight fours and three sixes and Morgan Topping and Graham Hume, with an unbroken stand of 55 from 36 balls, hurried the Villagers to victory with almost four overs to spare.
Templepatrick won their first Premier League match to leave Cliftonville Academy, bottom of the table. Robert Smith with 65 and an unbeaten 33 from Charles Swart eased the Ballyclare-based side to an eight wickets victory with more than 11 overs to spare. They had bowled out their visitors for 130 with Ewan Wilson taking three wickets for 17 runs and Michael Stewart finishing with figures of two for 10 from six overs. Jared Wilson was on 45 when he ran out of partners with Cliftonville Academy failing to use two of their 38 overs.
Instonians charged to a 10 wickets win, needing only 12.4 overs to beat Muckamore at Moylena. After bowling out the home side for 87, Cade Carmichael hit 62 off 40 balls and skipper Nikolai Smith 21 to give everyone an early finish. All six bowlers shared the wickets for Instonians with Jason van der Merwe, top scorer with 19, the only Muckamore batter to face more than 30 balls.
