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IPC Day One: Rain interrupts play but match evenly poised

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It was honours even between Leinster Lightning and Northern Knights after the first day of their Test Triangle Inter-Provincial Championship match lost playing time due to the weather. The Knights finished the day on 136-4, after only 43 overs were able to be bowled.
On a gloomy morning in Sydney Parade, George Dockrell won the toss and elected to bowl first. Test opener James McCollum started the innings with plenty of intent and was very keen to punish any wayward bowling in the opening overs. He fell for a brisk 24 when Cormac McLoughlin-Gavin held a sharp chance at gully off Peter Chase.

His fellow opener, Marc Ellison, was quite watchful early on, but needed no second invitation to rock ball and pull hard to the square leg boundary when the opportunity arose.

He was joined by Murray Commins, who fell soon after for one after misjudging an inswinger from Tyrone Kane (read an analysts observation of the wicket).

This left the Knights 48-2 but Gary Wilson came in to ease any sort of fears that a wobble may occur in the morning session. Wilson got a few early boundaries away in good style, but the rain came down heavily to end the first session, with the Knights on 76-2.

After a heavy period of rain, it was only at 3.15pm that the players got back onto the pitch. The Lightning were keen to use whatever spice that there might have been in the wicket after the rain break and bowled accordingly well. Barry McCarthy was particularly excellent, with himself and fellow Pembroke clubman Josh Little, bowling superbly in tandem. It was Little who struck first, when catching Wilson out with a short ball, he could only manage to pull it to fine leg, where McCarthy took a good running catch.

Not long after, McCarthy struck to end Ellison’s innings, the opener departing for a well made 36, when edging behind. This left the Knights 86-4 with two men at the crease. It was tough conditions for Harry Tector and Shane Getkate, with the Lightning in top groove during an enthralling hour and a half of play. The two both survived confident appeals from the Lightning but battled and dug in well to be unmoved before the tea interval, with Tector 29* and Getkate 24*.

The score at that stage was 136-4, and unfortunately due to unrelenting rain, that was the end of proceedings for the first day of this game. However, there is still a full two days of action to go, and with the weather set fair, both sides will still be hopeful of forcing a result.

>> Read scorecard here.

Play resumes tomorrow from Sydney Parade tomorrow at 11 am.

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