Munster Cricket Union Press Release: Munster U17 Squad Announced

The following is a press release from the Munster Cricket Union:

Another significant milestone for Munster cricket development is reached on Friday July 9^th as an U17 Munster XI travels to Co. Kildare to take on a combined U17 Bagenalstown/Halverstown team in Munster’s opening match of the 2010 LCU U17 League.

“This is an exciting prospect for our U17 squad”, said James Doran, Cricket Ireland Development Officer for Munster today.“We have an experienced and talented group of players ranging in age from 13 to 17 who will benefit hugely from these opportunities to compete against their peers in Leinster”.

Doran went on to say that, “The credit for this initiative must go to Cork County’s Dermot Giltinan who made the initial approach to the LCU and Dermot joins me in expressing Munster’s appreciation of the very positive support given to this proposal  by Maureen Joyce of Merrion CC and Clontarf CC’s Brian O’Sullivan”.

“The teams for our six match campaign will be selected from a panel of around 18 or so of our up and coming youth players with the selectors’ aiming to balance competitiveness with providing as many players as possible with match experience at this level.

Doran concluded by noting that the selectors would be keeping an open mind on the possibility of adding further players to the squad announced today with the performances of other younger players in the province being closely monitored as the season progressed.

The U17 team coaching and managerial responsibilities will be shared by James Doran, Cricket Ireland Munster CDO, Ted Williamson, MCU Director of Youth & Coaching, Ross Durity of Cork County CC and John Noone of Midleton CC with Cork County’s Dermot Giltinan joining the above-named for team selection duties.

The squad in full:

• Chris Banon (C)(Cork County)
• Eric Cotter (Cork Harlequins)
• Noel Cronin (Cork County)
• Killian Greenwood (Co. Clare)
• Ruadhan Jones (Cork Harlequins)
• Brad Morgan (Cork Harlequins)
• Jack Marks (Cork County)
• Alam Morshed (Co. Kerry)
• Liam Noone (Midleton)
• Rory O’Keeffe (Cork County)
• Brian O’Leary (Cork Harlequins)
• Anthony O’Reilly (Cork Harlequins)
• Rory Parata (Cork County)
• Cian Scannell (Cork County)
• Brian Scott (Cork County)
• Maninder Singh (Co. Clare)
• Tom Turkington (Midleton)

The Schedule of matches is:

Friday July 9^th Bagenalstown/Halverstown  .v.  MCU U17s

Tuesday July 13^th CYM CC .v.  MCU U17s

Tuesday July 27^th Leinster CC  .v.  MCU U17s

Thursday July 29^th Merrion CC  .v.  MCU U17s

Thursday Aug. 12^th Laois/Athlone  .v.  MCU U17s

Tuesday Aug. 17^th YMCA   .v.  MCU U17s