North Down made it two wins out of two in the Premier League with a 29 runs victory over Cliftonville Academy yesterday.

It was impressive performance by the visitors to bowl out North Down for 171 and for long periods of the reply they were up with the run rate thanks to captain Max Burton’s whirlwind 33, including six fours.

However, he fell to a tremendous catch in the outfield by Tom Crothers – bettered by Varun Chopra’s catch to dismiss Crothers– and the wickets of Abi Raut and Jared Wilson in successive overs, reducing Cliftonville Academy to 118 for five, effectively settled the result.

Scores: North Down 171 (40.2 overs, A Chore 35, Naushad Shaikh 27, S Nelson 27; B Kane 3-26, A Raut 3-41, J Wilson 2-32)

Cliftonville Academy 142 (39.3 overs, F Collins 34, M Burton 33, A Raut 29; Naushad Shaikh 5-15, A Shields 2-37).

North Down won by 29 runs.