CIYMS flip up the fashion to defeat Lisburn and win Irish Senior Cup

CIYMS made it 4 wins in 4 Finals this yr with a 225 runs thumping of NCU Premier League winners Lisburn to win the Irish Senior Cup for the primary time.

t was the one trophy lacking from the cupboard in Belmont and on the fifteenth try they not solely reached the Ultimate however gained it in record-breaking trend – the very best complete in a decider, which included the joint-highest partnership and the largest margin of victory.

For Lisburn, the frustration is not going to be the scale of the defeat however the method of it. On the day, the event – their first main Ultimate since 1996 – proved an excessive amount of for them they usually had been nowhere close to the usual they reached when successful the League with two weeks to spare.

Credit score for that, in fact, should go to CI who, having been put into bat, floor down their opponents in a chanceless second wicket stand of 174 between Chris Dougherty and John Matchett, equalling the opening partnership between Decker Curry and David Cooke for Limavady within the 1997 showpiece.

Earlier than yesterday’s showdown at Bready, solely Ross McCollum had been dismissed within the 90s in an Irish Cup Ultimate however each CI batsmen joined the previous Cricket Eire chairman on that notorious listing, Matchett with the ninth-highest complete of 94 and Dougherty proper behind him on 93.

It meant, in fact, that CI reached their mammoth complete and not using a vital contribution from big-hitting Ross Adair who, presumably due to the event, restrained himself, taking 29 balls to succeed in 32, with 4 fours and just one six.

However Mark Berry’s wicket could be pretty much as good because it obtained for Lisburn. They needed to wait one other 32 overs for the following breakthrough and CI had 220 on the board – plus there have been nonetheless nearly 10 overs for the Problem Cup holders and All-Eire T20 Cup winners to plunder one other 101 runs.

Jason van der Merwe – who nonetheless has the proud boast of by no means having misplaced a Cup Ultimate – was the primary purpose for the late surge, hitting 5 sixes and two fours in his 23-ball innings earlier than he, too, failed to succeed in a landmark, lacking a Mark Berry full toss on 49.

CI skipper Nigel Jones – and Lisburn – in all probability knew the job was pretty much as good as achieved at midway and the bowlers didn’t let him down.

The large wicket was all the time going to be Indian skilled Faiz Fazal and, fittingly, Jones took it in his first over, caught at additional cowl to scale back Lisburn to 49 for 3.

When Allen Coulter had David Miller caught at cowl, a horrible collapse adopted, the final seven wickets falling for 29 runs in precisely 10 overs with all six bowlers used getting among the many wickets, together with South African Keith Dudgeon who 24 hours earlier was confirmed as a returning skilled subsequent season.

“That is fairly particular, I couldn’t have requested for any extra,” stated Jones. “We now have labored fairly exhausting to succeed in this level and particularly this Ultimate.

“It felt that we had been on a roll and we felt fairly relaxed actually and to see us play the best way we did, particularly Dougherty and Matchett up high to set the platform for us to come back in and rating 100 off the final 10.

“Then we knew if we might get Faiz they must hold coming, and the boys stored placing the ball in the fitting areas and we’ve got come away with a extremely good win.”