Waringstown take the Senior Cup back home

The village side had swept aside a brave challenge from last season's Senior League champions Lisburn at Ormeau to take the Senior Cup back to the Lawn for the fourth time in six seasons - a feat few teams could hope to emulate.

Once again the quintet of Harrisons - the backbone of the Waringstown side - grabbed the glory again just as they had done in previous years finals.

In the first innings Jim Harrison caught the eye with a patient 57 runs over two hours.

It was nevertheless a priceless contribution for a team struggling for runs against a resilient and consistent Lisburn attack.

Waringstown proved just as lively in attack, Ian Harrison and Ivan Anderson stood out above the rest.

Ian finished with an average of none for 67 and Ivan took seven for 31.

Underdogs Lisburn showed they were no push-overs with Monteith and company containing the normally rampant Waringstown batsmen.

They were rewarded when opener Roy Harrison was caught by Fell off a good delivery from Lawrence Hunter after scoring nine runs.

Jim Harrison joined Mike Reith at the wicket and the pair scored 63 runs before Reith was dismissed for 31.

Against a cleverly positioned field, Jim Harrison and Ivan Anderson opted for caution, hitting only loose balls.

With 10 overs remaining the villagers total was hovering around the 120 mark for two losses.

Inevitably a hit-out policy was adopted and with it a rapid loss of wickets followed.

Twenty runs were added to the scoreboard during the remaining overs, but by then eight had walked.

Having restricted Waringstown to 140 runs, Lisburn took the field confident they could establish a good first innings lead.

Their confidence was quickly shattered with Healy and Reith bowling Lisburn just couldn't score the runs.

Opener for Lisburn, Tom McCloy took 39 runs in a mammoth three hours at the wicket.

This was just one example of the frustrating agony which the accuracy of the Waringstown bowlers subjected them to.

Nevertheless while McCloy was struggling to this personal total his colleagues floundered and finally gave up hope of overtaking Waringstown at 114 in just over 56 overs.

Waringstown were forced to start their second innings just before 8pm as the specified 120 overs had not been played.

Waringstown Deryck Harrison supplied a shrewd and sensible sending out a young pair instead of risking customary starters of Roy Harrison and Mike Reith in the fading light.

Deryck sent out younger brother Barry to partner Roy Harrison and what a caretaker he proved to be.

When play resumed the following morning Barry had chalked up 31 runs to a sound 49 run first wicket stand with his brother Roy.

A slight decline set into the batting when Reith and Jim Harrison went to successive balls from Monteith with the score at 94.

Waringstown then piled on the pressure during the last 15 overs.

Although they had lost the services of Roy - caught leg before by Monteith - Ivan Anderson and Deryck Harrison powered five runs an over to leave Lisburn with almost impossible target of 217 to win the title.

Lisburn's batsmen wilted under the tremendous burden .

Ian Harrison and Derek Healy started the rout in the first hour after tea claiming five for 48 runs.

Ian added another two wickets to his collection soon afterwards and this almost finished off Lisburn.

Anderson came on at the end to put the final nail in the Lisburn coffin taking three in a 19 ball spell with just a dozen runs scored.

Final score: Lisburn - 223 to Waringstown's 327.