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5th May 2019 by Peter Boyd

YMCA Make Hard Work of Students’ Exam

YMCA survived a slight wobble with the bat before emerging 4-wicket victors over Dublin University, thanks largely to a crisp half-century from Harry Tector.

Tector’s 55 off 62 deliveries took YMCA to the brink of victory but no one was more disappointed than himself that he didn’t see it through.

“Yeah I felt in good touch today,” he said after the game, “and it’s always nice to get a fifty in the books.

“It would have been better to get us over the line myself and to have lost fewer wickets, but today was all about the result and getting our first victory on the board.”

That victory looked likely to come in double quick time early on as James Parkinson (3-17) took care of both openers, before Mitchell Thompson (2-13) and Tector (1-25) bowled their full complement in tandem to put the squeeze on the students’ run rate.

When Fionn Hand and Aviral Shukla had a pair of wickets each, Dublin University were 98 all out in 39 overs. With just over an hour to go until Tea, YMCA had a sniff of a full points victory.

Dublin University are nothing if not tenacious however and Milo Egan picked up the wicket of Jack Tector in just the second over of the chase.

This simply brought Harry Tector to the crease and a 61-run stand with Shukla took them to Tea at 63/1 and just 36 runs from victory.

Egan and, the ever wily, Conor Hoey weren’t going to simply allow the home side cruise to victory. Hoey was even on a hat-trick at one point removing Rory Anders and Tim Tector in successive balls.

It was Egan who would get Harry Tector’s scalp before the end, Tector skying one to wide long-off where Matthew Strong threw off his cap to hang on well.

“It was very disappointing to lose those five wickets after Tea, but we got the win and that was vital before we travel to play North County in our next game in the Group (May 18th)”, said Tector after the close of play as he headed off to captain the Ireland Wolves against Bangladesh on Sunday.

In the other games in Group A on Saturday, North County set up that mouth-watering clash at Inch in a fortnight with a 12-run victory over Railway Union. The reliable Eddie Richardson the main man for County scoring 47 and taking 3-27.

At the same time The Hills defeated Phoenix by 23 runs in the Park to maintain their 100% record at four wins from four.

In Group B Merrion collected their fourth win from four beating Balbriggan by six wickets thanks in large part to an unbeaten 80 from John Anderson.

Rush won the battle of the winless pair with Terenure, but it was a nervy affair. Rush chasing 123 for victory but losing eight wickets along the way.

In the final game Leinster beat Clontarf by three wickets thanks in no small part to a century from Gareth Delany.

IBI Corporate Finance Leinster Senior League Cup Group A

YMCA v Dublin University, Saturday May 4th, Claremont Road

Dublin University 98 a/o 39 overs (A Vincent 23, Junaid Altaf 20; J Parkinson 6-0-17-3, M Thompson 10-3-13-2, F Hand 6-0-13-2)

YMCA 99/6 24.2 overs (H Tector 55, A Shukla 17; C Hoey 9.2-1-39-3, M Egan 10-0-44-2)

YMCA win by 4 wickets

Check out the full gallery of photos from this game from
Deryck Vincent by clicking here.

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