YMCA cup wins: some interesting stats…
· Alan Lewis is the only man to have played on all 10 of YMCA’s winning senior cup sides, the first of which was 32 years ago. He also played in one final defeat, to Clontarf in 1992.
· In all, 44 men have won a cup medal in our colours.
· Ian Burns was captain in three seasons, winning the cup each time. He is the only captain to lead more than one YMCA cup-winning side.
· Lewy won four man of the match awards, a Cricket Leinster record. Johnny Garth won two in successive finals in 1987-88.
· Lewy has four centuries in the final, a record.
· While the Tectors will be hoping to add the cup to their medal collections this weekend, there were two previous sets of YM brothers who played together in the final: Stuart and Greg Taylor, and Keith and Neil Bailey were all on the winning 1994 team. The Baileys also won medals together in 1986, 1987, 1990 and 1991.
· Is this an omen? YMCA have won the cup three times in Castle Avenue, more than any other venue, and each time batted first and won by 222, 151 and 46 runs.
1984 beat Leinster (Kimmage) by 28 runs
Captain: Clive Davis. Man of the Match: Alan Lewis (108, 3-42)
Angus Dunlop, Ian Burns, Alan Lewis, Clive Davis, Jonathan Garth, Keith Bailey, Eamon Masterson, Norman Kilroy, John Ridgeway, Alec Stewart, Stan McCready
1986 beat Phoenix (Park Avenue) by four wickets
Captain: Alan Lewis. Man of the Match: Angus Dunlop
Burns, Dunlop, Lewis, Davis, Garth, K Bailey, Masterson, Colin Haine, Ian Keartland, Tim Sullivan, Neil Bailey
1987 beat Clontarf (Castle Avenue) by 222 runs
Captain: Ian Burns. Man of the Match: Jonathan Garth (15, 5-25)
Burns, Dunlop, Lewis, Garth, K Bailey, Davis, Masterson, N Bailey, Haine, Keartland, Martin Ridgeway
1988 beat Railway Union (Sydney Parade) by four wickets
Captain: Keith Bailey. Man of the Match: Jonathan Garth
Burns, John Hoey, Lewis, Garth, Davis, Haine, K Bailey, M Ridgeway, Keartland, Trevor Freeman, Masterson
1990 beat Clontarf (Rathmines) by 60 runs
Captain: Ian Burns. Man of the Match: Alan Lewis (129no, 6-36)
Mark Nulty, Burns, Dunlop, Lewis, Garth, David Starkey, Davis, Masterson, K Bailey, Haine, N Bailey
1991 beat Leinster (Castle Avenue) by 151 runs
Captain: David Starkey. Man of the Match: Alan Lewis (124, 2-11).
Burns, Dunlop, David Starkey, Lewis, Garth, Nulty, Haine, M Ridgeway, K Bailey, Stuart Taylor, N Bailey
1994 beat Malahide (Park Avenue) by one wicket
Captain: Ian Burns. Man of the Match: Alan Lewis (28, 5-17)
Dunlop, Burns, Nulty, Lewis, Garth, Greg Taylor, Haine, S Taylor, M Ridgeway, K Bailey, N Bailey
2001 beat CYM (Castle Avenue) by 46 runs
Captain: Stuart McCready. Man of the Match: Chris Cruickshank (47, 1-21)
Matt Broadmore, Carl Hosford, Chris Cruickshank, Dunlop, Lewis, Stuart McCready, Hoey, S Taylor, Simon Wilson-Moore, Dickson Butler, Shay O’Gorman
2002 beat Merrion (Rathmines) by 59 runs
Captain: Angus Dunlop. Man of the Match: Stuart Taylor (1, 4-25)
Hosford, Wilson-Moore, Lewis, Shahid Iqbal, Dunlop, Butler, S Taylor, McCready, Christian Judd, Neil Bhandhari, Warwick Armstrong
2013 beat Pembroke (Claremont Road) by 79 runs
Captain: Albert van der Merwe. Man of the Match: Jeremy Bray (130no)
Reinhardt Strydom, Lewis, Albert van der Merwe, Simmi Singh, Jeremy Bray, Trent Johnston, Lee Cole, Robbie Garth, Jack Tector, Yaqoob Ali, Bobby Gamble
MOST WINNERS MEDALS:
10: Alan Lewis
8: Angus Dunlop
7: Ian Burns, Jonathan Garth, Keith Bailey
6: Colin Haine
5: Clive Davis, Eamon Masterson, Neil Bailey
4: Martin Ridgeway, Stuart Taylor
3: Ian Keartland, Mark Nulty
2: David Starkey, John Hoey, Stu McCready, Carl Hosford, Simon Wilson-Moore, Dickson Butler
1: Greg Taylor, Norman Kilroy, John Ridgeway, Alec Stewart, Stan McCready, Tim Sullivan, Trevor Freeman, Matt Broadmore, Chris Cruickshank, Shay O’Gorman, Shahid Iqbal, Christian Judd, Neil Bhandhari, Warwick Armstrong, Reinhardt Strydom, Albert van der Merwe, Simmi Singh, Jeremy Bray, Trent Johnston, Lee Cole, Robbie Garth, Jack Tector, Yacoub Ali, Bobby Gamble