CIYMS made it four wins in four finals this year with a 225 runs thumping of NCU Premier League winners Lisburn to win the Irish Senior Cup for the first time.

It was the only trophy missing from the cabinet in Belmont and at the 15th attempt they not only reached the final but won it in record-breaking fashion – the highest total in a final, which included the joint highest partnership, and the biggest margin of victory.

For Lisburn, the disappointment will not be the size of the defeat but the manner of it.

On the day, the occasion – their first major final since 1996 - proved too much for them and they were nowhere near the standard they reached when winning the league with two weeks to spare.

Credit for that, of course, must go to CI who, having been put into bat, ground 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 in the 1997 decider.

Before yesterday’s showdown at Bready, only Ross McCollum had been dismissed in the 90s in an Irish Cup final but both CI batsmen joined the former Cricket Ireland chairman on that infamous list, Matchett with the ninth highest total of 94 and Dougherty right behind him on 93.

It meant, of course, that CI reached their mammoth total without a significant contribution from big-hitting Ross Adair who, presumably because of the occasion, restrained himself, taking 29 balls to reach 32, with four fours and only one six.

But Mark Berry’s wicket would be as good as it got for Lisburn. They had to wait another 32 overs for the next breakthrough and CI had 220 on the board and there were still almost 10 overs for the Challenge Cup holders and All-Ireland T20 Cup winners to plunder another 101 runs.

Jason van der Merwe, who still has the proud boast of never having lost a cup final, was the main reason for the late surge, hitting five sixes and two fours in his 23-ball innings before he, too, failed to reach a landmark, missing a Mark Berry full toss on 49.

Lisburn didn’t help themselves in those closing stages, putting down three catches including Mark Adair first ball – five balls later he had 16 – and their final total of 321 for six, was four runs more than Railway Union’s previous best in 2010.

CI skipper Nigel Jones – and Lisburn – probably knew the job was as good as done at halfway and the bowlers did not let him down.

The big wicket was always going to be Indian professional Faiz Fazal and, fittingly, Jones took it in his first over, caught at extra cover to reduce Lisburn to 49 for three.

When Allen Coulter had David Miller caught at cover, a horrible collapse followed, the last seven wickets falling for 29 runs in exactly 10 overs with all six bowlers used getting among the wickets, including South African Keith Dudgeon who 24 hours earlier had been confirmed as a returning professional next season

Last night, though, was a time for looking back on a season when they won every cup game they played, with the Irish Cup their ultimate reward, “This is pretty special, I couldn’t have asked for anymore,” said Jones.

“We have worked pretty hard to reach this point and especially this final.

“It felt that we were on a roll and we felt pretty relaxed in fact and to see us play the way we did, especially Dougherty and Matchett up top to set the platform for us to come in and score 100 off the last 10.

“Then we knew if we could get Faiz they would have to keep coming, and the boys kept putting the ball in the right areas and we have come away with a really good performance."