3rd TRIPLE CROWN TOURNAMENT

Belfast, N Ireland: 19-21 July 1995

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Ireland v NCA England

Triple Crown
Comber: 21st July 1995

NCA England won by 1 run

NCA ENGLAND
J Benn                    run out        8   BOWLING: IRELAND
%S Waterton      c Benson b Eagleson    15   Eagleson   10  1  24  2
*M Roberts       c Ogilby b Gillespie    8   Patterson   6  0  29  0
D Clarke      c Gillespie b Lewis       62   Gillespie   3  0  13  1
C Gott                lbw b Eagleson     5   Doak       10  0  22  0
I McLaren                 run out       21   Graham     10  1  31  0
P Roshier        c Benson b Harrison     2   Harrison   10  0  34  2
R Evans                   run out        1   Lewis       1  0  11  1
B Usher           c Doak  b Harrison    15
R Ellwood                 not out        1   FALL OF WICKETS
K Arnold                  not out        1   29, 42, 43, 48, 98,
Extras                                  32   110. 120. 159. 171
Total              (50 overs, 9 wkts)  173
IRELAND
SJS Warke       c Roberts b Usher        2   BOWLING: NCA ENGLAND
N Doak                    run out        5   Roshier    10  3  21  1
S Smyth                   b McLaren     62   Usher      10  1  37  1
*A Lewis       c Waterton b McLaren      2   McLaren    10  0  34  3
J Benson           c Gott b Arnold      27   Arnold     10  1  23  1
U Graham        c Roshier b McLaren     17   Ellwood     1  0   8  0
G Harrison                not out       27   Evans       7  0  30  0
P Gillespie           lbw b Roshier      0   Gott        2  0   9  0
R Eagleson                not out       11
M Patterson                                  FALL OF WICKETS
%S Ogilby                                    4, 17, 24, 85, 122,
Extras                                  20   136, 138
Total           (50 overs, 7 wickets)  172  
Umpires: P O'Hara and L Hogan     Toss: Ireland 
* captain  % wicketkeeper

Match Report (Ian Callender)

Graham came in to maintain the left hand-right hand and reached 17 before being caught on the fence going for a second six. It was now left to Smyth but he was bowled in the 44th over for an excellent 61 with 38 runs still required. Harrison scoring at a run a ball, lost Gillespie to the second ball he received, but added an unbroken thirty four for the eighth wicket with Eagleson. Sixteen were needed off Usher's over to `win' on a tie with less wickets lost but with seven required off the last ball, Harrison's six of the last ball did not matter. With 35 wanted off the last five, the position at the start of the last over should have been better but the accuracy of the English bowlers was the difference between the sides and a wide count of 21 compared with England's six is expensive at this level. The captain, Alan Lewis, although disappointed at the outcome of his 96th game for Ireland took some satisfaction and relief from it in that after 11 wicketless matches, he reached a personal landmark of 50 international wickets.

Meanwhile, at Ormeau, Scotland confirmed their dominance in the tournament by hammering Wales by six wickets with more than 17 overs to spare. Chasing 149 for victory, the Scots' only setback came five runs short of the winning post when Tim Hemp took a hat-trick in the one over he bowled.