Tim Tector did not know if he had just hit his highest senior score but after winning the Irish Cup match of the round for Pembroke, it was hardly top of his priorities.

The Ireland international’s 152 not out did not even make the top five individual scores on a remarkable day of scoring but it was more than enough to end Waringstown’s hopes of a seventh Irish Cup crown.

A perfectly paced innings saw him bring up his first 50 in 55 balls, his second in 44 and his third in just 33. In all he hit 17 fours and had no reason to take any chances by trying to hit a six. He was always in control and the under-strength Waringstown attack had no answer.

A startling collapse when the hosts lost their last six wickets for 13 runs all but decided the tie and although they still topped 300, in the end 370 probably wouldn’t have been enough such was the ease and style that the Dubliners reached their target – by eight wickets with 38 balls to spare. Skipper Jack Tector and internationals Lorcan Tucker and Gavin Hoey, who took five wickets, were not even required to bat.

It proved to be the survival of the fittest at The Lawn with three players all having to leave the field. The most worrying – and not just for the club’s immediate prospects – was Barry McCarthy collapsing in pain on his follow-through midway through his seventh over. He had to be helped off the field by two team-mates with knee ligament damage a possibility and Ireland’s next Test match just 18 days away.

Pembroke had already lost JJ Garth in only the sixth over of the day with a dislocated finger and Graham Hume failed to last his second over when it was Waringstown’s turn to bowl, walking off with a back injury and unable to take any further part in the match.

Already without James Mitchell, who strained his side at Thursday’s net session and Sam Topping advised by Cricket Ireland not to take any part in the match – is he being lined up for a Test match call-up? – Waringstown were just not strong enough to compete with the new favourites to win their second Irish Cup.

They eased past the previously unbeaten Villagers not only with nine men but also without Andrew Balbirnie, who opted not to travel.

With Garth unable to open the batting, it would have been a problem for most teams but Macdara Cosgrave shifted up one place and duly shared a century opening stand with Tim Tector. The temporary opener enjoyed a life on 25 when Greg Thompson put down a difficult chance at slip but after that he doubled his score without any more scares and, indeed, matched Tector virtually run for run – both hit four boundaries in their 50s, Cosgrave just four balls slower.

With only eight fours in the first 115 runs, it spoke volumes for the running between the wickets but it broke the stand in the end, when they chanced one quick single too many and Ross Allen brilliantly threw down the stumps.

No matter, Addison Sherriff came in and scored 47 off the next 90 runs, including the only six of the innings, before he cut Zayyan Malik to backward point in the 32nd over. With only 96 runs required, the sight of Harry Tector walking to the middle was not what Waringstown wanted to see and there was to be respite, the seventh best ODI batter in the world, facing just 36 balls for his 45 not out and happy to watch younger brother Tim bring up his 150 with the winning boundary.

It had all started so well for Waringstown with Steve Stolk and Adam Dennison putting on 119 for the first wicket in just 17 overs – this despite scoring only 30 in the first eight overs.

Stolk found batting ridiculously easy from the off in a couple of pre-season friendlies but his big-hitting was quickly cut short in the first two Premier League games. Here, he was much more responsible at the start with just two boundaries in his first 20 balls. But, once set, he showed  his full range of strokes and reached  50 in 42 balls with six fours and three sixes. He was dropped by Tucker on 56 and took advantage in the next over with three successive sixes off Hoey. But the leg spinner got his revenge next ball as Stolk holed out to short thirdman.

 Dennison carried on in his usual calm manner and after losing James McCollum to a reverse sweep that went wrong he was bowled by Hoey, nine short of a second Irish Cup century.

Hume was out next ball to leave Waringstown 248 for four with 11 and a half overs remaining but a fifth wicket stand of 39 between Morgan Topping and Tom Mayes proved to be as good as it got.

Hoey dismissed Mayes and Matthew Halliday in his last two overs to give him his maiden five-for in the competition and Byron McDonagh and Sheriff finished the innings with 21 balls unused.

The momentum was all with Pembroke and they rammed it home. No team will want them in round two.