Remember Larry Grayson? I had a gay day on Saturday, starting with a trip to Cabra. I've seen the Oval soggier and gloomier, but there was no real prospect of play in the Bob Kerr Irish Senior Cup match between Old Belvedere and Woodvale, so the plug was pulled shortly after one o'clock.

As far as I know, the match will now be played in Belfast on Friday. The other preliminary round matches were also washed out. The Pembroke v Killymallaght match will take place next Sunday in Sydney Parade, but I don't know when YMCA will entertain Cork County at Claremont Road .

I went out to Milverton to see The Hills play Malahide in a DGM 45-over match, but when I arrived they were playing a 30-over friendly on the mat, Matt having declared the grass wicket unplayable. I discovered much later that evening that the umpires had very little opportunity to disagree.

I noticed the familiar figure of Jimmy Govan trundling his off breaks for the Village People: welcome back, Jimmy. The refurbished pavilion looks good, and I hope I am welcome to return to it very soon.

A hop down through Loughshinny revealed a deserted (and wet) Kenure, so Rush v Merrion had obviously been abandoned early. There was only one chance of entertainment, a trip to Rathmines, where I found the entire Molins family at rest and play. Dublin University were 60-2, 20 overs into their innings against Leinster in a match that had been reduced to 34 overs.

Eoghan Delany and Ian Synnott having gone early, the pro, Brad Rasool, was batting with Mark Raftery-Skehan. Neither looked in any difficulty against Rob Miley's military medium and Anton Scholtz's straightbreaks. The pro worked the ball around well, and Zog played up and down the line.

But where was the Leinster pro? Surely not off the field injured already? No, he was scoring! Sean Jennings was off on his holliers on the Costa Packet all right, but they hardly flew a guy in from Bridgetown to sub for the bold Sean. Why wasn't he playing? It transpires that some turkey of a Leinster committeeman never put through the paperwork in time.

Anyway, back to the match. Zog lost patience and hoiked Miley high to Jason Molins at mid on. Anwar did something similar, the pro miscued Anton Scholtz for a very competent 47, and then Trinity subsided to 90-odd for 7 with a couple of overs to go, despite substandard fielding from Leinster .

David Mysstear slogged George Dockrell for a brace of fours, then fell to an excellent low catch by Scoltz, and the students managed an unchallenging total of 112/8. Robbie Kenealy took 1/19, Dockrell 2/30, Miley 2/25, Scholtz 2/21, and new Aussie Chris Byrne a very tidy 0/17 off his 7, generating reasonable pace and showing good control.

Jason Molins despatched Baugh's first ball, a tad short, with a beautiful short-arm jab to square leg, and he and Mark Jones set about the lively Baugh and Mysstear's left-arm pies at a run a ball, helped by plenty of very wide wides and three no balls (plus the resultant free hits).

If Leinster 's fielding was poor, Trinity's was awful, with a couple of music hall acts of dropped catches. Baugh produced a good one to have Molins caught behind by Rasool for 14. Eoghan Delany replaced the woeful Mysstear, and put in a good spell, bowling Jonesey round his legs for 38, and slipping one past Scholtz's swish, to take 2/19 off his 7.

Anwar bowled seven tidy overs for 18, but Ian O'Herlihy and Craig Mallon (15*) pushed it round to see Leinster close to home. O'Herlihy (14) reverse drove one into Ian Synnott's gloves (the pro was now turning his arm over). 113-4 was reached in 25.5 overs, with Ernie Extras contributing a handy quarter-century.

With a bowling match on and the last day of tennis week, it was a good night in the bar, and Sharon Molins and I were eventually poured home by our respective spouses. I fell asleep in front of Match of the Day; I presume Rodney put Sharon to bed. With a bit of luck it will be a long, lively season.