Clontarf Cricket Club

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Clontarf Cricket Club
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Founded1876;149 years ago (1876)
Home ground Clontarf Cricket Club Ground, secondary ground at Mount Temple Comprehensive School
Official website https://www.clontarfcricket.com/

Clontarf Cricket Club is a cricket club in Dublin, Ireland, playing in Division 1 of the Leinster Senior League. Based at Clontarf Cricket Club Ground, Castle Avenue, with a shared clubhouse, it also has playing facilities in the grounds of Mount Temple Comprehensive School. [1] [2]

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History

The club was established in 1876, [3] [4] with its first ground off Vernon Avenue, then one near the meeting of the Howth Road with the coast road. [3] Clontarf Football Club, the local rugby union club, joined them in 1892, splitting the rent and with the two sports using the same field. [3] The two clubs moved together to the present ground location, off Castle Avenue, in 1896. [5] The club was initially solely a junior one, and won the Junior Cup final in 1898. [3]

The club fielded its first international player in 1903, [3] and senior status was attained in 1908. [3] [5] The club suspended operations for the four years from 1914. It won the Leinster Senior League in 1926. [3] Ladies cricket was begun in 1940, ceased in the early 1960s, and resumed in the mid-1970s. [3]

In 1947, Clontarf Cricket Club and Clontarf Football Club (the local rugby union club) jointly purchased the Castle Avenue playing grounds, [6] and where before 1947 the clubs shared the same field, from 1947 separate pitches were designated for cricket and rugby. At first the cricket club played nearer Castle Avenue, and the rugby club further away, but they later swapped playing areas. The ground is one of just three One-Day International grounds in Ireland.

Current squad

NameNationalityBirth dateBatting StyleBowling StyleNotes
Batsmen
Eoghan DelanyCricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 26 February 1989 (age 36)Right-handedRight arm off break Captain
Patrick XieFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Right-handedRight arm off break Overseas Pro
David VincentCricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland Right-handedRight arm off-break
Andrew Poynter Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 25 April 1987 (age 37)Right-handedRight arm off break
Andrew DelanyCricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 28 December 1997 (age 27)Right-handedRight arm off break
All-rounders
Fionn Hand Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 1 July 1998 (age 26)Right-handedRight arm fast-medium
John McNallyCricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 17 April 2005 (age 20)Left-handedRight arm medium
Curtis Campher Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 20 April 1999 (age 25)Right-handedRight arm fast-medium
David Delany Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 28 December 1997 (age 27)Left-handedRight arm fast
Mitchell Thompson Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 12 November 2001 (age 23)Right-handedRight arm leg break
Henry ThompsonCricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland Right-handedRight arm leg break
Ethan MarshallCricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland Right-handedRight arm medium
Wicket-keepers
PJ Moor Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 2 February 1991 (age 34)Right-handed
Seamus Lynch Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 10 August 2002 (age 22)Right-handed
Robert Forrest Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 25 May 1993 (age 31)Right-handed
Bowlers
Reuben Wilson Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 17 September 2006 (age 18)Right-handedRight arm fast-medium
Cillian McDonnellCricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 15 October 1996 (age 28)Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
Yash BalaCricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 25 November 2004 (age 20)Right-handedRight arm off break
Paul RyanCricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland Right-handedRight arm off break
Naufal AmanullahFlag of Afghanistan (2013-2021).svg  Afghanistan Right-handedRight arm medium
Luke ThompsonCricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland Right-handedRight arm medium

Notable players

Honours

References

  1. "Clontarf Cricket Club - Grounds". Clontarf Cricket Club. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  2. "Cricket Leinster". www.cricketleinster.ie. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 McIntyre, Dennis (2014). The Meadow of the Bull : A History of Clontarf (2nd ed.). Dublin, Ireland: The Shara Press. p. 243. ISBN   978-0-9527311-2-2.
  4. The history of Clontarf Cricket Club: The Early Years Archived 2011-12-19 at the Wayback Machine
  5. 1 2 The history of Clontarf Cricket Club: 1896 move to Castle Avenue Archived 2014-01-02 at the Wayback Machine
  6. "History of the Club". Clontarf F.C. 2022. Retrieved 23 January 2023.