College Park, Dublin

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College Park
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Ground information
Location Dublin, Ireland
Establishment1868 (first recorded match)
International information
Only women's Test30 July-3 August 2000:
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First WODI1 July 1987:
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Last WODI1 August 2005:
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Team information
Dublin University Cricket Club (1835–present)
As of 3 September 2020
Source: Ground profile

College Park is a cricket ground in the grounds of Trinity College Dublin in Ireland and is the home ground of Dublin University Cricket Club. [1] A cricket match at Trinity College was mentioned in a poem 1820s between a team from Ballinasloe playing "the Collegians", although whether this match was played on the present ground is not known. [1] The first recorded mention of cricket on the present ground dates from 1868, when Ireland played an All-England Eleven in a non first-class fixture. [2]

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The ground is where Dublin University Cricket Club play their home matches, during the time when Ireland was part of the United Kingdom; the club held a great influence over Irish cricket, and the ground was considered the centre of cricket in Ireland. [1] The cricket club once had first-class status, it was in 1895 that the ground held its first first-class match between Dublin University and the Marylebone Cricket Club. [3] Ireland first used the ground for a first-class fixture in 1907 against the touring South Africans. With the Partition of Ireland in 1922, cricket lost much of its standing in the newly created Republic of Ireland, Dublin University suffered too with the subsequent decline of the sport in the Republic. [1] Nevertheless, the ground continued to host touring sides and English county sides, with 1926 seeing Dublin University play its third and final first-class fixture against Northamptonshire. [3]

The ground continued to host first-class fixtures until 1961, the year in which the 28th and final first-class fixture to date to be held there between Ireland and the Marylebone Cricket Club was played. A fire occurred at the ground in 1963, destroying a scorebox which had been built in honour of Herbert Rollins. [4] Decades later the ground made history in 2000 by playing host to Ireland women's first Women's Test match against Pakistan women, [5] which Ireland women won by an innings and 54 runs. [6] Despite as of 2011 still holding Test status, this remains Ireland women's only Test appearance. College Park has also held Women's One Day International cricket, the first match of that type being played there in 1987 between Ireland Women and Australia women. To date the ground has played host to ten Women's One Day Internationals, the last of which was between Ireland women and Australia women in 2005. [7]

From 2019, College Park was to become the home ground for Leinster Lightning for the 2019 and 2020 seasons, [8] though this arrangement failed to materialise.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Ger, Siggins. "The History of DUCC". www.cricket.tcdlife.ie. Archived from the original on 30 September 2011. Retrieved 29 August 2011.
  2. ↑ "Other matches played on College Park, Dublin". CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 August 2011.
  3. 1 2 "First-Class Matches played on College Park, Dublin". CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 August 2011.
  4. ↑ "Player profile: Herbert Rollins". CricketEurope. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  5. ↑ "Women's Test Matches played on College Park, Dublin". CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 August 2011.
  6. ↑ "Ireland Women v Pakistan Women, 2000, Only Test". CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 August 2011.
  7. ↑ "Women's One-Day International Matches played on College Park, Dublin". CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 August 2011.
  8. ↑ "College Park to become Lightning home ground". CricketEurope. Archived from the original on 17 July 2018. Retrieved 17 July 2018.

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