Connacht Cricket Union

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Connacht Cricket Union
Connacht Cricket Union logo.jpg
Sport Cricket
AbbreviationCCU
Founded2010
Affiliation Cricket Ireland
Headquarters Galway
Location Connacht Region
PresidentRonan F. Mahon
ChairmanJeff Smith
Official website
www.connachtcricket.ie

The Connacht Cricket Union is one of the five provincial governing bodies for cricket in Ireland. Along with the Leinster Cricket Union, Munster Cricket Union, Northern Cricket Union and North West Cricket Union, it makes up Cricket Ireland (formerly known as the Irish Cricket Union). It is the main union under which cricket in the traditional Irish province of Connacht is played. It broke away from Munster Cricket Union and became a separate union in 2010, thus becoming the first Union to be formed in over 60 years. [1]

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History

Cricket in Connacht had traditionally been administered by the Munster Cricket Union. Historically, Connacht had the first cricket club in Ireland with Galway Cricket Club and they played interprovincial matches until 1891. [2] In 2005, the Munster Cricket Union organised a separate league for the Connacht based clubs for the first time. [3] Despite the breakaway, it was not recognised by Cricket Ireland until 2021 when it was granted Associate status. [2] [4] They played their first interprovincial match since then in 2024 against Munster. [5] It was formally recognised as a full member in 2025. [6]

As of 2012, it has nine teams registered to the union, with seven playing in the League and eight in the Cups. It organises the Connacht Senior League (which is in its fourteenth season) and Connacht Senior Cup. 2012 saw sides from the CCU enter the national cup competitions for the first time. All the clubs were targeting under-age cricket as the next step and planning to kick off an under-age league over the next two years. [4]

References

  1. ↑ Connacht Cricket Union formed Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine CricketEurope. Retrieved 1 July 2012
  2. 1 2 "Sport of cricket hopes to expand its boundaries". Connacht Tribune. 22 July 2024. Retrieved 15 April 2025.
  3. ↑ Siggins, Gerard (2005). Green Days: Cricket in Ireland 1792-2005. Nonsuch Publishing Ltd. p. 127. ISBN   9781845885120.
  4. 1 2 "Provincial Unions". Cricket Ireland. Retrieved 15 April 2025.
  5. ↑ GBFM, Sport (20 July 2024). "Connacht Cricket plays first Interprovincial since 1891". Galway Bay FM. Retrieved 15 April 2025.
  6. ↑ "Irish cricket set for action packed Summer with international and domestic fixtures". Athlon Sports. 12 March 2025. Retrieved 15 April 2025.
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