Pembroke Cricket Club

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Founded1868
Home ground Sydney Parade

Pembroke Cricket Club was founded in 1868 and is located at Sydney Parade, [1] Park Avenue, just outside the old village of Sandymount in the prosperous Dublin suburb of Ballsbridge. The grounds were part of the lands of the Pembroke Estate from which the club took its name. In 1983, the club bought out the ground from the Estate and now is the joint owner in conjunction with Monkstown Football Club.

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The Club fields six men's teams in league and cup competitions. Players have included Frank Malin, bowler and first man to hold the position of chairman of the Irish Cricket Union. [2] Harry Hill, Master of the High Court, kept wicket from 1947 to 1977. [3] Hill held the Leinster record with 502 dismissals (292 catches and 210 stumpings), until recently surpassed by Charlie Kavanagh, also a Pembroke wicket keeper. [4]

There are also two ladies' teams and schoolboy-league teams at under-11, -13, -15, -17 -19 age groups. The First XI have a proud record winning the Leinster Senior Cup in its inaugural year, 1935 and on twelve occasions since. It has regularly provided players to the Irish team of whom S.F. Bergin, with fifty-three caps between 1949 and 1965 is the most famous.[ citation needed ]

The club is an affiliate of the Leinster Cricket Union [5]

Current squad

NameNationalityBirth dateBatting StyleBowling StyleNotes
Batsmen
Andrew Balbirnie Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 28 December 1990 (age 34)Right-handedRight arm off break
Harry Tector Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 6 December 1999 (age 25)Right-handedRight arm off-break
Jack Tector Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 2 September 1996 (age 28)Right-handedRight arm off break
Tim Tector Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 7 March 2003 (age 22)Right-handedRight arm off break
Diarmaid TuckerCricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland Right-handedRight arm off break
Blake Macdonald Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 23 February 1998 (age 27)Right-handedRight arm medium Overseas Pro
Danny HoganCricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland Right-handedRight arm off break
Zac McCabeFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia*Right-handedRight arm medium
Macdara CosgraveCricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 10 November 2005 (age 19)Right-handedRight arm off break
All-rounders
Jonathan Garth Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 19 December 2000 (age 24)Right-handedRight arm leg break
Daniel MurrayCricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 5 November 2007 (age 17)Right-handedRight arm medium
Barry McCarthy Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 13 September 1992 (age 32)Right-handedRight arm fast-medium
Gavin Hoey Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 5 November 2001 (age 23)Right-handedRight arm leg break
Wicket-keepers
Lorcan Tucker Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 10 September 1996 (age 28)Right-handed
Greg HollinsFlag of England.svg  England*30 June 1991 (age 34)Right-handed
Sam MurphyCricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 18 September 1998 (age 26)Left-handed
Bowlers
Josh Little Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 1 November 1999 (age 25)Right-handedLeft arm fast-medium
Byron McDonoughCricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 27 September 2001 (age 23)Right-handedRight arm fast-medium
Fiachra TuckerCricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 5 December 1997 (age 27)Right-handedRight arm leg break
Paul LawsonCricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland Right-handedRight arm off break
Joe PrendergastCricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland Right-handedRight arm medium
Oliver RileyCricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 7 November 2006 (age 18)Right-handedRight arm medium
Mark BerryCricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland Right-handedRight arm fast-medium
Padraic Flanagan Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 9 March 1996 (age 29)Right-handedRight-arm fast-medium
Luke MurrayCricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 5 November 2007 (age 17)Right-handedRight-arm medium

Honours

References

  1. Bowled over by cricket Irish Times, 12 Nov 2008
  2. Frank MalinIrish Times, 3 September 2003
  3. Ex-Master of the High Court and champion cricketerIrish Times 22 July 2006.
  4. Fitzgerald, James: Rathmines better for Union's Army Irish Times 11 July 2006
  5. "Cricket Leinster".