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The Union was founded in 1890 as the "Leinster Branch of the Irish Cricket Union". Initially, there was strong resistance to competitive cricket and the Leinster Senior League and Leinster Senior Cup did not start until 1919, although junior clubs competed for the Intermediate Cup from 1895 and a schools league began in 1906.
In 2013, Cricket Ireland formed the three-day Interprovincial Championship, Cup and Trophy featuring teams from Leinster, the NCU and the North West. The Leinster team is known as Leinster Lightning. In January 2015, Ted Williamson was announced as the new head coach, taking over at the helm from Trent Johnston.
The following list composes the cricket clubs that make up domestic cricket in Ireland.The clubs are split into different cricket unions according to their geographic location within Ireland: Leinster Cricket Union; Northern Cricket Union; Munster Cricket Union, North West Cricket Union and the newly formed Connacht Cricket Union, which was formed in November 2010.
An early forerunner of the Irish Cricket Union was formed in 1890, though its only function was to select the Irish international team. The Irish Cricket Union was officially founded in 1923, and is made up of five provincial unions, namely the Leinster Cricket Union, the Munster Cricket Union, the Northern Cricket Union, the Connacht Cricket Union and the North West Cricket Union.
The Leinster Senior League is the provincial cricket league within the Leinster jurisdiction in Ireland, which covers the province of Leinster in the Republic of Ireland.The league was formed in 1919, the nine founding members being Phoenix, Leinster, Pembroke, Dublin University, Railway Union, Civil Service, U.C.D., County Kildare and the Royal Hibernian Military School.
Leinster. Leinster Cricket Club is an Irish cricket club which was founded in Rathgar in 1852. [1] The Dublin sports club now hosts tennis, squash, table tennis, bowls and cricket. The Leinster Sports Club complex is situated in the Observatory Lane ground, in the heart of Rathmines. The cricket section currently has eight men's teams, three ...
The competition began as the Leinster Senior Cup in 1919 and was renamed in 2019. [1] Traditionally a knock-out competition, from 2019 it has been played in a group format, with the winners and runners-up of two groups qualifying for semi-finals. In 2021, it was played as a T20 competition.
College Park (pictured) will host all Leinster Lightning home matches from 2019. Leinster Lightning was established in 2013, and accorded first-class status in 2017. [1] Since then, they have played first-class, List A and Twenty20 cricket at a number of different home grounds. Their first home first-class match was against North West Warriors ...