Civil Service North of Ireland Cricket Club (CSNICC, formally Civil Service & North of Ireland Cricket Club and often referred to as Civil Service North or C.S.N.I.) is a
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
club in
Belfast,
Northern Ireland, playing in the Premier League of the
NCU Senior League.
The club was formed in 2004 as a merger of Civil Service Cricket Club and
North of Ireland Cricket Club
The North of Ireland Cricket Club (often referred to simply as North or by the abbreviation N.I.C.C. was a cricket club in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
At the end of the 2001 season, the club, along with its sister rugby club, merged with Collegi ...
, the latter of which had originally folded in 2001 to merge with
North of Ireland Football Club,
Collegians R.F.C.,
Collegians Hockey Club and the Belfast Bowling Club as
Belfast Harlequins. The former North cricketers, however, were dissatisfied with the Harlequins pitch at Deramore and an inability to attract new players, and decided to merge with Civil Service (first having briefly to reform the North of Ireland Club), playing its first season in 2005.
Honours
*
NCU Challenge Cup: 3
**2008, 2014, 2016
*
Ulster Cup: 1
**2009
*
NCU Junior Cup: 1
**2022
References
External links
Civil Service North of Ireland Cricket Club
Sports clubs in Belfast
Cricket clubs in Northern Ireland
NCU Senior League members
2004 establishments in Northern Ireland
Cricket clubs in County Down
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