Dublin University Cricket Club is a
cricket
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team in
Ireland. There is evidence of cricket being played at the University before 1820 but the first record of a club dates from 1835. They currently play in the
Leinster Senior League, and in the past had
first-class status, and played against several sides that were touring England, including the Australians (twice), South Africans (three times) and West Indians (as late as 1923).
History
Their first first-class matches came in 1895 when they played home and away matches against
Cambridge University
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, also playing at home against the
MCC and away against
Leicestershire. They would not play first-class cricket again until 1922 when they played
Essex
Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and Gr ...
and four times against
Northamptonshire between 1924 and 1926. The two games in 1926 are their final first-class games to date. The team for two of those games against Northamptonshire featured the Irish writer
Samuel Beckett.
The club has produced more than 150 players for
Ireland, the most prominent probably being
Ed Joyce
Edmund "Ed" Christopher Joyce (born 22 September 1978) is a former Irish cricketer who played for both the Ireland and England national cricket teams. After beginning his career with Middlesex, he moved to Sussex in 2009, before returning to I ...
, who played fifty times for Ireland before going on to represent
England. Four former DUCC men played
Test cricket --
Leland Hone (
England),
Clement Johnson (
South Africa),
Ed Joyce
Edmund "Ed" Christopher Joyce (born 22 September 1978) is a former Irish cricketer who played for both the Ireland and England national cricket teams. After beginning his career with Middlesex, he moved to Sussex in 2009, before returning to I ...
and
George Dockrell
George Henry Dockrell (born 22 July 1992) is an Irish cricketer. Dockrell is right-handed batsman and slow left-arm orthodox bowler who plays international cricket for Ireland after learning his cricket at Leinster Cricket Club, Dublin. He wa ...
(
Ireland).
Honours
*
Leinster Senior League: 5
**1927, 1947, 1948, 1966, 1970
*
Leinster Senior Cup: 5
**1942, 1952, 1961, 1962, 1963
External links
Official siteat CricketArchive
Cricket clubs in County Dublin
Leinster Senior League (cricket) teams
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Sports clubs in Dublin (city)
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