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Dundrum Cricket Club (DCC) 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 Dundrum,
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,
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, playing in League 1 of the
NCU Senior League The Northern Cricket Union (NCU) Senior League is the provincial cricket league within the NCU jurisdiction in Ireland, which covers counties Antrim, Armagh, Down and south Tyrone of Northern Ireland. The league was formed in 1897 and is curre ...
. DCC was founded in 1903. The first clubhouse was a gift from Lord Downshire and was previously the late Lady Downshire's studio. The current clubhouse was opened in 1995 with the store being built in 2013. The club originally played in the East Down League until this folded in the early 1960s. In 1964, the club joined the Northern Cricket Union (NCU). The First XI currently sits in the Ulster Bank Section 2 League of the NCU. There are over 50 junior members. 1903 establishments in the United Kingdom Cricket clubs in County Down NCU Senior League members Cricket clubs established in 1903 {{Ireland-cricket-team-stub