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Leinster Lightning Leinster Lightning is one of three provincial cricket teams in Ireland. Along with the North West Warriors and Northern Knights it makes up the Inter-Provincial Championship, Interprovincial One-Day Trophy and Interprovincial Twenty20 Cup. T ...
was established in 2013, and accorded first-class status in 2017. Since then, they have played first-class,
List A List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the numbe ...
and
Twenty20 Twenty20 (T20) is a shortened game format of cricket. At the professional level, it was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the inter-county competition. In a Twenty20 game, the two teams have a single innin ...
cricket at a number of different home grounds. Their first home first-class match was against
North West Warriors North West Warriors is one of four provincial cricket teams in Ireland. Along with the Leinster Lightning, Northern Knights and Munster Reds, it makes up the Inter-Provincial Championship, Inter-Provincial Cup & Inter-Provincial Trophy. The tea ...
in 2017 at
Oak Hill Cricket Club Ground Oak Hill Cricket Club Ground is a cricket ground in Kilbride, County Wicklow, Ireland. History The ground was constructed in 2008 by businessman Peter Savill on his stud farm at Kilbride. The ground was officially opened on 22 June 2008, with ...
in
County Wicklow County Wicklow ( ; ga, Contae Chill Mhantáin ) is a county in Ireland. The last of the traditional 32 counties, having been formed as late as 1606, it is part of the Eastern and Midland Region and the province of Leinster. It is bordered by t ...
. From 2019, Leinster will play their home matches at
College Park, Dublin College Park is a cricket ground in the grounds of Trinity College Dublin in Ireland and is the home ground of Dublin University Cricket Club. A cricket match at Trinity College was mentioned in a poem 1820s between a team from Ballinasloe play ...
. As of 4 September 2018, Leinster Lightning have played four first-class matches, four List A matches, and seven Twenty20 matches at seven different home grounds. The seven grounds that Leinster Lightning have used for home matches are listed below, with statistics complete through the end of the 2018 season.


List of grounds


See also

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List of cricket grounds in Ireland This is a list of cricket grounds in Ireland, inclusive of all-Ireland. Cricket was introduced to Ireland by the English in the towns of Kilkenny and Ballinasloe in the early 19th century. Retrieved on 3 November 2008. The game increased ...


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{{reflist, 2 Leinster Lightning Cricket grounds in Ireland