Pembroke Cricket Club

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Pembroke
Founded: 1868
Home ground: Sydney Parade

Pembroke Cricket Club was founded in 1868 and is located at Sydney Parade,[1] Park Avenue, just outside the old village of Sandymount in the prosperous Dublin suburb of Ballsbridge. The grounds were part of the lands of the Pembroke Estate from which the Club took its name. In 1983 the Club bought out the ground from the Estate and now is the joint owner in conjunction with Monkstown Rugby Club.

The Club fields six men's teams in league and cup competitions (the seventh XI made its cup debut in 2002 and leagues one and only season so far in 2004). Players have included Frank Malin, canny bowler and first man to hold the position of chairman of the Irish Cricket Union.[2] Harry Hill, Master of the High Court, kept wicket from 1947 to 1977.[3] Hill held the Leinster record with 502 dismissals (292 catches and 210 stumpings), until recently surpassed by Charlie Kavanagh, also a Pembroke Wicket keeper.[4]

There are also two ladies teams and schoolboy league teams at Under Eleven, Thirteen, Fifteen, Seventeen and Nineteen age groups. The First XI have a proud record winning the Leinster Senior Cup in its Inaugural Year, 1935 and on twelve occasions since. It has regularly provided players to the Irish Team of whom S.F. Bergin, with fifty-three caps between 1949 and 1965 is the most famous, and the 1999 captain, Peter Davy and his twin brother John, the most recent. In 1999 Peter Davy scored 132 for Ireland against the MCC at Lords.

The club is an affiliat of the Leinster Cricket Union [5]

In 2004 the club was awarded a grant by the Department of Sports, Arts and Tourism [6]

Honours

References

  1. ↑ Bowled over by cricket Irish Times, 12 Nov 2008
  2. ↑ Frank Malin Irish Times, 3 September 2003
  3. ↑ Ex-Master of the High Court and champion cricketer Irish Times 22 July 2006.
  4. ↑ Fitzgerald, James: Rathmines better for Union's Army Irish Times 11 July 2006
  5. ↑ http://www.cricketleinster.ie/clubs/pembroke
  6. ↑ http://www.arts-sport-tourism.gov.ie/grants_funding/2004_sportgrants.html

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