News – Merrion Cricket Club

26 Oct

An analysis of the 2011 youth players for Merrion.

October 26, 2026
By Eddie Lewis
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Where are they now? An analysis of the 2011 youth players for Merrion In 2011, the first year of modern Cricket Leinster records, Merrion had 160 boys in its youth section. Of these 23 played in adult Open Competitions in that year. This represented 18% of...

10 Oct

homepage, Open, Records, Women

End of Season : Individual Performances

October 10, 2026
By Eddie Lewis
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Open Competitions : Outstanding Individual Performances Eight players scored centuries in Open Competitions in Merrion in 2026. There were centuries in all, with Swapnil Modgill, Raj Undre and Danial Forkin all reaching the 100 mark twice. The highest score of the year was by Stephen...

09 Oct

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End of Season : Youth Section

October 9, 2026
By Eddie Lewis
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The youth section had another good season. Overall numbers were healthy and teams performed well. The high performance programme went into its second year and is already bearing fruit with young players gaining representative honours and moving up the club’s adult teams. The core details...

07 Oct

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End of Season : Womens Competitions

October 7, 2026
By Eddie Lewis
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04 Oct

homepage, News, Open

End of Season : Open Competitions

October 4, 2026
By Eddie Lewis
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Merrion’s performance on the cricket pitch over the past few years is most often characterised as seasons of mixed fortune. Encouraging individual performances, a few trophies won and several near misses. The same could be said of the season past. But this would be a...

21 Sep

Open, Records

End of Year Records : Irish Senior Cup

September 21, 2026
By Eddie Lewis
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As we come to the end of another season it is time to update the club records. The first of these we look at is the Irish Senior Cup. Even though we only managed to get through one round of the competition in 2026, this has...

18 Sep

History, homepage, Open, Records

The End of an Era : John Anderson [2008 – 2026]

October 10, 2026
By Eddie Lewis
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The 12th of September marked the end of an era for Merrion, it was John Anderson’s last game for the 1st XI. In the period since he first arrived in 2008 he has been ever present at or close to the top of the batting...

31 Aug

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Merrion Women 1st XI secure Premier League title.

September 2, 2026
By Eddie Lewis

Congratulations to Niamh MacNulty and her team for retaining the Women’s Premier League title. In the end it took victory over Phoenix on Sunday by the narrowest of margins, 2 runs under D/L to get over the line . This means that for a second...

24 Aug

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The Final Countdown

August 24, 2026
By Eddie Lewis
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With just a few weeks left before the end of th4e season, both the Open and Womens 1st XIs are competing for titles in their respective Premier Leagues. While that might have been expected of the Women’s team, the Open 1st XI, under Sean Stanton,...

20 Aug

History, Open, Records

Individual Contributions to Team Success

August 20, 2026
By Eddie Lewis
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FROM THE ARCHIVES Photo : Paddy Waldron wins the Marchant Cup in 1943 One of the unique selling points of cricket as a sport is the way it combines individual achievement and team performance. Runs, wickets and dismissals are recorded against the individual while at the same...