News – Merrion Cricket Club

31 Aug

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...

17 Aug

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Merrion increase pressure on leaders in Premier League

August 17, 2026
By Eddie Lewis
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A hard fought victory against Leinster in the Premier League on Sunday puts Merrion in a position to challenge for league honours. With Pembroke and Balbriggan both losing over the weekend there are now three teams bunched at the top of the table. The scorecard will...

15 Aug

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Senior Averages : Post Split

August 15, 2026
By Eddie Lewis
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Going into the ‘post-split’ stage of the Premier League, we were reminded in a post by Cricket Leinster of the race for individual awards. Swapnil Modgill is currently third in the batting averages, with 486 runs at an average of 48.60. Stephen Doheny with 15...

12 Aug

History

Merrion and club cricket in Leinster [1919 – 2026]

August 12, 2026
By Eddie Lewis
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Leinster cricket has never had more clubs or more teams than it has in 2026: forty-six clubs entered a hundred and eighty sides in Open Competitions. What the long record shows, though, is that those two figures have not always moved together, and the decades...

07 Aug

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The Final Count Down

August 7, 2026
By Eddie Lewis
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With just six weeks remaining in the season the opportunities and challenges facing Merrion’s league teams are coming into focus. And sadly it is more about challenges than opportunities. The latest official league tables for the club’s six teams in Open Competitions at the end of...

07 Aug

History

Junior Cup Winners 1986 by Mark Rutledge

August 8, 2026
By Eddie Lewis
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Preparing to move house, I came across an old photograph, taken 40 years ago in August 1986 at Civil Service CC at the scene of a Merrion Junior Cup final win celebrating Brendan Whyte's (RIP) 5 wicket haul against an Aer Lingus CC side. In that photo...

31 Jul

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The Split

August 1, 2026
By Eddie Lewis
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For most of its history the Leinster Cricket Union, as it was then known, controlled who counted as a Senior Club and was thus entitled to compete in the Leinster Senior League. This changed in 1993 when the league was split in two with promotion...

28 Jul

History, homepage, Records

Highest Innings Scores for Merrion

July 29, 2026
By Eddie Lewis
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Sunday’s innings score of 391/5 for the 2nd XI against the Hills 2nd XI prompted a search of the records books to see where that would rank among the highest innings totals by a Merrion team. The post has been amended to include Irish Senior...

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