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The following have been appointed as Captains / Vice Captains for the coming season. 1st XI:  Dom Joyce , Jack Carty 2nd XI: Peter Forkin , Niranjan Shankar 3rd XI: Vidit Sukhramani , Conor Austin 4th XI: Himanshu Kamat 5th XI: Liam Casey & Mark...

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Congratulations to Maureen Joyce, whose outstanding contribution to cricket in Merrion and Leinster has been acknowledged by Cricket Leinster. Maureen was inducted into the Cricket Leinster Hall of fame at its Annual Awards Night on Friday. She is the first Merrion member to be so...

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Cricket Leinster Open Competitions now span 21 Divisions with 163 teams from 45 clubs taking part. Merrion have entered an additional team this year and there are now seven Open teams competing in leagues, cups and T20 Competitions. Merrion’s League opponents this year are: 1st XI    Premier League Balbriggan,...

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An article penned by David Penney from Greenland. Something for the Winter evenings. ------------------------- There were still only two Junior Leagues in 1920: an Intermediate league split into two sections, and a Junior league. Old Belvedere dropped out, as did Avoca School and RHMS 2nds. However, both...

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Best wishes and a happy Christmas to all our members and their families

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It is with great sadness that we learned of the recent death of John Craven. John played for Merrion between 1985 and 1991 and captained the 1stXI in 1988 and 1989. As a slow off-break bowler he took 114 senior wickets for the club. He...

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