Lisburn Cricket Club

Cricket team

Lisburn
Team information
Founded	1836
Home ground	Wallace Park

Lisburn Cricket Club is a cricket club in Lisburn, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, playing in the Premier League of the NCU Senior League.

Established in 1836, the club is the oldest in Northern Ireland.^[1] It is also one of the most successful, having won the league title eleven times and the Senior Cup on eleven occasions. The club's grounds are at Wallace Park in Lisburn.

Notable former players

Ireland men's internationals

Neil Doak
Jimmy Kirkwood
Herbie Martin
Thomas Martin

Dermott Monteith
Nelson Russell
Jack Simpson

India men's internationals

Faiz Fazal

Ireland rugby union internationals

Neil Doak
Ian Whitten

Ireland U21 rugby union international

Mike McComish

Ireland field hockey internationals

Jonathan Bell
Tim Cockram
Jimmy Kirkwood
Nelson Russell

Great Britain field hockey international

Jimmy Kirkwood

Recipients of the Military Cross

Nelson Russell

Source:^[2]

Honours

NCU Senior League: 14 (2 shared)
- 1933, 1937, 1941, 1942, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1963 (shared), 1964, 1980, 1993, 1996 (shared), 2022
NCU Challenge Cup: 11 (2 shared)
- 1929, 1942, 1946, 1955, 1957, 1958 (shared), 1959, 1961, 1962, 1985, 1994 (shared)
Ulster Cup: 1
- 2000
NCU Junior Cup: †8
- †1903, †1933, †1947, †1958, †1959, †1964, †1992, †2016

† Won by 2nd XI

External links

Official website

References

^ "Lisburn launch their 175th anniversary celebrations". www.cricketeurope.net. Archived from the original on 8 February 2011. Retrieved 7 July 2011.
^ "It would have been so different for Lisburn had cricket stars not been taken by other sports". www.newsletter.co.uk. 3 April 2004. Retrieved 21 May 2017.