Cricket Leinster, 2019
Hardcover
ISBN 978-1527238756

Cricket in Leinster has been played for almost 300 years and most of Leinster's better known clubs can trace their history back to the 19th century. But it wasn't until 14 April 1919 that 14 clubs met in the Central Hotel in Exchequer Street, Dublin and the Leiinster Cricket Union was formed.

Ger Siggin's text traces the ups and downs of cricket across the province, a sport buffeted by war, revolution and enormous social change over the past century. Five of the original 14 clubs no longer exist and there have been comings and goings ever since. The past twenty years have been characterised by Ireland's great advances on the world stage and the arrival of many of cricket's most fanatical supporters from the Indian sub-continent. They have driven a huge increase in the numbers playing cricket throughout Leinster.

Eddie Lewis' statistical section provides an invaluable reference of records from all of the senior clubs across the century, the compilation of which were the life’s work of Derek Scott.

Specially commissioned articles include contributions from Siobhán McBennett, Mary Sharp, Brian Kelleher, Deryck Vincent, Michael Halliday, Andrew Blair-White and Alan Tuffery. A central part of the book will be Eddie Lewis’s presentation of the statistical record of the senior competitions, the compilation of which were the life’s work of Derek Scott.

The book is on sale at the Leinster Cricket Union website.