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Leinster Cricket Union

Provincial sports governing body

Summary

Provincial sports governing body

Field	Value
assocname	Cricket Leinster
logo	Cricket Leinster logo.svg
logosize	170px
sport	Cricket
founded	1890
aff	Cricket Ireland
location	Leinster Region
president	Meena Baskarasubramaniam
chiefexec	Philip Smith
coach	Andre Botha
key staff	Lorcan Tucker (Leinster Lightning captain)
abbrev	CL	headquarters=Ballsbridge	url=www.cricketleinster.ie

The Leinster Cricket Union, also known as Cricket Leinster, is one of five provincial governing bodies for cricket in Ireland.

Along with the Northern, Munster, Connacht and North West unions, it makes up the Irish Cricket Union (now known as Cricket Ireland), the overall governing body of Irish cricket.

Jurisdiction

The Leinster jurisdiction covers counties in the traditional Irish province of Leinster in the Republic of Ireland. In 2005, there were 40 clubs fielding 97 teams affiliated to the union. There are currently 48 clubs affiliated to the Union, this includes Cork County, Cork Harlequins and County Cavan who play in Leinster competitions despite not geographically being in the province.

History

The Union was founded in 1890 as the "Leinster Branch of the Irish Cricket Union". Initially, there was strong resistance to competitive cricket and the Leinster Senior League and Leinster Senior Cup did not start until 1919, although junior clubs competed for the Intermediate Cup from 1895 and a schools league began in 1906.

Interprovincial team

In 2013, Cricket Ireland formed the Interprovincial Championship, Cup and Trophy competitions featuring teams from Leinster, the NCU and the North West. The Leinster team is known as Leinster Lightning. Lightning are the most successful team in the competitions' history, winning 21 of a possible 29 trophies.

Governance

In 2017, Phillip Smith was elected General Manager as part of the revamped Executive and has retained the role ever since. Simon Dyke was appointed Cricket Operations & Administration Manager in 2020, replacing Kevin Gallagher.

The Cricket Leinster Board oversees a number of committees which are responsible for different governance areas.

The current members of the Board are:

John Heavey (Chairperson of the Board)
Alan Lewis
Meena Baskarasubramanian (independent director)
Peter Lacy (independent director)
Barry Tucker (Chair of Finance)
Peter Twamley
Ronan O'Sullivan (Chair of Cricket)
Stella Downes
Siobhan McBennett (President)
Philip Smith (General Manager) attends ex-officio

References

Gerard Siggins (2005), ''Green Days: Cricket in Ireland 1792-2005''. Nonsuch Publishing Ltd., pp.126-127
"Club Finder".
Gerard Siggins (2005), ''Green Days: Cricket in Ireland 1792-2005''. Nonsuch Publishing Ltd., p.40
Gerard Siggins (2005), ''Green Days: Cricket in Ireland 1792-2005''. Nonsuch Publishing Ltd., p.42
"Competition Winners".
"Philip Smith takes GM role".
"CL Cricket Ops Manager - Appointment".
"Cricket Leinster".

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