HERBERT VIVIAN HORDEN, the first Australian googly bowler, the greatest triumph of whose short Test career took place 100 years ago this month was the first in a line of great performers stretching to Shane Warne... [More]

Yet he was a magnificent all round cricketer, arguably the best never to play in a Test Match for his native Australia - or indeed any other country - and later had a huge influence on the development of Indian cricket in India... [More]

Albert Ernest Edward Volger has not been over kindly treated by historians. Apart from David Frith, writers of books about great bowlers, have tended to ignore him. Wisden at least has done him justice. In 2007, seeking to back date its new seasonal feature "The Outstanding Cricketer in the World" it established a panel of experts to make the award for years gone by. Volger was the unanimous choice for 1907... [More]

Eoin Morgan's brilliant century against Pakistan in July prompted the cricket media to refer to FL Fane as "the only other Irishman to score a Test hundred for England." It would probably be more exact to describe FREDERICK LUTHER FANE as having been Irish born... [More]

After the highs of 1989, there followed a somewhat fallow period for the Firsts in terms of team trophies, but between 1989 and 1994, Matt Dwyer won the O’ Grady Cup (best bowler in Leinster Senior Cricket) on four of the five years... [More]

PROGRESS TO SENIOR STATUS IN THE LCU IN THE 1970s and 1980s...Following the accession of Old Belvedere in the 1950s, the number of clubs in the Leinster Senior League remained at ten for quite a few years. The only mechanism to reach this level was through a vote at the LCU Executive... [More]

There has been cricket at the Hills for as long as the game has been played in Fingal. Though there is a mention of a game back in 1829 it is in the 1860s and ‘70s when the game began to flourish. The Hills CC was one... [More]

Larry Cooney reflects on 2007, an unforgettable year for Irish cricket... [More]

The history cricket in the United States begins in 1709 with a glorious moment of colonial pomposity. The diaries of William Byrd II, a Virginia plantation owner, provide the first evidence of the sport being played in North America. "I rose at 6 o'clock and read a chapter in Hebrew," Byrd writes. "About 10 o'clock Dr. Blair, and Major and Captain Harrison came to see us. After I had given them a glass of sack we played cricket. I ate boiled beef for my dinner. Then we played at shooting with arrows...and went to cricket again till dark.".. [More]

When Billy Tolan played for The Hills 4ths against Knockharley at Milverton on Sunday September 3rd 2000 his contribution was hardly noteworthy. In fact, opening the innings for The Hills, Billy was run out ‘without troubling the scorers.’... [More]