Leinster Cricket Club (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Leinster Cricket Club was founded in Rathgar in 1852. The Dublin sports club now hosts tennis, squash, table tennis, bowls and cricket. The Leinster Sports Club complex is situated in the Observatory Lane ground, in the heart of Rathmines. The cricket section currently has seven men's teams, three women's sides and fifteen youth sides. In 1860, Leinster hosted the first visit to Ireland by the All-England XI on the club's field in Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston-Lord Palmerston's]] demesne. The club also brought W. G. Grace to Ireland for the first time in 1873. In 1875 Ireland's rugby union team played its first home game at the cricket ground as Lansdowne Road was deemed unsuitable.