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Dublin University Cricket Club is acricket team inIreland. There is evidence of cricket being played at the university before 1820 but the first record of a club dates from 1835. They currently play in theLeinster Senior League, and in the past hadfirst-class status, and played against several sides that were touring England, including the Australians (twice), South Africans (three times) and West Indians (as late as 1923).
Their first first-class matches came in 1895 when they played home and away matches againstCambridge University, also playing at home against theMCC and away againstLeicestershire. They would not play first-class cricket again until 1922 when they playedEssex and four times againstNorthamptonshire between 1924 and 1926. The two games in 1926 are their final first-class games to date. The team for two of those games against Northamptonshire featured the Irish writerSamuel Beckett.
The club has produced more than 150 players forIreland, the most prominent probably beingEd Joyce, who played fifty times for Ireland before going on to representEngland. Four former DUCC men playedTest cricket --Leland Hone (England),Clement Johnson (South Africa),Ed Joyce andGeorge Dockrell (Ireland).
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