DUCC is celebrating its 175th anniversary this year and will be holding a gala dinner and special two-day match on the weekend of 17/18 June. The club invites all past players to join the newly launched Alumni Association, which is aimed at raising funds for the club and forming a network of alumni in order to arrange social events. If you would like to make a donation, please download the Alumni Association form.

We are delighted to announce that the 2010 LHW Cup Final will be held in College Park on July 24th.

DUCC President Prof. Jim Wilson has written a newsletter including a review of the 2009 season and a preview of the 2010 season. To read it, please click here.

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The Dublin University Cricket Club has been at the forefront of Irish cricket for almost two centuries. Cricket has been played in Trinity since the 1820s, when there was a poem written about a team from Ballinasloe playing 'the Collegians', but references to a constituted cricket club have not been found before 1835.

The club produced a magnificent hardback history in 1980 (written by Michael Milne, Nick Perry and Michael Halliday) and this work is commended to anyone interested in finding out more about the long and illustrious history of the club.

In this short summary I can just highlight some of the great players that turned out for the club and some of the achievements of DUCC.

The great jewel of our club, of course, and of Irish cricket in general, is the College Park. We are privileged to play here and in doing so walk in the footsteps of some of the all time legends of cricket.

No less than 300 test cricketers have played on our ground, including WG Grace (seven times!), Richie Benaud, Gary Sobers, Len Hutton, Colin Cowdrey, Wally Hammond, Victor Trumper and Bill O'Reilly.

Many of them played for touring sides and counties against Ireland, who used College Park as the main Dublin venue for many decades, but the Trinity club was also able to invite over and compete with English counties and universities for more than 40 years before the Great War.