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Pembroke Cricket Club

History
Pembroke Cricket Club was founded in 1868 and is located at Sydney Parade, Park Avenue, just outside the old village of Sandymount in the prosperous Dublin suburb of Ballsbridge. The grounds were part of the lands of the Pembroke Estate from which the Club took its name. In 1983 the Club bought out the ground from the Estate and now is the joint owner in conjunction with Monkstown Rugby Club.

The Club fields six men's teams in league and cup competitions (the seventh XI made its cup debut in 2002 and leagues one and only season so far in 2004). There are also three ladies teams and schoolboy league teams at Under Eleven, Thirteen, Fifteen, Seventeen and Nineteen age groups. The First XI have a proud record winning the Leinster Senior Cup in its Inaugural Year, 1935 and on twelve occasions since. It has regularly provided players to the Irish Team of whom S.F. Bergin, with fifty-three caps between 1949 and 1965 is the most famous, and the 1999 captain, Peter Davy and his twin brother John, the most recent. In 1999 Peter Davy scored 132 for Ireland against the MCC at Lords.

The club is an affiliat of the Leinster Cricket Union

In 2004 the club was awarded a grant by the Department of Sports, Arts and Tourism