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Irish Senior Cup (cricket)


The RSA Bob Kerr Irish Senior Cup is the most important knock-out cricket competition in Ireland, organised by Cricket Ireland and comprising the top teams from each of Ireland's four provincial unions (Leinster, Munster, NCU and North West. It was sponsored initially by Schweppes and then Royal Liver, and the current sponsor is RSA. It was renamed in honour of Bob Kerr, who died at the 2007 Cricket World Cup.

Matches are of 50-overs duration, but may be reduced to ten overs where delays or interruptions necessitate.

Each team must contain not less than nine players fully eligible to play for Ireland in all competitions.

North County are the most successful team in the competition with 5 wins, their last coming in 2008

Merrion are the current holders after beating Waringstown by 56 runs in the 2016 final


Clontarf 254-4 (49 overs, A Botha 42, A Poynter 102no, E Delany 42no, S Morrissey 2-58)
Clontarf won by 6 wickets.


Clontarf 230 (41 overs, B Coghlan 40, A Poynter 41, E Delany 41, A D'Arcy 51, M Sorensen 3-50, N Shoukat 3-40)
The Hills won by 9 runs.


Merrion 169 (D Langford-Smith 70, M Lewis 52no, J de Villiers 4-24, G Kidd 2-44, K McCallan 3-30)
Waringstown won by 107 runs.


Waringstown 196 (L Nelson 48, W von Behr 3-38)
Merrion won by 51 runs.


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