50 Faces to Celebrate North Down's Sesquicentenary

14 February 2007

This year North Down CC joins Lisburn and Waringstown as the third oldest surviving NCU club in celebration of its 150th Birthday.

50 Faces to Celebrate North Down's Sesquicentenary

Robin HaireROBIN HAIRE, Ireland international batsman in 1986 and one of the club's youngest captains

PETER SHIELDS, former Ireland international, assistant editor of the Ulster Cricketer and the most successful captain of the club in the post-war era

IAN SHIELDS, club historian, veteran batsman, retired school principal, NCU vice president, the face of North Down Cricket Club

ANDREW WHITE, Ireland all rounder who went on to play county cricket at Northamptonshire

Raymond MorelandMICHAEL REITH, Ireland opening batsman, local professional controversially recruited from Waringstown in 1980, the most sensational cricket story of its time

RAYMOND MORELAND, without doubt one of the most gregarious and vivacious personalities to have served the club and one who has endeared  himself to virtually every club that North Down has played since 1980

PAUL McCRUM, Ireland opening bowler

CHARLIE McCRUM, Ireland all rounder

RAMAN LAMBA, club professional, the most prolific batsman of his era in Irish cricket, India test player, Ireland player, and charismatic personality tragically killed in a cricket match in Bangladesh in 1998

David KennedyDAVID KENNEDY, Ireland international batsmen, prolific run scorer and winner of the NIACUS Fair Play award

RYAN HAIRE, former club captain, prolific run maker and Ireland international batsman

IAN CARSER, former club captain, Ulster Town, club chairman for the past 10 years and infamously called for ‘throwing’ in an inter-provincial match in Dublin

PETER CONNELL, New Zealand recruit in 2006 who was at the centre of a sensational registration controversy that lost the club the senior league title

TAIMUR KHAN, the best bowler in Ulster cricket for five years and the club’s popular long serving professional who qualified as a local player in 2007

John PattonJOHN PATTON, club scorer for over 30 years, one of the finest ambassadors in the history of North Down Cricket Club, a real gentleman of cricket

CLARENCE HILES, NCU chairman, member of the NI Sports Council, Joint ICU treasurer, editor of the Ulster Cricketer and author of 'A History of Senior Cricket in Ulster'

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