Features

The public statement by NCU Director of Development and current Vice-Chairman Andy Clement in support of cricket officials is welcome and commendable as a challenging season draws to a close.

Cricket may not be in crisis, but many facets of the local game have reached a crossroads and perhaps it is much more akin to Spaghetti Junction with so many unanswered questions!

Weather-wise we did not enjoy the best of summers, but at the end of the day the best two teams in the Premier Division finished first and second and the next best two finished third and fourth.

Ards Cricket Club Chairman Les Jones was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List...

That was the week that was…or at least the weekend that was!

Boyd Rankin has decided to retire from Cricket Ireland and concentrate on his county career with an outside chance of making the England test squad.

The speculation that big Boyd Rankin has been asked to give up international cricket as a condition to a new Warwickshire contract has created a backlash from ardent Cricket Ireland supporters who see it as unfair.

Not for the first time talented Instonians batsman James Shannon took a shine to the Comber pitch over the weekend...

In a cup final that many neutrals might feel too close to call, Instonians will start favourites even although North Down are playing on home turf.

Much has been said and written about the NCU Emergency Committee’s decision to postpone the Senior Cup semi-final between Instonians and Muckamore...

The proud traditions of both the NCU Senior and Junior Cups were sullied on Sunday when two bowl outs in each competition reduced the quarterfinals to a farce.

After seeing another appeal this weekend we need to steal the West Indies cricket theme song and help our struggling umpires.   

Ulster Cricketer Editor Clarence Hiles finds out more about Dundrum's explosive young Indian professional Raviraj Patil.

Fifty years may seem a lifetime when you are in your Twenties, but when you reach your Sixties and over you tend to look back and wonder how it passed so quickly.

The annual culling of northern teams in the Irish Senior Cup last Saturday took a familiar pattern as half the NCU teams fell at the first hurdle and the North-West representation was reduced to three.