Waringstown Cricket Club is a cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 club in Waringstown

Waringstown

Waringstown is a village in County Down, Northern Ireland, two miles south-east of Lurgan. It lies within the parish of Donaghcloney, and in the barony of Iveagh Lower, Lower Half. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 2,523 people. It was built during the Plantation of Ulster and is typical of...

, County Down

County Down

-Cities:*Belfast *Newry -Large towns:*Dundonald*Newtownards*Bangor-Medium towns:...

, Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

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, playing in the NCU Premier League

NCU Senior League

The Northern Cricket Union Senior League is the provincial cricket league within the NCU jurisdiction in Ireland, which covers counties Antrim, Armagh, Down and south Tyrone of Northern Ireland. The league was formed in 1897 and is currently divided into four sections, namely the Premier League,...

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The club was formed in 1851 by Captain Thomas Waring and the Henning brothers, John and George, presumably from the linen factory of John Henning & Co. in the Waringstown village. The Lawn is believed to be the second oldest cricket ground in Ulster

Ulster

Ulster is one of the four provinces of Ireland, located in the north of the island. In ancient Ireland, it was one of the fifths ruled by a "king of over-kings" . Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, the ancient kingdoms were shired into a number of counties for administrative and judicial...

. Waringstown was a founder member of the NCU Senior League

NCU Senior League

The Northern Cricket Union Senior League is the provincial cricket league within the NCU jurisdiction in Ireland, which covers counties Antrim, Armagh, Down and south Tyrone of Northern Ireland. The league was formed in 1897 and is currently divided into four sections, namely the Premier League,...

 in 1897.

Honours

• Irish Senior Cup
  Irish Senior Cup (cricket)
  The 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 The Bob Kerr Irish Senior Cup is the most important knock-out cricket competition in Ireland,...
  
  : 3
  • 1983, 1992, 2011
• NCU Senior League
  NCU Senior League
  The Northern Cricket Union Senior League is the provincial cricket league within the NCU jurisdiction in Ireland, which covers counties Antrim, Armagh, Down and south Tyrone of Northern Ireland. The league was formed in 1897 and is currently divided into four sections, namely the Premier League,...
  
  : 26 (4 shared)
  • 1911, 1924, 1925, 1944, 1949, 1953, 1967, 1970 (shared), 1971 (shared), 1972, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1989 (shared), 1991, 1992, 2000, 2005 (shared), 2006
• NCU Challenge Cup
  NCU Challenge Cup
  The NCU Challenge Cup, also called the NCU Senior Challenge Cup and the NCU Senior Cup, is the most important provincial cricket knock-out cup of the NCU jurisdiction in Ireland...
  
  : 22
  • 1914, 1921, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1992, 1993, 1995, 2006, 2011
• NCU Junior Cup
  NCU Junior Cup
  The NCU Junior Cup is a provincial cricket knock-out cup of the NCU jurisdiction in Ireland. The competition began in 1891 and is open to teams playing in the Sections 2 and 3 of the NCU Senior League and Section 1 of the NCU Junior League...
  
  : †2
  • †1997, †2002

† Won by 2nd XI