FINN CONROY WINS ‘FIND A FAST BOWLER’ AWARD FOR 2025

Leinster Cricket Club’s young fast bowler Finn Conroy has joined Ireland seamers Josh Little and David Delany in winning the prestigious Cricket Leinster Youth ‘Find a Fast Bowler’ competition. 

Finn Conroy having taken 4/7 versus Merrion (August 2025)

2025 marks the 19th year of the competition, which seeks to identify young, talented quick bowlers within the Leinster province and to support their development towards representing their clubs and Leinster in their youth inter-provincial fixtures.

Finn is the second winner from the Rathmines club following in the footsteps of Mark Tonge who now opens the bowling for his club first team and has represented Dublin City in the CL Under 23 competition and Leinster at all underage levels and most recently as part of the Leinster Lightning and Leinster Bolts squads.

2018 winner, Reuben Wilson, who is preparing to lead the Ireland bowling attack at the U19 World Cup in Namibia and Zimbabwe, was delighted to pass on his congratulations to Finn:

“Congratulations Finn, welcome to the club! I remember well being welcomed by Rory Anders 7 years ago and to this day, I am very proud to have been recognised in this way. Now, as it is my turn to welcome you, I want to congratulate you on all you've achieved so far in your journey and I hope that in a few years’ time, it will be your turn to not only welcome the winner, but also lead Ireland’s bowling attack at a World Cup!"

A very happy Finn, on winning the award, added: “It is an honour to be selected as this year’s winner. I would like to thank my parents for all of their support and sacrifices to make my cricket possible, while also acknowledging everyone at the Leinster CC for their support, in particular to all my coaches and teammates, who make cricket such an inspiring part of my life”.

Name: Finn Conroy

Age: 13

Club: Leinster CC, Rathmines

School: Harolds Cross Educate Together, Dublin 6W

Height: 171cm

Favourite Cricketer:

Ireland – Barry McCarthy

World – Trent Boult

Finn Conroy with Barry McCarthy, his favourite Irish cricketer

Started playing cricket: 2022

Representative Honours:

U13s: Leinster U13 2025 (Interprovincial Series and Foyle College/Derry Festival) and Dublin City District U13 2025.

Best Bowling: 4/7 versus Merrion CC, August 2025 and 3/0 versus South Dublin District in June 2025.

Other sports played: Squash

Former ‘Find a Fast Bowler’ winners in Leinster include:

2006 - Darren Nicol (Terenure)

2007 - Padraic Flanagan (YMCA)

2008 - Andrew Sheridan (North County)

2009 – David Delany (Clontarf)

2010 – Rory Anders (Phoenix)

2011 – Josh Little (Pembroke)

2012 – Cian Nulty (Balbriggan)

2013 – Charlie Johnston (YMCA)

2014 – Mikey O’Reilly (YMCA)

2015 – Ben Brownlee (YMCA)

2016 – Daniel Thorne (Rush)

2017 – Mark Tonge (Leinster)

2018 – Reuben Wilson (Phoenix)

2019 – Eoin Birch (The Hills)

2020 – Matthew Weldon (The Hills)

2022 – Lorcan Craik (Knockharley)

2023 - Aadil Naizam (Phoenix)

2024 - Shravon Biju (Adamstown)