North Leinster: Guinness Cup Records

In the second of two articles to acknowledge the re-constitution of the senior inter-provincial series, we look back at the Guinness Cup [as it was known for most of its existence] that was competed for over the period 1966 – 1995 by six teams – North and South Leinster, Ulster Town and Country, the North West and Munster. In this article we focus on North Leinster [NL]

NL won the competition five times in 1968, 1972, 1975, 1982, 1985 [shared with NW], the same number of wins as South Leinster. It was also runners up in 1967, 1969, 1974 and 1981. The breakdown is as follows:

The highest individual score for NL was by Alf Masood [196*] in 1983. Twelve players in all got centuries:

Alec O’Riordan                1966, 1977

David Pigot [s]               1967, 1968, 1972

Ray Daly                        1967

Robin Waters                  1968

J B Bunworth                  1973

G P O’Brien                    1975

Enda McDermott             1981, 1982

Alf Masood                    1982*2, 1983, 1987, 1994

Deryck Vincent                 1987, 1988, 1991

Michael Rea                   1990, 1991

Brian Gilmore                 1992, 1995

L Germishuys                 1995

There were three  bowling performances of seven wickets or more:

L P Hughes                    7/25       Queens Univ            1968

P O’Reilly                     7/87         Sion Mills                1982

M Halliday                     7/63        Mardyke                 1987

The highest aggregate runs for North Leinster is Derek Vincent with 1361

The highest number of wickets taken was Michael Halliday with 191

Gerry Murphy took the most victims behind the stumps – 50

The full individual records for the 104 who played most of their cricket for NL are set out below.