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sporting achievements in Northern Ireland. Dating back to 1881, when the club was founded, the first games were played at its original base at Kinnegar, but that was a short-lived relationship. Four years later, a bad storm blew the pavilion away so the club was forced to find a new home on the nearby Belfast Road, where it stayed until 1996.
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This move signalled the start of a few more relocations for Holywood Cricket Club before it found its forever home, so to speak, at Seapark in Holywood. That complicated journey was made even
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more difficult in 1997 when the club experienced difficulties as a result of St Paul’s Gaelic Athletic Club setting up on an adjacent pitch, which was being used by the cricket club as its outfield. For the 1997 season, the club moved to Sullivan Upper School thanks to the generosity of the school and its then headmaster John Young. This arrangement lasted eight seasons until the club moved to their current home at the Seapark Oval, to give the site its proper title. Catering for both male and female cricket, Holywood Cricket Club also incorporates its own cricket academy for all those budding young batsmen and batswomen out there. The male teams are known as The Black Knights, the junior and youth teams as the Green Dragons, and the women's teams as the Aces and Bandits.
The club has produced many great players over its history and some of those who have excelled are Bill Pollock, Brian Shannon, Ernie Shannon, Con McCall, Stewart McCormick, and Kevin Hinds. International wicketkeepers that learned the game at Holywood are Paul Moore and Gary Wilson. On the administration side, the club has produced NCU presidents such as RM Erskine and Dawson Moreland. Cecil Cave was president of what is now Cricket Ireland in 1976. The Graham Cup, which is the Premier U15 competition on the NCU, is also linked to Holywood Cricket Club. The cup was donated by Mr H Graham, and his son Harry was a member of the Holywood team that won the trophy in its first year. More recently, in 2018, the club created
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