Stella Downes assumes Cricket Eire Presidency

Incoming Cricket Eire President Stella Downes gave credit score to her past due father for instilling a love of cricket as she accredited the honorary function on the Cricket Eire Annual Common Assembly.

Stella has been central to the working of Clontarf Cricket Membership – and cricket in Eire usually – for over 25 years. In addition to lengthy classes in Clontarf CC as Scorer, Membership Secretary, Participant, Kid Coverage Officer and basic membership administrator, Stella has additionally been the Eire Males’s Nationwide Workforce Scorer for many of that duration.

As a part of that serve as, Stella has scored over 200 world and inter-provincial fits, plus innumerable membership fits. In recent times, Stella has led the best way in Scorer training, and he or she may be an achieved sports activities administrator, having sat on more than one pageant and control committees.

She used to be the primary feminine president of Cricket Leinster (in 2020-21) and turns into the second one feminine President of Cricket Eire.

Stella stated: “I am extraordinarily honoured to had been requested to take at the function of President of Cricket Eire. I’ve large admiration and appreciate for many who have long gone sooner than me, and I am hoping to reside as much as the prime requirements they’ve set. My father gave me my love of cricket and I do know that he could be so proud to look me elected to this function.

“I used to be delighted to find a native cricket membership after I moved to the Northside to start out my instructing profession and Clontarf Cricket Membership was my 2nd house. I beloved taking part in however took it up too past due to ever be an international beater! Opening the batting on our second XI used to be the dizzy heights of my prowess as a cricketer. Captaining groups intended in search of umpires, so I volunteered to attain for the boys’s groups in one of those ability change.

“I’ve now been scoring for them for over thirty years. Scoring for North Leinster and Eire adopted, regardless that my first world recreation used to be in reality scoring for Wales in Fortress Road.

“I sat at the Clontarf girls’s committee for a few years, additionally serving as their rep at the Leinster Ladies’s Cricket Union, sooner than being Clontarf’s girls’s president for 3 years. I additionally was honorary secretary of our males’s membership at round this time. When the 2 golf equipment amalgamated, I used to be given the honor of being the primary feminine president of the membership in 2018. The presidency of Cricket Leinster adopted so as to add to my selection of blazers, and I these days take a seat at the Cricket Leinster Board.

“I am enthusiastic about cricket officiating and feature sat at the committee of IACUS for quite a lot of years because the scorers’ rep. During the last 3 years I’ve been growing on-line scoring classes to offer coaching for scorers countrywide. It’s massively rewarding and I am in point of fact taking a look ahead to assembly lots of my on-line “graduates” as I shuttle across the nation this season.

“I am excited to be President in a International Cup 12 months and sit up for supporting each our female and male groups as they pit their abilities in opposition to the most efficient on the planet. I am additionally taking a look ahead to the large quantity of adlescent and building fits deliberate for the approaching season. Maximum of all, I am taking a look ahead to travelling to golf equipment the period and breadth of the rustic, assembly up with outdated pals and making new ones.

“Cricket is an excellent recreation with an unbelievable neighborhood spirit and it is the individuals who make it particular. I find it irresistible all, from the tensest world recreation to the “hit and chuckle” of the Underneath 9s. I will’t watch for all of it to start out.” 

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