Halverstown Cup final for schools on Wednesday

Cricket Leinster's Anne O'Meara coaching Scoil Bhride and Brannoxtown CNS pupils in 2022.

Cricket teams from Two Mile House NS and Scoil Mhuire in Ballymore Eustace will meet in the final of the first ever Halverstown Cup for schools, next Wednesday at the Halverstown Cricket Club in Brannockstown, writes Brian Byrne. The match will begin at 10am.

This follows several weeks of cricket coaching in six primary schools in the area, and two rounds of group games to select the finalists. The other schools were Scoil Bhride Kilcullen, Brannoxtown CNS, Newbridge Educate Together, and St Joseph's Halverstown.

It's the third year that Halverstown CC has been coaching in local schools, beginning in 2022 with just two. More than 300 school pupils were taught the basics of cricket in the expanded initiative this year.

The coaching programme, led by Halverstown CC's Stuart Conroy, is supported by the Kildare Sports Partnership, Cricket Leinster, and Halverstown Cricket Club which both provides their ground for the event and donated the trophy. It is hoped that this will be a competition that will grow year by year.

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