Founded: 1936
Capacity: 2,000
Names of ends: Willows, Clubhouse
On Tuesday 18th February 1936 at meeting was held in Eglinton Orange Hall which was presided over by Rev W.E Boggs.
The meeting was called to purpose the attempt to re – organise cricket in the Eglinton District, the current ground was procured and leased for the purpose of senior and junior cricket. Killaloo Cricket Club senior team found it impracticable to carry on that year and quite a few of the players where willing to play for the new club. Also it was pointed out that it was necessary to call the team Killaloo CC explaining that it only by doing this that there was any chance admittance to senior Division of the North West of 1 Cricket union. It was then put to a vote and the name of both Senior and junior teams would be called Killaloo for the time being. At this meeting of the new cricket club would have H Montgomery as Club Secretary and D.H McCombe be Club treasurer. The first committee of the new Killaloo Cricket Club consisted of:
Rev W.E Boggs – Chairman
Dr A. H Montgomery – Secretary
Jas McKeegan
Jas Torrens
T McCarrow
J.B Archibald
J.J Evans
At another meeting on 30th June 1936 it was declared that the new name of the Cricket Club would be Eglinton Cricket Club.
In 1956 Eglinton won the treble which in them days consisted of the League, Faughan Valley and North West Cup, In this treble winning team their was a number of local players with the likes of Lawrence King, Jimmy Moore and Tommy Allen. Eglinton have won the North West Cup on numerous occasions most recently 2006, also the second team have also recently had success under former captain Oscar Mailey defeated Donemana in the NW Intermediate A Cup in 2005and the thirds eleven won the Intermediate B Cup under Warren McIntyre by 10 wickets against North Fermanagh in 2006.
Later on in the future years Tommy Allen became more involved with the running of the cricket club as serving as the club secretary for 44 years, which is tremendous as this is a purely voluntary job and important job within every club.
The next stage in the evolution of Eglinton Cricket Club was being the first North West Cricket Club to have and open our own Clubhouse. This was built on the current ground on land that was owned by Dr Montgomery, when the club relocated.
Being the first club to bring a overseas professional to the local game came about by chance as the first pro was Tony Opapha from Sri Lanka as he originally came to Eglinton with his countries tour squad to play against Ireland at Eglinton in 1979 and stayed at Eglinton for the remainder of the season and did not return back to Sri Lanka with the rest of the squad. Other Professionals that have been are a Surinder Amarnath 1980 - 1981, Raymond Moan 1982, Hendy Wallace 1983 – 1997, Ridley Jacobs 1998 after leaving Eglinton went on the play for the West Indies the next season, Health Davis 1999, Vanka Patrap 2000 – 2004, Keith Hibbert 2005, Niroshan Bandaratilake 2006 was a member of the North West Senior Cup winning team versus Strabane in 2006, Arjun Yadav 2007, Pravajan Mulluck 2008 and for the forthcoming season 23 year old West Indian Simon Jackson.
Over the years Eglinton have had numerous Ireland Internationals they are Scott Huey, Wesley Ferris, Shaun Bradley, Nigel Thompson, Stephen Smyth, Alan Jeffery, Jeremy Bray of whom played in the Ireland team that was successful in the West Indies at the World Cup where he scored a century against Zimbabwe in 2007, Craig Averill and Stuart Thompson represented Under 17.