The 1996 British Isles Championship is a cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 tournament that took place in 1996 in Wales. It was a continuation of the initiative to help in the development of cricket in British Isles. The tournament was won by Ireland while England NCA came second. It was the fourth of 9 such tournaments held which was later replaced with European Cricket Championship

European Cricket Championship

The European Cricket Championship is a group of various tournaments in which national cricket sides throughout Europe compete. The tournament is designed to encourage and develop the best players in countries where cricket is not a major sport and Europe's only Test cricket playing country,...

. Ireland won the tournament for the first time and it was their first title in multi-nation cricket tournament.

Group stage

Team	P	W	L	T	NR	Points
	3	2	1	0	0	4
NCA	3	2	1	0	0	4
	3	1	2	0	0	2
	3	1	2	0	0	2

Fixtures

defeat by 5 wickets NCA defeat by 9 wickets defeat by 7 wickets NCA defeat by 16 runs defeat NCA by 7 wickets defeat by 4 Wickets

Result

won the tournament for the first time. They won on points and not Run Rate. National Cricket Academy came second in the tournament for a third time in a row