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During the 2019 ICC World Cup he scored the highest number of sixes in an ODI innings, with 17 sixes against Afghanistan. In March 2021, Morgan became the first male cricketer for England to play in 100 T20Is (57 as captain), in the third match against India. [4] On 13 February 2023, he announced his retirement from all forms of the game. [5] [6]
Owing to Ireland's non-membership, and later associate membership of the International Cricket Council, many of the top Irish cricketers sought first-class experience in English county cricket, including some, such as Sir Tim O'Brien and Eoin Morgan playing Test cricket for England. The annual Ireland v Scotland fixture came to an end in 2000 ...
In recent years, the England team has been perceived to benefit hugely from players born in South Africa. [1] [2] Since Andrew Strauss made his ODI debut in 2003, thirteen other South African-born players have played international cricket for England.
After the 1902 tour of England, where four matches yielded one win, two draws and one loss, Ireland did not play first-class cricket again for five years. [21] Although the team had lost to the South Africans in 1894 – Ireland's first match against a Test-playing nation – Ireland defeated South Africa in 1904; it was the team's first victory against a Test side. [22]
Sydney Barnes (129) became the best paid cricketer by spurning county cricket to play in the Lancashire leagues. However, the sheer volume of greats, that include Jack Hobbs (157), Tom Hayward (97), Gilbert Jessop (122) and Wilfred Rhodes (121), means that the age retains a fond place in the memory of England's cricket fans.
On 10 July 2020, McBrine was named in Ireland's 21-man squad to travel to England to start training behind closed doors for the ODI series against the England cricket team. [19] [20] On 21 January 2021, in the opening match against Afghanistan, McBrine took his 50th wicket and his first five-wicket haul in ODI cricket. [21]
In April 2019, he was one of five cricketers to be awarded with an Emerging Player Contract by Cricket Ireland, ahead of the 2019 domestic season. [30] In July 2019, Little was selected to play for the Dublin Chiefs in the inaugural edition of the Euro T20 Slam cricket tournament. [31] [32] However, the following month the tournament was ...
Edmund Christopher Joyce (born 22 September 1978) is an Irish cricket coach and former cricketer who played for both the Ireland and England national cricket teams. After beginning his career with Middlesex, he moved to Sussex in 2009, before returning to Ireland to play for Leinster Lightning in the fledgling first-class competition, the Irish Inter-Provincial Championship.