Adrian McCoubrey
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Adrian George Agustus Matthew McCoubrey (born 3 April 1980 in Ballymena
, County Antrim
, Northern Ireland
) is an Irish cricket
er. A right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium
bowler, he has played 43 times for the Ireland cricket team since August 1999 including six first-class
matches and twelve List A matches. He has also played first-class and List A cricket
for Essex
.
, prior to an appearance in the European Championship
that year. He also played a first-class match against Scotland before the year was out.
In 2001, he travelled with the Irish side to Canada
to play in the 2001 ICC Trophy
. Later in the year, he played against Australia before playing in the Triple Crown Tournament
. This was followed by his first two List A matches, playing against Wiltshire
and the Hampshire Cricket Board in the C & G Trophy.
He played a C & G Trophy match against Nottinghamshire
in May 2002, before playing in the European Championship that year. This was followed by a C & G Trophy match against Berkshire
, shortly before he signed with Essex.
match against Yorkshire
on 5 May 2003, also playing in the same competition against Gloucestershire
in July that year. He played two County Championship
matches, against Leicestershire
and Kent
, the same month. He returned to the Ireland side in September that year for two matches against Denmark.
He was a regular member of the Essex side in the early part of the 2004 English cricket season
, playing against Cambridge UCCE
, in five County Championship matches and a National League match against Hampshire
, but he did not play for Essex again after this point, and returned to playing regularly for Ireland, playing against the West Indies and Bangladesh in 2004.
, Warwickshire
and a C & G Trophy match against Yorkshire, McCoubrey was named in the Ireland squad for the 2005 ICC Trophy
, which was hosted in Ireland. He played four matches in the tournament, and played in four matches in that year's Intercontinental Cup
, including the final against Kenya which Ireland won.
In 2006, he played three matches for Ireland in the newly restructured C & G Trophy; against Hampshire, Gloucestershire and Glamorgan
, which are his last matches for Ireland to date.
at an average of 4.42, with a top score of 11 against Berkshire in August 2002, also his top List A score. He has taken 52 wickets at an average
of 26.92, with best innings bowling figures of 4/17 against Scotland in August 2005 also his best first-class bowling performance. In first-class cricket his top score is 8 not out
for Ireland against Scotland. In List A cricket, his best bowling performance is 3/19 for Ireland against Uganda.
Ballymena
Ballymena is a large town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland and the seat of Ballymena Borough Council. Ballymena had a population of 28,717 people in the 2001 Census....
, County Antrim
County Antrim
County Antrim is one of six counties that form Northern Ireland, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland. Adjoined to the north-east shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of 2,844 km², with a population of approximately 616,000...
, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...
) is an Irish 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...
er. A right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium
Fast bowling
Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...
bowler, he has played 43 times for the Ireland cricket team since August 1999 including six first-class
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
matches and twelve List A matches. He has also played first-class and List 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...
for Essex
Essex County Cricket Club
Essex County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Essex. Its limited overs team is called the Essex Eagles, their team colours this season are blue.The club plays most of its home games...
.
Early Ireland career
McCoubrey first represented Ireland at Under-19 level, when he played in the 1999 European Under-19 Championship. He made his debut for the senior side in August of that year, playing against Scotland in a first-class match. His second match for Ireland was in May 2000 when he played against the MCCMarylebone Cricket Club
Marylebone Cricket Club is a cricket club in London founded in 1787. Its influence and longevity now witness it as a private members' club dedicated to the development of cricket. It owns, and is based at, Lord's Cricket Ground in St John's Wood, London NW8. MCC was formerly the governing body of...
, prior to an appearance in the European 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,...
that year. He also played a first-class match against Scotland before the year was out.
In 2001, he travelled with the Irish side to Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
to play in the 2001 ICC Trophy
2001 ICC Trophy
The 2001 ICC Trophy was a cricket tournament played in Ontario, Canada in 2001. It was the qualifying tournament for the 2003 Cricket World Cup...
. Later in the year, he played against Australia before playing in the Triple Crown Tournament
Triple Crown Tournament
The Triple Crown Tournament was a cricket competition staged annually from 1993 to 2001 between the Home Nations; that is to say Ireland, Scotland, Wales and a team representing England...
. This was followed by his first two List A matches, playing against Wiltshire
Wiltshire County Cricket Club
Wiltshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Wiltshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy....
and the Hampshire Cricket Board in the C & G Trophy.
He played a C & G Trophy match against Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club
Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Nottinghamshire, and the current county champions. Its limited overs team is called the Nottinghamshire Outlaws...
in May 2002, before playing in the European Championship that year. This was followed by a C & G Trophy match against Berkshire
Berkshire County Cricket Club
Berkshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Berkshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and MCCA Knockout Trophy....
, shortly before he signed with Essex.
Essex career
He made his debut for Essex in a national leagueNational League (cricket)
The NatWest Pro40 League was a one-day cricket league for first-class cricket counties in England and Wales. It was inaugurated in 1999, but was essentially the old Sunday League retitled to reflect the fact that large numbers of matches were played on days other than Sunday.-Sunday League:The...
match against Yorkshire
Yorkshire County Cricket Club
Yorkshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Yorkshire as one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure....
on 5 May 2003, also playing in the same competition against Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire County Cricket Club
Gloucestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Gloucestershire. Its limited overs team is called the Gloucestershire Gladiators....
in July that year. He played two County Championship
County Championship
The County Championship is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales...
matches, against Leicestershire
Leicestershire County Cricket Club
Leicestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Leicestershire. It has also been representative of the county of Rutland....
and Kent
Kent County Cricket Club
Kent County Cricket Club is one of the 18 first class county county cricket clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the county of Kent...
, the same month. He returned to the Ireland side in September that year for two matches against Denmark.
He was a regular member of the Essex side in the early part of the 2004 English cricket season
2004 English cricket season
The 2004 English cricket season saw the English cricket team record a 4-0 Test series whitewash over the West Indies. Their one-day form was poor, however. In the Natwest Trophy, they failed to make the final, which saw New Zealand defeat the West Indies by 107 runs. And in the Natwest Challenge,...
, playing against Cambridge UCCE
Cambridge University Cricket Club
Cambridge University Cricket Club is a first-class cricket team. It now plays all but one of its first-class cricket matches as part of the Cambridge University Centre of Cricketing Excellence , which includes Anglia Ruskin University...
, in five County Championship matches and a National League match against Hampshire
Hampshire County Cricket Club
Hampshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Hampshire in cricket's County Championship. The club was founded in 1863 as a successor to the Hampshire county cricket teams and has played at the Antelope Ground from then until 1885, before moving to the County Ground where it...
, but he did not play for Essex again after this point, and returned to playing regularly for Ireland, playing against the West Indies and Bangladesh in 2004.
Return to Irish side
Following matches against Loughborough UCCELoughborough University Centre of Cricketing Excellence
Loughborough MCC University is a cricket coaching centre based at Loughborough University in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England and the name under which the university's cricket team plays.- About :The coaching centre is largely funded by the Marylebone Cricket Club...
, Warwickshire
Warwickshire County Cricket Club
Warwickshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Warwickshire. Its limited overs team is called the Warwickshire Bears. Their kit colours are black and gold and the shirt sponsor...
and a C & G Trophy match against Yorkshire, McCoubrey was named in the Ireland squad for the 2005 ICC Trophy
2005 ICC Trophy
Ireland beat Bermuda easily as Ed Joyce made 103 for the hosts in Stormont.----Denmark beat Uganda by 28 runs as Thomas Munkholt Hansen took 6 for 30 to carry Denmark to a 28-run win over Uganda in Muckamore. Denmark made 197 with Henrik Saxe Hansen making 71...
, which was hosted in Ireland. He played four matches in the tournament, and played in four matches in that year's Intercontinental Cup
2005 ICC Intercontinental Cup
The 2005 ICC Intercontinental Cup was the second edition of the ICC Intercontinental Cup, a cricket competition for 12 nations from Asia, Africa, North America and Europe. All the games were scheduled for three days and were designated first class....
, including the final against Kenya which Ireland won.
In 2006, he played three matches for Ireland in the newly restructured C & G Trophy; against Hampshire, Gloucestershire and Glamorgan
Glamorgan County Cricket Club
Glamorgan County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Glamorgan aka Glamorganshire . Glamorgan CCC is the only Welsh first-class cricket club. Glamorgan CCC have won the English County...
, which are his last matches for Ireland to date.
Statistics
In all matches for Ireland, McCoubrey has scored 53 runsRun (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, a run is the basic unit of scoring. Runs are scored by a batsman, and the aggregate of the scores of a team's batsmen constitutes the team's score. A batsman scoring 50 or 100 runs , or any higher multiple of 50 runs, is considered a particular achievement...
at an average of 4.42, with a top score of 11 against Berkshire in August 2002, also his top List A score. He has taken 52 wickets at an average
Bowling average
Bowling average is a statistic measuring the performance of bowlers in the sport of cricket.A bowler's bowling average is defined as the total number of runs conceded by the bowlers divided by the number of wickets taken by the bowler, so the lower the average the better. It is similar to earned...
of 26.92, with best innings bowling figures of 4/17 against Scotland in August 2005 also his best first-class bowling performance. In first-class cricket his top score is 8 not out
Not out
In cricket, a batsman will be not out if he comes out to bat in an innings and has not been dismissed by the end of the innings. One may similarly describe a batsman as not out while the innings is still in progress...
for Ireland against Scotland. In List A cricket, his best bowling performance is 3/19 for Ireland against Uganda.