Barry John Archer 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. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler.

He made his debut for Ireland against Scotland

Scottish cricket team

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 in June 1999 and has gone on to play for them 22 times to date, though he has not been selected since the European Championship

European Cricket Championship

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 of July 2000. Three of his games for Ireland had first-class

First-class cricket

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 status and a further three had List A status.