Augustine "Gus" Joyce is an Irish cricketer

Cricketer

A cricketer is a person who plays the sport of cricket. Official and long-established cricket publications prefer the traditional word "cricketer" over the rarely used term "cricket player"....

. A right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper

Wicket-keeper

The wicket-keeper in the sport of cricket is the player on the fielding side who stands behind the wicket or stumps being guarded by the batsman currently on strike...

, he played three times for the Ireland cricket team in 2000, a 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...

 match against Scotland and matches against Italy and Scotland 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,...

. Other members of his family have played 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...

 much more for Ireland. Brothers Dominick

Dominick Joyce

Dominick Ignatius Joyce is an Irish cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he has played 66 times for the Ireland cricket team including one One Day International, six first-class matches and seventeen List A matches...

 and Ed

Ed Joyce

Edmund Christopher Joyce is an Irish cricketer who has played for both the Irish and English national cricket teams. After beginning his career with Middlesex, he moved to Sussex in 2009. A left-handed batsman and occasional right-arm bowler of medium pace, Joyce is widely regarded as one of the...

 have also played for Ireland, with Ed also playing for England. His sisters Cecelia

Cecelia Joyce

Cecelia Nora Isobel Mary Joyce is an Irish cricketer. A right-handed batsman and leg spin bowler, she has played twenty One-Day Internationals for the Ireland women's cricket team since July 2001....

 and Isobel

Isobel Joyce

Isobel Mary Helen Cecilia Joyce is an Irish cricketer. A right-handed batsman and left-arm medium pace bowler, she has played one Test and 36 ODIs for the Ireland women's cricket team to date.-Playing career:...

 have played for the Irish women's team.