Stephen John Simon Warke (born 11 July 1959), in North Belfast, is an Irish former 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 and national captain.

Cricket career

A right-handed opening batsman, when he retired in 1996 Warke held the national record for most caps, with 114. His 4,275 runs for Ireland was also a record.

Warke was selected to captain Ireland in their maiden ICC Trophy

ICC Trophy

The ICC World Cup Qualifier is an international one-day cricket tournament run under the auspices of the International Cricket Council. Any Associate or Affiliate member of the ICC may attempt to qualify for the ICC Trophy by means of a system of regional qualifying events. The test-playing Full...

 event, in Kenya

Kenya

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in 1994, but withdrew due to injury

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