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Full name | David Alan Lewis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Cork, Ireland | 1 June 1964|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right arm medium pace | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1984–1997 | Ireland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FC debut | 20 August 1988 Ireland v Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last FC | 17 August 1996 Ireland v Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LA debut | 4 July 1984 Ireland v Surrey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last LA | 24 June 1997 Ireland v Yorkshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricketArchive,15 April 2010 |
David Alan Lewis (born 1 June 1964) [1] is a former Irish cricketer and rugby union referee. He is also an occasional media commentator on Irish cricket. His father,Ian,and daughters,Robyn and Gaby,have also played cricket for Ireland, [1]
A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, [1] he played 121 times for the Ireland cricket team between 1984 and 1997, [2] including eight first-class matches against Scotland [3] and 23 List A matches. [4] He captained Ireland on 35 occasions. [5] He is one of only six players to have played more than 100 times for Ireland,behind only Peter Gillespie and Kyle McCallan. [6] .
Lewis made his debut for Ireland in June 1984,playing against the West Indies. His career got off to a poor start as he was dismissed for a duck. [2] This was followed by his List A debut against Surrey in a NatWest Trophy match, [4] and a match against Wales. He played against Australia in 1985,before going on a tour of Zimbabwe in January 1986. That summer he played against Yorkshire,Wales and the MCC before spending two years out of the Ireland team. [2]
He returned to the Ireland team in June 1988 with a match against the MCC, [2] making his first-class debut against Scotland in August of that year. [3] He continued in the Ireland side over the following years,play several matches against English county sides,also playing internationals against Australia,the Netherlands,New Zealand,Scotland,Wales,the West Indies and Zimbabwe. [2]
Ireland gained associate membership of the International Cricket Council in 1993 [7] with Lewis being a regular member of the Irish team at that point. [2] He captained Ireland in the 1994 ICC Trophy in Kenya [8] and also played as captain in the Triple Crown Tournament that year. [9]
In 1995,Lewis won the man of the match award in a Benson &Hedges Cup match against Kent,this added to his 1991 Man of the match award in the NatWest Trophy against Middlesex [10] made him the only Irish player to win man of the match awards in both competitions. [5] He also played a match for the MCC against Scotland in 1995. [11]
He played for Ireland for two more years,including the 1997 ICC Trophy, [8] during which Ireland finished fourth and Lewis won a man of the match award against Gibraltar. [10] He played eight further times for Ireland that year,including a match against Australia,before his final match against the Earl of Arundel's XI on 20 August. [2] He played twice more for the MCC against Scotland,in 1998 and 2002. [11]
In all matches for Ireland,Lewis scored 3579 runs at an average of 28.63 with a top score of 136 against Wales in July 1990,one of four centuries he scored for Ireland. He took 51 wickets at an average of 43.88,with best innings bowling figures of 4/21 against Scotland in July 1993. [2]
When his rugby union playing career was cut short by injury, [5] Lewis took up refereeing. He eventually started to referee at the highest level,refereeing at the 2003 and 2007 Rugby World Cup. [12]
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