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Full name | Ben Alexander Wylie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Belfast, Northern Ireland | 24 April 1994||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Left-arm orthodox | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2013 | Northern Knights | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2013–2015 | Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricketArchive,28 May 2015 |
Ben Alexander "Ben" Wylie (born 24 April 1994) is a cricketer from Northern Ireland who has played at first-class level for Cambridge University. He debuted for them during the 2013 English season,having earlier played for the Ireland national under-19 side.
Born in Belfast,Wylie played under-13,under-15,and under-17 matches for Irish representative sides,and was playing senior club cricket for Instonians at an early age. [1] A left-arm orthodox spinner,he was selected in Ireland's squad for the 2012 Under-19 World Cup,and played a single match,taking 2/24 from five overs in Ireland's loss to Scotland in the 11th-place playoff. [2] A student of St. Catharine's College,Cambridge,Wylie regularly played for Cambridge University during the 2013 season,and made his first-class debut in April 2013,in a three-day match against Middlesex. He scored 29 not out batting seventh in the game's second innings,which is his highest first-class score to date. [3] Wylie played in The University Match against Oxford University in both 2013 and 2014. [4] Oxford captain Sam Agarwal scored 313 not out from 312 balls in the 2013 fixture,the first triple-century in any Cambridge–Oxford match,with Wylie finishing with figures of 1/111 from 23 overs. [5]
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