List of Leinster Lightning first-class players

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Ed Joyce (pictured) has the highest first-class score for Leinster Lightning with 167 not out. Ed Joyce 2007 cropped.jpg
Ed Joyce (pictured) has the highest first-class score for Leinster Lightning with 167 not out.

Leinster Lightning was formed in 2013 and became a first-class team in 2017. [1] They played their inaugural first-class match in the 2017 Inter-Provincial Championship against Northern Knights. [2] Leinster Lightning have won the Interprovincial Championship five times, and once with first-class status. [3] In total, 21 players have appeared in first-class cricket for Leinster Lightning, with five players having played in 11 out of 12 first-class fixtures played by Leinster Lightning.

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Jack Tector is Leinster Lightning's leading run-scorer in first-class cricket, aggregating 527 runs. Four batsmen have scored a century for Leinster Lightning in the format: Ed Joyce, John Anderson, Andrew Balbirnie and Simi Singh. Joyce's score of 167 not out, scored in 2017 against Northern Knights is the highest score by a Leinster Lightning batsman, and Joyce also has the teams best batting average: 63.50. Among the bowlers, George Dockrell has taken more wickets than any other, claiming 36 – eight wickets more than that of the second most prolific bowler, Peter Chase. Dockrell also has the best bowling figures in an innings: he claimed six wickets against Northern Knights in a 2017 match, while conceding 29 runs. [4] Lorcan Tucker has kept wicket in 11 out of 12 of Leinster Lightning's first-class matches, taking 24 catches and effecting 4 stumpings. Balbirnie has claimed the highest number of catches among fielders, taking 11.

Players are initially listed in order of appearance; where players made their debut in the same match, they are initially listed by batting order.

Key

General

  • Dagger-14-plain.png – Wicket-keeper
  • First – Year of first-class debut for Leinster Lightning
  • Last – Year of latest first-class match for Leinster Lightning
  • Mat – Number of first-class appearances for Leinster Lightning

Batting

Bowling

Fielding

All statistics correct as of the end of the Irish 2019 cricket season.

List of first-class cricketers

Leinster Lightning first-class players
No.NameNationalityFirstLastMat Runs HS Avg Balls Wkt BBI Ave Ca St Ref(s)
Batting Bowling Fielding
1 Ed Joyce Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 201720185381167*63.500–––60 [5]
2 Jack Tector Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 20172019115278740.530–––60 [6]
3 John Anderson Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 201720188317123*35.339011/855.00100 [7] [8]
4 Andrew Balbirnie Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 2017201911491114*49.10411114/2312.45110 [9] [10]
5 Simi Singh Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 2017201910403100*36.631,551255/3822.8850 [11] [12]
6 Lorcan Tucker  Dagger-14-plain.pngCricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 20172019112205620.000–––244 [13]
7 Eddie Richardson Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 2017201851668133.20516104/8826.5040 [14] [15]
8 Gareth Delany Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 2017201933515*11.6629443/4836.0010 [16] [17]
9 Kevin O'Brien Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 2017201971567426.0046692/3222.5540 [18] [19]
10 Peter Chase Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 2017201911572414.251,359285/2431.0310 [20] [21]
11 Max Neville Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 20172017221*2.0019822/2259.5000 [22] [23]
12 George Dockrell Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 20172019113049227.631,899366/2922.9450 [24] [25]
13 Sean Terry Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 2017201851387319.710–––30 [26]
14 Tyrone Kane Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 2017201992147530.571,098153/4533.5320 [27] [28]
15 David Delany Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 20172018211*1.0028454/3135.6000 [29] [30]
16 Stephen Doheny Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 201820195865017.201811/44.0030 [31] [32]
17 Josh Little Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 201820194342717.0024953/9532.0010 [33] [34]
18 Cormac McLoughlin-Gavin Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 2019201941218630.250–––20 [35]
19 Fionn Hand Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 201920191–––420––00 [36] [37]
20 Barry McCarthy Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 201920193524426.0036685/5121.1210 [38] [39]
21 Patrick Tice  Dagger-14-plain.pngCricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland 201920191–––0–––20 [40]

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