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Full name | Stuart Robert Thompson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Derry, Northern Ireland | 15 August 1991|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium-fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Nigel Thompson (father) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut(cap 10) | 11 May 2018 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 24 July 2019 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut(cap 42) | 8 September 2013 v Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 12 May 2017 v Bangladesh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI shirt no. | 17 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
T20I debut(cap 27) | 19 February 2014 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last T20I | 1 November 2019 v Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
T20I shirt no. | 17 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2013–present | North West Warriors | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricketArchive,23 April 2020 |
Stuart Robert Thompson (born 15 August 1991) is an Irish cricketer from Northern Ireland. [1] Thompson is left-handed batsman who bowls right-arm medium-fast. He was one of the eleven cricketers to play in Ireland's first ever Test match,against Pakistan,in May 2018.
In December 2018,he was one of nineteen players to be awarded a central contract by Cricket Ireland for the 2019 season. [2] [3] In January 2020,he was one of nineteen players to be awarded a central contract from Cricket Ireland, [4] the first year in which all contracts were awarded on a full-time basis. [5]
Thompson has represented Ireland at U-19 level,playing five Youth One Day International's. [6] In 2012,Thompson was included in the Ireland squad for the 2011–13 ICC Intercontinental Cup match against Afghanistan and made his first-class debut in the match. [7] In August 2012,Thompson was included in the Ireland squad for the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 tournament in Sri Lanka. [8]
In May 2018,he scored his maiden century in first-class cricket,batting for North West Warriors against Leinster Lightning in the 2018 Inter-Provincial Championship. [9] The same month,he was named in a fourteen-man squad for Ireland's first ever Test match,which was played against Pakistan later the same month. [10] [11]
In July 2019,he was selected to play for the Belfast Titans in the inaugural edition of the Euro T20 Slam cricket tournament. [12] [13] However,the following month the tournament was cancelled. [14]
He made his Test debut for Ireland,against Pakistan,on 11 May 2018. In the first innings,he took three wickets and scored 3 runs. [15] [16] In the second innings of the inaugural Test match he scored his first Test fifty when batting at no.7,becoming only the second Irish player after Kevin O'Brien to score a Test fifty during the same match,eventually where O'Brien went onto score a Test hundred. [17] He also notched a 114 runstand with Kevin O'Brien during the Ireland's second innings to uplift the team from an innings defeat after being forced to follow on. [18]
In January 2019,he was named in Ireland's squad for their one-off Test against Afghanistan in India. [19] [20] In September 2019,he was named in Ireland's squad for the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier tournament in the United Arab Emirates. [21]
On 18 July 2020,Thompson was added to Ireland's touring squad to travel to England to start training behind closed doors for the ODI series against the England cricket team. [22] [23]