Adrian McCoubrey

Adrian George Agustus Matthew McCoubrey (born 3 April 1980 in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland) is an Irish cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler,^[1] he has played 43 times for the Ireland cricket team since August 1999^[2] including six first-class matches^[3] and twelve List A matches.^[4] He has also played first-class and List A cricket for Essex.^[5]

Playing career

Early Ireland career

McCoubrey first represented Ireland at Under-19 level, when he played in the 1999 European Under-19 Championship.^[6] He made his debut for the senior side in August of that year, playing against Scotland^[2] in a first-class match.^[3] His second match for Ireland was in May 2000 when he played against the MCC, prior to an appearance in the European Championship that year.^[7] He also played a first-class match against Scotland before the year was out.^[3]

In 2001, he travelled with the Irish side to Canada to play in the 2001 ICC Trophy.^[8] Later in the year, he played against Australia^[2] before playing in the Triple Crown Tournament.^[9] This was followed by his first two List A matches, playing against Wiltshire and the Hampshire Cricket Board in the C & G Trophy.^[4]

He played a C & G Trophy match against Nottinghamshire in May 2002,^[4] before playing in the European Championship that year.^[10] This was followed by a C & G Trophy match against Berkshire,^[4] shortly before he signed with Essex.^[11]

Essex career

He made his debut for Essex in a national league match against Yorkshire on 5 May 2003, also playing in the same competition against Gloucestershire in July that year.^[4] He played two County Championship matches, against Leicestershire and Kent, the same month.^[3] He returned to the Ireland side in September that year for two matches against Denmark.^[2]

He was a regular member of the Essex side in the early part of the 2004 English cricket season, playing against Cambridge UCCE, in five County Championship matches^[3] and a National League match against Hampshire,^[4] but he did not play for Essex again after this point, and returned to playing regularly for Ireland, playing against the West Indies and Bangladesh in 2004.^[2]

Return to Irish side

Following matches against Loughborough UCCE, Warwickshire^[2] and a C & G Trophy match against Yorkshire,^[4] McCoubrey was named in the Ireland squad for the 2005 ICC Trophy, which was hosted in Ireland.^[12] He played four matches in the tournament,^[8] and played in four matches in that year's Intercontinental Cup, including the final against Kenya which Ireland won.^[3]

In 2006, he played three matches for Ireland in the newly restructured C & G Trophy; against Hampshire, Gloucestershire and Glamorgan,^[4] which are his last matches for Ireland to date.^[2]

Statistics

In all matches for Ireland, McCoubrey has scored 53 runs at an average of 4.42, with a top score of 11 against Berkshire in August 2002,^[2] also his top List A score.^[1] He has taken 52 wickets at an average of 26.92, with best innings bowling figures of 4/17 against Scotland in August 2005^[2] also his best first-class bowling performance.^[1] In first-class cricket his top score is 8 not out^[1] for Ireland^[13] against Scotland.^[14] In List A cricket, his best bowling performance is 3/19^[1] for Ireland^[15] against Uganda.^[16]

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