Allan Eastwood

Allan Eastwood
Personal information
Full name Allan William Eastwood
Born (1979-10-22) 22 October 1979
Portlaoise, Ireland
Nickname Stretch, Sprog
Height 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Batting Right-handed batsman
Bowling Right-arm Fast
International information
National side
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 2
Runs scored 8
Batting average 8
100s/50s -
Top score 8*
Balls bowled 366
Wickets 9
Bowling average 22.22
5 wickets in innings -
10 wickets in match -
Best bowling 4-62
Catches/stumpings 1
Source: , 20 August 2010

Allan Eastwood is an Irish cricketer. He made his international debut against The Netherlands on August 11, 2010 taking 4 wickets in the second innings.[1]

Background

Eastwood is from Roscrea in County Tipperary and began his cricketing career at Ballyeighan C.C. In his teens and early twenties he was a key member of the Ballyeighan side that won a Middle A Cup, Middle B Cup and numerous Midland and South East Cups. When Ballyeighan failed to gain promotion to senior ranks due to their lack of facilities Eastwood moved to Pembroke C.C. in Dublin. .[2]

International career

After quickly establishing himself in Pembroke's first team Eastwood assumed the captaincy for the 2010 season. Impressing the Irish selectors[3] with his action, pace and athleticism he was selected for the Ireland A side to play against the MCC at College Park, Trinity College, Dublin, on 3 August, 2010.[4] In that match he did enough to impress the watching Ireland coach Phil Simmons and was called into the first team for the game against The Netherlands the following week.[5] In addition to his four wickets in the second innings,[5] Eastwood opened his first class account taking the wicket of Eric Szwarczynski [6] in the first innings. He is the second man from Roscrea to play for Ireland, the other being Harry Read over a century ago.[7]

Bowling style

Possessing a good action, Eastwood troubles batsmen with his pace, variation of seam movement, and the bounce he extracts from his 6 ft 5' frame.

References

  1. ↑ "Ireland wrap up win over Holland". 13 August 2010. Retrieved 28 June 2016 – via bbc.co.uk.
  2. ↑ "{title}". Archived from the original on 2013-02-18. Retrieved 2010-08-19.
  3. ↑ "Ireland Name Team To Play MCC". cricketworld.com. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
  4. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on August 22, 2010. Retrieved August 19, 2010.
  5. 1 2 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 27, 2012. Retrieved August 19, 2010.
  6. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 27, 2012. Retrieved August 19, 2010.
  7. ↑
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