Robert Dwayne McGerrigle (born 12 March 1980) is a former Irish

Irish people

The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. McGerrigle is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm medium pace

Seam bowling

Seam bowling is a phrase used for a bowling technique in cricket whereby the ball is deliberately bowled on to its seam, to cause a random deviation. Practitioners are known as seam bowlers or seamers....

. He was born at Derry

Derry

Derry or Londonderry is the second-biggest city in Northern Ireland and the fourth-biggest city on the island of Ireland. The name Derry is an anglicisation of the Irish name Doire or Doire Cholmcille meaning "oak-wood of Colmcille"...

, Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

.

McGerrigle made twelve Youth One Day International appearances for Ireland Under-19s, appearing in the 1998 Under-19 World Cup

1998 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup

The 1998 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup was the Second edition of the Under-19 Cricket World Cup and took place in South Africa. It was the first tournament after 1988, but after this tournament has been taking place in every 2 years. This edition had 16 teams competing in 44 matches between 11...

 and the 2000 Under-19 World Cup

2000 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup

The 2000 Under-19 Cricket World Cup was played in Sri Lanka from 11–28 January 2000. In all 16 sides competed in the tournament with India running out eventual winners, defeating Sri Lanka in the final by 6 wickets...

. He made a single first-class

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 appearance for Ireland against Scotland at Ormeau

Ormeau Cricket Ground

Ormeau Cricket Ground was a cricket ground in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1867, when North played an All-England Eleven in a non first-class match. In 1926, the ground hosted its first first-class match between Ireland and Wales...

, Belfast

Belfast

Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly...

 in 1999. He took 4 wickets for 24 runs in Scotland's first-innings, while in their second-innings he took the wicket of Drew Parsons

Drew Parsons (cricketer)

Robert Andrew "Drew" Parsons is a Scottish cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a left-arm medium pace bowler. He has played two first-class and 14 List A matches for Scotland and has represented his country 52 times in all since making his debut against Durham in 1997...

. He batted once in the match and was dismissed for a duck

Duck (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, a duck refers to a batsman's dismissal for a score of zero.-Origin of the term:The term is a shortening of the term "duck's egg", the latter being used long before Test cricket began...

 by Asim Butt

Asim Butt

Asim Mohamood Butt was a Scottish and Pakistani cricketer who was primarily a left-arm medium fast bowler. He played 5 ODIs for Scotland, all in the 1999 Cricket World Cup...

. He made his List A debut for Ireland against Northumberland

Northumberland County Cricket Club

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 in the 1999 NatWest Trophy

1999 NatWest Trophy

The 1999 NatWest Trophy was the 19th NatWest Trophy. It was an English limited overs county cricket tournament which was held between 4 May and 29 August 1999...

, taking 5/66 in an Irish victory. He played two further List A matches, both in the 1999 NatWest Trophy against the Essex Cricket Board

Essex Cricket Board

The Essex Cricket Board is the governing body for all recreational cricket in the historic county of Essex.From 1999 to 2003 the Board fielded a team in the English domestic one-day tournament, matches which had List-A status.-External links:*...

 and Leicestershire

Leicestershire County Cricket Club

Leicestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Leicestershire. It has also been representative of the county of Rutland....

. He took a total of 7 wickets in his three matches, which came at an average

Bowling average

Bowling average is a statistic measuring the performance of bowlers in the sport of cricket.A bowler's bowling average is defined as the total number of runs conceded by the bowlers divided by the number of wickets taken by the bowler, so the lower the average the better. It is similar to earned...

 of 22.71.

He still plays club cricket in Northern Ireland for Donemana Cricket Club.

External links

• Dwayne McGerrigle at ESPNcricinfo
• Dwayne McGerrigle at CricketArchive
  CricketArchive
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