Alan Lewis Ireland (IRE)
Batting style	Right-handed batsman
Bowling type	Right arm medium pace
Career	First-class	List A
Matches	8	23
Runs scored	640	348
Batting average	53.33	15.81
100s/50s	2/3	0/2
Top score	122*	67*
Balls bowled	354	457
Wickets	5	7
Bowling average	55.20	56.71
5 wickets in innings	0	0
10 wickets in match	0	n/a
Best Bowling	2/39	4/47
Catches/Stumpings	5/0	4/0
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David Alan Lewis (born 1 June 1964 in Cork, Republic of Ireland)^[1] is an Irish former cricketer and Rugby Union referee. His father Ian also played cricket for Ireland.^[1] June 1 is the 152nd day of the year (153rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: , Statistics Province: Munster County: Area: 37. ... A cricketer is a term used to refer to a person who plays cricket. ... A rugby union scrum. ... William Ian Lewis, usually known by his middle name (born 29 September 1935 in Dublin, Ireland; died 20 November 2004 in Dublin) was an Irish cricketer. ... Bowler Shaun Pollock bowls to batsman Michael Hussey. ...

Cricket

A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler,^[1] he played 121 times for the Ireland cricket team between 1984 and 1997,^[2] including eight first-class matches against Scotland^[3] and 23 List A matches.^[4] He captained Ireland on 35 occasions.^[5] He is one of only six players to have played more than 100 times for Ireland, behind only Peter Gillespie and Kyle McCallan.^[6] Warwickshire batsman Mike Powell A batsman in the sport of cricket is, depending on context: Any player in the act of batting. ... Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. ... Muttiah Muralitharan bowling A bowler in the sport of cricket is usually a player whose speciality is bowling, analogous to a pitcher in baseball. ... The Ireland cricket team is the cricket team representing all Ireland (i. ... First-class cricket matches are those between international teams or the highest standard of domestic teams in which teams have two innings each. ... Cricket Scotland The Scottish cricket team represents Scotland in the game of cricket. ... List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket. ... The captain of a cricket team is a player who, during the course of a match, has several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of a regular player. ... Peter Gillespie (born May 11, 1974) is an Irish cricketer. ... William Kyle McCallan (born August 27, 1975) is an Irish cricketer. ...

Playing career

Lewis made his debut for Ireland in June 1984, playing against the West Indies. His career got off to a poor start as he was dismissed for a duck.^[2] This was followed by his List A debut against Surrey in a NatWest Trophy match,^[4] and a match against Wales. He played against Australia in 1985, before going on a tour of Zimbabwe in January 1986. That summer he played against Yorkshire, Wales and the MCC before spending two years out of the Ireland team.^[2] Learie Constantine, was one of the first great West Indian players. ... In cricket, a duck denotes a batsman getting out for a score of zero and usually used in the saying Out for a duck. Originally called a ducks egg because of the 0 shape in the scorebook. ... Surrey County Cricket Club (SCCC) is an English first-class cricket team, based at The Oval cricket ground in south London. ... The Friends Provident Trophy is a one day cricket competition in the United Kingdom. ... The Welsh cricket team has appeared on a number of occasions. ... Yorkshire County Cricket Club, who represent the historic county of Yorkshire, are one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English domestic cricket structure. ... Lords 2005 The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), founded in 1787, is a private members club and was the original governing body of cricket in England and across the world. ...

He returned to the Ireland team in June 1988 with a match against the MCC,^[2] making his first-class debut against Scotland in August of that year.^[3] He continued in the Ireland side over the following years, play several matches against English county sides, also playing internationals against Australia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Scotland, Wales, the West Indies and Zimbabwe.^[2] In the UK, County cricket is the domestic form of the sport of cricket that is considered to be first-class cricket. ...

Ireland gained associate membership of the International Cricket Council in 1993^[7] with Lewis being a regular member of the Irish team at that point.^[2] He captained Ireland in the 1994 ICC Trophy in Kenya^[8] and also played as captain in the Triple Crown Tournament that year.^[9] ICC logo The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the governing body for international Test match and One-day International cricket. ... The 1994 ICC Trophy was a cricket tournament that took place in Kenya in February/March 1997. ... The Triple Crown Tournament was a cricket competition staged annually between 1993 and 2001 between Ireland, Scotland, Wales and a team representing England. ...

In 1995, Lewis won the man of the match award in a Benson & Hedges Cup match against Kent, this added to his 1991 man of the match award in the NatWest Trophy against Middlesex^[10] made him the only Irish player to win man of the match awards in both competitions.^[5] He also played a match for the MCC against Scotland in 1995.^[11] In sport, a man of the match or player of the game or man of the series award is given to the outstanding player in a particular match or series. ... The Benson & Hedges Cup was a one day cricket competition for English first class counties which was held from 1972 to 2002. ... Kent County Cricket Club is an English county cricket club based at Canterbury, Kent. ... Middlesex County Cricket Club is a first-class cricket club in England, named after the historic county of Middlesex in which their home ground, Lords Cricket Ground in London, is located. ...

He played for Ireland for two more years, including the 1997 ICC Trophy^[8], during which Ireland finished fourth and Lewis won a man of the match award against Gibraltar.^[10] He played eight further times for Ireland that year, including a match against Australia, before his final match against the Earl of Arundel's XI on 20 August.^[2] He played twice more for the MCC against Scotland, in 1998 and 2002.^[11] The 1997 ICC Trophy was a cricket tournament played in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in March/April 1997. ... is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Statistics

In all matches for Ireland, Lewis scored 3579 runs at an average of 28.63 with a top score of 136 against Wales in July 1990, one of four centuries he scored for Ireland. He took 51 wickets at an average of 43.88, with best innings bowling figures of 4/21 against Scotland in July 1993.^[2] In the sport of cricket, a run is the basic unit of scoring. ... Batting average is a statistic in both cricket and baseball measuring the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters, respectively. ... In the sport of cricket, a batsman reaches his century when he scores 100 or more runs in the innings. ... M*A*S*H, see Sticky Wicket (M*A*S*H episode). ... Bowling average is a statistic measuring the performance of bowlers in the sport of cricket. ... An innings, or inning, is a fixed-length segment of a game in any of a variety of sports – most notably baseball and cricket – during which one team attempts to score while the other team attempts to prevent the first from scoring. ...

Rugby Union

When his cricket playing career was cut short by injury,^[5] Lewis took up refereeing Rugby Union. He eventually started to referee at the highest level, refereeing at the 2003 Rugby World Cup. He is also set to referee at the 2007 Rugby World Cup.^[12] A rugby union scrum. ... The 2003 Rugby World Cup was the fifth rugby union world cup. ... The 2007 Rugby World Cup will be the sixth Rugby World Cup, for the quadrennial world championship. ...

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