Stuart Thompson

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Stuart Thompson

Personal information
Full name	Stuart Robert Thompson
Born	(1991-08-15) 15 August 1991 Derry, Northern Ireland
Batting	Left-handed
Bowling	Right-arm medium-fast
Role	Bowler
Relations	Nigel Thompson (father)
International information
National side	Ireland (2013-2019)
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
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2013–present	North West Warriors
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I FC Matches 3 20 41 19 Runs scored 64 228 328 582 Batting average 10.66 16.28 14.90 21.55 100s/50s 0/1 0/0 0/1 1/1 Top score 53 39 56 148 Balls bowled 410 559 474 2,072 Wickets 10 12 18 38 Bowling average 20.40 40.83 37.22 30.39 5 wickets in innings 0 0 0 0 10 wickets in match 0 0 0 0 Best bowling 3/28 2/17 4/18 3/28 Catches/stumpings 0/– 8/– 23/– 7/–
Source: CricketArchive, 23 April 2020

Stuart Robert Thompson (born 15 August 1991) is an Irish cricketer from Northern Ireland. 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. In January 2020, he was one of nineteen players to be awarded a central contract from Cricket Ireland, the first year in which all contracts were awarded on a full-time basis.

Career

Early and domestic

Thompson has represented Ireland at U-19 level, playing five Youth One Day International's. 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. In August 2012, Thompson was included in the Ireland squad for the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 tournament in Sri Lanka.

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. 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.

In July 2019, he was selected to play for the Belfast Titans in the inaugural edition of the Euro T20 Slam cricket tournament. However, the following month the tournament was cancelled.

International career

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. 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. 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.

In January 2019, he was named in Ireland's squad for their one-off Test against Afghanistan in India. In September 2019, he was named in Ireland's squad for the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier tournament in the United Arab Emirates.

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.

External links

• Stuart Thompson at ESPNcricinfo