Alex Cusack
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| Full name | Alex Richard Cusack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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29 October 1980 Brisbane, Australia |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right arm medium-fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ODI debut (cap 20) | 24 June 2007 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 8 May 2015 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I debut (cap 3) | 2 August 2008 v Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last T20I | 25 July 2015 v Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 9 March 2016
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Alex Richard Cusack (born 29 October 1980) is a former Australian-born former Irish cricketer. A club cricketer for Clontarf, Cusack was a carpenter by trade until he was granted a professional contract with the Irish Cricket Union in 2009. He is a middle-order right-handed batsman and bowls right-arm medium-fast. Cusack made his international debut in 2007.
In 2009 Cusack became one of the first two players to be given contracts with Cricket Ireland. A year later, the number of cricketers with contracts with CI had increased to six, with Cusack still amongst their number. In 2011 Cricket World Cup match against England, Cusack joined with century maker Kevin O'Brien helped for where Irish gained famous win against England.In that World Cup match against England he along with Kevin O'Brien set the highest ever 6th wicket partnership in World Cup history(162)
In August 2015 Cusack announced his retirement from cricket.
Born in Brisbane, Australia, on 29 October 1980, Alex Cusack began playing cricket at the age of eight. A versatile player, he played grade cricket and regularly shifted his position in the batting order and bowled a bit. In 2003, at the age of 22, Cusack went to Ireland with the intention of playing a season of club cricket. His brother, who was playing rugby for Old Crescent in Limerick, helped him get in contact with cricket clubs and Cusack ended up playing as a professional for Clontarf. Cusack ended up staying and hoped to break into the Ireland team as he has an Irish passport. He married in December 2008.
Cusack made his debut for Ireland in a one-day match against Middlesex on 10 June 2007. He bowled two expensive overs, conceding 29 runs, however he did score 29 batting at number six from Ireland's total of 175; Ireland went on to lose the match by six wickets.Trent Johnston, his captain, attributed Cusack's lack of success in his first match to nervousness. However, Cusack was much more effective on his international debut, in which he was named man-of-the-match.
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