Lorcan Tucker

Lorcan John Tucker (born 10 September 1996) is an Irish cricketer and wicket-keeper batter.[1]

Lorcan Tucker
Personal information
Full name
Lorcan John Tucker
Born (1996-09-10) 10 September 1996
Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
BattingRight-handed
RoleWicket-keeper–batsmen
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 23)4 April 2023 v Bangladesh
Last Test1 June 2023 v England
ODI debut (cap 57)3 May 2019 v England
Last ODI14 May 2023 v Bangladesh
ODI shirt no.3
T20I debut (cap 40)5 September 2016 v Hong Kong
Last T20I20 August 2023 v India
T20I shirt no.3
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2015–presentLeinster Lightning
2023MI Emirates
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I FC
Matches 4 38 52 19
Runs scored 351 585 885 821
Batting average 43.87 20.89 20.58 32.84
100s/50s 1/1 0/3 0/5 1/4
Top score 108 83 84 108
Catches/stumpings 5/2 48/1 41/5 42/6
Source: Cricinfo, 14 June 2023

He was part of Ireland's squad for the 2016 Under-19 Cricket World Cup[2] and made his international debut for the Ireland cricket team in September 2016.[3] He currently plays for MI Emirates in the ILT20.[4] In January 2020, he was one of nineteen players to be awarded a central contract from Cricket Ireland,[5] the first year in which all contracts were awarded on a full-time basis.[6] In 2022 he was awarded a further two-year contract.[7]

Biography

His father Barry Tucker was also a cricketer who is currently serving as the President of Pembroke Cricket Club in Dublin and Barry also played for the said club during his playing days. His brothers Donncha Tucker and Fiachra Tucker are also cricketers. He also incidentally played alongside Fiachra during the 2016 Under-19 Cricket World Cup where he played a crucial knock of 57 in a losing cause during a group stage match against eventual runners-up India and his knock also received attention from the then Indian Under-19 head coach and former Indian cricketer Rahul Dravid.

Domestic and T20 career

Tucker made his List A debut for Leinster Lightning in the 2017 Inter-Provincial Cup on 4 June 2017.[8] He made his first-class debut for Leinster Lightning in the 2017 Inter-Provincial Championship on 5 June 2017.[9] In April 2019, he was one of five cricketers to be awarded with an Emerging Player Contract by Cricket Ireland, ahead of the 2019 domestic season.[10]

In July 2019, Tucker was selected to play for the Dublin Chiefs in the inaugural edition of the Euro T20 Slam cricket tournament.[11][12] However, the following month, the tournament was cancelled.[13]

In December 2022 he was signed by MI Emirates to play in the inaugural season on the International League T20 franchise league based in the UAE.[4] He made his debut on 29 January against Desert Vipers.[14] Tucker made 85 runs from 4 innings in the tournament at a strike rate of 120.[15] He was controversially retired out in a game against Abu Dhabi Knight Riders while on 33(23).[16]

He was one of six Irish players who signed up to play at the 2022 USA T20 Open.[17]

In June 2023 Tucker was signed by the Colombo Strikers for the 2023 edition of the Lanka Premier League.[18]

International career

Early career

Tucker made his Twenty20 International (T20I) debut against Hong Kong on 5 September 2016.[19] In January 2017, he was called up as a replacement for the injured Stuart Thompson for Ireland's squad in the 2017 Desert T20 Challenge.[20]

In January 2019, Tucker was named in Ireland's T20I squad for the Oman Quadrangular Series.[21][22] At the same time, he was also named in Ireland's Test, One Day International (ODI) and T20I squads for their series against Afghanistan in India, but he did not play during the tour.[21][22]

In April 2019, he was named in Ireland's ODI squads for the one-off match against England and the 2019 Ireland Tri-Nation Series.[23] He made his ODI debut for Ireland against England on 3 May 2019.[24]

In June 2019, Tucker was named in the Ireland Wolves squad for their home series against the Scotland A cricket team.[25]

In July 2019, he made his first international fifty for Ireland in the 2nd ODI of Zimbabwe's tour of Ireland. Tucker made 56(51) to help Ireland to win by 5 runs. Later that month he was named in Ireland's Test squad for their one-off match against England at Lord's, but he did not play.[26]

In September 2019, Tucker was named in Ireland's squad for the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier tournament in the United Arab Emirates.[27] He played one match in the tournament but did not bat.[28]

On 10 July 2020, Tucker was named in Ireland's 21-man squad to travel to England to start training behind closed doors for the ODI series against the England cricket team.[29][30] Tucker did not play in the series as after a poor run of form he had been replaced by Neil Rock as first-choice wicketkeeper.

In February 2021, Tucker was named in the Ireland Wolves' squad for their tour to Bangladesh.[31][32] He high scored with 82* in the third unofficial ODI.[33]

In September 2021, Tucker was named in Ireland's provisional squad for the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.[34] He did not play in the tournament.

Breakthrough

Tucker made a long-awaited breakthrough in late 2021 as he made 141 runs across two T20Is against the USA in Florida.[35] This included a match winning 84(56) in the second T20I.[36] He had been moved up the order to the number 3 role and his form in T20Is improved.[37][38]

He would follow this up with scores of 78 (38) against South Africa[39] and 50 (32) against Afghanistan[40] ahead of the 2022 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.

In September 2022, he was named in Ireland's squad for the T20 World Cup. He would have a highly successful tournament of finish as team's top scorer with 204 runs across 7 games.[41] His 45* (35) against West Indies helped Ireland make it through to the Super 12s round.[42] He then made 34 (37) as Ireland famously beat England[43][44][45][46] at the MCG before smashing 71* (48) in defeat to Australia.[47][48][49]

In February 2023, Tucker was named in Ireland's Test squad for their tours of Bangladesh in March 2023 and Sri Lanka in April 2023. He was also named in the T20I and ODI squads for the tours.[50] He made his Test debut against Bangladesh, on 4 April 2023,[51] and scored his maiden Test century.[52] He also became the second Irishman to score a century in Tests and Test debut and the first to score an away Test century.[53][54][55] He became the sixth wicket-keeper to score a Test century on debut and the first Irish wicket-keeper batter to score a century on debut.[56] He also became only the second wicket-keeper batsman to score Test century on debut in away soil after England's Ben Foakes. He also became the first wicket-keeper batter to score a century in his team's second innings of his debut Test match while the other five keeper batters including Sri Lanka's Brendon Kuruppu, Romesh Kaluwitharana, England's Matt Prior, New Zealand's Tom Blundell and England's Ben Foakes all scored centuries on their debuts in their teams first innings. He also became the second Irish batsman to score a century on Test debut.[57]

References
  1. "Huge season ahead for Tucker". Cricket Europe. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  2. "Ireland at full strength despite late call". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
  3. "Lorcan Tucker". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  4. "Ireland's Lorcan Tucker to miss Zimbabwe T20Is to play ILT20". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  5. "Gareth Delany, Shane Getkate amongst 19 men's central player contracts offered ahead of a busy 2020". Cricket Ireland. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  6. "Delany, Getkate highlight Ireland men's central contracts list for 2020". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  7. "Cricket Ireland offers 12 two-year central contracts as part of improved men's contract system | Cricket Ireland". www.cricketireland.ie. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  8. "Cricket Ireland Inter-Provincial Limited Over Cup, Northern Knights v Leinster Lightning at Belfast, Jun 4, 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
  9. "Cricket Ireland Inter-Provincial Championship, Northern Knights v Leinster Lightning at Belfast, Jun 5–7, 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  10. "Five Emerging Player contracts awarded ahead of big year for Irish cricket". Cricket Ireland. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  11. "Eoin Morgan to represent Dublin franchise in inaugural Euro T20 Slam". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  12. "Euro T20 Slam Player Draft completed". Cricket Europe. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  13. "Inaugural Euro T20 Slam cancelled at two weeks' notice". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  14. "Full Scorecard of MI Emirates vs Vipers 21st Match 2022/23 - Score Report | ESPNcricinfo.com". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  15. "International League T20, 2022/23 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  16. Krishna, Sai (7 February 2023). "3 reasons why batters retiring out could become common in T20 cricket". www.sportskeeda.com. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  17. "Ireland contingent on their way to Florida as six local players sign up to take part in T20 US Open". BelfastTelegraph.co.uk. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  18. "https://twitter.com/LPLT20/status/1668959597216792577". Twitter. Retrieved 14 June 2023. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
  19. "1st T20I: Ireland v Hong Kong at Bready, Sep 5, 2016". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  20. "Double Injury Blow For Ireland Ahead Of Desert T20". Cricket Ireland. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  21. "Ireland announce squads for Afghanistan series". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  22. "Stirling to captain Ireland T20 squad, new faces named for upcoming Oman and Afghanistan series". Cricket Ireland. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  23. "Strong squads named for one-day internationals and Wolves clash". Cricket Ireland. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
  24. "Only ODI, England tour of Ireland at Dublin, May 3 2019". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  25. "Ireland Wolves squads named for Scotland 'A' series". Cricket Ireland. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  26. "England v Ireland: Mark Adair, Lorcan Tucker, Simi Singh and Craig Young in 14-man squad". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on 3 February 2023. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
  27. "Squad announced for Oman Series and ICC Men's T20 World Cup Qualifier". Cricket Ireland. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  28. "All-round records | Twenty20 Internationals | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  29. "Curtis Campher, Jonathan Garth the new faces as Ireland name 21-man squad for England ODIs". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  30. "Ireland names expanded training squad ahead of ODI series against England". Cricket Ireland. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  31. "Ireland Wolves tour of Bangladesh to start with four-day game in Chattogram". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
  32. "Ireland Wolves squad announced for Bangladesh tour". Cricket Ireland. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
  33. "Full Scorecard of Ireland A vs BDESH Emerg 3rd unofficial ODI 2020/21 - Score Report | ESPNcricinfo.com". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  34. "Ireland names 18-player provisional squad for T20 World Cup". Cricket Ireland. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  35. "Batting records | Twenty20 Internationals | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  36. "Full Scorecard of Ireland vs U.S.A. 2nd T20I 2021/22 - Score Report | ESPNcricinfo.com". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  37. "Interview - Lorcan Tucker on his batting form, the team ethos and a Christmas tour | Cricket Ireland". www.cricketireland.ie. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  38. "Cricket: Tucker continues top order resurgence as Ireland secure long awaited first win of the summer". The Irish Times. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  39. "Full Scorecard of South Africa vs Ireland 1st T20I 2022 - Score Report | ESPNcricinfo.com". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  40. "Full Scorecard of Afghanistan vs Ireland 1st T20I 2022 - Score Report | ESPNcricinfo.com". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  41. "ICC Men's T20 World Cup, 2022/23 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  42. AFP (21 October 2022). "Ireland reach T20 World Cup Super 12s after stunning win over West Indies". The42. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  43. "Ireland's new 'golden generation' comes of age at the biggest stage of all". ESPNcricinfo. 26 October 2022. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  44. "Ireland stun England in rainy Melbourne". ESPNcricinfo. 26 October 2022. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  45. "Ireland beat England Ireland won by 5 runs (DLS method) - Ireland vs England, ICC Men's T20 World Cup, 20th Match, Group 1 Match Summary, Report | ESPNcricinfo.com". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  46. "Irish cricket supporters flying high in Australia after Ireland's 'very special' win over England". independent. 26 October 2022. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  47. "Full Scorecard of Australia vs Ireland 31st Match, Group 1 2022/23 - Score Report | ESPNcricinfo.com". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  48. "T20 World Cup: Tucker fights out to put hurdle in Australia's easy-looking win". www.geosuper.tv. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  49. "Australia beat Ireland by 42 runs despite Lorcan Tucker's spirited resistance". The Telegraph. 31 October 2022. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  50. Easdown, Craig. "Squads named for men's tour to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka". Cricket Ireland. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
  51. "Only Test, Mirpur, April 04 - 08, 2023, Ireland tour of Bangladesh". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  52. "Tucker and McBrine take Ireland into the lead". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  53. "Lorcan Tucker becomes only second Ireland batter to score Test hundred". Mykhel. 6 April 2023. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  54. "Tucker sparks Ireland fightback in Bangladesh Test". BBC Sport. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  55. "Ireland stage remarkable recovery after Tucker's ton". Cricbuzz. 6 April 2023. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  56. "Batting records | Test matches | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  57. "Lorcan Tucker thinks on his feet in first red-ball foray". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.