Alex Cusack

Alex Cusack
Personal information
Full name
Alex Richard Cusack
Born (1980-10-29) 29 October 1980 (age 43)
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight arm medium-fast
RoleAll-rounder
International information
National side
ODI debut (cap 20)24 June 2007 v South Africa
Last ODI8 May 2015 v England
ODI shirt no.83
T20I debut (cap 3)2 August 2008 v Scotland
Last T20I25 July 2015 v Netherlands
T20I shirt no.83
Career statistics
Competition ODI T20I FC LA
Matches 59 37 19 87
Runs scored 745 229 852 1,103
Batting average 22.57 15.26 35.50 22.06
100s/50s 0/2 0/1 1/5 0/3
Top score 71 65 130 71
Balls bowled 1,953 606 833 2,939
Wickets 63 35 12 87
Bowling average 23.96 20.40 32.16 25.71
5 wickets in innings 1 0 0 1
10 wickets in match 0 0 0 0
Best bowling 5/20 4/11 4/31 5/20
Catches/stumpings 18/– 7/– 12/– 26/–
Source: CricketArchive, 9 March 2016

Alex Richard Cusack (born 29 October 1980) is a former Australian-born-Irish cricketer. A club cricketer for Clontarf, Cusack was a carpenter by trade until he was awarded a professional contract with the Irish Cricket Union in 2009. He played as a middle-order right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium-fast deliveries. 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 the 2011 Cricket World Cup match against England, Cusack was part of the highest sixth wicket partnership in World Cup history, putting on 162 runs with Kevin O'Brien as Ireland defeated England.[1]

In August 2015, Cusack announced his retirement from cricket.[2]

  1. ^ "Highest World cup partnerships for each wicket". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  2. ^ "Cusack announces retirement". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 15 August 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2015.