Kyle McCallan

Kyle McCallan
Personal information
Full name
William Kyle McCallan
Born (1975-08-27) 27 August 1975 (age 49)
Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm off spin
International information
National side
ODI debut (cap 7)13 June 2006 v England
Last ODI27 August 2009 v England
ODI shirt no.7
Career statistics
Competition ODI T20I FC LA
Matches 39 9 25 99
Runs scored 361 11 552 1,299
Batting average 20.05 11.00 22.08 21.65
100s/50s 0/1 0/0 0/3 0/2
Top score 50* 9* 65 53*
Balls bowled 1,804 131 3,679 4,229
Wickets 39 8 55 81
Bowling average 30.97 19.00 29.41 35.91
5 wickets in innings 0 0 1 0
10 wickets in match 0 0 0 0
Best bowling 4/30 2/26 5/34 4/30
Catches/stumpings 4/– 3/– 17/– 16/–
Source: CricketArchive, 29 August 2009

William Kyle McCallan MBE (born 27 August 1975), usually known as Kyle McCallan, is a former Irish cricketer. A right-handed batsman and off spin bowler,[1][2] he has played more times for the Ireland cricket team than any other player, more than 40 caps ahead of the next player in the table, the retired Peter Gillespie.[3] Only three players have captained Ireland more times than McCallan, and only Jason Molins has captained them to more wins.[4] He has also played second XI cricket for Derbyshire and Surrey.[5]

He announced his retirement from international cricket on 2 December 2009, after a record 226 caps. He scored 3616 runs at an average of 23.33 and he also took 256 wickets. He also captained Ireland a record 54 times.

His matches for Ireland include fifteen first-class matches,[6] 61 List A matches[7] and 19 One-Day Internationals,[8] all of Ireland's ODIs to date.[9] He represented Ireland at the 2007 Cricket World Cup,[10] and the ICC Trophy in 2001 and 2005.[11] He also represented Northern Ireland in the cricket tournament at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.[7]

McCallan was awarded the MBE in the 2010 Birthday Honours for his services to cricket.[12][13]

  1. ^ Cricket Archive profile
  2. ^ "All-time Ireland team (1)". Cricket Europe. Archived from the original on 21 January 2023. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  3. ^ Most matches played for Ireland Archived 7 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine CricketEurope Stats Zone
  4. ^ Ireland Captains results Archived 4 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine CricketEurope Stats Zone
  5. ^ Teams played for by Kyle McCallan CricketArchive
  6. ^ First-class matches played by Kyle McCallan Cricket Archive
  7. ^ a b List A matches played by Kyle McCallan Cricket Archive – 64 in total, three of which are for Northern Ireland
  8. ^ ODIs played by Kyle McCallan Cricket Archive
  9. ^ [List of Ireland ODIs] Cricket Archive
  10. ^ Ireland squad for the 2007 World Cup Archived 18 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine CricketEurope
  11. ^ ICC Trophy matches played by Kyle McCallan Cricket Archive
  12. ^ "No. 59446". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 2010. p. 19.
  13. ^ Tony McCoy and Kyle McCallan head NI sporting honours BBC Sport, 11 June 2010