Andrew Robert McBrine (born 30 April 1993) is an

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er. He is a left-handed

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who bowls right-arm

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. McBrine is the son of Alexander McBrine and the nephew of

James McBrine James McBrine (born 16 September 1963 in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland) is an Irish former cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, he played just once for the Ireland cricket team, a first-class match again ...

, both of whom also played cricket for Ireland.

Career

On 26 May 2013, McBrine made his first-class debut for

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against

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. He made his

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debut against Scotland in September 2014. In May 2018, he was named in a fourteen-man squad for Ireland's first ever

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, to be played against Pakistan later the same month, but he was not selected to play. In December 2018, he was one of nineteen players to be awarded a central contract by

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for the 2019 season. In January 2019, he was named in Ireland's squad for their one-off Test against Afghanistan in India. He made his Test debut for Ireland against Afghanistan on 15 March 2019. In July 2019, he was selected to play for the Belfast Titans in the inaugural edition of the

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cricket tournament. However, the following month the tournament was cancelled. In January 2020, he was one of nineteen players to be awarded a central contract from

, the first year in which all contracts were awarded on a full-time basis. On 10 July 2020, McBrine 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. On 21 January 2021, in the opening match against Afghanistan, McBrine took his 50th wicket and his first

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in ODI cricket. In September 2021, McBrine was named in Ireland's provisional squad for the

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. In February 2022, in the final match of the

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, McBrine played in his 100th international match for Ireland. In May 2022, in the

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, McBrine scored his first century in a

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match, with 100 runs against

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