Greg Ford (born 9 May 1992) is an Irish
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er, and the son of
Graham Ford
Graham Xavier Ford (born 16 November 1960) is a South African cricket coach and former cricketer.
Formerly the head coach of the Sri Lankan national cricket team, he was also the head coach of the Ireland cricket team. A right-handed batsman, h ...
, the head coach of the
Ireland cricket team. He made his
List A
List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the numbe ...
debut on 17 September 2020, for
Leinster Lightning in the
2020 Inter-Provincial Cup. He made his
Twenty20 debut on 27 August 2020, for Leinster Lightning in the
2020 Inter-Provincial Trophy
The 2020 Inter-Provincial Trophy was the eighth edition of the Inter-Provincial Trophy, a Twenty20 cricket competition played in Ireland during August and September 2020. It was the fourth edition of the competition to be played with full Twenty ...
. Ford captains Balbriggan Cricket Club in north Dublin. Leading the team to promotion from the Championship in 2021, to winning the Premier league in 2022. This was the first time Balbriggan CC played in Ireland's top league. Ford's brother,
Matt, also plays cricket for
Munster Reds
Munster Reds is an Irish inter-provincial cricket team based in Cork, in the province of Munster. In April 2017, Cricket Ireland approved the participation of the team in the Interprovincial Twenty20 Cup, the highest level of T20 domestic crick ...
.
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1992 births
Living people
Irish cricketers
Leinster Lightning cricketers
Munster Reds cricketers
Cricketers from Pietermaritzburg
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