James Chrysostom Boucher (22 December 1910 – 25 December 1995) was 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. He was a right-handed batsman and off-break bowler.
Boucher was educated at
Belvedere College
Belvedere College S.J. (sometimes St Francis Xavier's College) is a voluntary secondary school for boys in Dublin, Ireland. The school has numerous alumni in the arts, politics, sports, science, and business.
History
Belvedere owes its origin ...
in Dublin.
['']Wisden
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'' 1974, p. 1075. He made his debut for
Ireland
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against a team known as "The Cataramans" in July 1929. He went on to play for them on 60 occasions, his last game coming against
Scotland
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in July 1954. He then served as honorary secretary of the
Irish Cricket Union
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until 1973.
Of his matches for Ireland, 28 had
first-class status, and in those games he took 168 wickets at an average of 14.04. His best bowling was 7/13 against
New Zealand
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in September 1937. In all matches for Ireland he took 307 wickets, one of only two Irish bowlers to take more than 300 wickets.
References
External links
CricketEurope Stats Zone profile*
1910 births
1995 deaths
People educated at Belvedere College
Irish cricketers
Cricketers from County Dublin
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