Jamie Peter McIlroy (born 19 June 1994) is an English professional
cricketer
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who plays for
Glamorgan
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. McIlroy is a right-handed batsman and left-arm
fast-medium bowler.
From
Builth Wells
Builth Wells (; cy, Llanfair-ym-Muallt) is a market town and community in the county of Powys and historic county of Brecknockshire (Breconshire), mid Wales, lying at the confluence of rivers Wye and Irfon, in the Welsh (or upper) part of ...
, McIlroy was playing for
Herefordshire in the
Minor Counties Cricket Championship before signing a professional contract with Glamorgan in 2019. He signed an extension in September 2020 after injury ruled him out of the entire 2020 summer season that was truncated severely by the
COVID-19 pandemic.
He made his
first-class debut on 8 April 2021, the opening day of the
2021 County Championship
The 2021 County Championship (referred to as the LV= Insurance County Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the 121st cricket County Championship season in England and Wales. For the first phase of the tournament, the teams were split into ...
as Glamorgan faced
Yorkshire at
Headingley. He made his
Twenty20 debut on 2 July 2022, for Glamorgan in the
2022 T20 Blast
The 2022 Vitality Blast was the 2022 season of the T20 Blast, a professional Twenty20 cricket league played in England and Wales. The tournament was held from 25 May to 16 July 2022. It was the fifth season in which the domestic T20 competition ...
.
References
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1994 births
Living people
English cricketers
Glamorgan cricketers
Cricketers from Hereford
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