Stephen John Simon Warke (born 11 July 1959), in
North Belfast, is an Irish former
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 national captain.
Cricket career
A right-handed opening batsman, when he retired in 1996 Warke held the national record for most caps, with 114. His 4,275 runs for
Ireland was also a record.
Warke was selected to captain Ireland in their maiden
ICC Trophy
The ICC World Cup Qualifier (previously called the ICC Trophy and officially known as the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup Qualifier) is a One-Day International (ODI) cricket tournament that serves as the culmination of the Cricket World Cup qualifi ...
event, in
Kenya in 1994, but withdrew due to injury.
References
External links
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Stephen Warke ProfileStephen Warke Photographic Features
1959 births
Living people
Cricketers from Belfast
Irish cricketers
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