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born 1990 Ireland
Andrew Balbirnie (born 28 December 1990) is an Irish cricketer, the current captain of the Ireland cricket team in Test cricket. Balbirnie is a right-handed batsman and an occasional wicket-keeper.
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I'm a well-hardened Test cricketer now," when I bring up the fact he is the only man to have featured in each of their six Tests to date.
If we get bowled out for 30 in both innings against England but qualify for both World Cups, that's a win; that's our most successful summer ever.
There were some challenges, like there is with any sort of tour or tournament.
Test Cricket probably hasn’t had had that recently, but now we’ve seen a shift and it’s going to be really exciting to see how that continues. And even if we’re only playing a few tests, we’re going to have a chance to try to stamp our own authority on a really amazing game.
We know they're going to come at us but as long as we can throw a punch back at that, that's all we can really ask.
We were picking teams for the Tests in Asia based on what we'd seen in the nets and how guys went in the one-dayers.
We're getting a fair bit more than we usually get. When the money comes through, there will be change for the better, I hope
It's not a lot - but they are six Test caps that I didn't think I'd get at the start of my career
If it doesn’t, we still stick to the processes of how we want to play
A lot of my cricket education was in red ball cricket over in England, playing a lot of second team cricket with Middlesex, and then a handful of games in the first team.
I hadn't really thought about it - it hasn't sunk in really. It's something which I'll look back at and think, 'Wow, that was a pretty special moment.
They get a tiny, tiny cut. I'm not sitting around the table but I think there needs to be a bit more of a share for the countries below the top teams, because it's a world game.
many in this group of players we have now were never exposed to that. A couple of them were, but not many.
It was very different, really enjoyable. The cricket was great. I’d played a couple of other tournaments – one in the US and a couple of stints over at Glamorgan.
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