A professional cricketer from Ireland, Harry Tom Tector was born on December 6th, 1999. He came from Ireland. He was a member of Ireland’s team that competed in the Under-19 Cricket World Cup the following year. September 2019 was the month in which he made his debut for the Ireland cricket team on the international stage. Cricket Ireland selected nineteen players to get a central contract in January of 2020. This was the first year that all contracts were issued on a full-time basis, and he was one of the players who received a central contract.
On May 26, 2017, Tector made his official debut in Twenty20 cricket while playing for Munster Reds in the Inter-Provincial Trophy season of 2017. In the 2018 Inter-Provincial Cup, which took place on May 28th, Tector made his debut with Northern Knights in the List A competition. In the 2018 Inter-Provincial Championship, which took place on May 29, 2018, he made his debut with Northern Knights in the first-class competition. Tector was chosen to participate in the first-ever Euro Twenty20 Slam cricket competition, which took place in July 2019. He will be taking part for the Dublin Chiefs.
Towards the end of the same month, Tector made his first century in first-class cricket while batting for the Northern Knights against the Leinster Lightning in the 2019 Inter-Provincial Championship. The Northern Knights announced in March 2021 that Tector will be taking over as captain of the team in preparation for the 2021 season. The selection of Tector as the captain of Ireland’s team for the Under-19 Cricket World Cup in 2018 took place in December 2017.
Following the conclusion of Ireland’s matches in the competition, the International Cricket Council (ICC) selected Tector as the emerging star of the team. With a total of eight wickets, he was the most successful wicket-taker for Ireland during the competition. During the annual Cricket Ireland Awards, which took place in November 2018, Tector was honored with the title of Male Academy Player of the Year. Cricket Ireland announced the awarding of central contracts to nineteen players for the 2019 season the following month. He was one of those players.
Harry Tector Biography
| Name | Harry Tector |
| Full Name | Harry Tom Tector |
| Date of Birth | 24 April 1973 |
| Place of Birth | 6 December 1999 |
| Other Names | NA |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Father’s Name | NA |
| Mother’s Name | NA |
| Siblings | NA |
| Spouse | NA |
| Marriage Date | NA |
| Children | NA |
| Role | Batting |
| Batting | Right-handed |
| Bowling | Right-arm off-break |
| ODI Debut | July 30, 2020 vs. England |
| Test Debut | April 04, 2023, vs. Bangladesh |
| T20 Debut | September 17, 2019 vs. Scotland |
| Favourite Food | NA |
| Favourite Actor | NA |
| Favourite Actress | NA |
| Favourite Colour | Green |
| Retirement | Still Playing |
Tector was part of Ireland’s Twenty20 International (T20I) teams for the Oman Quadrangular Series and the series against Afghanistan in India in January 2019, although he did not participate in either of those series. In June of 2019, he was given the responsibility of leading the Ireland Wolves cricket team in their home series against the Scotland A cricket team he had been selected to lead. He was selected to be a member of Ireland’s Twenty20 International team for the 2019–20 Ireland Tri-Nation Series in September 2019. On September 17, 2019, he made his debut for Ireland in a Twenty20 International match against Scotland.
The following month, he was selected to be a member of Ireland’s team that will compete in the 2019 ICC Twenty20 World Cup Qualifier competition that will take place in the United Arab Emirates.[24] [24] In the days leading up to the competition, the International Cricket Council (ICC) selected him as the player worth keeping an eye on for Ireland’s team. During the One Day International (ODI) series that Ireland will be playing against the England cricket team, Tector was selected to be a part of the 21-man squad that will go to England to begin practicing behind closed doors. This announcement was made on July 10, 2020.
On July 28, 2020, Cricket Ireland announced that Tector would be a part of their 14-man team for the opening one-day international of the series. On July 30, 2020, he made his first appearance for Ireland in a One-Day International match against England. During the trip that the Ireland Wolves were going to take to Bangladesh in February of 2021, Tector was selected to serve as the white-ball captain for the team. At the same time that George Dockrell decided to withdraw from the tour, Tector was also given the responsibility of leading the red-ball matches for the series.
During May in the year 2021, he was selected to be the captain of the Ireland Wolves team that would be playing their home series against the Netherlands A. He amassed a total of 128 runs during the competition, including two half-centuries, making him the team with the greatest run total. Tector received a tentative selection for Ireland’s team to compete in the 2021 ICC Men’s Twenty20 World Cup in September of 2021. In the first one-day international match of the series, which took place in July 2022 against New Zealand, Tector earned his maiden century in the sport of cricket.
Batting & Fielding Stats
| Game Type | Mat | Inn | R | BF | NO | Avg | S/R | 100s | 50s | H | 4s | 6s | Ct | St |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ODIs | 45 | 41 | 1747 | 2080 | 6 | 49.91 | 83.99 | 5 | 11 | 140 | 135 | 44 | 21 | 0 |
| TESTs | 5 | 10 | 370 | 818 | 0 | 37.00 | 45.23 | 0 | 4 | 85 | 37 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
| T20Is | 76 | 70 | 1345 | 1111 | 13 | 23.59 | 121.06 | 0 | 5 | 64 | 106 | 33 | 49 | 0 |
| T20s | 125 | 117 | 2306 | 1850 | 24 | 24.79 | 124.64 | 0 | 9 | 91 | 185 | 68 | 70 | 0 |
| LISTAs | 95 | 88 | 3158 | 3847 | 13 | 42.10 | 82.08 | 6 | 21 | 140 | 264 | 68 | 43 | 0 |
| FIRST CLASS | 17 | 29 | 810 | 1850 | 1 | 28.92 | 43.78 | 1 | 6 | 146 | 85 | 10 | 6 | 0 |
Bowling
| Game Type | Mat | Inn | O | R | W | Avg | E/R | Best | 5w | 10w |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ODIs | 45 | 8 | 35 | 217 | 4 | 54.25 | 6.20 | 1/5 | 0 | 0 |
| TESTs | 5 | 5 | 15 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 5.66 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| T20Is | 76 | 9 | 23 | 140 | 7 | 20.00 | 6.08 | 2/17 | 0 | 0 |
| T20s | 125 | 33 | 81 | 568 | 23 | 24.69 | 7.01 | 4/21 | 0 | 0 |
| LISTAs | 95 | 36 | 191.4 | 1060 | 22 | 48.18 | 5.53 | 5/36 | 1 | 0 |
| FIRST CLASS | 17 | 16 | 169.1 | 591 | 15 | 39.40 | 3.49 | 4/70 | 0 | 0 |
Ireland’s trip to Bangladesh in March 2023 and their tour of Sri Lanka in April 2023 both had Tector as a member of the team’s roster. There will be one-day internationals, Twenty20 matches, and test matches throughout the trip. On April 4th, 2023, he played his first test match, which was against Bangladesh.[40] [40] He made history by being the first Irish player to hit a half-century on his first Test match by scoring fifty runs in his first innings of a test match. Saad Bin Zafar, the captain of Canada, delivered an outstanding ball that resulted in the dismissal of Harry Tector, the batter for Ireland, during their Twenty20 World Cup encounter.
This match took place on Friday, June 7 at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York. As a consequence of this, Tector left the game at a low cost, scoring just seven runs off of five deliveries. During Ireland’s attempt to chase down runs, the dismissal occurred in the ninth over. Following the delivery of the ball, the left-arm spinner delivered a full-length ball at the stumps, which straightened after contact. At that moment, everyone was in a state of wonder because Tector had played the incorrect line, which caused the ball to spin beyond the outside edge and strike the middle stump.
