Sonny Hool

Infobox Old Cricketer


nationality = Irish
country = Ireland
country abbrev = Ire
picture = Cricket_no_pic.pngname = Sonny Hool
batting style = Right-handed batsman
bowling style = Left-arm orthodox spin
FCs = 9
FC runs = 132
FC bat avg = 16.50
FC 100s/50s = 0/0
FC top score = 27
FC balls = 1261
FC wickets = 18
FC bowl avg = 33.38
FC 5s = 1
FC 10s = 0
FC best bowling = 5/73
FC catches/stumpings = 4/0
debut date = 31 May
debut year = 1947
last date = 17 May
last year = 1961
source = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/26/26781/26781.html Cricket Archive

Nathan Bernard "Sonny" Hool (born 28 January 1924 in Dublin, Ireland; died 10 October 1988 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) [http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/26/26781/26781.html Cricket Archive profile] ] was an Irish cricketer. A right-handed batsman and Left-arm orthodox spin bowler, he played fourteen times for the Ireland cricket team between 1947 and 1961, [http://www.cricketeurope4.net/CSTATZ/irelandall/ire130.htm CricketEurope Stats Zone profile] ] including nine first-class matches. [http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/26/26781/First-Class_Matches.html First-class matches played by Sonny Hool at Cricket Archive] ]

Playing career

Hool made his debut for Ireland against Scotland in May 1947 in a first-class match. Whilst it was an unsuccessful match with the bat, scoring a duck in each innings, he was successful with the ball in the Scottish second innings, taking 5/73 with his left-arm spin. He continued the year with matches against Yorkshire, the Craven Gentlemen and Derbyshire before a match at Lord's against the MCC where he took 5/19 in the only MCC innings, his best bowling figures for Ireland.

He played just four times over the following three years, against Scotland and the MCC in 1948, against Yorkshire in July 1949 and against Nottinghamshire in July 1950 before spending four years out of the Ireland team. He returned with a first-class match against Scotland in July 1954 and a match against the MCC in September, during which he scored 27 in the first innings, his highest score for Ireland.

He played just three more times for Ireland, against Scotland in June 1956, against the Free Foresters in August 1957 and against Leicestershire in May 1961.

tatistics

In all matches for Ireland, he scored 189 runs at an average of 15.75 and took 27 wickets at an average of 31.26. He took five wickets in an innings twice. In first-class cricket, he scored 132 runs at an average of 16.50 and took 18 wickets at an average of 33.38, taking five wickets in an innings once.

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