deliveries columns catches/stumpings year tenfor bowling country fivefor batting name lasttestyear column international testdebutdate source date runs testdebutyear wickets lasttestdate s/s matches article_title
0 1 6/0 1949 0 unknown irish 0 left-handed batsman stanley bergin 1965 first-class true 23 july http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/archive/players/26/26697/26697.html cricket archive 23 july 1610 1949 0 4 september 2/9 27 stanley bergin

stanley bergin

stanley francis bergin -lrb- 18 december 1926 in dublin -- 4 august 1969 in dublin -rrb- was an irish cricketer .
a left-handed batsman , he made his debut for ireland against yorkshire in july 1949 .
he went onto play for ireland on 53 occasions , his last match coming against hampshire in september 1965 .
27 of his matches for ireland had first-class status .
he opened the batting for ireland for sixteen years .
he played 53 matches , he had 98 innings , 7 not out 's , 2524 runs , his average was 27.74 , he got fifteen 50 's , two 100 's and 17 catches .
he played for pembroke cc and ireland .
he was one of a family of seven boys , stanley was eduacated at westland row cbs .
he played football and hurling for the school and represented leinster at college level .
he was also a top junior-soccer player and played fullback for monkstown in rugby 's leinster senior cup .
add to that a golf handicap of 15 and league-level table tennis and you have a remarkable all-round sportsman .
but on top of it all was his love and aptitude for the game of cricket .
he joined pembroke cc , for whom his brother bernard opened the batting .
bernard won two caps for ireland against the 1937 new zealanders , when the three-day match ended in one day .
two other brothers , augustine -lrb- railway union -rrb- and gerard -lrb- pembroke -rrb- also played senior cricket .
stanley was only fourteen when he made his first xi debut in a side sporting several internationals including the william brothers .
a small , wiry batsmen who always wore glasses , bergin was particularly strong square of the wicket , but the hallmark of his game was his concentration .
this was best seen against the 1951 south africans , who fielded cuan mccarthy , the fastest bowler in the world at the time .
ireland lost by an innings , but bergin batted through the second innings for an unbeaten 79 -lrb- out of the team 's 130 -rrb- - the last time an irish batsmen carried his bat .
he was similarly dogged in batting for six hours against leicestershire in 1959 for innings of 31 and 23 .
among his other notable feats for ireland were four consecutive fifties in 1950-51 .
he made 7,713 runs with pembroke before he retired from cricket altogether in 1965 .
his career average of 36.9 was the record when he retired from cricket , and is still good enough to make the top ten all-time lcu batsmen .
he won the marchant cup for the province 's leading batsmen on four occasions and won league and cup doubles with pembroke in 1944 , 1946 , 1954 and 1957 , the last as captain .
he made eight centuries for pembroke , the first an unbeaten 101 against merrion at the age of sixteen .
a journalist by trade , he was cricket correspondent for `` the irish times '' and the `` evening herald '' , and also wrote about gaelic games .
in those days of ` the ban ' , his name used to appear in cricket scorecards as ' b stanley ' to preserve his reputation among the gaels .
he suffered a cricket ban too , in 1960 , for accepting an individual award from caltex , the forerunner of the texaco awards .
since then only dermott monteith -lrb- 1971 and 1973 -rrb- and ed joyce -lrb- 2005 -rrb- have won the award .
his two centuries for ireland came against scotland in 1959 and 1961 , while he also made 69 and 63 * against yorkshire in 1959 .
the 1961 hundred came in cork , where he took more than six hours .
it took him half an hour to get from 92 to 96 but then began slashing wildly and was dropped twice .
he never made a century at lord ' but came close in 1963 -lrb- 88 -rrb- and 1965 -lrb- 78 -rrb- .
his last game for ireland was in september 1965 at clontarf , close to where he lived .
several of his sons continued the cricketing tradition in castl avenue after his untimely death and brendan represented north leinster in the 1980s .
