- Jason Molins
Jason Molins (born
4 December 1974 ) is an Irishcricket er. He is a right-handed batsman. Born inDublin , he has played First-class cricket for Ireland since 1998 and received his Oxford Blue in 1998 scoring a half century in the Varsity match at Lords. He participated in the 2001 and 2005 ICC Trophy tournaments, and aided them to that year's finals, where they lost against Scotland. He captained Ireland between 2001 and 2005 and was instrumental in the victories over Zimbabwe (scoring 107 not out) Surrey (scoring 56) and the West Indies (scoring 66). He is Ireland's most successful captain having captained Ireland on no fewer than 45 occasions and has a win ratio of over 60%.Molins was not selected for the 2007 World Cup which came as a big surprise to those involved in Irish cricket. Having captained the team for 5 years en route to qualification Molins became frozen out of the set-up which left many within Irish cricket flabergasted. Molins was central to many of Ireland's famous victories and it is felt that the manner in which he attacked opening bowlers, crashing the ball around at the start of the innings, laid the foundations to the self-belief that grew within the Irish squad.
Molins generally occupies the position of opening batsman for the Irish one-day team. His brother Greg is a former cricketer as is his first cousing Lara.
Molins was initially educated in Ireland and then finished his studies England. He studied for an economics degree at University College Dublin and then completed his post-graduate diploma at Oxford University in 1997. Following this he moved to London and now works as a Fixed Income analyst for an investment management company following a number of other roles in the City including Corporate Finance.
External links
* [http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/7/7220/7220.html Jason Molins] at Cricket Archive
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2004/05/13/scbrig13.xml Jason Molins interview with The Daily Telegraph]
* [http://www.cricketeurope4.net/DATABASE/ARTICLES/articles/000031/003138.shtml Richard Bullick comments on the omission of Jason Molins]
* [http://www.cricketeurope4.net/DATABASE/ARTICLES2/articles/000029/002979.shtml Molins frustrated by continued absence from Irish team]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/eng_v_zim_2003/2986846.stm Molins instrumental in famous victory]
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