Jason Molins

Jason Adam Max Molins (born 4 December 1974) is an Irish cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman. Born in Dublin, 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%.[1][2]

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 flabbergasted. 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 cousin 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.[3] 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.[3]

In 2008, Molins was named along with Mark Bott and Darren Gerard to the Maccabi GB cricket team to represent the United Kingdom at the 2009 Maccabiah Games.[4]

Molins married Aoife Mulholland in Marbella, Spain, on 6 September 2009.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Molins recalled to Ireland squad". BBC News. 21 March 2006. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  2. ↑ "MOLINS – IRELAND ON THE UP". Sporting Life. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gough, Martin (2 May 2005). "Molins eyes World Cup meeting". BBC News. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  4. ↑ "Maccabiah Cricket Squads Announced". TotallyJewish.com. Retrieved 23 August 2009.

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