Richie Berrington

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Richie Berrington
Personal information
Full name
Richard Douglas Berrington
Born (1987-04-03) 3 April 1987 (age 37)
Pretoria, Transvaal Province, South Africa
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium-fast
RoleAll-rounder
International information
National side
ODI debut (cap 30)2 July 2008 v Ireland
Last ODI7 March 2024 v Canada
T20I debut (cap 12)2 August 2008 v Ireland
Last T20I28 July 2023 v Ireland
Career statistics
Competition ODI T20I FC LA
Matches 115 85 20 182
Runs scored 2,962 2,032 844 4,499
Batting average 30.85 32.77 29.10 29.99
100s/50s 4/18 1/10 2/4 6/26
Top score 127 100 129 127
Balls bowled 1,550 518 1,206 2,727
Wickets 34 28 25 64
Bowling average 39.55 23.57 25.96 38.40
5 wickets in innings 0 0 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0 0 0
Best bowling 4/40 3/17 3/13 4/40
Catches/stumpings 39/– 18/– 15/– 59/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 7 March 2024

Richard Douglas Berrington (born 3 April 1987) is a Scottish cricketer. He played for Scotland in the 2006 Under-19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka, and has since played first-class, One Day International, and List A cricket for Scotland. In June 2022, Berrington was named as the captain of the national team, after Kyle Coetzer stepped down from leading the side.[1]

Early life and youth career

Berrington was born in Pretoria, South Africa, but emigrated to Scotland as a child.[2] Berrington played cricket for Scotland at a national level as a teenager, representing the country at every youth level from under-13s up to under-19s.[3] He was so skilled that while he was still eligible to play under-17s cricket, he was already playing for Scotland's under-19 team.[2] As an 18-year-old, he went to India as part of the European Cricket Council Development team, and he was also part of the International Cricket Council's first Winter Training Camp in Pretoria.[2][3] Following this, he was part of Scotland's squad for the 2006 Under-19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka.[2][4]

International career

Berrington progressed through the Scottish A team and then made his One Day International debut for Scotland against Ireland in July 2008, hitting the winning runs for Scotland.[2][5] He played in his first Twenty20 International, also against Ireland, the next month.[6] Berrington became a regular member of the Scottish team,[2] being particularly effective in Twenty20s and first-class cricket,[7] and he was part of their squad to play in the 2009 ICC World Twenty20.[8] After being on a seasonal contract between April and September 2009, he became the sixth Scottish cricketer to be given a full-time contract with Cricket Scotland in March 2010 as part of Scotland's efforts to increase professionalism in their national team.[7]

Berrington has scored centuries in a number of key matches for Scotland, but he was frustratingly inconsistent.[2] In June 2010, in a match against India A, Berrington scored 106 to help Scotland recover from 7/64 to score the required 277 runs, causing a major upset.[9] In July 2011, he scored 56 runs in just 23 balls in an ODI to help Scotland scale highest ever successful run chase,[10] which years later Scottish captain Preston Mommsen would refer to as his most memorable innings.[11] Next he scored 100 runs off 56 balls in a Twenty20 International on 24 July 2012 against Bangladesh⁷, which Scotland won by 34 runs. This made Berrington just the seventh cricketer to score a century in a Twenty20 International, the first from an associate nation, and it gave Scotland their first ever win against a full member of the ICC. Berrington's ton won the match almost single-handedly for Scotland, as none of the other Scottish batsmen scored more than 19 runs.[12][13] He scored his maiden century in ODIs against Ireland in September 2014, ensuring his place in Scotland's team for the 2015 Cricket World Cup, albeit in a losing cause.[2][14][15]

In Scotland's opening match of the 2015 World Cup against host nation New Zealand, Berrington scored 50 runs as part of a large partnership with Matt Machan, who also scored a half-century, but it was the only substantial partnership of the innings and Scotland were bowled out for 142, which New Zealand chased down with more than half of their overs remaining.[16][17] This was Berrington's highest score of the World Cup.[18] While bowling during Scotland's group match against Sri Lanka, Berrington's shoe disintegrated as he took his delivery stride in one ball.[19]

In a 2016 ODI match against the United Arab Emirates, Berrington passed 1,000 ODI runs. In the same match, Preston Mommsen and Kyle Coetzer both passed 1,000 runs as well. Previously, only two Scottish cricketers had achieved this milestone.[11] In January 2017, Berrington and Calum MacLeod were part of a record 127-run partnership, the highest ever T20I partnership for Scotland, in a match against Hong Kong, with Berrington's orthodox style combining well with MacLeod's unorthodox strokeplay.[20] He made his career-best List A score of 110 against Namibia in June 2017.[21][22] Berrington also captained his first international matches for Scotland in January 2018 during the 2017–18 United Arab Emirates Tri-Nation Series. Scottish captain Kyle Coetzer was unavailable for the first two matches as he was completing coaching qualifications, so Berrington stood in as captain for Scotland's first two matches against Ireland.[23]

Berrington played for Scotland in the 2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier. He scored a half-century in Scotland's opening-day upset win against Afghanistan as part of a national record 208-run third-wicket partnership with Calum MacLeod,[24][25] and he scored 47 runs in Scotland's thrilling tie with Zimbabwe.[26][27] In Scotland's final match, with Scotland needing to beat the West Indies to qualify for the 2019 Cricket World Cup, Berrington was controversially dismissed leg before wicket. Replays showed that the ball hit Berrington outside the line of off stump, meaning he should not have been given out. As the tournament was not making use of the Umpire Decision Review System to save on costs, Scotland were unable to challenge the call. Scotland lost by just four runs under the Duckworth–Lewis–Stern method, but had they lost one less wicket they would have won.[28]

In September 2019, he was named in Scotland's squad for the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier tournament in the United Arab Emirates.[29] In November 2020, Berrington was nominated for the ICC Men's Associate Cricketer of the Decade award.[30]

In September 2021, Berrington was named the vice-captain of Scotland's provisional squad for the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.[31]

In December 2022, Berrington became the first player to make 100 ODI appearances for Scotland.[32]

On 28 July 2023, he joined the small group of T20I players to have scored over 2,000 runs in their T20I career.[33]

Twenty20 franchise cricket

In June 2019, he was selected to play for the Edmonton Royals franchise team in the 2019 Global T20 Canada tournament.[34] In July 2019, he was selected to play for the Glasgow Giants in the inaugural edition of the Euro T20 Slam cricket tournament.[35][36] However, the following month the tournament was cancelled.[37]

References

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  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "Richie Berrington". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
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  8. ^ "Scotland make four changes for ICC World Twenty20". ESPNcricinfo. 6 May 2009. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
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  11. ^ a b Della Penna, Peter (16 August 2016). "Mommsen, Berrington, Coetzer raise the bar after magical 1000". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  12. ^ "Berrington steers Scotland to win over Bangladesh". BBC Sport. 24 July 2012. Retrieved 24 July 2012.
  13. ^ "Bangladesh v Scotland, T20, The Hague: Richie Berrington ton leads Scotland to victory". ESPNcricinfo. 24 July 2012. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  14. ^ "Scotland tour of Ireland, 2nd ODI: Ireland v Scotland at Dublin, Sep 10, 2014". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
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  19. ^ Olver, Tom (11 March 2015). "2015 Cricket World Cup: Scotland cricketer Richie Berrington's trainer disintegrated bowling against Sri Lanka". Metro. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  20. ^ Della Penna, Peter (14 January 2017). "MacLeod, Berrington trump Hong Kong with record stand". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  21. ^ Della Penna, Peter (12 June 2017). "Sole, Sharif lead Scotland's charge to victory". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  22. ^ Della Penna, Peter (13 June 2017). "Higher intensity is leading to results - Berrington". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  23. ^ "Scotland captain Kyle Coetzer to miss start of tri-series in UAE". ESPNcricinfo. 12 January 2018. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
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  29. ^ "Squads announced for T20I Tri-Series in Ireland and ICC Men's T20 World Cup Qualifier". Cricket Scotland. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
  30. ^ "ICC Awards of the Decade announced". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  31. ^ "Captain Coetzer leads Scotland squad to ICC Men's T20 World Cup". Cricket Scotland. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  32. ^ "Records for Scotland in ODI matches: Individual Most Matches Career". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
  33. ^ "Batting records | Twenty20 Internationals | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 28 July 2023.
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  35. ^ "Eoin Morgan to represent Dublin franchise in inaugural Euro T20 Slam". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
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  37. ^ "Inaugural Euro T20 Slam cancelled at two weeks' notice". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 14 August 2019.

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