Andrew Robert McBrine (born 30 April 1993) is an Irishcricketer. He is a left-handed batsman who bowls right-arm off spin. McBrine is the son of Alexander McBrine and the nephew of James McBrine, both of whom also played cricket for Ireland.
In July 2019, he was selected to play for the Belfast Titans in the inaugural edition of the Euro T20 Slam cricket tournament.[3][4] However, the following month the tournament was cancelled.[5]
In May 2018, he was named in a fourteen-man squad for Ireland's first Test match, to be played against Pakistan later the same month, but he was not selected to play.[10][11]
In December 2018, he was one of nineteen players to be awarded a central contract by Cricket Ireland for the 2019 season.[12][13] In January 2019, he was named in Ireland's squad for their one-off Test against Afghanistan in India.[14][15] He made his Test debut for Ireland against Afghanistan on 15 March 2019.[16]
In January 2020, he was one of nineteen players to be awarded a central contract from Cricket Ireland,[17] the first year in which all contracts were awarded on a full-time basis.[18] On 10 July 2020, McBrine was named in Ireland's 21-man squad to travel to England to start training behind closed doors for the ODI series against the England cricket team.[19][20]
In February 2023, he was named in Ireland's Test squad for their series against Bangladesh.[24] On 5 April 2023, in the second innings of the only Test, he took his maiden five-wicket haul in Test cricket and became the second Irish cricketer to claim a fifer in Tests.[25] His figures of 6 for 118 was also the best bowling figures in an innings by an Irish player in Tests.[26]
