{"id":720752,"date":"2026-06-07T09:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T09:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/720752\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T09:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T09:31:10","slug":"bray-honoured-cricket-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/720752\/","title":{"rendered":"Bray honoured &#8211; Cricket Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Irish international, and current <a href=\"https:\/\/munstercricket.ie\/munster-cricket-appoints-ex-irish-international-jeremy-bray-as-new-pathway-manager\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Talent Pathway Manager<\/a> for Munster Cricket, Jeremy Bray has been inducted into the Cricket Writers\u2019 of Ireland Irish Cricket Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The presentation of a framed cap and photo was made by former teammate Andrew White at the Test Match at Stormont recently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Originally hailing from Australia, the left-handed top-order batter was one of the most prolific run-scorers in Irish domestic and international cricket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bray scored 30 centuries in local cricket, but it was a hundred for Ireland that was the most memorable \u2013 his ton against Zimbabwe the first by an Irish player at the 2007 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He achieved 83 caps for Ireland, scoring 2,812 runs \u2013 including 12 fifties and seven hundreds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since retiring, he\u2019s continued within the sport in a coaching capacity in Ireland and beyond, and is currently Head Coach for the Munster Heat and the Provincial Talent Pathway Manager for Munster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bray said:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was a real honour and a privilege to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. While there are many great memories, the biggest highlight was being involved with such a great group of players and a brilliant coach in Adi Birrell throughout most of my playing career for Ireland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img data-lazyloaded=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"742\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2590251-1024x742.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73707\"  data-\/>Jeremy Bray<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Irish international, and current Talent Pathway Manager for Munster Cricket, Jeremy Bray has been inducted into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,349386,85],"class_list":["post-720752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-irish-cricket-awards","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}