Noel Ferguson

{{Short description|Irish cricketer (1927–2007)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Noel Ferguson | image = | caption = | batting = Left-handed | bowling = Right-arm medium | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 5 | runs1 = 122 | bat avg1 = 15.25 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 37 | deliveries1 = 869 | wickets1 = 19 | bowl avg1 = 19.73 | fivefor1 = 1 | tenfor1 = 0 | best bowling1 = 6/37 | catches/stumpings1= 3/– | international = true | country = Ireland | source = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/26/26746/26746.html CricketArchive | date = 9 October | year = 2022 }}

'''William Henry Noel Ferguson''' (6 December 1927 – 31 October 2007)<ref name="CAP">[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/26/26746/26746.html Noel Ferguson], CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 October 2022. {{subscription required}}</ref> usually known as '''Noel Ferguson''', was an Irish cricketer.

A left-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler,<ref name="CAP" /> he made his debut for the Ireland cricket team in June 1951 against Scotland<ref name="CESZP">[http://www.cricketeurope4.net/CSTATZ/irelandall/ire91.htm CricketEurope Stats Zone profile]</ref> in a first-class match.<ref name="FCM">[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/26/26746/First-Class_Matches.html First-class matches played by Noel Ferguson at Cricket Archive]</ref> He did not play for the Irish team again until June 1962 (a gap of exactly eleven years),<ref name="CESZP" /> when he returned to the side for another first-class game against the Combined Services cricket team.<ref name="FCM" /> He remained in the team for the next two years, playing ten matches in all, his last match coming against the MCC in September 1964.<ref name="CESZP" />

Of his matches for Ireland, five had first-class status.<ref name="FCM" /> In all matches for Ireland, he scored 180 runs at an average of 12.86 with a top score of 37 against Scotland in July 1963. He took 27 wickets at an average of 21.15, with best bowling of 6/37 against Scotland in July 1962.<ref name="CESZP" />

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