Conroy Wright (born 18 April 1985) is a
Caymanian
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cricket
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er. Wright is a right-handed
batsman
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who bowls right-arm
medium pace
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.
Wright made his debut for the
Cayman Islands in a
Twenty20
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match against the
Bahamas
The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the archi ...
in the
2006 Stanford 20/20. He made a further appearance in that competition, against
Trinidad and Tobago
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.
He later made a further Twenty20 appearance in the
2008 Stanford 20/20 against
St Lucia
Saint Lucia ( acf, Sent Lisi, french: Sainte-Lucie) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs, two Amerindia ...
.
He batted just once in his three Twenty20 appearances, being dismissed for a
duck
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against Trinidad and Tobago by
Samuel Badree
Samuel Badree (born 8 March 1981) is a former Trinidadian cricketer and cricket coach who played international cricket for the West Indies. He is a right-arm leg-spin bowler.
Badree made his first-class debut for Trinidad and Tobago in 2002, b ...
. He also took just a single wicket, that of St Lucia's
Shervin Charles
Shervin Mitchel Charles (birth September 20, 1983 in St Lucia) is a former Saint Lucian cricketer who played for the Saint Lucia national cricket team in Stanford 20/20
The Stanford 20/20 was a short-lived cricket tournament in the Caribbea ...
.
He has since played for the team in the
2010 Americas Championship Division One and the
2010 World Cricket League Division Four. He was selected as part of the Cayman Islands squad for the
2012 World Cricket League Division Five played in
Singapore
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...
in February.
In August 2019, he was named in the
Cayman Islands cricket team's
Twenty20 International
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(T20I) squad for the
Regional Finals
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of the
2018–19 ICC T20 World Cup Americas Qualifier tournament. He made his T20I debut for the Cayman Islands against
Canada
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on 18 August 2019.
References
External links
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1985 births
Living people
Caymanian cricketers
Cayman Islands Twenty20 International cricketers