Gordon Cooke (born 24 July 1975
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. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-fast bowler, he played 66 times for the Irish cricket team between 1994 and 2005. He made his debut for Ireland on 11 June 1994, playing against

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in a first-class match.First-class matches played by Gordon Cooke at Cricket Archive
/ref> He played for Ireland in five more matches that year, and two matches in 1995 before being absent from the Irish team for two years. He returned to the team in May 1997 and remained an almost constant presence in the side until the

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in 2000, which was to be his last game for Ireland until 2004, when he returned in that year's European Championship tournament. His last games for Ireland came in the

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, playing in the final as Ireland lost to Scotland. He has now retired from cricket. Of his 66 matches for Ireland, five had first-class status and 18 had

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status.List A matches played by Gordon Cooke at Cricket Archive
/ref> His other three List A matches were for Northern Ireland as part of the cricket tournament at the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cooke, Gordon 1975 births Cricketers at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Living people Cricketers from Derry (city) Commonwealth Games competitors for Northern Ireland Irish cricketers