Jason Adam Max Molins (born 4 December 1974) is an Irish former
cricket
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er. He played as a right-handed
batsman
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, with his career for the
Irish national side spanning from 1995 to 2006, which included a spell as the captain of the team.
Early and personal life
Molins was born in
Dublin
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, and is Jewish. His father is Rodney Molins.
His brother,
Greg
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, and cousin,
Lara Molins, also played for Ireland.
He was initially educated in Ireland and then finished his studies in England. He attended secondary school
Wesley College and
Dublin High School.
He studied for an economics degree at
University College Dublin
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, and then completed his post-graduate diploma at the
University of Oxford
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in 1997.
Following this, he moved to London where he worked as a
fixed income
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analyst for an
investment management company
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following a number of other roles in the City including
corporate finance
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. Molins married
Aoife Mulholland
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, a
West End actress from
Galway
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, in 2009. In 2015 he relocated back to Ireland with his wife and two boys (Max and Brody), to start a career as an
Equity Analyst at
Goodbody Stockbrokers
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.
They now reside in Dublin with their three boys.
Cricket career
He debuted at
first-class level for Ireland in 1998 and while studying at
Keble College, Oxford
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, received his Oxford
Blue
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in 1998, scoring a
half century
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in the Varsity match at Lords. He participated in the 2001 and 2005
ICC Trophy
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tournaments, and aided them to that year's finals, where they lost against
Scotland
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. He captained Ireland between 2001 and 2005, and was instrumental in the victories over
Zimbabwe
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(scoring 107 not out),
Surrey
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(scoring 56), and the
West Indies
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(scoring 66). He is Ireland's most successful captain, having captained Ireland on no fewer than 45 occasions, and has a win ratio of over 60%.
Despite his prior role as captain, Molins was not selected for Ireland at the
2007 World Cup, and never played at
One Day International
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(ODI) level. In 2008, he was named along with
Mark Bott and
Darren Gerard to the Maccabi GB cricket team to represent the United Kingdom at the
2009 Maccabiah Games
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.
See also
*
List of select Jewish cricketers
References
External links
Jason Molins interview with The Daily TelegraphRichard Bullick comments on the omission of Jason MolinsMolins frustrated by continued absence from Irish teamMolins instrumental in famous victory
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1974 births
Living people
Alumni of Keble College, Oxford
Competitors at the 2009 Maccabiah Games
Cricketers from County Dublin
Irish cricketers
Irish cricket captains
Jewish cricketers
Jewish Irish sportspeople
Maccabiah Games competitors for Great Britain
Maccabiah Games cricketers
Oxford University cricketers
People educated at The High School, Dublin
People educated at Wesley College, Dublin