Allan Eastwood

[1] Eastwood is from Roscrea in County Tipperary and began his cricketing career at Ballyeighan C.C.

When Ballyeighan failed to gain promotion to senior ranks due to their lack of facilities Eastwood moved to Pembroke C.C.

[2] After quickly establishing himself in Pembroke's first team Eastwood assumed the captaincy for the 2010 season.

[4] In that match he did enough to impress the watching Ireland coach Phil Simmons and was called into the first team for the game against The Netherlands the following week.

He is the second man from Roscrea to play for Ireland, the other being Harry Read over a century ago.