He was playing for the Essex Second XI at the age of 17,[1] but his debut in first-class cricket was in a County Championship match against Middlesex in August 1976; he scored 18 and 13, opening the batting in both innings.
[3] McEvoy remained a bit-part player in the Essex side for the rest of the 1970s, but this changed in 1980 when he played in 16 first-class and eight List A games.
[4] He again played a fair number of first-team games in 1981, and claimed his only three first-class wickets when he took 3/20 against Middlesex at Lord's,[5] but he was confined to the Second XI after mid-July and left Essex at the end of the season.
[6] In 1983, he returned to senior cricket with Worcestershire, and near the end of the season hit his only first-class hundred when he struck 103 against Warwickshire.
[8] He scored four centuries in the space of six weeks in 1989,[9] and appeared in Suffolk's losing Championship final against Cheshire in 1985, though he was dismissed for just 5.