Jason Molins

Who is Jason Molins?

Jason Adam Max Molins is an Irish cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman. Born in Dublin, he has played First-class cricket for Ireland since 1998 and received his Oxford Blue in 1998 scoring a half century in the Varsity match at Lords. He participated in the 2001 and 2005 ICC Trophy tournaments, and aided them to that year's finals, where they lost against Scotland. He captained Ireland between 2001 and 2005 and was instrumental in the victories over Zimbabwe Surrey and the West Indies. He is Ireland's most successful captain having captained Ireland on no fewer than 45 occasions and has a win ratio of over 60%.

Molins was not selected for the 2007 World Cup which came as a big surprise to those involved in Irish cricket. Having captained the team for 5 years en route to qualification Molins became frozen out of the set-up which left many within Irish cricket flabbergasted. Molins was central to many of Ireland's famous victories and it is felt that the manner in which he attacked opening bowlers, crashing the ball around at the start of the innings, laid the foundations to the self-belief that grew within the Irish squad.