Ed Joyce was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1978 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He is an exciting left-handed batsman with a wide selection of strokes who made his county debut in 1999 and was capped in 2002. He has scored 5,451 runs in 76 first-class matches for the County at an average of 48.23. A former Ireland international, who has now qualified to play for England. He appears to have an illustrious career before him