Ian Holland


Ian Gabriel Holland is an American cricketer who plays for the United States national [cricket team|United States cricket team] and for Leicestershire County Cricket Club in England. He has also played domestic cricket in Australia.

Early life

Holland was born in Wisconsin to an American mother and British-born Australian father. They moved to Australia when he was two years old, and he grew up in Melbourne. In 2012, when he was 21, he won the Australian cricket-based reality television series Cricket Superstar.

Career

Holland earned his first contract with Victoria after winning Cricket Superstar. He made his first-class debut for Victoria on 3 February 2016 in the 2015–16 Sheffield Shield.
He made his List A debut for the English side Hampshire in the 2017 Royal London One-Day Cup on 27 April 2017. He made his Twenty20 cricket debut, also for Hampshire, in the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast on 3 August 2017.
Holland holds a United States passport. In June 2019, he was named in a 30-man training squad for the United States cricket team, ahead of the Regional Finals of the 2018–19 ICC T20 World Cup Americas Qualifier tournament in Bermuda. The following month, he was one of twelve players to sign a three-month central contract with USA Cricket. In November 2019, he was named in the United States' squad for the 2019–20 Regional Super50 tournament. On 11 November 2019, he made his debut for the United States, against Guyana.
In December 2019, he was named in the United States' One Day International squad for the 2019 United Arab Emirates Tri-Nation Series. He made his ODI debut for the United States, against the United Arab Emirates on 8 December 2019.
In August 2020, in the third round of matches in the 2020 Bob Willis Trophy, Holland took his maiden five-wicket haul in first-class cricket.
In October 2021, he was named in the American Twenty20 International squad for the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Americas Qualifier tournament in Antigua. He made his T20I debut on 7 November 2021, for the United States against Belize.