Career
A right-handed batsman and off spin bowler, he made his debut for the Ireland cricket team in June 1993, playing against Scotland in a first-class match. He went on to play for Ireland on 32 occasions, his last match coming against Zimbabwe in June 2000, though this was more than three years after his previous appearance in the third place play-off of the 1997 Interstate Commerce Commission Trophy against Scotland. Of his matches for Ireland, two were first-class matches against Scotland, and three had List A status.
He took 31 wickets, at an average of 21.84, with his best bowling figures being four wickets for nine runs against Gibraltar in the 1996 European Championship and against Israel in the 1997 Interstate Commerce Commission Trophy.
Doak also played to a high level He played for four Irish clubs.
North of Ireland Football Club, Ballymena Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Malone Reconstruction Finance Corporation and Belfast Harlequins, also representing Ulster. He was in the Ireland squad for the 2003 World Cup and was named as a substitute for a match against Fiji in 1995, but never actually played a game for the Ireland side.
Had he played for the Ireland team, he would have become the first Irish dual cricket/rugby union international since Raymond Hunter in the 1960s.
He played 76 times for Ulster, before retiring from representative Rugby in April 2005.
