Bhatti almost had four in four and five in six but umpire Baldwin turned down another lbw appeal against Johnston.
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Bhatti almost had four in four and five in six but umpire Baldwin turned down another lbw appeal against Johnston.
Typical, the team always collapses, that is a big weakness that needs to be addressed.
It's a pretty common phenomenon in the world of cricket, to be honest. A lengthy partnership is often followed by a glut of wickets, because players lose concentration in the dressing room. Didn't help that the new ball, which Canada took after 80 overs, was swinging around corners. Hopefully Langford-Smith and Johnston can exploit that when Canada bat again.
At lunch Ireland are 324-8, Johnston having been bowled by Osinde in the last over before the interval. The lead is now 232.
Get to 250 lead and that would be good.
God I'm good. Ireland 352 all out (the additional runs were due to Eoin Morgan hitting out with only Langford-Smith for company and thumping a flurry of fours and sixes.) Ireland lead by 260.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sheridan
Irish card:
JP Bray: 146 (c Mulla b Davison)
WTS Porterfield: 54 ( c Bagai b Samad)
EJG Morgan: 84 ( c Bagai b Umar Bhatti)
PG Gillespie: 18 (lbw b Samad
KJ O'Brien: 35 (lbw b Umar Bhatti)
AR White: 0 (lbw b Umar Bhatti)
+GC Wilson: 0 (lbw b Umar Hbatti)
MJ Fourie: 0 (lbw b Umar Bhatti)
*DT Johnston: 9 (b Osinde)
WK McCallan: 2 ( c Jyoti b Osinde)
D Langford-Smith: 1*
Canada 43/3 after 10 overs
Johnstone with 2 and Big Dave with the other.
Latest score is 63/4, Bagai caught O'Brien bowled Johnston. Bit of an anti-climax, this.
Is this the style of match that the big countries play at test level? Do you play infinite overs until you're all bowled out?
Yeah, except Test cricket is played over five days rather than four. This is proper cricket. You bat until you declare your innings closed for tactical reasons, or you're bowled out, or you reach your target and win, or the prescribed number of days expire.
McCallan strikes last ball before tea. Kaiser Ali trapped lbw for 6, Canada 81-5. This should be over inside two days. DLS has done back in, apparently.
Almost; you don't have infinite overs, they're limited by time, you get four days in this game (five in a test match). I think there's usually about 80 overs in day. Each team gets two innings as opposed to one in one-day games.Quote:
Originally Posted by Poor Student
This should be a comfortable inside 2 days !
I think in a Test Match, from what I saw, it is 80 overs to new ball.
It's 80 in Test cricket, 90 in county cricket and evidently 80 in the Intercontinental Cup.
McCallan takes a return catch off his own bowling to remove Mulla for 48. Canada 114-6.
Kyoti caught in the slip cordon by White off O'Brien. 127/7, almost done and dusted. McCallan bowls Bastampillai next over. 131/8.
How would it be in your advantage to end an innings early?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sheridan
If a game is still running when the time elapses do they use some sort of Duckworth Lewis method to compare scores?
To use an extreme (hypothetical) example, imagine a team was so superior to its opponent that they couldn't bowl them out within five days. Obviously there's no advantage to the superior team in seeing the five days elapse without a result and thus end the game in a draw. Typically a team will declare its innings closed in order to give themselves time to bowl the opposition out and win the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Poor Student
Nope. Once the five days elapse without a result, it's a draw. Playing for a draw from a disadvantageous position is an art in itself. There used to be such a thing as "timeless Tests", one of which, in the early 1900s, ended in a draw after about 10 days because England (closing in on their mammoth target) had to catch their boat home from South Africa.Quote:
If a game is still running when the time elapses do they use some sort of Duckworth Lewis method to compare scores?
Aus, aus, das Spiel ist aus! McCallan bowls Codrington and then has Osinde caught by White to finish with a second innings Michelle.
Canada are dismissed for 145, Ireland win by an innings and 115 runs to retain the Intercontinental Cup.
Hahaha. Thanks for the information.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sheridan
It seems this Intercontinental Cup is easy for the Irish :D
:rolleyes:So much for the team gaining proper cricket experience from a four-day game. :D :D
Ireland's game with Surrey was (mercifully, as Surrey racked up a world record 496 in 50 overs in an earlier game) abandoned as a no result today due to rain.
More rain at todays game so far.
Sussex v Ireland rained off, no result. Ireland's overseas player Jesse Ryder will not be returning to the squad after failing to show at the Surrey game, claiming he missed his plane. Slow left-armer Gary Kidd has been called up instead, but a new overseas player may be contracted before the next game.
Trent Johnston will captain Europe against the MCC at Lord's on June 7th. Four Irish players have been selected in the European squad, which will be coached by former Ireland boss Adrian Birrell.
Full squad:
Trent Johnston (Ireland, captain)
John Blain (Scotland)
Jeremy Bray (Ireland)
Freddie Klokker (Denmark)
Kyle McCallan (Ireland)
Kevin O’Brien (Ireland)
Glenn Rogers (Scotland)
Colin Smith (Scotland)
Ryan Watson (Scotland)
Craig Wright (Scotland)
Bas Zuiderent (Netherlands)
12th man:
Kris Moherndl (Guernsey)
Not Looking good for the ODI's v South Africa and India
http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/irela...ry/296355.html
games to go ahead as planned
http://www.cricketeurope4.net/DATABA...6/004690.shtml
also Eoin Morgan made 70 odd yesterday against somerset.
At least that is some good news.
Europe restricted MCC to 183 at Lord's this morning. Europe are currently 14/2, with Jeremy Bray suffering the unique experience of being dismissed by an Afghan.
Europe defeated MCC by 2 wickets in a close game at Lord's. The Scottish bowlers did the damage in restricting MCC to 183. Europe were in desperate trouble at 33-5 (Bray 10, O'Brien 3) but Trent Johnston (48) and the Dane Freddie Klokker (47) rescued the innings. McCallan with 28 and Scotland's Wright (23*) saw Europe home.
Good old Trent to the rescue, probably got 4, 6 sixes :D
South African squad for irish tour
http://content-www.cricinfo.com/sout...ry/297228.html
Ireland are going reasonably well against Middlesex at Castle Avenue, Clontarf today (get up there if you can an enjoy a day's cricket in the sun.) Having won the toss and elected to bat, Ireland are currently 76-2 after 23 overs. A good platform, but they need to step up the run rate dramatically in the last 20 overs or so.
Dom Joyce's return to the national team lasted only 9 runs, whereupon he was caught by his brother Ed off the bowling of the Indian spinner Murali Karthik, who's proving a tricky customer. Kenny Carroll was first man out for 22 after putting on 55 for the first wicket with Porterfield (still there on 42*.) Kevin O'Brien is the new man in, with Alex Cusack due to make his Ireland début on his home ground upon the fall of the next wicket.
Ireland Innings
161 for 6 (43.4 overs)
Edit:
176 all out.
You can listen live on BBC
I've just learnt Burgers & Hot Dogs on sale at the top of the ground. :D
I'm listening too (speakers dangling into the garden), you'd think they'd switch the mics off during the interval.
Another crap performance. Cusack did okay on début, making 29. Porterfield top-scored with 68. There's a growing lobby to recall former captain Jason Molins (probably the only member of the Jewish community to captain Ireland at any sport?) who's currently in good form, but it's questionable whether selecting a man playing club cricket in the UK would send the right signals.
Another miserable defeat at Clontarf today. Middlesex knocked off the 176 required inside 38 overs for the loss of just four wickets. Nantie "Wayward" Hayward went wicketless for 47 off his nine overs and Alex Cusack was clobbered for 29 off his two. Kyle McCallan kept a lid on things with a typically economical spell of 0-32 off 10. Thinus Fourie's figures of 3-41 off ten were respectable too.
Judas Joyce hit 45 for Middlesex and Turncoat Morgan 20*, including the winning runs.
Do they care about this competition ?
Not so much this year, it was a bit of an inconvenience. No excuse for the results, though.
Have to say that myself and few others had a great day out yesterday. Sun beaming down, cool cider constantly flowing and some nice BBQ food there too.
Pity Ireland didn't play too well. Started well but then the run rate was nearly at a standstill for a few overs before coming back to life a little later.
Next one in Clontarf that would be worth going to is on the 14th of July, against the West Indies. Should be another good day.
Next time you're going let me know.
Yeah will do. The next one is the day after we play Bohs at home in the league. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by BohsPartisan
http://ie.setanta.com/portal/systemc...dateadjust=11&
Setanta Sports Ireland are showing the Ireland v India one day international live on Saturday June 23.
I haven't checked the rest of the schedule tos ee if they're showing any other games