Ireland 120/9 - 20 Overs
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Ireland 120/9 - 20 Overs
Rankin 05(05)
McCallan 02(06)
I can watch non-Ireland T20 games too as long as they are competitive. It is easier to watch the team chasing the total as like most sports the second half is cruch time.Quote:
Originally Posted by ARooney28
Where to now for Ireland? Will the ICC give them more paricipation/prize money? What do they get for this tournament anyway?
Not strictly Irish cricket but I was genuinely delighted for Pakistan yesterday considering the off-field issues & I dislike Sri Lanka & their dodgy bowling actions
ICC Intercontinental Cup 2009/10
Ireland v Kenya - 3-6 July - Eglinton, Belfast
Day 1 - Update
Ireland 87-0 (24.0 overs)
Jeremy Bray 36*
Paul Stirling 42*
ICC Intercontinental Cup 2009/10
Ireland v Kenya - 3-6 July - Eglinton, Belfast
Day 1 - Tea
Ireland 197-1 (46.0 overs)
Paul Stirling 84*
Alex Cusack 9*
Wickets -> Jeremy Bray 89 c Tikolo b Odhiambo
Eglinton, Belfast?
Very much a Northwest venue.
Was out at it today, very flat track. Need to finish the Kenyans early tomorrow if we are to force a result.
Wrong copy and paste job :D
Ireland beat Kenya by three wickets at Clontarf today in the first match of the three-game ODI series. McCallan took career-best ODI figures of 4-30 off his ten overs. Great performance.
Porterfield held the Irish response together with 81. John Mooney made a vital 27 off 25 as Ireland chased the target down with seven balls to spare.
I must say Porterfield has improved a lot over the last year.
I still don't rate him as a captain or an opener against the top teams.
Yes, He still has to show what he can against the top teams, but he is doing his job for team against the associates and thats really all that matters for the Irish team at the moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sheridan
I see Ed Joyce was out to a freak dismissal when the ball lodged in the pocket of a fielder who had turned his back to him :eek:
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...2_joyce466.jpg
Aye,Quote:
Originally Posted by Sheridan
Caught the last five overs on my way back from work.
Anyone going tomorrow.
As for Joyce, my heart bleeds:D
Ireland won the series 3-0 after a tight four-run victory over Kenya yesterday. Young Paul Stirling, inexplicably excluded for the first two games, hit 84 off 92 balls. Should be a fixture at first drop, IMO. Ireland move to 10th in the ODI rankings, overtaking Zimbabwe, as a result of the series win. Porterfield became the first Irish batsman past 1,000 ODI runs during the series.
So we're the highest ranked non-test nation, that's pretty darned impressive, any chance we can get Morgan & Joyce back and apply for test status
It is.Quote:
Originally Posted by endabob1
But for reasons others'll probably explain better, the ICC move very slowly, so ano.5-10 years knocking on the door I reckon, followed by ano.decade of heavy defeats as Test cricket is vastly different to OD games and involves a very steep learning curve.
I was being slightly facetious regarding test status, I know the ICC operate a bit like the irb by the time they got around to allowing Italy into the 6 nations a lot of their better players had retired & I fear the same will happen to Argentina.
That said I see Bangladesh beat the Windies in their first test the other day, surely it’s something Irish Cricket should be aspiring to.
It was a West Indies C team at best due to a player strike. There's no way Ireland should be considered for Test status until it has a functioning domestic structure. That's something attainable to aspire to in the short term, if the will is there.
Lords test shaping up interestingly today. I live about 10 mins away and yet I was hoping for rain all weekend!
Strauss is very lucky to have got away got away with his "catch". A Pakistani WK was pilloried for the same thing a few years ago. I think if Aus had just one of those top line batsmen wrongfully given out (bar Hughes maybe) I think they'd be favourites.
New ball fior anderson & Flintoff favours Enghland big time, but if Aus can keep their wicket in tact until lunch then who knows? This could be like Edgaston in 2005 when on the Sunday it could have been all over after 30 mins, or it could have been a shock Aus victory. Instead it was a thrilling English win (off a catch that shouldn't have been given :))
Flintoff makes the early breakthrough, currently 315-6.
Clarke gone too. I expect that's it now.
Looking out my window & not a cloud in sight!
375/8. All over now.
First step: Sort out the domestic structure, as you say.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sheridan
Second step: Apply for Ireland to join the E&W County set-up as the 20th team; if nothing else, that might keep the likes of Joyce and Morgan from England's clutches a little bit longer.
Third step - Move up the international rankings in the short form of the game (like Sri Lanka?).
Then (and only then), start thinking about Test Status.
P.S. Flintoff has just got his "Five-For" - Cheerio Aussies!
Eh, no. If Ireland were integrated into the ECB it would lose any claim to a national team. We need to keep our best players here in a revitalised domestic structure to pass on their expertise, not ship them abroad.
I've always thought Ireland, Scotland & Holland could all do with being more involved in the County set up in England, I just assumed Cricket politics would be the issue.
It's been an eventful week in Irish cricket. A strong under-19 side won the European Championship in Jersey, qualifying for the World Cup in the process. Although they lost to Scotland in their final match, causing a three-way tie for first place, Ireland's net run-rate secured the laurels. The Netherlands took the second World Cup berth ahead of unlucky Scotland.
In a novel fixture at YMCA's ground, Ireland A took on the Croatian national team in a Twenty20 match. A somewhat unsportingly powerful Irish side racked up 230-4 off their fifty overs. Chris Dougherty, Niall McDonnell and Brian Shields all retired out after scoring fifties. Gary Kidd took 3-18 as Croatia managed 97-7 off their twenty overs. Ireland A won by 133 runs.
The Ireland A squad which will defend its European Championship in the Netherlands this August is as follows: John Mooney (North County, capt), Andrew Balbirnie (Pembroke), Andrew Britton (Fox Lodge), George Dockrell (Leinster), Phil Eaglestone (Strabane), Shane Getkate (Malahide), James Hall (Waringstown), Nigel Jones (CSNI), Gary Kidd (Waringstown), Fintan McAllister (Malahide), Andrew Poynter (Clontarf), Eddie Richardson (North County), Paul Stirling (Carrickfergus), Reinhardt Strydom (YMCA).
Again, a very strong squad which should win the tournament at a canter. One might argue that the number of full internationals in that selection goes something against the ethos of "A" competition.
Finally, Mark Garaway has been announced as CI's Director of Cricket Operations. He was previously assistant to Duncan Fletcher in the England set-up.
Why? Integration into the FP trophy hasn't lost the claim to a national (two-national?) team.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sheridan
Now that was unsporting..Quote:
Originally Posted by Sheridan
The Croats dont appear to be a good team :D
Very shifty umpire:p
Anyone going or interested in going to, er, Stormont?
Have access to tickets if needed....let me know?
Take that as a 'No', then??
I'm away on holidays for 2 weeks, otherwise I'd have nipped down to my local cricket ground (Lords) for MCC v Ireland next week.
Ireland "A" have made a good start to their European Championship defence in the Netherlands. Yesterday, they recorded an easy five-wicket win over Denmark, with Andrew Britton (2-20), Leinster spinner George Dockrell (2-22) and Paul Stirling (39) the stand-out performers.
Today, slow left-armer Gary Kidd returned the remarkable analysis of 8-15 in a rain-affected nine-wicket win over the hosts. Strydom (36*) and Stirling (38*) easily saw Ireland past the small target of 81.
I am sure your offer is appreciated AB, but I'd say everyone posting on this thread is well able to access tickets.Quote:
Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy
To round out the above, Ireland "A" retained their European Championship with ease, but subsequently lost heavily to MCC at Lord's.
The Scotland vs. Ireland Intercontinental Cup match ended in a draw. Scotland took nine points to Ireland's three due to their marginal first innings leads of six runs. Ireland were in a winning position, having reduced Scotland to 72-5 chasing 298, but rain forced the abandonment of the final day's play (one wonders whether the Scots did much to protect the pitch, they have previous there.)
Porterfield (77 & 118) and White (55) were the only Irish players to succeed with the bat. Regan West's 7-88 in the first innings rescued Ireland after a poor showing from a toothless new-ball attack devoid of any pace in the absence of Boyd Rankin.
OK, will rephrase that. Is anyone from here going v.Eng. in Belfast??Quote:
Originally Posted by Maribor
Englands in diffs......
Great bowling performance:
England 203/9 (50)
Still a tough ask for Ireland.
Is this on TV?