Irish Cricket 2009

**TheBoss** · 15/06/2009, 3:37 PM

Ireland 120/9 - 20 Overs
Rankin 05(05)
McCallan 02(06)

**pete** · 15/06/2009, 4:12 PM

Originally Posted by ARooney28

Suprisingly, not as boring as I taught when I was completely ignorant to the sport.

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.

Where to now for Ireland? Will the ICC give them more paricipation/prize money? What do they get for this tournament anyway?

**endabob1** · 22/06/2009, 6:59 AM

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

**TheBoss** · 03/07/2009, 1:44 PM

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*

**TheBoss** · 03/07/2009, 3:21 PM

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

**MariborKev** · 04/07/2009, 11:28 PM

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.

**TheBoss** · 05/07/2009, 1:08 AM

Wrong copy and paste job

**Sheridan** · 09/07/2009, 6:52 PM

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.

**TheBoss** · 09/07/2009, 6:54 PM

I must say Porterfield has improved a lot over the last year.

**Sheridan** · 09/07/2009, 6:55 PM

I still don't rate him as a captain or an opener against the top teams.

**TheBoss** · 09/07/2009, 6:59 PM

Originally Posted by Sheridan

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.

**OwlsFan** · 10/07/2009, 9:02 AM

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

**MariborKev** · 10/07/2009, 9:32 AM

Originally Posted by Sheridan

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.

Aye,

Caught the last five overs on my way back from work.

Anyone going tomorrow.

As for Joyce, my heart bleeds

**Sheridan** · 13/07/2009, 9:36 AM

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.

**endabob1** · 13/07/2009, 9:56 AM

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

**ArdeeBhoy** · 14/07/2009, 8:54 AM

Originally Posted by endabob1

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.
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.

**endabob1** · 14/07/2009, 9:37 AM

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.

**Sheridan** · 14/07/2009, 9:52 AM

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.

**Stuttgart88** · 20/07/2009, 9:48 AM

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

)