Irish Cricket 2007

**Sheridan** · 23/05/2007, 11:40 AM

Bhatti almost had four in four and five in six but umpire Baldwin turned down another lbw appeal against Johnston.

**TheBoss** · 23/05/2007, 12:05 PM

Typical, the team always collapses, that is a big weakness that needs to be addressed.

**Sheridan** · 23/05/2007, 12:28 PM

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.

**TheBoss** · 23/05/2007, 12:30 PM

Get to 250 lead and that would be good.

**Sheridan** · 23/05/2007, 1:16 PM

Originally Posted by Sheridan

I think they're more likely to be bowled out for 330-ish, but that will be plenty.

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.

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*

**Dodge** · 23/05/2007, 2:23 PM

Canada 43/3 after 10 overs

Johnstone with 2 and Big Dave with the other.

**Sheridan** · 23/05/2007, 2:26 PM

Latest score is 63/4, Bagai caught O'Brien bowled Johnston. Bit of an anti-climax, this.

**Poor Student** · 23/05/2007, 2:39 PM

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?

**Sheridan** · 23/05/2007, 2:47 PM

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.

**Schumi** · 23/05/2007, 2:48 PM

Originally Posted by Poor Student

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?

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.

**TheBoss** · 23/05/2007, 3:22 PM

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.

**Sheridan** · 23/05/2007, 3:32 PM

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.

**Sheridan** · 23/05/2007, 3:49 PM

Kyoti caught in the slip cordon by White off O'Brien. 127/7, almost done and dusted. McCallan bowls Bastampillai next over. 131/8.

**Poor Student** · 23/05/2007, 4:01 PM

Originally Posted by Sheridan

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.

How would it be in your advantage to end an innings early?

If a game is still running when the time elapses do they use some sort of Duckworth Lewis method to compare scores?

**Sheridan** · 23/05/2007, 4:07 PM

Originally Posted by Poor Student

How would it be in your advantage to end an innings early?

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.

If a game is still running when the time elapses do they use some sort of Duckworth Lewis method to compare scores?

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.

**Sheridan** · 23/05/2007, 4:12 PM

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.

**Poor Student** · 23/05/2007, 4:19 PM

Originally Posted by Sheridan

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.

Hahaha. Thanks for the information.

**TheBoss** · 23/05/2007, 5:26 PM

It seems this Intercontinental Cup is easy for the Irish

**Jerry The Saint** · 23/05/2007, 6:13 PM

So much for the team gaining proper cricket experience from a four-day game.

**Sheridan** · 27/05/2007, 2:38 PM

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.