2015 World Cup Day 3 - Ire V WI

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5th Match, Pool B: Ireland v West Indies at Nelson
Feb 16, 2015 (11:00 local | 22:00 GMT -1d)

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KevIRL

Fingers crossed. Hope more than expectation though. We haven't looked good recently.

Interestingly the 4 teams batting first so far have won their games

Dozen Wicked Words

West Indies build up hasn't been good either, think it might be quite close, and an Irish performance anywhere near what they are capable of, they could win it.

booth70

KevIRL wrote: »

Fingers crossed. Hope more than expectation though. We haven't looked good recently.

Interestingly the 4 teams batting first so far have won their games

And all four teams scored 300 plus batting first...... 2 each on the bigger Australian and smaller NZ grounds

I would defo bat first if it is a day night game.....

Is 300 - 320 the par score in ODI's now?!

KevIRL

booth70 wrote: »

And all four teams scored 300 plus batting first...... 2 each on the bigger Australian and smaller NZ grounds

I would defo bat first if it is a day night game.....

Is 300 - 320 the par score in ODI's now?!

Its close to it anyway. Aim seems to be get to 40 overs with wickets in hand and them knock off 100-120 in the last 10 overs. They are all so used to the t20 now its no bother to them

Cricket fan

Cant wait for the game to start!!

I think we should stick to the same team that beat Bangladesh, cant see any reason to reinclude Cusack if I'm honest.

Here's hoping for a great performance and a win. Will be up till about 5 AM I reckon!

ninebeanrows

You would imagine this is the most crucial game for Ireland. This is the scalp needed to make qualification a possibility.

KevIRL

Getting a bit ahead of ourselves with the qualification talk. Both WI and Zim strong favourites to beat us, Zim even more so after the strong showing today

Borders no.2

Weathercheck wrote: »

You would imagine this is the most crucial game for Ireland. This is the scalp needed to make qualification a possibility.

I can't help feeling today is D-Day for Ireland if we are going to try and batter down the door to shame the inner circle into giving some respect and means of progression to the associate teams. The omens are that Ireland are slipping back a bit so if we don't make a significant dent tonight we might not get another chance for a long time.

KevIRL

Bumble has Ireland as favourites...

KevIRL

Urrrgh what have they done to the jersey. Rotten

KevIRL

Ireland win the toss and will bowl. Strange given how the tournament has gone so far. Windies capt Holder says he would have bowled too if he won it

Beasty

Ireland win the toss and choose to field

EDIT - like wot Kev just said!

irishmover

KevIRL wrote: »

Urrrgh what have they done to the jersey. Rotten

I have the jersey. Actually very nice.

Cricket fan

Young dropped for McBrine!!

Pudsy33

Our limited bowling attack looks even more limited. Here we go

Pudsy33

Can't do much better then that

9de5q7tsr8u2im

cmon ireland looking forward to this

KevIRL

Woot

Pudsy33

Great stuff! Onwards and upwards.

threein99

Good stuff, get Gayle now before he tees off

KevIRL

Oh baby

Pudsy33

That's fielding at it's finest

Beasty

Great throw by McBrine (probably justified his inclusion already!!). Pity Gayle hadn't attempted to get back, but still great to see the back of Bravo

Beasty

That does really put some pressure on Gayle who (hopefully!) may be a bit more reticent as a result

KevIRL

Beasty wrote: »

That does really put some pressure on Gayle who (hopefully!) may be a bit more reticent as a result

Or could anger the beast....

9de5q7tsr8u2im

Loving the game now at 4 average per over

Beasty

KevIRL wrote: »

Or could anger the beast....

Don't worry - I'm happy, not angry!!!

:pac:

KevIRL

50-2 after 15. Really excellent stuff

pelevin

Slightly off-topic but what's the story with Boyd Rankin now? Presume he's not really at the races in terms of the England setup?

KevIRL

Yussssss

Pudsy33

Everybody hurts

the groutch

Gayle gone, chance now to keep it under 200

corny

Love the 'Everybody Hurts' over the PA.

Big wicket.

pelevin

Great stuff by Bumble getting the wicket straight off.

irishmover

Nice one.

ninebeanrows

Big chance for Ireland now.

Lets hope they can keep things together.

Lovely Bloke

Fantastic stuff

KevIRL

Hold pls

irishmover

Unreal stuff at the moment.

Pudsy33

That's out

KevIRL

Plumb

corny

Thats plumb.

ninebeanrows

Wohoooo

KevIRL

Bittersweet symphony cthis time lol

irishmover

Could keep them below 200 here.

9de5q7tsr8u2im

this is some match haha feeling confident

corny

Gayle and Samuels gone just as they were opening up. Couldn't have asked for a better start.

KevIRL

Long long way to go

Alf Veedersane

Oh my.

I don't know what to think anymore.

TrueDub

KevIRL wrote: »

Long long way to go

This.