2015 World Cup - Day 25 - India v Ireland

mrkiscool2 · 10-03-2015 5:17am

Giggsy11 wrote: »

Chased 274 against SL in the world cup finals, just missed 275 mark

Yeah, just what I said. They have never chased 275 in a WC game before. Doesn't matter now anyway. Still, Ireland scored the biggest total against India in the WC so far. Here is hoping we can redeem ourselves a bit with our bowling and fielding!

Guffy · 10-03-2015 5:17am

Not great given the start but would we have taken that before game started? Couple of early wickets and you never know

axe2grind · 10-03-2015 5:19am

Obviously a disappointing total considering the platform laid by openers and Niall's innings. 203-3 with 11 overs to go to 259 all out.

Having said that it is a reasonable total and and the result is far from settled yet.

Kermit.de.frog · 10-03-2015 5:20am

They may still not show up.

Rjd2 · 10-03-2015 5:32am

axe2grind wrote: »

Obviously a disappointing total considering the platform laid by openers and Niall's innings. 203-3 with 11 overs to go to 259 all out.

Having said that it is a reasonable total and and the result is far from settled yet.

Sadly not in 2015.

Probably about 50 behind where we need to be.

India are beasts at chasing, this should be reasonably comfortable for them.

recylingbin · 10-03-2015 5:55am

Anyone see the Zimbabwe Herald's article about the match v Ireland? The Guardian have linked to it.
Not sure if it's incredibly funny or incredibly stupid/actionable/mean
http://www.herald.co.zw/alcoholic-dumps-zim-out-of-wc/

Rjd2 · 10-03-2015 6:05am

recylingbin wrote: »

Anyone see the Zimbabwe Herald's article about the match v Ireland? The Guardian have linked to it.
Not sure if it's incredibly funny or incredibly stupid/actionable/mean
http://www.herald.co.zw/alcoholic-dumps-zim-out-of-wc/

Ugh, I dunno maybe I am getting older but its a rotten article for me sadly.

axe2grind · 10-03-2015 6:10am

Ah feck we need to take every chance

bestleftfull3 · 10-03-2015 6:14am

huge chance there !!

axe2grind · 10-03-2015 6:24am

another drop, but difficult chance

bestleftfull3 · 10-03-2015 6:27am

yeah you'd feel it will get away from us now at least one of them would have been good !!

Rjd2 · 10-03-2015 6:28am

India are so gun at chases tbf, most sides would struggle to defend 250 against them on such timid grounds, we shouldn't be to harsh on the bowlers, we simply were way to short and they are to good.

Rjd2 · 10-03-2015 6:37am

Poor from Thompson, but Dhawan always plays with swag in these scenarios, hopefully he comes back strongly because if not, Young next game please.

booth70 · 10-03-2015 6:39am

recylingbin wrote: »

Anyone see the Zimbabwe Herald's article about the match v Ireland? The Guardian have linked to it.
Not sure if it's incredibly funny or incredibly stupid/actionable/mean
http://www.herald.co.zw/alcoholic-dumps-zim-out-of-wc/

Pathetic ...... Gutter journalism at its worst or should I say at its best.....

What's vey heartening though is if you read all the readers comments at the end of the article not one of his fellow Zimbabweans agree with him

RobertKK · 10-03-2015 6:50am

recylingbin wrote: »

Anyone see the Zimbabwe Herald's article about the match v Ireland? The Guardian have linked to it.
Not sure if it's incredibly funny or incredibly stupid/actionable/mean
http://www.herald.co.zw/alcoholic-dumps-zim-out-of-wc/

The only good thing about that article are the replies underneath it.

Giggsy11 · 10-03-2015 7:19am

Good going by the openers. Might finish the game very early and Ireland NRR will fall even lower. Now they have to win against Pak and no other way unless WIndies match is washed out.

Rjd2 · 10-03-2015 7:24am

Giggsy11 wrote: »

Good going by the openers. Might finish the game very early and Ireland NRR will fall even lower. Now they have to win against Pak and no other way unless WIndies match is washed out.

Were always going to have to I think, very messy to lose but somehow sneak through on NRR.

Dhawan gunning it so hard here, would love to see him do this at test cricket more often though.

force eleven · 10-03-2015 7:25am

Our bowling is competitive against the nations below 5 or 6 rank. But against SA and today, we can easily see the weaknesses. It is crazy that if we don't make the QF, we go away and get a handful of top class matches before the next world cup. Contrast England who have 17 tests over the next 18 months or so. How can we hope to improve?

Rjd2 · 10-03-2015 7:31am

force eleven wrote: »

Our bowling is competitive against the nations below 5 or 6 rank. But against SA and today, we can easily see the weaknesses. It is crazy that if we don't make the QF, we go away and get a handful of top class matches before the next world cup. Contrast England who have 17 tests over the next 18 months or so. How can we hope to improve?

Its very hard isn't it? I suppose when it comes to bowling we have to hope the young guys like Young and Chase get plenty of county experience and they continue to develop.

For what its worth, Dhawan when in the zone in this format can beast a lot of attacks as can Rohit.

Missent · 10-03-2015 7:36am

Get in there!

Giggsy11 · 10-03-2015 7:44am

Rjd2 wrote: »

Were always going to have to I think, very messy to lose but somehow sneak through on NRR.

Dhawan gunning it so hard here, would love to see him do this at test cricket more often though.

Yeah it was always the same, win against Pak and you are through. WI will improve their NRR against UAE.

Dhawan makes a very good 20-30 in test cricket and plays a stupid shot, he has few weaknesses in his game, unless he somehow magically sorts that out he will always will be 2-3 levels below top players.

lambayire · 10-03-2015 7:57am

Decent performance all the same today.

Shame about the dropped catches.

We were looking well set just before the end of the powerplay but the 5 quick wickets were a killer.

sigmundv · 10-03-2015 8:23am

Despite this turning in to a walk in the park for India I think it is fair to say that Ireland are the best of the associates and have to be in contention for test status any time soon. If they have to replace someone, Zimbabwe should lose their status.

Giggsy11 · 10-03-2015 8:41am

That's one more achievement Dhoni, 9 consecutive wins in World cup. 2nd best and tied with Clive Lloyd. With next game against Zimbabwe he should move to 2nd place.

Ponting record can't be touched though, 24 is too high for anyone to catch up.

Pudsy33 · 10-03-2015 8:44am

We need to go in second against Pakistan at the weekend. I don't trust the bowling to defend any total.

booth70 · 10-03-2015 8:50am

Pudsy33 wrote: »

We need to go in second against Pakistan at the weekend. I don't trust the bowling to defend any total.

Based on that bowling perfomance you could say that...... but would you prefer a nervy 280 run chase against Pakistan's quicks with the ball zipping around under the lights in Adelaide?

Pakistan are never going to be as clinical as India....So I would still say bat first get to 300 this time and put them under pressure with early wickets.....

We all saw what happened to England yesterday......

Rjd2 · 10-03-2015 8:50am

Giggsy11 wrote: »

Yeah it was always the same, win against Pak and you are through. WI will improve their NRR against UAE.

Dhawan makes a very good 20-30 in test cricket and plays a stupid shot, he has few weaknesses in his game, unless he somehow magically sorts that out he will always will be 2-3 levels below top players.

India are in the SC for a long time now for test cricket so he may go big their a few times, although that young lad who made a century in the last test whose name I forget is ahead of him.

A lot of flat tracks in ODI cricket sadly, but they still need to be cashed in and he has. Also to be fair his century against South Africa was gun.

Not many concerns for India at the moment, maybe they would like Raina to bowl, but that is is it really.

bilston · 10-03-2015 8:58am

recylingbin wrote: »

Anyone see the Zimbabwe Herald's article about the match v Ireland? The Guardian have linked to it.
Not sure if it's incredibly funny or incredibly stupid/actionable/mean
http://www.herald.co.zw/alcoholic-dumps-zim-out-of-wc/

What an utterly disgusting piece of journalism.

Thankfully the Zimbabwean readers don't think much of it either.

Giggsy11 · 10-03-2015 9:08am

Rjd2 wrote: »

India are in the SC for a long time now for test cricket so he may go big their a few times, although that young lad who made a century in the last test whose name I forget is ahead of him.

A lot of flat tracks in ODI cricket sadly, but they still need to be cashed in and he has. Also to be fair his century against South Africa was gun.

Not many concerns for India at the moment, maybe they would like Raina to bowl, but that is is it really.

Lokesh Rahul?

Very early to make any judgement on him. Looked clueless in 1 innings and looked good in other.

Pudsy33 · 10-03-2015 9:46am

booth70 wrote: »

Based on that bowling perfomance you could say that...... but would you prefer a nervy 280 run chase against Pakistan's quicks with the ball zipping around under the lights in Adelaide?

Pakistan are never going to be as clinical as India....So I would still say bat first get to 300 this time and put them under pressure with early wickets.....

We all saw what happened to England yesterday......

Fair enough, ill bow to your superior wisdom. I suppose Pakistan dont have the same quality batsmen as India at the time being

2015 World Cup - Day 25 - India v Ireland

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