General Ireland news thread

Derco

down to the last ball....

riffmongous

And a 4! Great stuff from Dockrell

Derco

Good man Dockers

KevIRL

Great stuff important to keep up the winning run of 2018

Derco

Looking at some of the other warm up games, they don't look like very high scoring pitches out there. West Indies were knocked over for just 115 by UAE but still managed to win by 30 runs. Afghanistan struggled to 215 against the Dutch after been 38-5 early on before the game was washed out

riffmongous

West Indies also lost to Afghanistan earlier

Royale with Cheese

One month to go :eek:

HonalD

Royale with Cheese wrote: »

One month to go :eek:

Got my flight home booked and looking forward to the First Day's play.

Claregaafan18

https://www.rte.ie/sport/cricket/2018/0424/956864-rte-sport-secures-rights-of-irish-cricket-matches/

Great news for Irish cricket. Lets hope that the national broadcaster can provide quality coverage for this historic sporting event next month that the game of cricket in Ireland deserves.

riffmongous

Great news, took long enough though

Derco

Why are we so sh1te at T20?


Discuss.....

VillaMad

Derco wrote: »

Why are we so sh1te at T20?


Discuss.....

We just don't have the player base at the moment. Other than Stirling, the batting looks weak and the bowling will never blow sides away. The older players leaving is starting to hit now and unfortunately it may get worse before it gets better. Sticking with practically the same squad of players over a long period was always going to cause problems further down the line.

Making Wilson the new captain instead of Porterfield was a positive step. A new voice and making different decisions is welcome.

Just need to keep trying to develop cricket in this country and provide a pathway for youngsters to make it and hopefully we will be better in the future with more opportunities. We need to find and develop the future Joyce/Morgan/Stirling.

Derco

VillaMad wrote: »

We just don't have the player base at the moment. Other than Stirling, the batting looks weak and the bowling will never blow sides away. The older players leaving is starting to hit now and unfortunately it may get worse before it gets better. Sticking with practically the same squad of players over a long period was always going to cause problems further down the line.

Making Wilson the new captain instead of Porterfield was a positive step. A new voice and making different decisions is welcome.

Just need to keep trying to develop cricket in this country and provide a pathway for youngsters to make it and hopefully we will be better in the future with more opportunities. We need to find and develop the future Joyce/Morgan/Stirling.

Point taken but we still shouldn't be losing to sides like Papua New Guinea, Hong Kong and Oman in competitive games - let alone Holland. Surely the alarm bells are ringing for the powers that be. A specialist T20 batting coach perhaps?



I can't see it being any harm to start blooding young players in the T20 side. We really lost the game yesterday in the middle overs when we just managed one boundary.

Royale with Cheese

Next home test will be Bangladesh in 2020, followed by Zimbabwe in 2021, and New Zealand and Afghanistan in 2022. Not many of the big hitters playing a test prior to their tour of England unfortunately.

KevIRL

India 201/2 with an over left

Royale with Cheese

Almost a hat trick there. The last over making the score look slightly more respectable.

KevIRL

208/5.last over with 3 wickets and a six last ball

KevIRL

4/1 sterling out

KevIRL

36/1 after 5. Shannon is 25 off 19

KevIRL

Balbirnie out 45/2

KevIRL

Shannon 50 off 29 balls

KevIRL

Singh out 72/3

KevIRL

Wicket maiden there.

KevIRL

Shannon out 60 off 35. Ireland 85/4

KevIRL

Wilson and KOB out hat trick ball...

KevIRL

Poynter survives the hat trick ball

KevIRL

Thompson out 114/7

KevIRL

Poynter out 123/8

Royale with Cheese

Oh dear

KevIRL

Dockrell gone 126/9

KevIRL

132/9 in the end. Shannon the only bright spot really

Royale with Cheese

'In the next game, we will play the guys who didn't play today. We're going to give everyone a go in this series'

Not great news for anyone with tickets for Friday... like me.

Rikand

Royale with Cheese wrote: »

'In the next game, we will play the guys who didn't play today. We're going to give everyone a go in this series'

Not great news for anyone with tickets for Friday... like me.

Can't do much worse than they did today.

KevIRL

Kohli out. 22/1 after 2.4

KevIRL

50/1 after 5. 17 runs off the fifth over including three consecutive wides.

KevIRL

20 runs off the 8th over and 83/1

riffmongous

On for another hammering here

paulie21

2 wickets in 3 balls for KOB

KevIRL

137/3 after 14.2

KevIRL

3 for KOB 177/4 after 18.3

KevIRL

213/4 total

KevIRL

Stirling gone first over

KevIRL

Porterfield gone too.

KevIRL

Shannon out. Looked no ball to me tbh

KevIRL

Balbirnie out. We won't even get close to 100 here

blueser

Just caught the game while channel hopping. That's the same venue as the other day, yeah? Is there no other cricket grounds in Dublin or around the country that could have staged today's game? Share the games around a bit?

KevIRL

44/7 now

KevIRL

68/9

BarryD2

Plastered!

KevIRL

70 all out, a complete paddling