General Ireland news thread

riffmongous

Joint 2nd worst defeat, embarrassing! I hope they at least made a good bit of money out of it

Derco

It was painful watching that today

Mysterypunter

July 24-27 next year England v Ireland at lords. 4 day test, Think its 96 overs per day. August 1st is the first ashes test 16th of September the 5th. England playing 6 tests in just over 50 days.

Squatter

Anyone hear any whisperings about YM leaving Sandymount?

KevIRL

Bad start in the first t20. 87/0 after 7 overs

KevIRL

115/1 after 10

KevIRL

160/7 in the end. Nice fight back from the bowlers. Zazai with 74 from 33 balls doing the damage

It's an 18 over game btw due to rain delay before it began

KevIRL

Thompson gone early 13/1

KevIRL

Porterfield gone 31/2 after 4

Barney92

Stirling didn't get all of that, but that was some catch on the boundary.

KevIRL

Barney92 wrote: »

Stirling didn't get all of that, but that was some catch on the boundary.

Yep. Have to reckon that's the game too

riffmongous

4 down now

KevIRL

88/5

KevIRL

91/6 a familiar tale at this stage

KevIRL

144/9 in the end

BarryD2

KevIRL wrote: »

144/9 in the end

Just caught it on cricinfo. Seems like our first choice bowlers couldn’t keep the score down in the early overs. Did yer man bat well or were we just far too loose?

TrueDub

live streaming on https://www.cricketgateway.com/ - free to air, and good quality.

Kyle McCallan and Niall O'Brien were two of the commentators - I knew Kyle was good at it, but was very impressed with Niall.

KevIRL

Embarrassing stuff today

Squatter

KevIRL wrote: »

Embarrassing stuff today

Yep.

For those who don't know the score:-

Them: 160/8

Us: 79/10

:mad:

BarryD2

KevIRL wrote: »

Embarrassing stuff today

Yep, we sure seem to be on a downer. Not so many years ago, I think we were expecting to win matches against the Afghans. They seem to have gone up in standard and we've gone down. Is that a fair assessment?

KevIRL

T20 is by far our weakest format.

Derco

KevIRL wrote: »

T20 is by far our weakest format.

But we don't seem to be doing anything to change it. That's the worrying part.

BarryD2

You can see cricket slipping out of the RTE sports bulletins now. Always a bit iffy, but they were covering Irish international matches well enough for a while. Think this match got a brief mention yesterday but didn't hear the result covered this morning. Seem to be more interested in Seamus Power being no 125 on the US golf circuit and 'keeping his card' and rows in the GAA in Mayo. But there you are: easy come, easy go

KevIRL

BarryD2 wrote: »

You can see cricket slipping out of the RTE sports bulletins now. Always a bit iffy, but they were covering Irish international matches well enough for a while. Think this match got a brief mention yesterday but didn't hear the result covered this morning. Seem to be more interested in Seamus Power being no 125 on the US golf circuit and 'keeping his card' and rows in the GAA in Mayo. But there you are: easy come, easy go

Its actually a pretty amazing achievement by Power to have held onto his card for the 3rd consecutive year. A lot more high profile names didnt do so. Definitely worth a mention.

Squatter

Third game rained off - probably saved Ireland from a humiliating whitewash.

(And Sussex managed to get through to T20 finals day without Rashid Khan!)

KevIRL

First ODI today. Afghanistan batting and have recovered from 25/2 to be on 66/2 after 16 overs.

gavinoontheweb

Good live feed here,
https://www.cricketgateway.com/afghanistan-tour-of-ireland-2018/livestreaming.html

After a decent start the Irish attack has stagnated somewhat, Afghan's comfortably knocking away singles and opening up with the more frequent boundaries now 118-3 through 28 overs.

KevIRL

Wicket. 156/4 35.2. good to break the partnership

KevIRL

Wicket after successive boundaries. 197/5 after 44. Crucial death overs now

KevIRL

198/6

KevIRL

199/7

gavinoontheweb

205-8 through 46, Ireland have contained them very well since 197-4. Would have expected more from the Afghan's in the last powerplay after their patient build up. This total could be a fair bit lower without some sloppy work in the field throughout this innings.

KevIRL

213/9

KevIRL

227/9 in the end. Useful last wicket stand. Not a gimmie.

Royale with Cheese

Any idea what a par score would be on that pitch today?

KevIRL

9 off first over with a couple of boundaries for Stirling. Living on the edge though as usual

BarryD2

Time for Porterfield to put in a steady innings.

KevIRL

18/0 after 5

KevIRL

Stirling gone 19/1

KevIRL

40/2 after 13 with both openers gone

KevIRL

NOB v lucky there, would have been an awful run out

48/2 after 15

KevIRL

NOB run out 53/3

KevIRL

63/3 after 20

BarryD2

KevIRL wrote: »

63/3 after 20

Nicely poised in a way but the old run rate is creeping up.... have we someone who can put together a decent score???

KevIRL

BarryD2 wrote: »

Nicely poised in a way but the old run rate is creeping up.... have we someone who can put together a decent score???

87/3 after 25. Balbirnie on 30*. The rest have all made double figures at least but only Balbirne gotten past 20 so far.

gavinoontheweb

The main thing for us here is keeping wickets and not to collapse as much as the Afghans did but thats easier said than done with 8 more overs still to come from R.Khan, fairplay to Balbirnie aswell he is awkward to watch at times but often times he has put in a decent score when nobody else has stepped up. 89/3

KevIRL

Singh out 93/4

KevIRL

109/4 after 30. Run a ball needed

BarryD2

Good man Balbirnie, nice to see a decent innings. Could be close this game yet, hopefully anyway

KevIRL

Balbirnie gone. 133/5 and 15 overs left. Need KOB and Wilson to put together a good partnership now