General Ireland news thread

Beasty

45 overs. Toss at 12.15

BarryD2

Beasty wrote: »

And of course I've had to buy a hat due to the fact the sun is shining....

I suppose what's needed is a bit of wind? Yesterday afternoon was right breezy but seemed to die off overnight.

deise300

England win the toss and will bowl.

1 William Porterfield (capt),
2 Paul Stirling,
3 Andy Balbirnie,
4 Kevin O'Brien,
5 Lorcan Tucker,
6 Gary Wilson (wk),
7 Mark Adair,
8 George Dockrell,
9 Tim Murtagh,
10 Boyd Rankin,
11 Josh Little

s3rtvdbwfj81ch

14/0 3ov

decent enough start, a 4 each for Porterfield and Sterling.

KevIRL

46/0 after 9

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Porterfield having a nosebleed

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55/1 11.4

Sterlo out

KevIRL

Porterfield out

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Order restored.

Jesus christ

KevIRL

Tucker out. Collapse incoming

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KOB out

BarryD2

KevIRL wrote: »

Tucker out. Collapse incoming

Well our Afg experience did show that we can bat down the order, in fact we relied on it there! So there's hope yet

Is1ldur

Is there anywhere to listen to this? I can't get TMS, unfortunately. (Content not available in your area)

BarryD2

Is1ldur wrote: »

Is there anywhere to listen to this? I can't get TMS, unfortunately. (Content not available in your area)

Dunno. RTE are not exactly in tune with idea of covering cricket. Wouldn't cost them much at all to run a basic radio commentary, but kinda out their GAA head space.

KevIRL

Wilson out

KevIRL

Balbirnie out

KevIRL

V harsh wicket that.

s3rtvdbwfj81ch

Is1ldur wrote: »

Is there anywhere to listen to this? I can't get TMS, unfortunately. (Content not available in your area)

Guerrilla Cricket!

Is1ldur

Bot42 wrote: »

Guerrilla Cricket!

Thanks, I'll give that a go!

KevIRL

Adair gone. Useful knock though

BarryD2

So what's the prognosis?

VillaMad

First wicket for Little. Super catch by Dockrell.

Ireland needed that as England were starting to cruise.

VillaMad

Beauty by Murtagh. Root out LBW. 41-2.

Eoin Morgan comes to the crease.

Sharp bouncer by Little and Morgan nicks it behind!! Brilliant ball! 46-3.

riffmongous

Delighted for Morgan. And it makes things interesting

BarryD2

A quiet sense of poetic justice about that wicket

Royale with Cheese

I understood his decision to leave 10 years ago, cricket Ireland was in a very different place but... there's something very satisfying about Morgan making a duck representing England in Dublin.

VillaMad

A worldie of a catch by Gary Wilson! Josh Little has a third.

KevIRL

Interesting now

VillaMad

Denly hits it straight to Kevin O'Brien! 66-5. What a comeback by Ireland.

KevIRL

67/5 now

riffmongous

We've been here before though, how many games have we been one big low-order-partnership away from a win? Big test for Porterfield now to see it out and not get too conservative like so many other games

KevIRL

86/5 after 20

VillaMad

94-5 England. Gone a bit quiet so Murtagh comes back to bowl.

KevIRL

4 for Little

Inquitus

101-6, timely wicket there!

KevIRL

Ireland gone favs in betting

CiarraiAbu2

Can someone here with better knowledge than me tell me why Rankin was brought back into attack when there was no need to, the others had plenty of overs left.

KevIRL

Foakes doing some damage

KevIRL

Real pity. One that got away this

riffmongous

KevIRL wrote: »

Real pity. One that got away this

It happens way too often

s3rtvdbwfj81ch

Porterfield with serious questions to answer imo.

BarryD2

Kendra Substantial Thermostat wrote: »

Porterfield with serious questions to answer imo.

Well he scored 17 today - that's an improvement on the 42 total scored in 4 ODIs against Afg recently, average 10.5 - with tailenders outscoring him easily out there

I know nothing of the internal politics of Cricket Ireland but I guess there's some reason why he's still opening bat and captain.

KevIRL

Windies 31/0 after 8

BarryD2

Very expensive first over from Barry McCarthy! Some good tight bowling before that had them tied down a bit.

BarryD2

We'd want a wicket soon enough, otherwise the Windies heading for a big score followed by big pressure. Maybe winning the toss and putting them in wasn't the best idea, justified if you can get early inroads and/or keep the scoring down.

KevIRL

Getting hammered here

KevIRL

142/0 after 25. Have to fancy 350+ possibly even 400 from here

BarryD2

Ah lads, this is a real hammering, an embarrassment. Had to go out for a while to return and see two centuries for their openers. Can Porters not come up with a single strategy to get a wicket after putting them in? Could be looking at a huge loss here.

Squatter

BarryD2 wrote: »

Ah lads, this is a real hammering, an embarrassment. Had to go out for a while to return and see two centuries for their openers. Can Porters not come up with a single strategy to get a wicket after putting them in? Could be looking at a huge loss here.

Indeed we could. Although the Clontarf track is almost always a batsman friendly one, so maybe we'll be able to get a decent score.

That said, the last 10 overs of the WIndies innings may well be carnage.

EDIT: I'm a bit surprised that the two openers haven't been asked to retire to give some of the others a chance to bat.

BarryD2

Squatter wrote: »

Indeed we could. Although the Clontarf track is almost always a batsman friendly one, so maybe we'll be able to get a decent score.

In that case, if we can't keep the score down, why not bat first. As it is, we're going to be under scoring pressure from the first ball and we all know where that leads..