Irish Cricket 2023

Strumms · 31-03-2023 11:10am

14 from the fourth over. The rate is now less than a run a ball, only one wicket down this should be a straightforward enough chase. No need for anything silly or headless heroics.

Mysterypunter · 31-03-2023 11:49am

Brilliant 77 from Stirling, just 16 to get 109/3

Strumms · 31-03-2023 11:51am

Cruising, 20 from the 11th…raining boundaries.

the annoying thing is these scenarios where they get all the plaudits here for the standout performance and rightly so… we have smashed Bangladesh, but the record will show… we lost the series 2-1 against a team we really should be dominating.

Sterling gone, 77 from 41 brilliant innings.. 64 of those runs were boundaries if my maths is correct.

we win… 7 wicket victory with 6 overs to spare…Paul Sterling take a bow.

Mysterypunter · 31-03-2023 11:57am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120422957#Comment_120422957

Wouldn't say we should be dominating, but Ireland were murdered in all the other games, good to see them performing well today

Furze99 · 31-03-2023 11:59am

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Good to to get a win in the end, but you get a sense overall that Bangladesh are a good cut above us now in both bowling and batting. The test match will be telling in this regard.

Mysterypunter · 31-03-2023 12:04pm

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Looks a difficult one for sure, but at least they are getting games in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, they have a chance in Sri Lanka as well, they are a ragged looking mob, destroyed again last night, by a mostly second string New Zealand

Strumms · 31-03-2023 12:14pm

the test being a five day game will examine every facet of our side.

A 15 man squad. You’d wonder if Malan and Balbernie will make many changes….? Hopefully if new faces come in it’s with improving the selection for the game as opposed to just giving players a game and a chance who traveled out…

wicorthered · 31-03-2023 3:25pm

Away from international cricket, Josh Littles first IPL over went for 15, including a first ball 6.

wicorthered · 31-03-2023 5:46pm

Slightly disappointing debut for Little. Had that really frustrating Irish tendency of bowling one rubbish delivery per over. His second and third overs in particular had 5 excellent deliveries and one hit me for six all.

He has that xfactor though. This IPL spell could be the making of him.

Gillespy · 31-03-2023 7:02pm

Seen lots of very recognisable names from Australia and England have worse outings. His wicket was a good ball and his last over was very good. It’s a tough gig and as you say should be the better for it. Hope he can retain his place and build on it.

Conchir · 03-04-2023 2:05pm

Looking forward to the test tomorrow and the two in Sri Lanka soon. Hopefully we’re competitive, how good would it be for Irish test cricket if it goes to the 5th day with a result possible.

VillaMad · 04-04-2023 2:04am

Test match starts in a few hours after an almost 4 year wait.

Hard to expect much from this particular Irish side though with 9 uncapped players in the squad and 3 of those never actually having played a first class match. A big Bangladesh win would therefore be expected but hopefully a few of the Irish players can stand up and be counted and make a contribution.

PJ Moor will actually be Ireland's most experienced test player. He has played 8 test matches for Zimbabwe before making the switch to Ireland. No Stirling so Commins will open with McCollum. Not sure if Dockrell plays as he bowls so little these days and is having a poor tour with the bat. Humphreys showed up well in the last T20 and may get the nod with Ben White also having an outside chance depending on the pitch.

Ireland squad (probable): 1 Murray Commins, 2 James McCollum, 3 Andy Balbirnie, 4 Harry Tector, 5 PJ Moor, 6 Curtis Campher, 7 Lorcan Tucker (wk), 8 Mark Adair, 9 Andy McBrine, 10 Graham Hume, 11 Matthew Humphreys

Gillespy · 04-04-2023 8:26am

100 up for Ireland. Excellent partnership between Tector and Campher so far. Have had to work really hard and have played some nice shots too.

Hodors Appletart · 04-04-2023 8:29am

is this on tv?

Gillespy · 04-04-2023 8:41am

No, it on a thing called Clubber TV. Never heard of it until yesterday. Irish sports streaming site. Various options I went game pass is €4.

Xander10 · 04-04-2023 9:19am

Moved on from 123 - 3

To 126-6

That went downhill very quickly.

wicorthered · 04-04-2023 9:19am

You can't really blame the batting today. Most of the players haven't played red ball cricket for 2 years, so obviously it's going to be hard to get into that mind set. But in saying that the coaching staff really need to work on this cross format habit of 3 wickets falling in 4/5 overs. At 120/3, with two set batsmen, things were going really well. Then out of nowhere 20 mins later its 125/6. It happens time after time regardless of the format. It has to be down to this attacking game Malan wants to play. Whatever happened to consolidate for a few overs? Moor's dismissal sounds like a T20 shot, not a guy five balls into a test match. It's very frustrating

Mysterypunter · 04-04-2023 11:21am

Doing OK at 203/8, would be real trouble without the outstanding coverage from RTE, Shane Lowry looking forward to the masters Luke Shaw signs with Man Utd until 2027, Fergal O'Brien plodding away trying to qualify for the Crucible, what's cricket?

Strumms · 04-04-2023 11:28am

Considering we were 159/7 where you’d expect a top total of around 190, to get to 214/8 now and still batting is a reasonable recovery of sorts. Be great to make 240 plus..think we’ll need to.

thus far Tector the only player to make a half century, that’s a concern.

Adair gone as I type, 9 down.

214 runs scored in 76.3 overs.

2.8 runs an over.

remember it’s a newish format for Ireland but the majority play or have played 4 day cricket for their county or club team.

214 all out.

Furze99 · 04-04-2023 11:41am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120438643#Comment_120438643

Not a complete disaster but not great either. A couple more solid partnerships and we might have got 250-300, which would be decent. I suppose on the plus side, we have about an hour? to bowl at them, before end of day. If we can bag a couple of wickets, it'd be a good day overall.

Furze99 · 04-04-2023 11:43am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120438616#Comment_120438616

RTE Sport? Most of them are GAA heads with a passing knowledge of golf, rugby & soccer. Other than that, they spoof about the rest on slower news days.

Strumms · 04-04-2023 11:46am

Yeah still in the balance but by my reckoning there are 10 overs left…. Need a wicket or two, to set the tone as much as to get stuck into their lineup...

a good recovery, let’s see if the bowlers can stand up and take wickets.

Strumms · 04-04-2023 11:50am

Adair takes a wicket in the first over, great start 😎

bowls Shanto.

Strumms · 04-04-2023 12:29pm

McBrine takes a wicket with the last ball of the days play. 😁. The dangerous Iqbal gone, caught by Adair. Finish on 34/2. Nice bit of momentum heading into tomorrow.

wicorthered · 04-04-2023 12:31pm

Well that ended up nicely!

This what I expected from the tour, a competitive Ireland. Yes Bangladesh have had the better day, but Ireland competed and are still very much in the game after day 1.

Mysterypunter · 04-04-2023 1:02pm

Huge wicket off the last ball, Tamim is a great player, Bangladesh 34/2, 180 behind, good stuff from Ireland

riffmongous · 04-04-2023 7:58pm

Best day of the tour so far. When it comes to tests I'm just happy if we don't get embarrassed

wicorthered · 05-04-2023 8:42am

Too many boundaries, they just can't build any pressure. I'd say 60% of the overs have had at least one boundary.

Campher is the ultimate pressure release bowler. You take a wicket get a new man in and Campher goes and leaks 3 boundaries in the next over. He's the same in ODIs, he has one 16/18 run over in him every game, usually at a crucial time.

Furze99 · 05-04-2023 10:34am

Bangladesh have played well - lost those early three wickets but then dug in and built good partnerships. That's test batting isn't it, just stick at the crease. Didn't hear much of the first part of the day, did we put down any chances?

What are we looking at here? Best scenario is to go through the last four quickly and have a deficit of 150ish. Give them time at wicket and we could end 200-250 behind with near 3 full days of play. Which would require a miracle of extraordinary batting not seen before from an Irish team or the weather to escape defeat here!

TipsyMcStagge · 05-04-2023 10:40am

7 down now hopefully we can get the last 3 ASAP and start with a deficit of 150 or so.

Furze99 · 05-04-2023 10:43am

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McBrine has 4 wickets and White 1. Their spinners must be licking their lips :(

Gillespy · 05-04-2023 10:48am

Michelle for McBrine. Well bowled.

wicorthered · 05-04-2023 11:14am

They did pretty well in the end. Fully expected a score of 450+.

Th nightmare situation now is being left with 15-16 overs to bat and ending the day 3 or 4 down!

Furze99 · 05-04-2023 11:23am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120443000#Comment_120443000

Yep, needs to be a lot of concentration and lets hope the openers can bat through to close of play. Good old hill to climb with 3 days left. We'd want to be putting up about 450...........

Strumms · 05-04-2023 11:31am

We are behind 155 runs after the first innings... as I expected our first innings wasn't near good enough. 214 all out...

Only thing getting us out of this.. will be bad weather ...

We won't be of the ability to set a challenging target here would be my thinking..

Yep...Not 2 overs done and already 1 down..

McCollum lbw.. first ball... ffs

Mysterypunter · 05-04-2023 11:44am

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7/2 already, could be a quick demise

TipsyMcStagge · 05-04-2023 11:49am

10/3 good night Irene

Furze99 · 05-04-2023 11:54am

Clueless again, rabbits in the headlights.

Strumms · 05-04-2023 12:05pm

14/4

Outrageously bad... looks like an innings defeat could be on the cards...

Not winning from here.

12 overs gone

4 wickets down

1.4 is the run rate

Not a single batsman in double figures

.... vs Bangladesh

Gillespy · 05-04-2023 12:21pm

Hate having to go looking up the lowest test innings scores whenever Ireland bat in their second innings.

Strumms · 05-04-2023 12:21pm

3 overs went by in a row and not a single run scored.. 19/4.. after 14 :o

Furze99 · 05-04-2023 12:39pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120443312#Comment_120443312

Well the openers needed to stone wall through to close. Looks like we had the wrong openers though.

Strumms · 05-04-2023 12:56pm

They certainly did that.

20.0 and 30.3 the strike rates.

either way, outside of a freak weather event, there is probably no saving this test.

of the 4 fixtures we just picked up the one victory, the consolation third T20 win.

No doubt we’ll be forced to listen to Balbernie talk up the positives of this tour….

” it was very successful “

” the experience will stand to the lads “

” we were very competitive “

” a bit better luck here and there and we might have…“

”wait, win, you wanted us to win ? “

wicorthered · 05-04-2023 1:14pm

That was the most predicable close to a day you'll ever see in test cricket.

In their defense CI threw them to the wolves. These batsmen haven't played first class cricket in 2 years. They have absolutely no clue of the format. They don't have defensive mindsets, they can't just dig in and block, they've never ever had to bat out a full days play. It doesn't help that the coach thinks he has a team of Stokes and Butlers that can blast their way out.

Ireland can't play spin for 10 years now and no effort seems to have been made to fix this issue.

wicorthered · 05-04-2023 1:16pm

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It's not a T20. It's test match cricket, If 15 overs went by without a run tonight that wouldn't be an issue. Wickets matter not run rates!!

wicorthered · 05-04-2023 1:18pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120443226#Comment_120443226

Whats this vs Bangladesh thing? Last week you said we should be dominating them! Bangladesh are a very good team these days. Shakib is the best all rounder in world cricket. Much better teams than Ireland struggle over here!

Strumms · 05-04-2023 1:54pm

They are a reasonably good team…. But that doesn’t mean we fall on our arses like we are so far.

are they so good we should be facing the possibility / probability of an innings defeat by them ? Really ?

we certainly should be looking to dominate. The very question of it alludes to the issue of Irish cricket and just being delighted to be competing, delighted to be there, as opposed to demanding to be competitive and demanding performances, improvements and results. This isn’t good enough….scoring at 1.5 runs an over and 27 runs scored and 4 wickets lost in 17 overs. PJ Moor scraping into double figures, our only batsman to do so. He’s 10*

My worry tomorrow morning is a couple of early wickets and the house of cards comes down, 90 all out or something equally as embarrassing…

That many overs remaining there was no benefit in having a ‘just block’ mindset.

Furze99 · 05-04-2023 3:00pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120443728#Comment_120443728

But the runs were immaterial when we went into bat with 16 overs to see out the day. We lost 4 wickets in 6 overs to spin before we arrived at a pair that could hold it together for 10 overs. If we had scored 0 and defended out the day, we'd be in a much better place. That's what openers in a test match are supposed to do when put in to bat at the close of day. Just stay there and the runs will come eventually. Harry Tector seems to be capable in this role at this level. As it is, likely the match will be over by breakfast time here tomorrow.

wicorthered · 05-04-2023 3:37pm

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Now your lack of test match watching experience is showing!!

If we scored at 1.5 an over and made the close at 27/0 or 27/1 even, that would have been an excellent last hour for Ireland. They could have went at 4 an over and 67/4 wouldn't have us any better off!

There was nothing to gain from that session for Ireland and everything to lose. Unfortunately they lost.

The openers didn't know how to grind out time and now we're in a huge hole. Tector and Moor did what was needed and fought to stay not out

Strumms · 05-04-2023 4:37pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120444238#Comment_120444238

Well I've been watching tests since late 80s. So that debunks your hokey from the get go :)

If ireland go out there with a positive attitude and not an attitude that's only appropriate if say 6 overs are left... if they are positive and put the opposition on the back foot ... play positively and with initiative and good judgement... that score looks a lot different. :)

They'd gained if they'd only conceded one wicket and scored a respectable number of runs..

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