Irish Cricket 2023

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

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!

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

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

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

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 ? “

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!!

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.

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

I think there's a time for everything in test cricket and we really needed our openers to close up shop today. Plenty of time to score runs tomorrow and the next day but you can only do that if you're at the crease. I think this pair will try and stay there tomorrow but once one goes, pretence is pointless.

That’s more like it this morning. Tector definitely has the temperament for this format. Wouldn’t look out of place in most test teams going to be honest.

Yep, made the best of a botch job. Having got this far with patience and graft, now seem to be throwing the bat at it a deal more. Let's hope they're reading the situation right.

Successive partnerships of c40, c70 and c70 ongoing have got us a tiny toehold. Let's hope we can keep them going as long as possible.

These two get through the second new ball, Bangladesh will start to get nervy. It’s hot and the fast bowlers look wrecked. Hopefully Shakib doesn’t start bowling himself either. What’s that all about.