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Irish Cricket 2023

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    #242
    Furze99
    Registered Users Posts: 11,239 ✭✭✭✭Furze99


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120483319#Comment_120483319

    Was thinking that too, If conditions not helping to take wickets, need to tighten on the scoring and build a bit of pressure. 3 maidens still in 58 overs in a test match.. not good enough.



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    #243
    Strumms
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    The outfield is like absolute lightning…a steady push and its racing away.

    McBrine now bowling useless half trackers. Adair too short too.

    really need some express pace bowlers on a pitch like this… bowling 87 mph plus….consistent line , length.



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    #244
    Furze99
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120483457#Comment_120483457

    Looking more like 400 by close!! Sri Lanka to post 550ish tomorrow and declare? Any prospect of a win is gone out the window. Would we have the nous/ gumption to take this and bat for a draw from the start. Three and a half days to survive??? Only logical things to do. Strumms won't be happy but :)



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    #245
    Strumms
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    Yes I think I was wrong, certainly closer to 400, putting the boot down now…🫣

    our inability to take wickets on docile pitches is frustrating.

    that said Balbernie goes upstairs… unlucky, about a centimetre past the glove or as the third umpire says ‘inconclusive’.

    so few chances though.



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    #246
    Strumms
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    386/4

    Sri Lanka holding the aces now…

    They can afford to bat through the first session… don’t have to do anything spectacular.

    another 120 runs or so.. Brings a lead of 500 plus.

    interesting that Balbernie waited until the last few overs to give his bowlers some help and have some slips and close catchers.



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    #247
    Furze99
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    Declaration coming when these lads get their centuries I guess. Kinda toothless bowling in between occasional revival.

    Next comes a test of Balbirnie's leadership. Do we just start hoicking it and lose our opener wickets cheaply or do we buckle down and play for the only possible result, given our resources. Could we survive 3+ days with 20 wickets???



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    #248
    Mysterypunter
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    Sri Lanka closed on 591/6d, including 4 tons, hopefully some fight with the bat, but as the commentary team pointed out this is Irelands 5th ever test, and Sri Lanka are appearing in their 308th



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    #249
    Mysterypunter
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    0/1, good ball and all that, but that Murray Commins looks like a rabbit



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    #250
    Mysterypunter
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    So does Balbernie, 4/2, ridiculous start



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    #251
    Furze99
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120486554#Comment_120486554

    Another 'great' captains innings to follow up after Bangladesh efforts. Hits a boundary first ball was it and gone 3 balls later.. ffs.

    Not great to be so critical but a bit of fight wouldn't go amiss. Just leaving it up to Tector and middle order again to salvage a little pride.



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    #252
    TipsyMcStagge
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    71/2 now Tector and McCollum digging in.



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    #253
    Mysterypunter
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120486957#Comment_120486957

    Did well OK, but Tector out, sadly 74/3



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    #254
    Mysterypunter
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    Terrible shot from Campher, didn't know it was the last over of a T20, 74/4, deserved duck



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    #255
    TipsyMcStagge
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120486999#Comment_120486999

    Christ I'm some jinx! Awful from Campher just dig in and try and keep your wicket.



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    #256
    Mysterypunter
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    McCollum batted well got a good one, out for 35, 85/5



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    #257
    Furze99
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    Falling apart now.. the rot set in early though.

    Looking down the barrel now of an innings and 2-300 runs defeat :(



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    #258
    TipsyMcStagge
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    5 down now a collapse incoming up to Moor and Tucker to save the day



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    #259
    wicorthered
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    The usual Irish batting, one wicket brings 3! I'd love to see what goes on in that dressing room, all the batsmen seem obsessed with following each other back into it.



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    #260
    Strumms
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    591/6d vs 92/6....

    Fùck..... we were likely to lose but to be so uncompetitive is a real bummer... pitch looks like a real flat deck... just bad batting.... maybe we can scrape 260.. but unlikely...



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    #261
    wicorthered
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    Realistically Ireland could have four innings here and still lose by an innings. The batting is just not test standard, particularly in spinning conditions.



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    #262
    Furze99
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120487274#Comment_120487274

    We seem incapable of just a basic opening stand, no mad rush to score but occupy the wicket for a good spell. To lose 2 wickets so quickly again has to be very dispiriting for the rest of the batting order. They must have been cursing under their breath today after a long day and a half in the field.



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    #263
    Mysterypunter
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    143 all out, Tucker top scored with 45, Jayasuriya 7/52, chief wrecker



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    #264
    Mysterypunter
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    Sent in again, 448 behind



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    #265
    Mysterypunter
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    Murray Rabbit made a pair, 0/1



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    #266
    Mysterypunter
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    8/2, Balbernie fails again, 6, and could have been out more than once, in no form at all, same heads failing all the time



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    #267
    Mysterypunter
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    41/5, that Moor got a duck as well, he doesn't even resemble a cricketer



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    #268
    riffmongous
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    Awful stuff, I guess the lack of coverage in Ireland is a bit of a blessing in disguise when you get hammered like this



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    #269
    wicorthered
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    Nightmare stuff. Pathetic really. Yet again 3 wickets fall for zero runs to end the first innings. It happens so often it must be a plan. "Ok guys if a wicket falls, give them another 2 straight away. We'll tire the bowlers that way". It's amateur stuff.

    As for the second innings. Wow embarrassing. Poor Commins is out of his depth, Balbirnie is just not a captain. Four collapses at the top now and the captain has been part of all. Where's the captains knock? No leadership, no fight, he's not and never has been a captain.



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    #270
    Mysterypunter
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120490217#Comment_120490217

    It's on Sky 412, premier sports I think



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    #271
    Mysterypunter
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120490268#Comment_120490268

    Someone has to be, but Balbernie seems to lose patience and play too many shots, miles away from the player who scored a match winning hundred in Hampshire, think Stirling got one in that game too, a win over England, and I think Stirling is available for the 2nd test, maybe he could do a Chris Gayle, and get 300 😃



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