Irish Cricket 2023

Problem is the likes of Barry McCarthy isn’t or shouldn’t be an international cricketer. He never looks the part but when you get to the nitty gritty of his performances statistically you see that he should be nowhere near the team.

61 wickets in 38 ODIs…. So averaging 1.6 wickets per match. 20 wickets in 19 T20i’s. Close to just one wicket per match.

He lasted two years at Durham, zero impact then back to the Leinster Lightening.

Ladies made a good start Vs West Indies . Bowled a few too many loose deliveries the last while though. WI 86/1 from 18.

Whoops. Wrong thread.

Chasing 298, 21/0 from 7

An awful lot of good shots, finding the boundary fielders instead of the gaps now… a lot of this WI bowling isn’t that special…girls need to take advantage.

7.95 needed an over… starting to struggle

Not enough ambition. Content pushing singles for the last few overs. Punished a bad delivery to the boundary as I type but they need to do a lot more then wait to punish the bad balls.

McMahon gone. Given out caught behind despite clearly missing the ball by about 6 inches…. Ball nowhere near the bat… bizarre…. A very vocal appeal obviously influenced the umpire.

desperate run out now.

The Pakistan test left CI out of pocket by €1m, I'm sure I read somewhere.

Useful in terms of carrying on as is, finish on a high etc Sure all is well in the world and forget the rest etc etc

I guess reality is that without major and unlikely changes, we should quit this test playing status and go back to playing and competing with teams at our level. We don’t have the depth of players, the funding or the facilities to play at the top table.

With a kinda dubious wicket, batsman hit on hand and run out while signalling for help. All count in international cricket but don’t think we’d too happy other way around?

Saw that, he was hit and stood there, and spirit of the game Balbernie took advantage, all that sporting shite is only talk, its a bad look when a captain who can't hit the ball off the square starts that type of thing, the Afghans are always at it, they are the worst by miles, but that's a 50/50 type of wicket, not helped by that annoying cheerleader Niall O'Brien on commentary, we all know the rules, no need to scream and shout

I find o brien a great co comms

He's alright, but is a cheerleader and everyone knows that was out, but it was a sneaky one

Irish ladies have lost 4 wickets inside 5 overs and it could have been worse. Being thoroughly outclassed. The pitch and the opposition has them absolutely bamboozled 26/4.

even struggling to put the bad deliveries away.

and then a joke of a wicket.. 36/5. Leah Paul gone fishing.

Abandoned. Ireland get their first point after 8 matches due to the abandonment.

That's a pointless game if ever there was one, sport will eat itself, it has reached saturation point

Nice to win, but when you see Oman make 318 and be very competitive against Zimbabwe, that's where Ireland should be, also the Dutch gave Sri Lanka a rattle but fell short, probably should have won, USA in a 7th place semi final is a bit of a joke, surely better than that even with this side

I bought tickets but email that came is almost blank with no tickets. Did anybody else get this ?

I just witnessed a West Indies bowler bowl a 12 ball over vs the Irish girls… a host of wides and no balls… the last delivery was as wide as the very widest delivery but the umpire obviously just got fed up calling wides thinking the over would never be over… which is pure rubbish umpiring.

Girls dropping regulation catches and bowling a lot of extras.

No not yet. I mailed CI but no response yet.