Irish Cricket 2024

Zimbabwe home test as well the Australia home series going in the bin now it looks like

looks to be a pretty low attendance for Ireland vs Pakistan.

Lots of big gaps of vacant seats visible. Considering we were told it was sold out, bit odd.

Good start with the ball from Ireland….and in the field, Rizwan gets run out in the second over.

Yep, might have made the effort.

White expensive, 32 conceded from 3. Wicket keeping has been very untidy too.

3rd wicket down, should be an under par score unless boundaries start flowing.

4 down 😈

I had absolutely no idea this was on, great day for it. I was at the West Indies game in Clontarf a few years ago when they put on a record first wicket partnership in ODIs. Froze my bollox off that day, said I'd never get tickets to another match early in the season in advance without seeing a forecast first.

A repeat of that on 16th June would be ideal

good total set by Ireland. Losing Dockrell & Tector in 2 balls and I thought probably 170ish would be the best total we might achieve but fair play to Gareth Delaney……9.7 an over from the off is required by Pakistan.

Be nice if we can keep the lid on allowing extras to become a feature of our fielding/bowling….

6/1, Adair gets Ayub, some catch from Campher

13/2, Hume gets Azam… 😎 but 11 from the over, streaky bowling but we’ll take the wicket.

Had them on the ropes and let them slip, slide away and hammer us in the end. Craig Young going for 45 off just 3 overs, I dunno.

good start by Ireland with the bat 15/0 after 2 overs. Ross Adair with his first runs with a lusty 6.

Edit : ^^^ kiss of death, Adair bowled by a straight one, poor shot.

Another 50 for Tucker, good to see him back in form

lost… by 6 wickets. One continuing negative is our inability to take wickets. Just 13 wickets taken across the 3 matches.

6, 4 & 3 wickets taken …..

Rizwan and Azam completely took us to the cleaners scored runs but strike rates 147.37 & 178.57….

not enough pressure on the opposition batsmen in match 2 & 3… a shame after a very positive start winning match 1.

That was tight!!

game v Scotland abandoned

Scotland finish 157/8

Coasting to victory here, very controlled and polished batting performance from the get go

Tucker as well tbf. Hopefully they carry into the WC

win with 3 deliveries to spare…. Downside…we made things again a lot harder for ourselves with a glut of wickets falling towards the end.

Cruising 131/1 after 15 overs. ———> 158/5 after 19.3 overs

Closer then it should have been. But we’ll take it.

Ireland batting first this morning v Netherlands

Fantastic death bowling by Ireland to win by 3 runs. Netherlands pretty much had it in the bag, but fantastic stuff at the death by Ireland by Adair and Young in particular.

Pretty sure that win secures a ranking that is enough to qualify Ireland directly for the 2026 T20 world cup barring somethign very unusual happening at the 2024 finals

Just re Dockrell. They said in comms it was his second T20 50?

Yes, we did what we normally don’t do, well. That’s very encouraging. The death bowling has been a bit nervy shît the bed style for a good while now. Never could get that…wides and no balls and full tosses on leg stump and just conceding plenty but suddenly, composure, cool heads, common sense and actually executing the necessary skills, well. Last 3 overs we bowled…

Over 18 : 6

Over 19 : 8

Over 20 : 7

And here is a very positive stat on top of that…. Only 2 boundaries conceded in the last 3 overs. Hopefully it’s a confidence builder going into the World Cup.

A so-called "Ireland Emerging Players XI" is currently taking on the touring West Indies Academy in the second unofficial (4 day) Test in Belfast.

An Emerging Ireland XI made up predominantly of uncapped players won the first test comfortably enough; but for some reason, they've loaded the team for the second Test with "Emerging" players like Paul Stirling, Andy Balbirnie, Curtis Campher, James McCollum, Lorcan Tucker, Andy McBrine and Fionn Hand!

While it's probably nice for the West Indies Academy lads to test themselves against experienced current international players, it seems a bit rich for Cricket Ireland to describe such a heavyweight team as "Emerging Ireland"! Paul Stirling, for example, first "emerged" 16 years ago, in early 2008 and Andy Balbirnie followed in 2010.

Scorecard: https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/west-indies-academy-tour-of-ireland-2024-1431457/ireland-emerging-players-vs-west-indies-academy-2nd-unofficial-test-1431749/full-scorecard