CWC Day 23 Thread - Ireland against South Africa

KevIRL

Another huge day.

I fear the worst though here, we had SA at 91-8 in a warm up match pre world cup, and forewarned is forearmed. Expect this to be a toughie

Lets hope I'm wrong.

Thoughts?

Updates here tomorrow

mikeruurds

Has to be a SA win. Sorry lads, but I'll support Ireland in every other game other than this one.

C'mon Graeme and the boys!

DMC

We always know it was going to be a toughie.... this could be a hammering.

SA are chasing a semi-spot. They have to beat us. It might be clinical.

Ireland by 9 wickets

mikeruurds

DMC wrote:

We always know it was going to be a toughie.... this could be a hammering.

SA are chasing a semi-spot. They have to beat us. It might be clinical.

Ireland by 9 wickets

If you're going to hype an Irish win by 9... why not make it 10?

DMC

Porterfield might be out cheaply!

With all joking aside... its more SA by 9...

Ireland preview on Sky right now

TrueDub

Definitely one where the heart says Ireland but the head says SA.

That being said, I think the odds just might be tempting enough to make me put a tenner where my heart is...

ninebeanrows

haha saw the funniest sight today!

A bunch of about 10 7/8 year olds on the green playing Cricket! In Portmarnock playing cricket! They had it all set out i really wanted to play:D

Shows how a little bit of glory could have a huge affect on the following of Cricket in this country;)

county

i`ve a funny feeling about this one and i get to watch the match in it`s entirety

Zeuz

mikeruurds wrote:

Has to be a SA win. Sorry lads, but I'll support Ireland in every other game other than this one.

C'mon Graeme and the boys!

Same As Goooo!!! err.... Proteas!!! (at least I think thats what the cricket team is called now?)

giddyup

TrueDub wrote:

Definitely one where the heart says Ireland but the head says SA.

My head says SA, my heart says 'creditable performance by plucky part-timers'. My glass is half-empty, and there's a small crack at the botttom, and it's not really a glass, more of a plastic container, etc. etc.

mikeruurds

giddyup wrote:

My head says SA, my heart says 'creditable performance by plucky part-timers'. My glass is half-empty, and there's a small crack at the botttom, and it's not really a glass, more of a plastic container, etc. etc.

Great post

RuggieBear

might just ban all south Africans for the day!!!;)

mikeruurds

Steady now!

pwd

Weathercheck wrote:

haha saw the funniest sight today!

A bunch of about 10 7/8 year olds on the green playing Cricket! In Portmarnock playing cricket! They had it all set out i really wanted to play:D

Shows how a little bit of glory could have a huge affect on the following of Cricket in this country;)

Saw the same thing in Herbert Park on Sunday

Rjd2

Fingers crossed for Ireland but South Africa should win it easily. I would love it though if that lowlife Gibbs was bowled out for a duck:D

county

has anyone info on the wicket?

mikeruurds

Rjd2 wrote:

Fingers crossed for Ireland but South Africa should win it easily. I would love it though if that lowlife Gibbs was bowled out for a duck:D

Geez... he's not THAT bad [gotta be seen to be sticking up for the boys].








Edit: You're right - he is a lowlife.

Kingp35

I really cant see an Ireland win in this one. I think it will be along the same lines as the English game in that Ireland will put in a another plucky performance and they wont be embarrassed but SA will be too strong.

If SA have to bat first though we always have a chance.

DMC

Team news:

Ireland drop Kevin O'Brien, Paul Mooney comes in.

DMC

Toss hasnt happened, the covers are on the pitch.

is_that_so

Rjd2 wrote:

Fingers crossed for Ireland but South Africa should win it easily. I would love it though if that lowlife Gibbs was bowled out for a duck:D

There's been an awful lot of hot-headedness on the Cricket forum in the last few weeks, for such a civilised game .
Going for the "creditable performance". Can't see it going any other way than to SA.

DMC

Permission to call Graeme Smith a ****?? I hope he's out cheaply for a stupid run-out...

county

start delayed

DMC

The covers are coming off.

Rjd2

DMC wrote:

Permission to call Graeme Smith a ****?? I hope he's out cheaply for a stupid run-out...

Michael Vaughan have you not got more important things to do?:D

mikeruurds

Yeah... what have you got against Graeme. I'll grant you Herschelle is a bit of a tw*t but Graeme isn't that bad

DMC

South Africa have won the toss and have chosen to bowl.

The start at 2:45pm.

Chucky the tree

*****. SA to bowl.

Chucky the tree

Going to have a punt on ireland. If they win the toss they should put the SA into bat, a few early wickets and bob's your uncle.

pwd

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county

Chucky the tree wrote:

Going to have a punt on ireland. If they win the toss they should put the SA into bat, a few early wickets and bob's your uncle.

i like your style,a 100 quid yeah:)

Chucky the tree

county wrote:

i like your style,a 100 quid yeah:)

Put th mortgage on it.










a tenner it is.

DMC

mikeruurds wrote:

Yeah... what have you got against Graeme. I'll grant you Herschelle is a bit of a tw*t but Graeme isn't that bad

I outlined why I don't like him here before.... maybe that's why I've always preferred Shaun Pollock.

Rjd2

mikeruurds wrote:

Yeah... what have you got against Graeme. I'll grant you Herschelle is a bit of a tw*t but Graeme isn't that bad

Nothing it was DMC who slandered Graeme:)

mikeruurds

DMC wrote:

I outlined why I don't like him here before.... maybe that's why I've always preferred Shaun Pollock.

I'm with you on that one. I also prefer Shaun as captain. I said as much to him when they were here to play Ireland at Clontarf CC a few years back.

They should never have stripped him of the captaincy.

Mike

Chucky the tree

Feck me. Its absolutely jam packed.

Serious safety concerns here with so many people in the stadium...

DMC

Ireland 0/0 after 1 over

county

a nervy start to the game from ireland

Chucky the tree

no need to do anything rash. Give themselves time to settle in and the ball to wear down.

DMC

mikeruurds wrote:

I'm with you on that one. I also prefer Shaun as captain. I said as much to him when they were here to play Ireland at Clontarf CC a few years back.

They should never have stripped him of the captaincy.

That was the first Irish game I was at. 2004, iirc. And it was one of the last one day games in whites! Wonderful day in Castle Avenue.

Pollock was the fall guy for the D/L miscalculation against Sri Lanka in the 2003 WC. He did so well to galvanise the side after Cronje... it was all so wrong.

DMC

Ireland 0/0 after 2

DMC

WICKET!

Bray gone lbw to Pollock

Ireland 0/1 in the 3rd.

county

Chucky the tree

terrible start.

DMC

3 runs gained, 1 to Porterfield, 2 to Eoin Morgan

Ireland 3/1 after 3.

Spitting rain there...

MisterAnarchy

Ireland 3/1 after 3.
That is abysmal !

darkman2

Boundary

mikeruurds

DMC wrote:

That was the first Irish game I was at. 2004, iirc. And it was one of the last one day games in whites! Wonderful day in Castle Avenue.

Pollock was the fall guy for the D/L miscalculation against Sri Lanka in the 2003 WC. He did so well to galvanise the side after Cronje... it was all so wrong.

Agreed. He was a hell of a captain and did an amazing job in transitioning the side away from Hansie's captaincy.

Mind you... I still think that Hansie was our best captain ever if you ignore the last dark days.

Mike

DMC

Ireland 9/1 off 5

Really, conditions are not condusive for batting at the moment...

Morgan edged one short of 1st slip!

Chucky the tree

living dangerously here. 13/1

darkman2

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