***Ireland vs Pakistan*** Offician Thread

lee_arama

decided to use classic Betfair parlance for the thread.

Nothing to play for for Ireland bar pride. Though perhaps they have that already with a Super Eight appearance and a great shout against Sri Lanka.

Pakistan NEED to win don't they? Will they want revenge for last time out?

8-1 out from 6-1 for Ireland... Might be worth a tenner.

d'Oracle

lee_arama wrote: »

Will they want revenge for last time out?

I would say probably yes.:D

djimi

There is still a very remote chance of Ireland going thru, if we absoultely hammer Pakistan today and Sri Lanka destroy New Zealand; its extremely unlikely but lets not lose hope

Should be a good game today. Make no mistake; Pakistan will be out for revenge after the last world cup, but if we play like we did yesterday then well give them a good game, and who knows, another upset maybe!

d'Oracle

djimi wrote: »

There is still a very remote chance of Ireland going thru, if we absoultely hammer Pakistan today and Sri Lanka destroy New Zealand; its extremely unlikely but lets not lose hope

Should be a good game today. Make no mistake; Pakistan will be out for revenge after the last world cup, but if we play like we did yesterday then well give them a good game, and who knows, another upset maybe!

TBH if we lose by 9 runs I will be delighted.
Pakistan are out to smash us.
If we lose well then they look like the arrogant bunglers they are.
MORAL VICTORY.

whatawaster

any streams?

djimi

http://www.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=41593&part=sports

Its also on Sky Player.

FAO Mods: not sure if were allowed to post streams, so if were not please delete the link to myp2p and accept my apologies!

Cremated

First wicket for Cusack 36/1, 5.4 overs gone...

whatawaster

great last couple of overs. Actually very good bowling apart from that Johnstone over

d'Oracle

Rankin is really hammering it in there.....
Good Lad.

d'Oracle

Shame we dont have a bit more pace.
We are probably losing this one, but it would be nice to scare the batsmen a bit.

whatawaster

great bowling McCallum. Afridi was starting to look dangerous. We didn't need him to get set

Cremated

Afridi good wicket to get, 78/2, go on McCallan! ...

djimi

If we keep getting this up and prevent the big hitters from getting no more than starts then we could keep them to a getable total. The bowling has been good apart from a couple of overs.

No need to be gifting them runs with stupid overthrows like that tho...

d'Oracle

djimi wrote: »

If we keep getting this up and prevent the big hitters from getting no more than starts then we could keep them to a getable total. The bowling has been good apart from a couple of overs.

No need to be gifting them runs with stupid overthrows like that tho...

We need a wicket soon, but we might be able to stick them at 150.

Edit: wOOt!

Cremated

Khan gone to West 102/3...

d'Oracle

Great Ball that.
Vettori would be proud of that one.

d'Oracle

Akmal Bowled, Johnston.

Cremated

Trent showing us what he can do ...

d'Oracle

Most underrated Spinner in world cricket takes Misbah, caught by the Wicketkeeper of the tournament.

Cremated

McCallan again and it's 141/5...

d'Oracle

Big Boyd.

Smash 'em.

d'Oracle

Nice over.
Aggressive.

Cremated

159/5 for Pakistan, 160 needed for the win...

d'Oracle

Right 160 to win. Doable.

Shame Cusack & Johnston couldn't bowl tighter. Very expensive.
Boyd was great today.

D3PO

certainly doable.

It would be our best ever T20 score achieved but the pakistan bowling has been dodgy so far this tournament. they have given away plenty of front foot no balls. if they do that today we win. if they bowl diciplined then its probably a tight loss .

come on boys

Sonik

Well that's Boyd off to the English team now.

What a great performance.

Cremated

Sonik wrote: »

Well that's Boyd off to the English team now.

What a great performance.

A complete change from the first game, very well done to Big Boyd...

d'Oracle

Sonik wrote: »

Well that's Boyd off to the English team now.

Nah.
No shortage of pace men in England.

corigi

d'Oracle wrote: »

Right 160 to win. Doable.

Shame Cusack & Johnston couldn't bowl tighter. Very expensive.
Boyd was great today.

+1..

We are cable of doing it need a solid start and build a partnership in the middle overs give us a chance going into last few overs..

There no pressure on our lads so hopefully they will give it a go.

lee_arama

What's with the Sky commentary team: "They'd have liked 200"...

Farking Test teams would love 200, not to mention ODI teams. Of course a 20/20 team would want 200.

Wandered past Ladbrokes, into Souths in Limerick, to have a cuppa whilst this was starting, and threw a few coppers on an Ireland/Windies double.

Won't buy a house from it but it'll pay for the shopping if it pays.

d'Oracle

lee_arama wrote: »

What's with the Sky commentary team: "They'd have liked 200"...

Farking Test teams would love 200, not to mention ODI teams. Of course a 20/20 team would want 200.

Wandered past Ladbrokes, into Souths in Limerick, to have a cuppa whilst this was starting, and threw a few coppers on an Ireland/Windies double.

Won't buy a house from it but it'll pay for the shopping if it pays.

You are forgetting that Pakistan want to CRUSH us.

Washout

lee_arama wrote: »

What's with the Sky commentary team: "They'd have liked 200"...

Farking Test teams would love 200, not to mention ODI teams. Of course a 20/20 team would want 200.

Wandered past Ladbrokes, into Souths in Limerick, to have a cuppa whilst this was starting, and threw a few coppers on an Ireland/Windies double.

Won't buy a house from it but it'll pay for the shopping if it pays.

have a feeling windies are gonna crumble

KevIRL

bah. with all the goings on I forgot about this game.

C'mon the Irish

damoz

Any score update.. or they still in having tea!?

Sonik

Sonik wrote: »

Well that's Boyd off to the English team now.

I meant to add a :D after that.

lee_arama

KevIRL wrote: »

bah. with all the goings on I forgot about this game.

C'mon the Irish

Frak the goings on... If Ireland can just pick it up a gear they'll put themselves in with a shout.

Sonik

42/2 @ 7 overs

county

bollix,second wicket gone.

d'Oracle

This has to be a big partnership if we are to avoid the CRUSHING.

D3PO

9.4 an over for the last 10 8 wickets left we have to believe

come on lads one monster 20 run over and it will be there for us

d'Oracle

D3PO wrote: »

9.4 an over for the last 10 8 wickets left we have to believe

Yeah.
Recession and all that....

d'Oracle

Unlucky.

Good knock from Porterfield.
We might just pull this off.

d'Oracle

That last over has probably killed us.

d'Oracle

This is dreadful.

Aidric

Pathetic streak of no runs, Pakistan have this in the bag.

d'Oracle

Mooney out, going big.

93/4

Its basically 2.6 runs a ball required.

d'Oracle

Trent Bowled.
99/5

Gul is having a stormer again.

county

Falling to pieces now 101-5

d'Oracle

I'm genuinly sad.
Those 14 balls for 1 run and an extra just screwed us to the wall.

Gul is too strong.

Kev Out now.
Game over really.

Trojan

A real hammering in the end. Gul went through the lineup like a hot knife through butter. Also great defensive (or is it "offensive"?) bowling from Pakistan to get so many dot balls.

Super work from Ireland in the field and from a couple of our bowlers, but our batting still isn't up to par.

Would love to have won the toss today, wonder what advantage (if any) that might have given us.