T20 World Cup Qualifiers

KevIRL

These begin tomorrow in UAE. Ireland suffered a surprising defeat to Papua New Guinea in their final warm up match, this should serve as timely reminder on just how fraught with danger this format can be

Along with Ireland group A contains Canada, Hong Kong, Italy, Namibia, Uganda, UAE and USA

The other group contains Scotland, Holland, Afghanistan and Kenya so we are definitely in the easier of the 2 groups.

Anywhere outside of bottom 3 in the group means we are still in with a chance, but a top 3 place is desirable as it gives us the best chance in the playoffs for qualification. The qualification format is unusual with 6 teams to make it

The tournament has 72 fixtures and features 16 teams, divided into two groups of eight. The top six teams qualify for the 2014 ICC World Twenty20. Each group plays a round-robin tournament. The bottom three teams of each group are immediately eliminated from contention for the top six positions but will play matches to determine which teams finish in positions 11 to 16. The top three teams from each group compete in the first place playoffs to determine the teams finishing in the top four positions. The other two teams are relegated to the fifth place playoffs where they compete with the fourth- and fifth-ranked teams from each group for the positions of five to ten. Both the first and fifth place playoffs are played in a six-team, single-elimination format. The bottom four teams play in the quarter-finals. The winners of the quarter-finals compete with the top two teams in the semi-finals. Playoffs follow to determine the finishing positions of the teams

Irish fixtures with start times (GMT)

Friday v Namibia (Stadium, 6am)
Saturday v Canada (Stadium, 10 am)
Sunday 17th v UAE (Oval 2, 10am)
Wednesday 20th v USA (Stadium, 6am)
Thursday 21st v Italy (Oval 1, 6am)
Friday 22nd v Uganda (Stadium, 10am)
Sunday 24th v Hong Kong (Stadium, 10am)

Rascasse

Hopefully these will be streamed on the ICC or Cricket Ireland websites.

Didn't know Geraint Jones plays for Papua New Guinea. Fair play, most wouldn't bother.

djimi

Hes actually from there isnt he? Id forgotten that. Yeah fair play to him; associates need that sort of boost from established players.

Lovely Bloke

games are deffo streaming on the ICC website

Rascasse

djimi wrote: »

Hes actually from there isnt he? Id forgotten that. Yeah fair play to him; associates need that sort of boost from established players.

Yeah, seems he was born there to (unsurprisingly) Welsh parents. It doesn't seem too long ago when he was playing for England - it was actually seven years ago. Time really does fly by.

djimi

It wont be too long until we are talking about the tenth anniversary of the 2005 Ashes. Frightening stuff...

Jonny_Darcy

Hopefully a very timely kick up the arse by PNG

KevIRL

Ireland made 166-5 in their innings this morning. Namibia 65-2 after 11.1 ovs at the moment

KevIRL

3rd wicket down 83-3 after 13.4

Lovely Bloke

Just turned it on here

http://www.icc-cricket.com/

Hopefully it's over before the boss gets here

Lovely Bloke

another one gone for Nam bCusack cSorensen

KevIRL

Should be there now. 4th wicket and its 103-4 after 16.1

Required rate is huge now

Lovely Bloke

KevIRL wrote: »

Should be there now.

are you new to Irish Cricket?

Lovely Bloke

Did I miss something, it's showing 108/5 on the graphic, and I've only seen one wicket down

KevIRL

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

are you new to Irish Cricket?

Lol the required rate is 24 now. Not even our lads could mess that up

Lovely Bloke

KevIRL wrote: »

Lol the required rate is 24 now. Not even our lads could mess that up

Nam just got a six :eek:

KevIRL

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

Did I miss something, it's showing 108/5 on the graphic, and I've only seen one wicket down

There was a run out next ball after 4th wicket

Lovely Bloke

KevIRL wrote: »

There was a run out next ball after 4th wicket

ah right, thanks - my stream died, stupid work firewall

KevIRL

Couple more wickets in the last over for some icing on the cake

KevIRL

134-7 final total from Namibia

riffmongous

Interestingly New Guinea beat Kenya today, Scotland lost to Bermuda and the Netherlands beat Afghanistan, its quickly shaping up to be an interesting tournament

KevIRL

riffmongous wrote: »

Interestingly New Guinea beat Kenya today, Scotland lost to Bermuda and the Netherlands beat Afghanistan, its quickly shaping up to be an interesting tournament

Real high scoring in the PNG v Kenya game too

KevIRL

Hmmm just noticed that the 6 qualifiers from the qualifiers go into a first round section of the actual World Cup with hosts Bangladesh and also Zimbabwe - 2 round robin groups of 4. Pretty vital that we end up in the Zim group at the finals as only the winner from each group advances to the Super 10 stage

djimi

So we have to qualify twice do we?

riffmongous

I think it's a good thing, we get a direct chance to beat either zim or ban and prove we are better than them and belong at the top table, but of course the downside is if you lose they prove they are better

KevIRL

Canada game streaming live now

http://www.icc-cricket.com/

Ireland 102-4 after 14 overs

KevIRL

Similar scoring to yesterday, Ireland 168-5 in their 20 overs

Trent top scoring with 39no

KevIRL

Canada 0-2 after 0.2:D

Sorenson on a hat trick

KevIRL

Great response from Canada and they are now 53-2 after 6 and right on the run rate

Lovely Bloke

Canadia have done well since though

53/2 6.0

will be a close one

Lovely Bloke

78/2 now, 10.0

Canada ticking over, Ireland need a wicket I think.

KevIRL

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

78/2 now, 10.0

Canada ticking over, Ireland need a wicket I think.

Aye could really do with breaking up this partnership

KevIRL

PNG giving the Dutch a right hiding today and some big scores in other games as well

Lovely Bloke

KevIRL wrote: »

PNG giving the Dutch a right hiding today and some big scores in other games as well

they'll probably get test status before us

Lovely Bloke

Canada starting to hit a few big ones now, maybe Ireland can use that

100/2 13.0

KevIRL

All going horribly wrong here

Lovely Bloke

yep, field position seems to be all wrong

Lovely Bloke

46 needed from 5 overs.

not looking good at all here

KevIRL

Badly needed wicket

Lovely Bloke

hmmm

finally got one, too little too late I'd say

KevIRL

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

hmmm

finally got one, too little too late I'd say

Good over though and required rate gone over 10.

Every dot crucial now

Lovely Bloke

squeeky bum

145/3 18.0

target 169

KevIRL

14 needed off the last over....

Squeaky bum indeed

Lovely Bloke

14 needed off the last over.

jaysis the tension

KevIRL

sigh at that 6

Lovely Bloke

aaagh jaysis christ

Lovely Bloke

lucky to win that one

KevIRL

Got there in the end, but made it much harder than it needed to be

KevIRL

Up against the hosts tomorrow, win that and we should be able to top group A without much trouble.

Very good death bowling today

ArmaniJeanss

KevIRL wrote: »

Hmmm just noticed that the 6 qualifiers from the qualifiers go into a first round section of the actual World Cup with hosts Bangladesh and also Zimbabwe - 2 round robin groups of 4. Pretty vital that we end up in the Zim group at the finals as only the winner from each group advances to the Super 10 stage

Fairly bizarre structure - its risks the hosts Bangladesh being eliminated before the real tournament has even started.

KevIRL

Ireland 30-1 after 3.3ovs this morning. Stirling just gone. Can't seem to find a stream though