T20 World Cup Qualifiers

pajor

KevIRL wrote: »

Ireland v Italy still hasn't started. Could be looking at a no result or possibly even a 5 over slugfest.

Why not?

KevIRL

pajor wrote: »

Why not?

His raining. Another inspection at 12.30. If the game hasn't started by 9.10 then it's done for the day

KevIRL

Game abandoned. So one point each. Real pity that as we would have expected to win that comfortably.

Another storm forecast for later which could put the Uganda game in doubt. That would also have been expected to be an easy win for Ireland. Fingers crossed for some good news tomorrow

KevIRL

Ireland v Uganda just started with Ireland batting first and no sign of the pesky rain

KevIRL

Solid start from the openers and Ireland 30-0 after 3 ovs

KevIRL

Stirling out

KevIRL

Porterfield out now as well. Ireland 57-2 after 8 and we had a maiden over as well!

djimi

Keeping wickets in hand is good but Id like to see us kicking on here. We should be looking at scoring more than 140 odd here.

KevIRL

Kev o brien out

82-3 after 11.3

KevIRL

114-3 after 17. Not great at all.

djimi

14 runs off the last over is more like it, but with wickets in hand I would have expected us to have kicked on long before now. The Uganda bowling must be decent enough.

KevIRL

147-4. Not great but hopefully good enough against a weak Ugandan batting line up

KevIRL

Early wicket taken by trent

KevIRL

Maiden over by murtagh in 5th over followed by a 12 run from Trent in 6th over. Uganda 30-1 after 6.1

SharkTale

Can you watch this game on line - streamed?

Thanks

KevIRL

Another couple of wickets and Uganda 44-3 after 9

KevIRL

56-4 after 12.4. Will be a handy win

pajor

KevIRL wrote: »

56-4 after 12.4. Will be a handy win

Looking like it alright.

TrueDub

SharkTale wrote: »

Can you watch this game on line - streamed?

Thanks

Some of the early games were streamed on the icc website, but I can't see this one there.

SharkTale

TrueDub wrote: »

Some of the early games were streamed on the icc website, but I can't see this one there.

Thanks - TrueDub

djimi

It only seems to be a small handful of games that are streamed live. I think a TV station picked up the rights to show 9 games or something like that. Its a shame because its been a good tournament so far.

pajor

djimi wrote: »

It only seems to be a small handful of games that are streamed live. I think a TV station picked up the rights to show 9 games or something like that. Its a shame because its been a good tournament so far.

Setanta showed a lot of the Ireland games last year, shame it isn't the same again.

KevIRL

Uganda made 99-7 so a good win in the end

KevIRL

So our last game in group A is on Sunday v Hong Kong, win that and we are qualified for the finals. We have 11 points and Hong Kong have 10 after beating USA today, in fact a no result would also see us qualify most likely. UAE are currently third and could end up on 12 points if they win their last 2 games. Its a pity the Italy game got rained off as we would be almost qualified already

Group B is shaping up to be a right old scrap with Afghanistan on 10 points from 6 games played, Holland on 8 from 6 games after losing to Scotland today. Then a bunch on 6 points - Scotland, Kenya and Nepal but Kenya with just 5 played. PNG the unlucky ones here as their game against group whipping boys Denmark was rained off and they only got 1 point from what was a 2 point banker

BarryD

Gas to think of matches being rained off in that part of the world, perhaps it makes north European players feel more at home

Borders no.2

I see Italy beat UAE this morning which was a surprise. Hopefully Ireland can seal qualification tomorrow. I didn't think qualification would be effectively a play off with Hong Kong but they have made a strong impression in this tournament.

KevIRL

Ireland just started to bat v Hong kong, they bat first again. Shannon in for Niall o Brien is the team news

KevIRL

Ireland 29-0 after 4. Stirling looks in good form

KevIRL

73-0 after 8

KevIRL

91-0 after 10