General Ireland news thread

riffmongous

I thought since the international thread works alright it might also be nice to have also a thread for general Ireland news and matches that don't warrant their own thread, such as..

the 20/20 games going on in Scotland at the moment. I had honestly no idea they were even planned. Big loss yesterday article so hopefully there is a better performance today. Interesting to see another Rankin on the team

Cricket fan

Great debut for Tyrone Kane, 3 wickets in his first over!

All in all a bad showing yesterday though, terrible battin gin the first 10.

Will be a tough ask for this squad IMO because this is largely a full strentgh Scotland team we're playing, only Machan is a big loss to them whereas we're missing most of our team.

Really hope S Poynter steps up this series though, exciting prospect

riffmongous

Rained off today, next game Sunday. As bad as it for Ireland, Scotland seems to have the majority of it's games lost to bad weather, must be very frustrating

Edit: Just reading now they've scheduled a replacement game for tomorrow evening, hope it goes ahead

riffmongous

Good start for Ireland in the 20/20 world cup qualifiers, straightforward win against Namibia scorecard

Cricket fan

Decent performance, bit rusty with the bat (Namibia dropped some early dollies by all accounts) but thats to be expected when you go a week without a game in this format.

PNG are the real danger in the group, Hong Kong no mugs either. USA,Jersey and Nepal shouldnt be much trouble (Nepal have one batsman,Khadka, get him and you're set)

Props to John Mooney on his excellent spell too

Cricket fan

Another win vs the US, 46 runs victory.

Batting seems a but rusty still but the bowlers are stepping up so far which is good to see

riffmongous

Looking at the 2 groups, it definitely looks like we ended up in the easier one

Cricket fan

Yeah agree.

Scotland always look good on paper but always bottle it in pressure situations, Netherlands and Afghanistan are definitely a tough test.

The real thing I hate is the format for the t20 world cup itself, we'll most likely have to beat (assuming the predicted teams qualify)

Zimbabwe,Netherlands/Scotland and one of PNG and Nepal just to face a proper full member, not an easy task

ArmaniJeanss

Cricket fan wrote: »

Yeah agree.

Scotland always look good on paper but always bottle it in pressure situations, Netherlands and Afghanistan are definitely a tough test.

The real thing I hate is the format for the t20 world cup itself, we'll most likely have to beat (assuming the predicted teams qualify)

Zimbabwe,Netherlands/Scotland and one of PNG and Nepal just to face a proper full member, not an easy task

Annoys me that this set of games are called 'T20 WC Qualifiers', though admittedly 'T20 WC Extra Group Stage Before The Main Event Actually Starts Qualifiers' would be a mouthful.
Seems a bit of a farce though.

riffmongous

Huge win against Nepal today, bowled them for 53!

Cricket fan

Excellent performance that. With the way the group is going we could afford to experiment in our last 2 games by playing S Poynter and seeing how he gets on.

Next game on Wednesday vs PNG I believe, followed by 2 live games with Hong Kong and Jersey, both of which will be on Sky.

Meanwhile in Group B Kenya got lucky with rain vs Afghanistan. Very worrying times for Scotland, if their game vs Kenya is rained off it could go down to NRR!

riffmongous

What Sky Channel will they be on? Also any idea why cricketeurope arent allowed to do ball-by-ball commentary for this tournament? It's a pity since they are very good at it but I read that the ICC wont allow it?

Upset win for Oman against the Netherlands today too, group B is going to be very close

Cricket fan

Netherlands and Scotland both caving at the moment. Fantastic for Oman though, 2 wins in 2 for them I think. Wide wide open that group, Kenya,Oman,Scotland,Netherlands gunning for 3 spots

Both games will be on sky sports 4 I believe. To be fair to the ICC they've done a good job giving this qualifier good exposure and more would be much appreciated.

They've banned anyone from doing live commentary at the grounds, including cricinfo, so the onlky games getting proper live comm will be the ones live on TV as they can commentate from their living room. A farce but thats how it is.

TrueDub

Cricket fan wrote: »

To be fair to the ICC they've done a good job giving this qualifier good exposure and more would be much appreciated.

Cricket fan wrote: »

They've banned anyone from doing live commentary at the grounds, including cricinfo, so the onlky games getting proper live comm will be the ones live on TV as they can commentate from their living room. A farce but thats how it is.

Contradiction?

Not having a go at you, CF, but there's no way anyone can say the ICC have done a good job exposing this tournament. Banning the only organisations interested in covering is bordering on lunacy.

Cricket fan

True, I guess I'm saying that TV wise they've done pretty well, lots of live games and most teams getting some form of exposure, but online wise they're archaic.

riffmongous

It's a mixed bag as obviously tv coverage is great, but Cricketeurope has been the number one place for everything to do with Irish cricket for years and it really does not sit well with me seeing them getting blocked like this.

riffmongous

Off to a bad start against PNG, 32/3.

axe2grind

PNG going well in chasing 124

riffmongous

Ireland fighting back now, PNG 76/5

axe2grind

Great spell from Kev Ireland to edge it I'd say

axe2grind

6 down

axe2grind

8 down

riffmongous

I thought we had it after the 8th went down, but 2 big sixes there in the last few balls

riffmongous

And two more!

What a win in the end for PNG

axe2grind

4 6s in 7 balls

Cricket fan

Thats dreadful stuff, Did so well to get them 100/8, then they blow it in an over.

Our batting has not been up to par so far this competition. Still a point clear at the top but now we're in a situation where a rained off game leaves us relying on NRR assuming one of the many sides on 3 points wins their last 2 games

Cricket fan

Scratch that, PNG have played a game less. Wow this is a disaster.

PNG win their remaining games they top the group no matter what our results are.

Cricket fan

And now in group B Oman have thrashed Afghanistan by 40 runs.

Now if they win their last 3 games they top the group.Likely one of Netherlands/Scotland could miss out!

PNG play Nepal,Namibia and USA in their last 3 games. Nepal are, as we saw yesterday, no great shakes. Namibia are useful (only likely team to beat PNG IMO) and the USA are poor.

So we're hoping for rain in one of PNG's games in other words, while avoiding rain in our games

Squatter

Cricket fan wrote: »

And now in group B Oman have thrashed Afghanistan by 40 runs.

Now if they win their last 3 games they top the group.Likely one of Netherlands/Scotland could miss out!

Oman prepared for the tournament by basing themselves in Cork for a fortnight and playing T20 games against various Cork/Munster selections. Fair dues to them - it's looking as though this was an excellent idea.

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Richard Hillman

Awful result on so many levels. We need PNG to lose or have a rained game whilst we win everything else.

There can be no excuses not to finish top of this group.

Cricket fan

On the plus side the u19's are a win away from virtually assuring a WC spot

Figsy32

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Awful result on so many levels. We need PNG to lose or have a rained game whilst we win everything else.

There can be no excuses not to finish top of this group.

Do only the top teams qualify for the next stage, or what is the system?

citytillidie

Figsy32 wrote: »

Do only the top teams qualify for the next stage, or what is the system?

Group winners go through to World Cup and onto the semi finals of this.

2nd and 3rd in each group will play each other with the winners going onto the semi final and losers going onto loser semi final along with 4th from each group

The 4th team in each group and 2 losers then play with those two winners going into a 5th place play off.

Basically the 4 semi finalist and the two teams in the 5th place play off will go to the World Cup

Cricket fan

Poor batting effort so far, 93/4. Need 37 off 24 when in reality it should've been much easier than this,

riffmongous

Yeah it's starting to look a lot tougher than I thought it would be

Pudsy33

In serious trouble here

Cricket fan

40 balls for 28. Not good by the captain. 105/5

Pudsy33

A bit of a shambles this

Cricket fan

Abysmal

Pudsy33

What does this mean for our chances of getting to the knockouts?

Cricket fan

Absolutely inexcusable.

riffmongous

Wow, what is going on here? Awful stuff

Cricket fan

Pudsy33 wrote: »

What does this mean for our chances of getting to the knockouts?

We win vs Jersey we're through. We've made a balls of this group though, and Group B looks very tough, If we cant beat PNG and HK I dont back us against Scotland/Netherlands or Afghanistan.

Need a miracle here

Pudsy33

Can't blame Dockers for that

riffmongous

All up to Mooney here

Cricket fan

Overall one of the worst batting displays we've produced in a long time.

No disrespect to HK but to fall short chasing 129 at home is inexcusable. Now we have the lottery of a knock out game vs one of Holland,Scotland and maybe even Afghanistan.

Dreadful day

riffmongous

Shocking stuff, thank god Jersey are terrible or we would probably be looking at an exit. Never should have lost from the platform Stirling made

edit: Just see Jersey beat HK earlier, but still they got hammered today by Namibia

Cricket fan

Our high score in this tournament is 140 vs the US,

vs Namibia we chased 120, we chased 50 vs Nepal and set PNG 123. Then today we made 125.

Pitches might be bowler friendly but they arent so tough that over a run a ball is impossible, and our opening partnerships havent clicked once yet

Very very worrying times,

riffmongous

Not to mention we were hammered by Scotland just before this too

Larbre34

Just about caught up on this unbelievable news. Where were the weaknesses? WTF went on?

riffmongous

A lot of dotballs, some guys didnt seem to be able to get bat on ball at all at the end. Porterfield with 28 from 40, although in fairness it was fine as long as Stirling was with him getting the boundaries.