Ireland v Australia

deise300

Anyone heading up to this? Hopefully the weather behaves!

Hopefully a return to the longer one day format will work well for the boys after the disappointing t20 qualifiers. Looks like the "usual" 11, (Ports, Stirling, Joyce, Niall, Wilson, Balbirnie, Kevin, Johnboy, Dockrell, Murtagh, Young- anyone think it will be different to this?) Murtagh is back from injury after missing the England game in May. Be great to finally get a home win over a top team. Can't say I'm very optimistic tho

It's a strong Australia side, probably name something like: Warner, Watson, Smith, Burns, Maxwell, Bailey, Wade, Mitch Marsh, Starc, Cummins, Coulter-Nile/Agar

COYBIG!

Cricket fan

Cant wait, live on setanta as well.

I read an article on the telegraph that said Mooney will captain the side??? Is that true??

Anyway, google tells me the weather is a bif iffy but assuming they are accurate a full game should be gotten

BBC "A breezy day with scattered showers, and perhaps some rain at first along the north coast. Showers will turn more frequent by later afternoon."

deise300

Yeah, great news that its live on setanta. Looks on and off showers but hopefully clear enough to have the full amount of overs. First I've heard of Mooney captaining, has he captained Ireland much in the past? Would have thought Kevin to be second in command

Cricket fan

Australia's line up named

Joe Burns, David Warner, Steve Smith (capt), George Bailey, Glenn Maxwell, Shane Watson, Mitch Marsh, Matthew Wade, Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, Nathan Coulter-Nile.

Alright now I'm scared haha, Starc on a typical Irish wicket could be unplayable, plus side is we all know how much the Aussies struggle vs lateral movement

Cricket fan

Kevin ruled out with a hamstring injury. Sorenson called up.

Cricket fan

I hate Irish weather

riffmongous

Have a look at the rainfall radar link below and imagine if the game had been scheduled for the scientifically driest part of the country instead

http://www.met.ie/latest/rainfall_radar.asp

Cricket fan

Dockrell,Sorenson and Kevin O brien miss out. Surprise Dockers is left out although I'm certainly not against it (think dockers is struggling these days and mcbrine deserves his shot) Niall keeping too, Bracewell starting to leave his mark on the team?

Cricket fan

To be fair Cricket Ireland cant just have every game in Dublin, they've got to give Belfast and the Northern fans a fixture too. IIRC in May when England visited Dublin was drenched and Stormont dry as a bone. Just bad luck I guess.

riffmongous

Cricket fan wrote: »

To be fair Cricket Ireland cant just have every game in Dublin, they've got to give Belfast and the Northern fans a fixture too. IIRC in May when England visited Dublin was drenched and Stormont dry as a bone. Just bad luck I guess.

Yeah the individual events are bad luck but statistically Dublin is slightly drier than Belfast around these months and when you only get a handful of games a year it would be best to stack all the odds in your favour.. but you're right it wouldn't be fair to Northern fans

Well at least it's game on now

Cricket fan

Aussies off to a brisk start, 27-0 after 4

Cricket fan

Damn, 17 off the over

Cricket fan

This is getting scary, Warner and a debutant on fire

Pudsy33

This is pretty grim viewing so far. Need a wicket or two very soon

Cricket fan

Aussies keep this up we could be chasing 370 plus

riffmongous

Listening to the commentators talking about Mooney's style of bowling being only good in home conditions, but havent all of our big wins come far away from home?

Cricket fan

riffmongous wrote: »

Listening to the commentators talking about Mooney's style of bowling being only good in home conditions, but havent all of our big wins come far away from home?

Honestly I agree totally with the commies though, if we want pace bowlers we need to make better pitches and not the kind of tracks where 230 is a good score and medium pace thrives, because if we dont we'll struggle big time like in the WC and today on good tracks.

You are correct most of our wins have come away from home, but in 2007 both pitches vs Pak and Ban were greentops perfect for us, Bangalore 2011 was a flat deck where we bowled well at the death after England were like 260-2 at one point IIRC, Nelson was won mostly due to a great batting effort after conceding a large score.

I wouldnt say Mooney's only good at home though, every side has a medium pacer with a container/wicket taking role e.g Wiese for SA, Watson for Aus. Problem is all our bowlers fall into that category whereas the top sides have some pace to back it up

Cricket fan

We're beginning to put the squeeze on, RR's gone from 8.5 to 6.8

Pudsy33

Burns gone! Nice ball all the same.

Pudsy33

Oh ffs!

Cricket fan

Just effing typical

Cricket fan

Well done Craig, he's been much much better in this second spell,deserved wicket

delta_bravo

Maybe it's the way the cameras are angled but it looks and sounds as if there's a small crowd there. Anyone know what the capacity is?

riffmongous

Could be some rain on the way in the next hour maybe 2 hours

Cricket fan

This has been a very good recovery IMO.

From 80-0 after 10 to 165-2 after 29. Another wicket or two will make things very interesting

Pudsy33

Murtagh is looking really really dangerous

Cricket fan

Maxwell gone!

Cricket fan

Bet any money the rain will come right as we think of getting on top of the game

Pudsy33

Holy **** some turnaround here

Pudsy33

We're back in action. Need to keep it tight but looking ok at the moment

Pudsy33

We have a serious chance here. If the goes to dl it should be in our favour.

Cricket fan

Thing is this isnt an easy pitch to bat on when the ball wears out it seems, so we'll still have to bat well to win.

Serious black cloud gathering, worried the outfield might become oversaturated

Cricket fan

I'd be gutted if we didnt even get a chance to chase

Pudsy33

Cricket fan wrote: »

I'd be gutted if we didnt even get a chance to chase

It's early in the day, I reckon we will

Cricket fan

The problem is the outfield as the commies mentioned, it held up play by 90 mins as it was wet still, a heavy shower like this could end any hope of it staying dry

BarryD

27/2 after 6 overs and needing 8 an over... hmm.

Cricket fan

There was a phase there were we were certainly in with a cnahce but unfortunately the trio of 150plus kph bowlers proved the difference.

Thompson,McBrine,Joyce, Niall all did well. Porterfield got a beauty, Stirlo played a shocking shot and unfortunately the lower order couldnt take us over the line.

Still, pushed the world champions close, plenty of positives to take.

Rjd2

Fair play to Australia for playing the team that will likely will play against England next week, was sure at least Starc would be rested.

Pretty poor start which meant the Aussies got away from us, but fought pretty well to get it back.However Starc,Cummins and Coulter Nile just to good.

No shame in that really, this Aussie side are world champions for a reason.:p

Rjd2

Also hopefully for his own sake, Young finds a new county next year, wasting him time at Sussex especially if Jordan doesn't get back in the England side. A shame as Sussex are quality, but for his and Irelands sake needs regular cricket.

Cricket fan

He's no longer with Sussex mate, he's been contracted to Cricket Ireland the past year.

He had a trial at Leics earlier this year and they were impressed apparently but he never got the move. Honestly I'd be surprised if he doesnt get one sooner or later, a high 130's (fast by county standards) bowler with international experience would be a decent deal I think.

Today also has to be the low point for Dockrell I'm afraid, dropped for the first time since 2010, not a single first team appearance at Somerset all summer, and his replacement McBrine has actually amassed some impressive performances. He is one who needs to get the hell away from his current team definitely.

Dozen Wicked Words

Do counties get compensated when Ireland players are away on international duty?

riffmongous

Very respectable performance in the end, the bowlers came back very well.

Any ideas on what happened to Dockrell? A few years ago I was certain he would end up on the english team along with Stirling