2022 T20 World Cup in Australia

VillaMad

2022 T20 World Cup (all live on Sky Sports)

16 October-13 November

First Round

Group A

Namibia

Netherlands

Sri Lanka

UAE

Group B

Ireland

Scotland

West Indies

Zimbabwe

Top Two advance to the Super 12's

Super 12

Group 1

Afghanistan

Australia

England

New Zealand

A1

B2

Group 2

Bangladesh

India

Pakistan

South Africa

A2

B1

Ireland's Group fixtures (Irish time):

Monday 17th October - Ireland vs Zimbabwe - 9am (7pm local time)

Wednesday 19th October - Ireland vs Scotland - 5am (3pm local time)

Friday 21st October - Ireland vs West Indies - 5am (3pm local time)

Not the easiest tournament to follow for Ireland with two games both starting at 5am.

Ireland squad: Andrew Balbirnie (capt), Paul Stirling (vice-capt), Mark Adair, Curtis Campher, Gareth Delany, George Dockrell, Stephen Doheny, Fionn Hand, Graham Hume, Josh Little, Barry McCarthy, Conor Olphert, Simi Singh, Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker

KevIRL

Namibia looking likely to cause the first upset and beat srilanka. SL on 79/5 after 12 overs chasing 164 to win

KevIRL

108 all out. Massive win and really hurts Sri Lankas NRR too

KevIRL

Netherlands looked to be cruising to a modest target of 112 but a few quick wickets and now are 77/6 after 14. The UAE just dropped a howler too

KevIRL

Netherlands get there with a ball to spare

KevIRL

Ireland game wont start at 9 anyway. Has to be a minimum of a 30 min break between games being played at the same ground.

Scotland could well beat west indies here

KevIRL

Josh little gets a wicket second ball. Massive game now after the scots got a 42 run win over the west indies

KevIRL

Little gets a second to leave Zim on 37/2 after 5 overs

KevIRL

Now Simi Singh adds a 3rd in the powerplay

KevIRL

Brilliant fielding to take a 4th wicket and break up a good partnership for Zim. 79/4 after 10

TrueDub

Great bit of work on the boundary between Adair & Tector to take the 4th wicket.

wicorthered

I've seen this game before. Good start taking early wickets, fall apart in the middle overs and let one batsman smash us all over the place. Wash, rinse repeat..........

TrueDub

50 up for Sikander Raza - he'll completely run away with it if we don't get him soon.

Strumms

Far too many easy boundaries flowing.

then last delivery off Singhs over, a half tracker ffs…6 again.

41 runs off last 3 overs…

again, Ireland getting themselves into a great position where 165 might have been a limitable score imposed on Zimbabwe but I think shîtting the bed isn’t an unreasonable descriptive statement.

wicorthered

This is pretty average bowling from Simi Singh. Average might be a bit kind!

Campher should simply not be in a T20 team. Not good enough at that aspect of the game.

Strumms

Wicket for Adair, needed to put the breaks on a bit…, his previous delivery was wided but was so close to the batsman he could have reached out and caught it… it literally went over his bat swing. Final delivery should be a wide, down leg and high haha these umpires, clueless.

Strumms

Why does Josh Little bowl down leg with no long leg in situ, like a person with a peanut allergy applying for a job in Manhattan, you know what is going to happen.

fielding getting scratchy too, conceding runs to misfields.

mcCarthy wided when it just wasn’t wide, next ball, 4…

14 off the over.

55 off the last 4.

174/7 after 20. Zimbabwe will be delighted.

8.75 the RRR for Ireland.

wicorthered

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119755342#Comment_119755342

In fairness McCarthy and Little were the least oft he problems. Little was excellent. The rest atrocious.

Stirling is a walking wicket these days!

Strumms

5 dot balls in that over,

just not scoring.

9.46 required now.

Tucker bowled.

22/4 from 3.5… only one team winning this. Goodnight.

srfc d16

This is a very poor performance. Some really poor shot selection to be out on a few of those wickets

Strumms

6 overs in and 3 boundaries off the bat…. That’s abysmal… T20 World Cup lads, hello !

probably score 135 here… be nowhere near the Zimbabwe total. Disaster of a performance. Commentators sound like they’ve lost all interest.

wicorthered

Easily the worst team at the world cup. In fairness a lot of us could have predicted this in the summer. This team was picked last June. No regard to form, just picked the same players game after game regardless of the results or performances.

Edging to slip in T20s is a pretty funky way to get out!

Strumms

Yeah the nature of some of these dismissals is baffling.

Looked like Dockrell totally lost that delivery. Gareth Delaney swinging but missing so takes a handy single. 3 runs from the Raza over, jesus.

still content knocking singles.. no effort, intent, risk or ambition.. pathetic.

can’t even put the long hop away.

Strumms

Campher next to play all around a bad delivery and it clips the top of leg… worse to worser

another full toss, a single..

This is so bad. Windies have to beat us now too so we’re goosed.

Strumms

It’s shocking.

T20 fixture. So far from 16 overs.. Ireland have scored 3 boundaries..

last over, 5 dots, Little swinging at fresh air..

31 run victory for Zimbabwe.

wicorthered

The simple fact is Zimbabwe are a much better team than this Irish one. One current form Josh Little is the only Irish player that would make the Zimbabwe starting XI.

Stirling has been out of form in T20 cricket for a long long time now. This isn't just in an Irish shirt, his form in the Blast and CPL fell off a cliff to. Balbirnie has never and will never be a T20 player, his style just isn't suited to that format. Tector is a brilliant batsman but I don't know is it pressure or what, but his head turns to mush in T2O cricket. No one in our muddle order could ever play innings like Raza's.

Playing Campher means we're both a bowler and batter short. He's not strong enough in either discipline for this format. He doens't score quickly, has a top score of 40 odd and he bowls at a pace perfect for slogging and bowls too short time after time. You know in every T20 game he as a 16-20 run over in him. Play Doheny instead of him.

The thinking with Delaney is insane. They spent years trying to develop him into a number three, ignoring his bowling, yet suddenly in a world cup he's thrown in as a front line spinner. It shows how daft the coaching set up is. Why were they not developing his bowling the last 4 years!

Adair is too inconsistent, follows up a brilliant over with one that goes for 20 time after time.

Fair play to McCarthy he bowled really well today. he was the only player to offer Little any support.

I'd imagine they'll lose all three games and we still won't see any new faces in the team next summer

Furze99

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119755226#Comment_119755226

Good read, then take it handy starting the reply, then lose wickets cheaply as start chasing the scoreboard. Wash, rinse, repeat.......

Occasionally it works out.

VillaMad

We've seen the same story over and over again with this team. Give away countless runs in the middle over with the ball and then struggle to do the same with the bat. Truth is that we perhaps only have 2 or 3 that are good at this format and when 1 of them in Stirling loses his form, we are in trouble.

You can talk about changes or plans, but in reality it's a bit like re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. The honest truth of it is, is that they are simply not good enough and just qualifying for the World Cup is an achievement for this squad. Now and then they might give us a performance above their level but that's very much the exception rather than the rule.

Strumms

Between Test, ODI & T20, Stirling has played I'm reading 266 internationals…he’s a lot of miles on the clock, he’s 31 but not in any great form or shape.

against Zimbabwe we had 6 batsmen make single digit scores, that needs to stop. Yes Stirling was one of those but we need a team ethic, performance, mindset and expectation from us too… no use just bemoaning Stirling not making runs..

our batsmen hit 13 boundaries off 120 plus deliveries….that won’t enable results… needs to be a boundary every over minimum… a boundary every one and a half overs ? … test cricket fine, ODI, not so fine but T20, you’ll lose practically every time if you are not finding the boundaries at least once per over..,

Sri Lanka vs UAE… the Sri Lanka bowlers conceded 2 extras… We concede 12..wides, byes and leg byes ( which ok happen LB’s ) but our bowlers are getting wided on height which is 😩😵‍💫🫣🤪 in this format..

Look, Zimbabwe posted an average enough score which we were 31 runs short of after 20 overs.

Scotland beat the West Indies by 42 runs, they hammered them. They bowled them out in 18.3 overs. Every bowler took wickets. Mark Watt took 3 for and had an economy rate of just 3 from his 4 overs. ⚠️

im not confident. May I eat these words but all the evidence suggests a Scottish win.

hawley

Stirling now gone for another low total. Should have been gone earlier but for a dropped catch. Can't see us getting this total, but hope I'm wrong. 29-2 now. Our batsmen look out of form.

hawley

There seems to be a massive lack of confidence at the moment. Need Campher and Tector to come up with big knocks to save us.

hawley

Tector gone now

irelandrover

Thats a great comeback to win. Looked hopeless in the middle.

wicorthered

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119756182#Comment_119756182

Think I owe Campher an apology 😂.

Great news to wake up to. Still the top 4 are a worry

nice bit of green

Fantastic chase. Would have been annoyed to bow out to Scotland. Still in it now and hopefully full of confidence.

Exceptional running from the two boys at the end. Were running quick 2s and 3s which put Scotland under serious pressure.

Furze99

We won? Good stuff to get one over on the Scots.

machomac

What a phenomenal win. Im in Australia. Was listening to the first chunk on the radio until I finished work. Was really not looking good. Highest score of the tournament to chase. 60/4 when I started watching it in the pub after 10 overs (ish). They just started nailing it. I was all about keeping the run rate down at that stage but oh my God...what a come back. Absolutely pumped. Myself and ten of my mates heading down to Hobart for the final game for my stag. The last time we all went to Hobart was for the epic win against Zimbabwe in to ODI world cup. Let's hope for another epic result. Hon Ireland.

Strumms

I ended up waking up with my alarm as set but falling asleep before the first ball. 😅

but waking up later to a great and much needed result. Lost both our openers early for feck all runs again and inside 5 overs too so we were really behind the 8 ball.

Campher & Dockrell with that partnership was the winning for us.

west indies have all but beaten Zimbabwe I’m seeing so that’s going to be a final group,day shootout to determine who goes through… we won’t as a victory over West Indies.. unlikely.

KevIRL

Ireland bottom of the table on NRR. If our game doesn't happen on Friday we are out.

machomac

Friday's forecast had improved since the start of the week. Its all very simple for the group if the rain stays away.

Strumms

It’s improved but there is some rain in Bellerive I’m seeing is forecasted not that far away time wise from the start but hopefully it can change or skirt around the area.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119764751#Comment_119764751

Anyone else NOT a fan of the NRR decision metric ?

Would be better off going with OBB ? Overall boundary count ? Things like weather, day/ night et can in theory impact the NRR.

Strumms

Got back to see Ireland’s batting innings highlights.

that Scottish team can go jump in a fûcking lake quite frankly…

A very grimy unsporting outfit. A couple of times on getting an Irish batsman out their players instead of celebrating together, were over towards the out Irish batsmen and giving them verbals and making gestures.

also when their bowlers saw Irish players making a move to leg or off before they bowled they pulled out of their delivery, 5 or 6 times. In addition they bowed early before the bowler reached his popping crease… at best, unsportsmanlike, at worst in breach of laws 21.5 and a no ball to boot. Of course the tailor shop dummies umpiring did nada.

the handshakes at the end looked particularly unfriendly and intense from the Scots…

72 from 32… a real impactful knock by Campher…but we’ll done to ALL

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Reece Topley ruled out of the tournament, replaced by Tymal Mills. Huge loss.

Mills doesn’t take wickets or score runs. Averages 4 with the bat and 12 wickets in 13 international T20 matches.

VillaMad

For the first 30 overs yesterday you could have wrote the obituary for Irish cricket such was the display that they had served up. Barry McCarthy so good on Monday, was awful yesterday, typical of the sort of performances from these players where you would tear you hair out.

Fair play to Campher though. He stood up and just whacked it and once he got on top of the bowlers, he took over.

Gives us a chance tomorrow now against the West Indies, albeit it will be tough. It looks to me to be the weakest West Indies side in some time particularly in the batting but in Holder and Joseph they have two quality bowlers. If we can get a batter to stick around and get a score we have a chance.

As for today, the Netherlands courtesy of a UAE win over Namibia joined Sri Lanka to qualify for the Super 12. The Dutch bowled well in their 3 matches but their batting leaves a lot to be desired and they will struggle in the Super 12 against predominately Asian opposition.

Namibia will be kicking themselves after such a good win over Sri Lanka. They batted very poorly in the last 2 games and pretty much blew it.

KevIRL

No matter what happens tomorrow I hope the lesson is not lost on the Irish team and management that it's so important not to get hammered in any of the first two games. Whatever about losing one, getting a hiding puts you in such a worse position when NRR comes into things ahead of the third game.

KevIRL

What's the forecast like for the morning?

VillaMad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119772624#Comment_119772624

Just checked the forecast for Hobart and it seems like it will definitely rain in the evening and possibly the late afternoon. Ireland's match begins at 3pm local time and should be ok. The Zimbabwe-Scotland match looks like it will surely be affected in some way which doesn't look good for Zimbabwe.

KevIRL

Good start anyway. Two wickets inside first five overs

KevIRL

99/4 now. 14.1 overs. Lewis the big danger here, delany excellent with ball today