Irish Cricket 2024

Strumms

sure was.

Scotland tomorrow for us. Dutch annihilated them on Saturday … 40 odd run victory from memory and Scotland were bowled out… be excellent if we kept up the momentum.

Be a bit of rain about, but I’d be guessing / hoping from the current forecast that we’ll get enough overs in to constitute a game.

KevIRL

game v Scotland abandoned

KevIRL

Scotland won the toss and chose to bat this morning. They are 139/6 in the 18th over

KevIRL

Scotland finish 157/8

MFPM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122173503#Comment_122173503

Definitely gettable if Ireland bat well.

KevIRL

Coasting to victory here, very controlled and polished batting performance from the get go

Pudsy33

Balbo is on a decent run of form in this format, good to see him playing well

KevIRL

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122173811#Comment_122173811

Tucker as well tbf. Hopefully they carry into the WC

KevIRL

Important win in terms of automatically qualifying for 2026 T20 world cup too

Strumms

win with 3 deliveries to spare…. Downside…we made things again a lot harder for ourselves with a glut of wickets falling towards the end.

Cruising 131/1 after 15 overs. ———> 158/5 after 19.3 overs

Closer then it should have been. But we’ll take it.

KevIRL

also @ ECB - Tri Nations Series Champions, you'll never sing that.

KevIRL

Ireland batting first this morning v Netherlands

KevIRL

Ireland finish 151/6. Dockrell not out 53

KevIRL

Fantastic death bowling by Ireland to win by 3 runs. Netherlands pretty much had it in the bag, but fantastic stuff at the death by Ireland by Adair and Young in particular.

Pretty sure that win secures a ranking that is enough to qualify Ireland directly for the 2026 T20 world cup barring somethign very unusual happening at the 2024 finals

VillaMad

You would say that Ireland's weakest bit in T20 cricket is by far their death bowling so kudos for somehow winning that one although for sure the Dutch absolutely blew that.

Batting is looking good at the moment and a mention for Dockrell finally getting a 50 in T20 internationals in his 87th innings. Will be interesting to see how Josh Little comes back. He only played once in the IPL, so would have been bowling a lot in the nets and so I wonder whether he will have picked up a few things from the coaches and whatnot.

KevIRL

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122178263#Comment_122178263

Just re Dockrell. They said in comms it was his second T20 50?

VillaMad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122178336#Comment_122178336

Yeah your right, I was looking at his cricinfo profile at the time which I thought had been updated and I see now that he got 58* not out against Afghanistan a couple of years back.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122177715#Comment_122177715

Yes, we did what we normally don’t do, well. That’s very encouraging. The death bowling has been a bit nervy shît the bed style for a good while now. Never could get that…wides and no balls and full tosses on leg stump and just conceding plenty but suddenly, composure, cool heads, common sense and actually executing the necessary skills, well. Last 3 overs we bowled…

Over 18 : 6

Over 19 : 8

Over 20 : 7

And here is a very positive stat on top of that…. Only 2 boundaries conceded in the last 3 overs. Hopefully it’s a confidence builder going into the World Cup.

KevIRL

Malan gets a 2 year contract extension. Deserved you would have to say