Ireland Cricket Season 2022

Well, in an hour Afghanistan vs Ireland starts… what’s everyone’s predictions ?

win probability on Google is 66% - 34% in favour of the Afghans. They whitewashed Zimbabwe in both the T20 and ODI series IN Zimbabwe…. Ok Zimbabwe are in somewhat of a talent trough but to beat them so comprehensively.

Be interesting to see if we can learn from our recent performances… cutting out the high volumes of extras bowled by our bowlers and those arial ‘rush of blood’ type shots we see too often.

LIVE on BT Sport.

Way to much width… after a seriously good start, bizarrely just too many bad deliveries all of a sudden.

9 wickets in the bank, we need to get a little more positive and aggressive to keep on target.

As I say that, what a shot by Tucker, 6 class.

good win, bit of a sickner for the Afghans though. 😅 They are not a very likeable.. team, did anyone notice the time wasting in between overs and deliveries at the end ?, fellas running on with drinks and towels constantly. Last delivery or second last Nareen-Ul-Haq went back to his mark to restart his run up three times.. each time the batsman was ready and taking guard…. Trying all sorts.

had to laugh at Alan Lewis on commentary… apologising for using the term ‘batsman’ 🤣 ffs.

I’m terms of the broadcast, I hope to fûck that the TV people put more of an effort into the main camera angle so the umpire is not obscuring the stumps again … really amateur hour stuff that…. BT sport not exactly inexperienced as regards broadcasting cricket at the top level….even if it’s a contractor setting up the camera platforms they need to have some oversight especially as it’s a subscription channel that some of us pay to watch.

Paying basically to look at a fellas back, poor.

Run a ball needed but another wicket falling, need 37 off 37… never do it the easy way.

What happened in the first over? Six wides!!

No idea, supposed to be live on BT Sport, but instead I’m watching four fellas drinking beer in a pub talking about baseball… no information being presented as to what’s happening or what’s happened to / with the cricket coverage…

nothing on BT’s twitter or seemingly anywhere…. Yet another broadcast gone tits up, yet again no information… it’s a subscription service not good enough.

edit : ok just see it’s on premier… a tweet wouldn’t have killed em.

Dreadful over by Campher, 14 from it but he was wided for a delivery that the batsman could have reached out and caught with his hand it was that close to him. Dreadful, umpiring.

29 from the last 14 deliveries and the good start undone.

A half tracker to finish off what was an otherwise good over, grrrr

WASP says 183… 34 runs in 3 overs, doubtful.

Ffs Stirling.. Devon Malcolm would have been embarrassed to lose their wicket to that shot… just take the wide..jeeez.

Balbernie goes cheaply, not a dissimilar shot, a poor shot…ffs

Tector jeeez, chasing another wide one, nicks it.

fielder standing at backward short leg… bowler delivers a wide..does batsman..

A…leave it take the wide

b… clip it to backward short leg where there is never a run,

?? Yep… b

More then Stirlings form to be concerned with but yes, he isn’t playing well. However, for a 31 year old to be strolling out as a professional cricketer, a professional athlete, sportsman in the condition he is in, isn’t good enough. He is massively overweight, not just as an athlete but for any human… so when he isn’t performing… questions are to be asked… he has literally traversed the globe, earning hundreds of thousands of Euros, playing franchise and county cricket for the best part of a decade.

its not beyond his resources to buy a treadmill, some weights, a couple of sessions with a dietitian and with a fitness instructor…. Who both can devise tried and tested programs for him to tune his physique and overall health and fitness to levels of a professional athlete, which as far as I know he still is…. Look like you are interested, you are playing for your country ffs and you have ability… resources, support people, so make an effort.

captaincy is bizarre, the batting lineup, bowling changes, just…hmmmmm

Dockrell didn’t bowl a single over. See this is what I mean about the captaincy of this Ireland team.….. Campher bowled 1 over and conceded 14 runs….can’t see anything about Dockrell carrying an injury.

why didn’t Balbernie return to Fionn Hand ? He had taken a wicket, his tail was up…and not the most expensive bowler, he would have taken pace off a bit…

Dunno about an alternative to Balbernie, he does make some bizarre calls though.

Looks like rain on and off up at Stormont until about 17.00-17.30.

with the covers coming off and associated cleanup best case scenario would be playing around 18.00 but even that might be optimistic… I’d be ‘guessing’ each side might lose 3 or 4 overs…

Now Tector looses the ball in the sky for what should have been a simple catch.. ball bounces about 8 feet away from him having been in the air an eternity,

bowling gone to fûck… short, wide, all over the place.

jesus… brutal.

delaney giving Hawthorne verbals, having been wided for a delivery that the batsman could have reached over and caught with his hand, jokeshop umpiring.