Irish Cricket 2024

As mentioned in the 2023 thread, Ian Callendar said on twitter that there will be a home test v Zimbabwe in the summer, no dates confirmed as yet though

Ireland women win the 2nd T20 today

Another T20 win for the ladies today.

U19s lost by 3 wickets v pakistan

The women won the 5th and final T20 yesterday. a 5-0 series win combined with a 2-0 ODI series win

Little picking and choosing his international opportunities 🤦🏻‍♂️

wouldn’t mind if he only omitted himself from one format but instead becoming unavailable for two out of the three…. Nah, not for me.

Internationally he’s grossly overrated anyway. The only impressive thing about his international stats so far is the speed he can bowl at. Hasn’t taken nearly enough wickets at international level with the opportunity he has been enabled with.

average wickets per game is just over 1 wicket in both ODI and T20I formats.

he took only a single five for against New Zealand, his only really great landmark stat and the guy notoriously cannot bat to save his life.

Afghans batting after winning the toss and are two wickets down - both adair in the 7th over. Have recovered tho and are 46/2 after 16

86/3 at lunch. Zadran bringing up his 50 in final over of first session

89/5 now. Young gets the 5th. Zadran still there however

I organise the football league at this venue (and basically live on the site!) and we've been bumped off. Almost 200,000 euro put in to the school sports cup. And the best schools aren't even taking part in the football part of it because the British schools of the middle east are also hosting their games elsewhere.

Just last week we had 5v5 pitches and matches on an oval being used for international cricket the week after!

Campher gets the breakthrough and then another!

139/9

Only real negative from an Irish perspective so far is the reviews, they failed to review two that would have beent out and they do they did review were correctly not out.

Moor fortunate, claen bowled but saved by a front foot no ball

Campher doing his bit, be good to see him picking up more singles and twos as well. Hitting a good few 4s which is grand but it's not T20 or Bazball. We need to build good partnerships and get a decent score 300+

That wicket was coming, Afg had been building some pressure. Campher out 49

92/3 Ireland

Good day for Ireland but Afghanistan are still in the box seat batting last imo. Wouldn't be surpised to wake up in the morning and see Ireland all out with just a modest lead. Still, a fine effort today.

Like playing with 9 players with Peter Moor and Theo van Woerkom in the team. Did ok but likely to collapse and then bowl rubbish. Have a chance though. Maybe these 2 and Tucker can get a few

Sorry, yes, meant 'with Ireland batting last'.

Moor the only Irish player to play red ball cricket since the last test match though

50 for Stirling

Edit and out for 52. Ireland 186/6 at lunch

Nice to see a few partnerships built, building up the total. Be great if our tail can wag and add another 50. But Adair just gone, why did he bother reviewing that??

Can't see us having quite the same easy time against them when they bat again and we'll likely be chasing some score in the final innings.

The lead is now 100