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Irishman just scored a century for England

  • 17-01-2014 07:49AM
    #1
    stefan idiot jones
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    Eoin Morgan has just scored one hundred runs for England against the Aussies in cricket.

    Would you play for England in sport if your own country didn't/can't/never have played your particular sport?


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  • #2
    Jimoslimos
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    stefan idiot jones wrote: »
    Eoin Morgan has just scored one hundred runs for England against the Aussies in cricket.

    Would you play for England in sport if your own country didn't/can't/never have played your particular sport?
    How did he not make the Test team, can't have been worse than the shambles it was.

    Not an ideal situation but it's professional sport and the chap has the right to earn a living and be paid what he's worth. The ICC show little interest in developing cricket outside the Test nations.


  • #3
    kneemos
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    Damn fine game.

    Our boys will give them what for.


  • #4
    Fratton Fred
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    That's the oddity of cricket. If you want to play at the very top level, you have to play for one of the test nations.

    Players can switch nations if they haven't played international cricket for two years.this is one of the reason Afghanistan are doing well at the moment.


  • #5
    preston johnny
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    Well done Eoin Morgan


  • #6
    lkionm
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    Woo sports. Hit the goal. Do the sports.


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  • #7
    gramar
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    Huzzah! tally-ho! jolly good show old boy hitting them for 6 and all that!


  • #8
    Shane-KornSpace
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    Lol cricket....


  • #9
    Clonmel1000
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    Isn't there loads of English Scottish Kiwis Aussies playing for the Irish soccer and rugby teams for years?


  • #10
    Eight Ball
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    Traitor

































    I may or may not be serious.


  • #11
    Gyalist
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    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    That's the oddity of cricket. If you want to play at the very top level, you have to play for one of the test nations.

    Players can switch nations if they haven't played international cricket for two years.this is one of the reason Afghanistan are doing well at the moment.

    Not true. The qualification period is usually 4/5 years. All the Afghan players were born in Afghanistan. A few play club cricket in Pakistan but they are all Afghan.

    The current England XI actually has two Irishmen - Eoin Morgan and Boyd Rankin, Gary Ballance is Zimbabwean, Ben Stokes is a Kiwi and Chris Jordan is Barbadian.


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  • #12
    Banjoxed
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    Reading this thread has persuaded me that I shall now stop speaking the language of the Gall and converse in future in sweet mellifluous Irish.



    Cat. Seo e Cat.


  • #13
    Lapin
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    stefan idiot jones wrote: »

    Would you play for England in sport if your own country didn't/can't/never have played your particular sport?

    You make it sound as though the English all have scabies or something.

    Whats the problem here?

    A professional earning his living abroad - no big deal.

    Nobody passes any remarks on an Irishman being head of British Airways.


  • #14
    Gyalist
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    Lapin wrote: »
    You make it sound as though the English all have scabies or something.

    Whats the problem here?

    A professional earning his living abroad - no big deal.

    Nobody passes any remarks on an Irishman being head of British Airways.

    Alan Joyce, the CEO of QANTAS, is also Irish.


  • #15
    caustic 1
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    Good on him.


  • #16
    Phill Ewinn
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    He must be wore out.


    Good man.


  • #17
    irishfeen
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    Worst sport in the world!


  • #18
    gramar
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    Lapin wrote: »
    Nobody passes any remarks on an Irishman being head of British Airways.
    Gyalist wrote: »
    Alan Joyce, the CEO of QANTAS, is also Irish.


    Michael O'Leary CEO of Ryanair is Irish too.


  • #19
    kneemos
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    gramar wrote: »
    Michael O'Leary CEO of Ryanair is Irish too.

    I'm Irish .


  • #20
    Fratton Fred
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    Gyalist wrote: »
    Not true. The qualification period is usually 4/5 years. All the Afghan players were born in Afghanistan. A few play club cricket in Pakistan but they are all Afghan.

    The current England XI actually has two Irishmen - Eoin Morgan and Boyd Rankin, Gary Ballance is Zimbabwean, Ben Stokes is a Kiwi and Chris Jordan is Barbadian.

    Usually 4/5 years. The ICC seem to bend that rule somewhat.

    In the ODI at Clontarf in September, Boyd Rankin bowled Ed Joyce, as he did the previous time the sides met, except that time Rankin was playing for Ireland and Joyce England!

    I.didn't realise that about Afghanistan, I was under the impression a number of them were Pakistani.


  • #21
    Cookie_Monster
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    Gyalist wrote: »
    Alan Joyce, the CEO of QANTAS, is also Irish.
    Lapin wrote: »
    Nobody passes any remarks on an Irishman being head of British Airways.

    Both of which are International corporations, not national sports teams, no comparison.


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  • #22
    BillyMitchel
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    It's all good, the man is free to do as he pleases.


    What I really can't get my head around is what the fock are you doing watching cricket before 7am?


  • #23
    Gyalist
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    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    Usually 4/5 years. The ICC seem to bend that rule somewhat.

    In the ODI at Clontarf in September, Boyd Rankin bowled Ed Joyce, as he did the previous time the sides met, except that time Rankin was playing for Ireland and Joyce England!

    I.didn't realise that about Afghanistan, I was under the impression a number of them were Pakistani.

    It's two years only if you are going back to Associate cricket from Test cricket as Joyce did a few years ago.

    Some of the Afghans first learned the game in the refugee camps in Pakistan and many are ethnic Pashtuns (Pathans), Pashtuns are also the second largest ethnic group in Pakistan.


  • #24
    [Deleted User]
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    stefan idiot jones wrote: »

    Would you play for England in sport if your own country didn't/can't/never have played your particular sport?


    What do you mean if your own country can't play? Ireland beat England not so long ago in Cricket (with a fastest century record from Kevin O Brien) and have only recently won the Intercontinental Cup. They also give a good account of themselves in World Cup competitions don't they?


  • #25
    BillyMitchel
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    Didn't Ireland beat Pakistan a few years back?

    Is that like Shamrock Rovers beating Man Utd?


  • #26
    bumper234
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    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    Both of which are International corporations, not national sports teams, no comparison.

    No one seemed to mind when Jack Charlton took over the Irish team.


  • #27
    gramar
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    bumper234 wrote: »
    No one seemed to mind when Jack Charlton took over the Irish team.

    ...and managed a team made up of Englishmen and Irish men playing in England.....


  • #28
    stefan idiot jones
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    BillyMitchel wrote: »
    It's all good, the man is free to do as he pleases.


    What I really can't get my head around is what the fock are you doing watching cricket before 7am?

    I'm just home from work Down Under.


  • #29
    kneemos
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    stefan idiot jones wrote: »
    I'm just home from work Down Under.

    Miner eh.


  • #30
    stefan idiot jones
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    Omackeral wrote: »
    What do you mean if your own country can't play? Ireland beat England not so long ago in Cricket (with a fastest century record from Kevin O Brien) and have only recently won the Intercontinental Cup. They also give a good account of themselves in World Cup competitions don't they?

    Should he represent Ireland then?


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  • #31
    spank_inferno
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    He can be a terrific batsman & is well liked but under the current management is not likely to be selected for the test team in the near future.


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