series vs UAE and Afghanistan

TheDrog · 11-12-2020 5:22pm #1

Squad for back to back ODI series in the UAE in January:

Andrew Balbirnie (C), Mark Adair, Curtis Campher, David Delany, Gareth Delany, Josh Little, Andrew McBrine, Barry McCarthy, James McCollum, Kevin O’Brien, Neil Rock, Simi Singh, Paul Stirling, Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker, Craig Young

Wilson not travelling as his partner is due to give birth. Dockrell and Rankin both miss out.

Interesting to see Rock is now the third choice keeper.

VillaMad · 05-01-2021 6:19pm

Tour starts on Friday:

Friday 8th January vs UAE- Abu Dhabi- 1st ODI - 05:30am - Live on Youtube

Sunday 10th January vs UAE- Abu Dhabi- 2nd ODI - 05:30am - Live on Freesports/Youtube

Tuesday 12th January vs UAE - Abu Dhabi - 3rd ODI - 05:30am - Live on Freesports/Youtube

Thursday 14th January vs UAE - Abu Dhabi - 4th ODI - 05:30am - Live on Freesports/Youtube

Thursday 21st January vs Afghanistan - Abu Dhabi - 1st ODI - 05:30am - Live on Youtube

Sunday 24th January vs Afghanistan - Abu Dhabi - 2nd ODI - 05:30am - Live on Youtube

Tuesday 26th January vs Afghanistan - Abu Dhabi - 3rd ODI - 05:30am - Live on Youtube

The Afghanistan fixtures will be part of the World Cup Super League fixtures whereby the top 8 qualify automatically for the next 50 over World Cup.

Mars Bar · 06-01-2021 5:49pm

https://twitter.com/AbuDhabiCricket/status/1346776117160636421?s=20

Hello from Abu Dhabi
I know nothing about cricket but the stadium is my primary work venue and it's my second home! I also do some casual work for the cricket stadium when I can.

gavinoontheweb · 06-01-2021 6:15pm

Looking forward to this tour and hopefully the 2021 schedule won't be impacted as much as it was in 2020.

Thoughts on this XI for the first match:

Delany, Stirling, Balbirnie, Tector, KOB, Campher, Tucker (WK), Singh, McBrine, Young, McCarthy.

KevIRL · 07-01-2021 11:38am

The 3 games v Afghanistan are huge. If we could come out with a series win it would be massive for our WC chances. Massive ask of course

Great to have the 4 games v UAE to build up as well. Looking forward to getting to watch some cricket.

KevIRL · 08-01-2021 8:49am

Opened with stirling and KOB. Ireland just lost tucker, the 4th wicket and are 159/4 after 34. Stirling still in on 70

KevIRL · 08-01-2021 9:33am

Campher out, handy little knock tho.208/5

KevIRL · 08-01-2021 9:47am

Stirling ton. 221/5

TrueDub · 08-01-2021 10:07am

Finished on 269/5, Stirling carrying his bat for 131 n/o.

Live coverage on Facebook for anyone who's interested.

KevIRL · 08-01-2021 10:07am

269/5 in the end. Stirling carries his bat to finish on 131 not out, exceptional stuff and really got going with a few 6s in the last few overs as well.

KevIRL · 08-01-2021 11:12am

UAE 2 down for 38 runs after 8 overs

riffmongous · 08-01-2021 1:00pm

Doing fairly well now though, 156/3, only need 114 from 17. Partnership worth over 100 now, really needs to be broken

Richard Hillman · 08-01-2021 1:58pm

Massive wicket. UAE are getting panicky, playing shots they don't need to

gavinoontheweb · 08-01-2021 2:14pm

Very controlled chase from the UAE they have been a very solid team for a number of years now, I can remember a similar innings from the 2015 CWC. Ireland not looking overly threatening on this deck and a similar or even the same surface may be used against AFG.

A lot of work to do, good time in the middle from Balbirnie and Stirling are the main positives to take from today.

Richard Hillman · 08-01-2021 2:15pm

Yeah, maybe not :pac:

Magnificent run chase. Big up to UAE

axe2grind · 08-01-2021 2:40pm

gavinoontheweb wrote: »

A lot of work to do, good time in the middle from Balbirnie and Stirling are the main positives to take from today.

Add Campher to that, best bowling figures today and some runs.

TrueDub · 10-01-2021 12:15am

Sunday's ODI off due to Covid-19 cases within the UAE squad.

KevIRL · 10-01-2021 12:40am

TrueDub wrote: »

Sunday's ODI off due to Covid-19 cases within the UAE squad.

Lie in tomorrow so

gavinoontheweb · 11-01-2021 7:52pm

Unfortunately tomorrow's already rescheduled ODI is cancelled due to more positive cases in the UAE camp. It's up in the air whether the rest of this 4 game series will continue.
Must be really frustrating for the Irish team, hopefully the Afghan series can go ahead uninterrupted but no doubt a clean run at this current series would have been very beneficial. Far from ideal prep.

KevIRL · 11-01-2021 10:23pm

Nightmare, hard to see any more games being played against UAE now

deise300 · 13-01-2021 5:47pm

Tomorrow's game off now. Hard to see any more games being played in the series. Pretty tough for the lads considering they will be going into the important Afghanistan games with very little practice

VillaMad · 13-01-2021 5:50pm

Match scheduled for tomorrow now called off as well as the UAE team remains in quarantine.

Seems all they can do is have a few practice sessions now until the Afghanistan series.

KevIRL · 15-01-2021 4:00pm

Game off tomorrow, they are now hopeful however that a game happens Monday

KevIRL · 16-01-2021 5:15pm

Ireland played an unofficial warm up game v afghanistan today and lost by 23 runs. None of the top 3 got out of the teens in terms of runs, rector with 42, adair and campher both on 39 the best with the bat.campher 3/31 with the ball

KevIRL · 17-01-2021 2:19pm

2nd ODI tomorrow confirmed on

Mars Bar · 18-01-2021 7:33am

https://twitter.com/AbuDhabiCricket/status/1350820809732976642?s=19

We had a foggy morning at Abu Dhabi Cricket!

KevIRL · 18-01-2021 9:23am

Mars Bar wrote: »

https://twitter.com/AbuDhabiCricket/status/1350820809732976642?s=19

We had a foggy morning at Abu Dhabi Cricket!

V foggy start by Ireland anyway. Top 3 batsmen all out for less than 5 runs. Havre recovered a bit but run rate is awful

KevIRL · 18-01-2021 10:01am

228/6 in the end. 50s for Campher and Singh, also some useful totals from Tector and Tucker albeit at a slow rate, but at least they made sure we were still batting for the final few overs and got the score to something that the bowlers have a shot at defending.

KevIRL · 18-01-2021 11:29am

UAE got off to a solid start but Simi Singh has now taken 3 wickets to leave them 50/3 after 16 overs.

KevIRL · 18-01-2021 11:52am

4th wicket for Simi Singh

KevIRL · 18-01-2021 11:57am

KevIRL wrote: »

4th wicket for Simi Singh

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series vs UAE and Afghanistan

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