Posts Tagged "ireland cricket"

Well, that showed ‘em, eh? We smashed those Irish jokers, didn’t we? Yeah! Take THAT, Ireland! That wiped the grin off your face, didn’t it, begorrah? You won’t be lording it over Australia any more, will you?

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It’s time the Blarney Army had a bit more to cheer about. The recent Woolf Review, called for by the International Cricket Council (ICC), recommended greater participation by associate members in ICC dealings and the running of the game.

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If cricket wants to develop into a world game it needs to fully support the development of the Irish Cricket team.

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Greetings, fellow Roarers. I’ve been absent from your screens for a week. A fair bit has happened: Ricky Ponting steps down, replaced by Michael Clarke, a couple of drawn AFL games get that familiar debate going, the ICC World Cup is over for another four years, and my lovely wife gave birth to our first [...]

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News today that only the 10 Test playing cricket nations will be represented at the 2015 Cricket World Cup in Australia and New Zealand is a knee jerk reaction to criticism about the length of the 2007 and 2011 tournaments, and again shows just how narrow sighted the ICC are.

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So, the Irish cricket team apparently hates chasing down anything under 300… In another excellent display that rammed home why the Associate-level nations should stay in the ICC World Cup beyond 2011, Ireland produced a very good run-chase against Holland on March 18 at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens.

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Yuvraj Singh put in a superb all-round display as India survived some anxious moments to defeat a fighting Ireland in their World Cup match on Sunday.

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England’s abysmal World Cup loss to Ireland suggests the blueprint for crushing Australia in the Ashes series doesn’t translate to one day cricket.

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Right, let’s get this over and done with: give Ireland Test cricket status and then every cricket fan can breathe a sigh of relief before this World Cup is finished. Why? Because it would signal that the ICC is at least still listening, or straining to, with one of those old ear-horn hearing-aid thingies, to [...]

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Ireland’s stunning defeat of Pakistan in 2007 and Kenya’s run to the 2003 semi-finals sent shockwaves through the World Cup.

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The ICC full members are claiming they want a shorter World Cup in 2015, but if the minimum “48 game agreement” goes ahead it will not be a short tournament at all. Far from it in fact.

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A career-best haul from all-rounder James Hopes propelled Australia to an unconvincing 39-run one-day international victory, but not before the tourists were given a fright by cricketing minnows Ireland on Thursday.

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