Match Thread: England vs Ireland, Lords [4-day Test]

[Sachinism]

England off to a shaky start. 36/3

 

Debutant Roy gone for 5

Burns and Denly the other wickets

[Ankit_sharma03]

42/4

[Sachinism]

Root gone 42/4

[Ankit_sharma03]

42/5

[Sachinism]

Johnny B gone. 5 down

[Sachinism]

Could be 42/6. England review

Looked out

[Ankit_sharma03]

42/6

[Sachinism]

Bloody I need to work

[Ankit_sharma03]

43/7 WTF

[Sachinism]

Fifer for Murtagh.

Class. 5/11

[Ankit_sharma03]

 

 

 

[Ankit_sharma03]

 

 

 

[Ankit_sharma03]

61/8

[Sachinism]

OMG OMG OMG are England going to be rolled over before lunch on Day 1?

 

[Ankit_sharma03]

69/9

[Nikola]

Worldcup Win 10 days ago at same ground and today 69/9 now for Eng. 

[Nikola]

Eng all out for 85. Didn't even play session.

[LordPrabhzy]

I think this is to get irish more interested in cricket. Imagine marketing the fact that Ireland beat England at lords the home of cricket. Can’t get any better 

[addicted4444]

5 minutes ago, LordPrabhzy said:

I think this is to get irish more interested in cricket. Imagine marketing the fact that Ireland beat England at lords the home of cricket. Can’t get any better 

And who precisely do you think wants that to happen?

 

Does the ICC want to encourage Irish cricket? If so why did they then basically made it impossible for teams like Ireland to make it to the World Cup by reducing it to 10 teams?

Does the ECB want to encourage Irish cricket? When they've done all that can be done to undermine Irish cricket, and Ireland is a source of a great number of their critical players.

Do the Indian or South African boards want to encourage Ireland, when they already complain about scheduling away teams, and almost certainly don't want more competitors to schedule against.

 

I wish conspiracy theorists would try a little harder to come up with a conspiracy that cannot be dismissed at its face.

[prinzo]

46 minutes ago, addicted4444 said:

And who precisely do you think wants that to happen?

 

Does the ICC want to encourage Irish cricket? If so why did they then basically made it impossible for teams like Ireland to make it to the World Cup by reducing it to 10 teams?

Does the ECB want to encourage Irish cricket? When they've done all that can be done to undermine Irish cricket, and Ireland is a source of a great number of their critical players.

Do the Indian or South African boards want to encourage Ireland, when they already complain about scheduling away teams, and almost certainly don't want more competitors to schedule against.

 

I wish conspiracy theorists would try a little harder to come up with a conspiracy that cannot be dismissed at its face.

Ireland had a fair chance to qualify for the world cup. But they didn't.