The Official Cricket Thread

[RoboRiise]

Should have gone, uni would still have been here upon your return.  Although I suspect I'm telling the man something that he would have told the boy himself.

 

Was a good knock from Sammy, Simmons has been rock solid support too, on 97 with an over left and deserves his century.  No way I'm seeing the end of this one unfortunately, I'm in work earlier all this week.

[RoboRiise]

...and gets it.  Polite applause ensues.

[Jairzinho]

Be surprised if Ireland got within 75 runs of this.

[RoboRiise]

Be surprised if Ireland got within 75 runs of this.

 

Yeah, they looked like they had a shout at keeping it down below 250 until Sammy stepped up and even at that kind of score you'd think it would be a big ask.  Can't pretend I'm well up on the state of Irish cricket these days but this Windies side are a step up from the travesty of a few years back in my opinion.  You're still never confident watching them but I'd have thought they're good enough with the ball for this not to be a problem.

[Jairzinho]

West Indies have enough batting to win this tournament if they gave enough of a fuck. They don't though.

 

Absolute shambles behind the scenes.

 

Right, bed. Ta ra la.

[Jose Jones]

Ireland are pissing it at the moment, 170 - 1.

Could always be a mighty collapse though and still a few runs to get.

[RedSand]

Ireland 3/274... Joyce just holed out.

 

The Irish need 31 off 60 odd balls...

 

No excuses, they should win this from here...

[RedSand]

4/285.... Need 20 off 51

[RedSand]

5/290... Need 15 off 36....

Stop fucking around you lot...

[RedSand]

6/291... Stupid run out....

[RedSand]

Ireland win.... Superb batting by Sterling, Joyce and Niall O'Brien.... Well deserved...

[RedSand]

Ireland win.... Superb batting by Sterling, Joyce and Niall O'Brien.... Well deserved...

Win by 4 wickets, with 4 overs to spare

[Son of L8]

A good win for Ireland, but they gave a real good try at chucking it away for a while there.

 

Impressive run chase. Windies bowling is hit and miss, but those guys were scoring against the good as well as the bad.

[RobbieOR]

Get the fuck in.

[chris71]

Session on!

[Jairzinho]

Fair play to the Irish, good chase that. Gives them a great chance of qualifying.

[RobbieOR]

What do we reckon will be the points total for qualifying? Would three be enough because I reckon we'll beat the UAE and Zimbabwe? 

[Jairzinho]

Six, you mean? Should be, the game against West Indies was the key one because they were the weakest of the four "proper" teams. You have to hope they lose to India, South Africa, and Pakistan. Which they probably will, certainly the first two.

 

Zimbabwe looked a fair bit better than I'd expected in their first game, so that'll be a test for Ireland as well.

[RobbieOR]

Yeah I meant six. Net run rate always seems to be an issue too.

 

Zimbabwe won a couple of their warm-up games too so that'll be a tough game alright.

[RoboRiise]

Left that on last night whilst I was dozing off, woke up a couple of times and Ireland were just cruising.  Amusingly enough Sky showed compressed highlights of them chasing down England's 327 in 2011 during the interval, should have seen it coming.

[lifetime fan]

Great result for the Irish but I hate to see the windies this shit.

[Major Tom]

Was saying the same to my mate earlier. I've always wanted to go and watch some cricket in New Zealand, and deeply regret not taking the chance to go over for 6 months (when I was about 19) and be a club sides overseas player.

 

Can you remember where the club was, J? If it was in Wellington, you dodged a bullet. Grim place to play with the howling winds.

[Jairzinho]

Nah, it was South Island. Can't remember where exactly. The season before we had a Kiwi overseas player and I was going to play for his club when he went back to New Zealand.

[Major Tom]

A lot of nice places that way. Not the deep south, mind. May as well go to Aberdeen to play your cricket.

[Jairzinho]

A lot of nice places that way. Not the deep south, mind. May as well go to Aberdeen to play your cricket.

 

To be fair, I played in a lot of nice places in Devon. Can't complain on that score.

 

After the Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Surrey leagues it was probably the best standard in the country as well. So got to play against quite a few pros.