England V Ireland

[GIMH]

Apologies if this should be posted elsewhere - I didn't know whewther to put it in the SL thread or not

Anyhow, I see that Joyce made just 9 after opening with Trescothick

England 59-1 after 10 overs, certainly not looking like a walkover.

Not sure of the batting order but still to bat are:
Bell, Collingwood, Chapple, Plunkett, Jones, harmison, Mahmood, Loudon

I think Jones has dropped below Plunkett in the order, quite some fall from grace considering he was opening 18 months ago.

 

[Autobahn]

Looks like the bbc has the thing live on it's site.

 

[GIMH]

Strauss gone for 4, pathetic

 

[Scaly piscine]

Bit generous the BBC calling it 'video' all I'm getting is stills basically. England 217-3 off 40 overs. Should make 310+ against this plodding bowling, but not many hitters to come in really.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Complete and utter pooh death batting from England, not one boundary since the 41st over.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Hurrah, boundary in the 48th over, presumably after the fielder nodded off watching Bell bat.

Consecutive sixes, more like it.

 

[alternative]

that was a totally unexpected performance by england, was expecting bell to go all out to get back into the test team.. but he played well but not quite good enough to earn himself a test recall..

anyway 300 up on board, lets see how harmisson actually bowls now..

 

[BoyBrumby]

Just quickly flicked over to the Beeb's site. It shows Ireland 10/1 off 0.3 overs with all ten coming from wides!

Harmy bowling first over, natch.

 

[Tomm NCCC]

Encouraging from Trescothick, but as for the rest, most got starts but never got past 20, otherwise the Irish couldve really been butchered

 

[GIMH]

Uninspiring stuff all-round apparently. Cricinfo warns us that the first stage iof the WC will be this dull LOL

 

[marc71178]

Not sure why Joyce is being tried as an opener now - how many will we go through?!

Interesting how certain people have to have a dig at Bell, even though he actually scored some runs...

 

[James90]

I honestly can't understand why Joyce is opening and Strauss is at 3 when he's played his entire career below Strauss in the order. By all means blood new talent but just mixing everything up isn't constructive at all.

 

[chekmeout]

Jesus, why isn't anyone actually giving Ireland much-deserved credit for the way they played today? They showed the world that they can be competitve and the lower rung of nations can one day step up to the plate. I'm sure England would have a more facile victory over a Zimbabwe or a Bangladesh..

And Ireland were missing their two top players O'Brienn (covering for GO Jones) and Eoin Morgan (covering for Ed Joyce - the irony!) - but Ireland not only managed to bat out the 50 overs but score 260 odd.. And as for that CricInfo report - that's ********.. There have been far more boring ODI's and I believe Ireland gave England a good fight.. And the first stage of the WC promises a lot more.. With a little luck maybe even an upset! Who knows what would have happened with Morgan and O'Brien? Also if Joyce was maybe playing for Ireland instead

Sure, England didn't play that well but give the Irish credit, folks...

 

[Barney Rubble]

I honestly can't understand why Joyce is opening and Strauss is at 3 when he's played his entire career below Strauss in the order. By all means blood new talent but just mixing everything up isn't constructive at all.

Strauss is significantly better at three or four in ODIs than he is as an opener. I think Fletcher has finally cottoned on to that.

 

[JASON]

Well played Ireland !!

Their highest scorer AC Botha Must be a South African playing for Ireland.

 

[Hero_Don]

Ireland could have given it an almight shake if thier wicketkeeper and Eion Morgan were allowed to play, and Ed Joyce didnt pull a Judas and played for Ireland, which he should. Good effort from Ireland.

 

[luckyeddie]

Sure, England didn't play that well but give the Irish credit, folks...

OK.

Ireland makes the best beer in the world.

 

[marc71178]

Ireland could have given it an almight shake if thier wicketkeeper and Eion Morgan were allowed to play, and Ed Joyce didnt pull a Judas and played for Ireland, which he should.

Why should he?

Given the choice between a potential Test and ODI career and the odd ODI here and there, I know which I'd take.

 

[GIMH]

OK.

Ireland makes the best beer in the world.

Agreed and I'm going to have 10 of them at least tonight

 

[adharcric]

Agreed and I'm going to have 10 of them at least tonight

That's what I thought until I tasted the bitterness of this Guinness bottle ...