Ireland bat through the whole day. What a magnificent performance.
Arguably
@cricketireland
's best day in test cricket to date.
finish on 286/8.
All back at 5am tomorrow
#BANvIRE
If the CWC super league is gone after this edition. It’s going to be a real shame.
It actually made countries play countries that they normally wouldn’t.
Meant that every game was important and mattered.
Showed the bigger teams what they had to lose.
Thats why it’s going
1/9) 🎙️It's been so inspiring to see this moment go that viral around the world. There's a few things I might not have got across in the moment on commentary that I wanted to explain as to what made it so special & why Nepali cricket should be so proud
A
#SpiritofCricket
thread
LORCAN TUCKER GETS TO HIS CENTURY!
What an innings, and becomes the second
@cricketireland
men's cricketer to get to a test match century
#amazing
#BANvIRE
What a Captain's innings from
@balbo90
!
A great fifty, stood up tall when Ireland could have wobbled.
Will he be Ireland's first test winning Captain?
#afgvire
It was a terrific final game for the World Cup, but a great last game doesn’t mean that the World Cup has been great. Overall the World Cup has been quite bland and it’s the format that has caused this. Please don’t forget this.
#cwc19
Magnificent 159 run partnership between Dickson and Tector for the third wicket means that
@cricketireland
u19s thrash Zimbabwe and make their way through to the plate final.
#U19CWC
This is complete and utter bollocks.
How about you announce the fixtures for the qualifiers that are supposed to be happening next month first?
Or have you forgotten that they are happening?
@ICC
Once again you have to wonder how good
@cricketireland
could be if we played more international games.
The truth is that we just don’t play enough games.
You don’t get better at something by not doing it!
#IREvIND
What a brilliant last couple of overs, first from Young and then from Little.
Fully deserved the win today.
Delighted for balbirnie. Not a bad win for your first win as captain.
#wivire
Watching Japan take the lead on Ireland with 20 mins left. Thrilling. Generally could care less about rugby but this is the kind of great World Cup match for a casual sports fan from a non traditional rugby country to get into, something sadly missing from Cricket World Cup.
Want to wish
@tim_tector
@petejohnston79
and the whole
@cricketireland
u19 squad the very best as they take on Zimbabwe u19s for a place in the
#U19CWC
plate final.
Huge game today which you’ll be able to watch on the sky sports YouTube channel.
Sri Lanka is a better team then playing the qualifiers.?
That’s poor from Harsha Bhogle.
They are in the qualifiers because their play meant that they needed too.
His comments all day show he thinks this is just a paid holiday.
#T20WorldCup
Tector and O’Brien are in the middle as
@Irelandcricket
defeat
@ECB_cricket
in England for the first time.
What a bloody fantastic game of cricket.
Well done to
@balbo90
and his team.
What a win.
The
@ICC
made the decision yesterday on who made it to the women’s World Cup and who is in the new women’s ODI league.
Rather then attacking the teams that made it, which isn’t the teams decisions.
The ICC could just expand the competitions instead. It’s a simple solution.
What the Hell has this game got to do with the
@et20s
? If I was one of the players that was messed around by these people I would be having a long chat with this person around why I wasn't getting paid any money this autumn. Bloody disgrace
If you need any help in deciding that the organisers of the
@et20s
couldn’t give a crap about the local players. Look at the squad photos of the Edinburgh Rocks from the
#ET20SDraft
. It’s not as if you didn’t already know what players where going to be picked!!
#disgraceful
Ian bishop showing once again that if you do your research on the players that you are going to be commenting on, it makes a difference.
#irevhk
#WT20Qualifier
Always enjoyable watching Stirling smash the ball all over the place.
Hopefully he will be able to keep this form for the important games against Zimbabwe over the next three weeks.
It's been a very enjoyable test match. I'm sure that Ireland will have learnt a lot from the game.
Plenty to work on before the next test against Sri Lanka in 9 days time.
It does show that we can compete at this level. Looking forward to seeing how the team develops
#BANvIRE
Well done to Zimbabwe, who bowled excellently to win the first T20i of their Ireland tour.
Four times Ireland's batters managed to get the target to less then a run a ball, four times they let it slip
less then two months to go before the World T20, that's troubling
#Irevzim
It’s a disgrace.
Firstly they cancel the ODI super league, depriving teams of scheduled games.
Then they want to bring back another exclusive tournament. Just for selected teams. It’s the big 3 all over again…
Idiotic decision making is what’s going to kill cricket off.
Ramiz Raja is set to propose an annual tournament involving Pakistan, India, Australia and England that will create revenue for all members.
The plans also call for the ICC to run the event.
What do you think of the idea?
Well done to the
#cricketirelandbreakfastclub
for the early starts over the past four days.
Good news is that the Sri Lanka tests are going to start 30 minutes later at 5:30am.
Time for some sleep now I think.....
What a way to end it, brilliant Yorker from Adair and Nortje is bowled.
Perfect performance, first ODI victory over South Africa and boy did we deserve it.
10 points are so important to move us away from the bottom of the table.
#IREvSA
Throughout most of the Afghanistan innings these commentators couldn’t see anything other then a comprehensive Afghanistan win.
It might have taken a super over but that’s a super win.
Terrific bowling as a unit to win it.
#futuresbright
#AFGvIRE
39 off only 14 balls from Matthew Humphreys means that Emerging Ireland win by 1 wicket with 1 ball to spare. Go 2-0 up against the West Indies academy.
Here is the scorecard:
📸 Groundsman Matt Reed making sure the youngsters stay clear as he continues preparations for the
#IP2020
clash between
@MunsterReds
&
@CL_LLightning
at the Mardyke tomorrow. ☘️🏏
Our correspondent
@Isam84
was gearing up for preview day of the third
#NZvBAN
Test. Instead, he ended up at the scene of the terrorist attack in Christchurch. Here's how his day unfolded
Harry Tector’s series…
Match 1: 2️⃣4️⃣
Match 2: 4️⃣8️⃣
Match 3: 5️⃣4️⃣*
➖ Runs = 126
➖ Average = 63.00
➖ Strike Rate = 121.15
Not a bad return!
#BackingGreen
☘️🏏
Brilliant tour for the Wolves to Nepal.
Great to finish the ODMs with a 3-0
#greenwash
Will have given the team much more experience. You only get better by doing things more!
They’ve done it - Ireland Wolves clean sweep of the ODM series is complete.
▪️ Wolves 284-9 (50 overs)
▪️ Nepal A 215 (39.4 overs)
SCORECARD
Well done, lads. ☘️🏏
#GoWolves
🐺
The people coming out saying what a great World Cup this was, all have a vested interest to do so. We were told it was going to “inspire a generation”, has it done that? There has been no excitement. It’s been a corporate, bland World Cup. It will always be know as such.
After being defeated in the first game in the series
@Irelandcricket
sweep back to complete a 5 wicket win.
@stirlo90
completes a fine century. Wins the series 2-1 to send John bracewell off in style in his final game.
#IREvAFG
Every country should have the opportunity to play test cricket if they want too.
Lack of context is the issue.
Organise proper tournaments/leagues and watch the sport thrive.
I think that it would do no harm to rest Balbirnie for the Afghanistan series, make Stirling or Dockrell the Captain.
Split the 5 games to give Doheny and Ross Adair a chance to open.
#irevsa
It might have been South Africa’s day today.
Although it’s been a great recovery after being 92/6.
We have all been at games where that would have meant being all out for about 130.
This team is different.
#irevsa