T20 Ireland v England start time

[Paddy O'Dors]

Malan the go to batter for stick before Stokes is a strange one

Stokes did do summat with the ball and was bowled by a decent delivery. Malan two boundaries in 37 deliveries is dismal.

 

[Hetty]

Top of the morning to ya, up the Irish

England thought turn up and win

 

[Dexter]

At this point we just need to hide Stokes down the order. Having Livingstone coming in at 7 is criminal.

 

[cooky]

We only needed 7.5 p/o when he came in 3rd ball so a run a ball while wickets are tumbling just to get a base score on the board is not a terrible thing

Yeah. He was very scrappy today which is unlike him but normally in that situation Malan goes run a ball and someone else goes harder. Brook couldn’t get anything away either which killed us.

 

[Jack Torrance]

At this point we just need to hide Stokes down the order. Having Livingstone coming in at 7 is criminal.

should be Ali at 4, was good there last year and one of our form batsmen coming into the series

 

[Voice of fair play]

We would have been ahead had the over got finished

55 of 33 with Ali and Livingstone there with Curran and Woakes to come, as much as we had fucked up earlier still pretty confident we would have won that.

Guess Malan has to take some blame there like

 

[I am Boss]

Stokes did do summat with the ball and was bowled by a decent delivery. Malan two boundaries in 37 deliveries is dismal.

He should not be batting at 4 in this format

 

[Voice of fair play]

That is abysmal. They wouldn’t have made that target.

I think they would like the over they went off had just turned the game in our favour, most T20 games when a team needs 53 of 33 you fancy the batting team from that situation

 

[Rufus T Firefly]

Livingstone's bowling and Modern's mini innings aside England were woeful and got what they deserved.
On a different note it was surprising no overs were taken from the game after the initial 19 minute delay which left only 11 minutes margin before the next match.
Which in turn puts a question mark against double headers in a World Cup.
Deserved to lose though.

 

[Paddy O'Dors]

Livingstone's bowling and Modern's mini innings aside England were woeful and got what they deserved.
On a different note it was surprising no overs were taken from the game after the initial 19 minute delay which left only 11 minutes margin before the next match.
Which in turn puts a question mark against double headers in a World Cup.
Deserved to lose though.

It's been a poor World Cup. Wrong time of the year, crap crowds in vast stadiums, double-headers in the same ground to squeeze them in.

 

[Boo]

I think they would like the over they went off had just turned the game in our favour, most T20 games when a team needs 53 of 33 you fancy the batting team from that situation

Ali seems to have taken a different approach lately, resisting the temptation to bash the ball from the off. He may have endured but, in my mind, I see Livingstone skying it and general disaster from there.
But we’ll never know and we remain deserved losers.

 

[Wayne The Punk]

Butler and Hales were terrible, they had just seen Ireland knock loads of 2s and decided just to knock it out of the park

 

[Hetty]

Big game against Australia

 

[The Red Telephone]

I blame county cricket

The only solution after a result like this is to reduce the number of County Championship matches to four games a season.

 

[cooky]

Big game against Australia

Shock horror loads of rain in the forecast too

 

[Rufus T Firefly]

Using the MCG as much is weird. According to Dobell, there's also a cricket ground nearby with a roof.

 

[GordonMuchallNo1Fan]

The only solution after a result like this is to reduce the number of County Championship matches to four games a season.

& shut the trapdoor stand

 

[Boo]

Shock horror loads of rain in the forecast too

Would a non-result be a good thing?

 

[cooky]

Would a non-result be a good thing?

Possibly would but then New Zealand really would be totally must win.

 

[Inside Forward]

Well done Ireland. I’d compare it to us beating them at Hurling to be honest, an incredible achievement really when you consider how small the sport is over there.

Not going to waste my time talking about the gutless shits in red.