I don't think we can even say cricket was the real winner here.
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Good point. Well, that's why it's a two innings game I suppose.
First one, England 85 Ireland 207
Second one, England 303 Ireland 38
Not sure I'm feeling too chipper about the Ashes at this point though.
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Very disappointing but yet hilarious- little beats a good choke
Possibly even more leaden than the grey clouds over Lord's- various efforts to draw some sort of parallel to wider political events...
Essentially, NI cricketers are usually mediocre, occasionally spectacularly good or bad as in this game.The mediocrity explains why we regular watchers were never really confident of a win. As for our Southern friends, the failure to find 3 men who can reach that low standard hardly ensures a successful future for the sport
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15.4 overs is the shortest completed Test innings since 1924, encompassing 2199 Tests. Lowest score since 1955, a gap of 1950 Tests.
The one good thing is that it happened in the 4th innings rather than Ireland batting 1st and doing it.
Why is Leach the MotM rather than Woakes?
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Originally posted by Duncan Gardner View PostVery disappointing but yet hilarious- little beats a good choke
Essentially, NI cricketers are usually mediocre, occasionally spectacularly good or bad as in this game.The mediocrity explains why we regular watchers were never really confident of a win. As for our Southern friends, the failure to find 3 men who can reach that low standard hardly ensures a successful future for the sport
If only because I thought this was an All Ireland team, surely a good thing for a side with such a limited potential playing pool?
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Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View PostWhy is Leach the MotM rather than Woakes?
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Thanks. Yes, it's not inconceivable that a second sub-150 England score was on the cards had both openers been exposed early. Roy didn't have to bat until the 11th over.
Interestingly Bairstow bagged a pair as batsman-keeper. Maybe England should have him opening with Roy?Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 26-07-2019, 15:32.
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Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View Post15.4 overs is the shortest completed Test innings since 1924, encompassing 2199 Tests. Lowest score since 1955, a gap of 1950 Tests.
The one good thing is that it happened in the 4th innings rather than Ireland batting 1st and doing it.
Why is Leach the MotM rather than Woakes?
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Originally posted by Duncan Gardner View PostVery disappointing but yet hilarious- little beats a good choke
Possibly even more leaden than the grey clouds over Lord's- various efforts to draw some sort of parallel to wider political events...
Essentially, NI cricketers are usually mediocre, occasionally spectacularly good or bad as in this game.The mediocrity explains why we regular watchers were never really confident of a win. As for our Southern friends, the failure to find 3 men who can reach that low standard hardly ensures a successful future for the sport
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Originally posted by pebblethefish View PostNeither keeper scored a run in the test match - possibly a first?
In baseball, four strikeouts in a game is called a Golden Sombrero. The idea being that if three is a hat-trick, then four must be the most impressive hat imaginable.
The very very rare five strikeouts in a game is called the Platinum Sombrero or the Olympic Rings, apparently.
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View Post
A colleague of mine was at the match today. Took the day off to go. Hope it was still worth it.
He said it was a bit rubbish really, the game was over before they finished the food & drink they'd taken and it was clear from the start it was horrible batting weather.
Two other friends travelled up together for the opening day and said it was one of the most enjoyable days they've ever had at cricket though, that's sport.Last edited by Ray de Galles; 26-07-2019, 16:39.
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To be dismissed for nought in both innings of the same two-innings match is to be dismissed for a pair,[20] because the two noughts together are thought to resemble a pair of spectacles; the longer form is occasionally used.[21] To be dismissed first ball in both innings (i.e., two golden ducks) is to suffer the indignity of making a king pair.[13]
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View Post
So NI players play for Ireland?
Nobody cares much about those distinctions now, at least not down here. You sometimes hear people complaining that they have to play Ireland's call at rugby matches (A dirge written for the job) instead of the irish national anthem, and those people invariably get slapped down for being an idiot, and are told to have manners and some consideration for the various ulster unionists that are in the team.
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Originally posted by Duncan Gardner View PostVery disappointing but yet hilarious- little beats a good choke
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Hot Pepsi, there are several variations on duck you won't be surprised to hear: the duck being a score of zero, golden duck being dismissed first ball, and then there are diamond and platinum (etc) ducks which can various be eg getting dismissed for the first ball of an innings, or probably the worst situation of all, being run-out without facing a ball.
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View PostHow does that work in the Olympics? I'd expect that NI boxers or competitors in any other Olympic sport would compete for Great Britain just like Scottish or Welsh athletes.
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Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View Post
Northern Irish boxers, from areas so aggressively republican that Gerry Adams is justifiably afraid to go there, have no problems fighting in the commonwealth games for Northern Ireland. And Probably have received medals to the tune of GSTQ. It's just another international competition to compete in, so they compete for whoever will get them into that competition. sometimes its easier to get into the GB boxing team for the olympics. At a certain point, most fairly serious amateur sport people would represent ISIS, if it would get them into the olympics.
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Isn’t it a Londonderry Air (aka Danny Boy) for the Commonwealth Games?
Michael Conlon had no problems fighting for NI in the Commonwealth Games (he fought for the Republic in the Olymocis) and he walked out to the ring as a professional to a Wolfe Tones song singing Up the RA.
I know some athletes try and do the Barry McGuigan approach of studiously trying not to be too nationalist, it’s clear Rory McIlroy is inspired by that.
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