The Cricket thread

[NAG1]

Great morning for our guys. Hopefully can dig in now.

I get so confused now with this cricket, who are our guys and who are their guys again? 

[OgraAnDun]

Great morning for our guys. Hopefully can dig in now.

I get so confused now with this cricket, who are our guys and who are their guys again? 

Well, there's no Irish lads on the England team... and I think no English players on the Irish team?

[screenexile]

Great morning for our guys. Hopefully can dig in now.

I get so confused now with this cricket, who are our guys and who are their guys again? 

Well, there's no Irish lads on the England team... and I think no English players on the Irish team?

Boyd Rankin used to play for England so what do we do there??!

[Boycey]

Tim Murtagh is London born with Irish parents all the rest are home produced.

[OgraAnDun]

Great morning for our guys. Hopefully can dig in now.

I get so confused now with this cricket, who are our guys and who are their guys again? 

Well, there's no Irish lads on the England team... and I think no English players on the Irish team?

Boyd Rankin used to play for England so what do we do there??!

Forgive him?

[passedit]

Ireland 127 - 2 Balbirnie 51NO Stirling 35NO nice partnership developing

[trailer]

Why is the Irish captain of England, Eoin Morgan not playing?

[Denn Forever]

Why is the Irish captain of England, Eoin Morgan not playing?

[Denn Forever]

They reckon he's not a Test player.

[JimStynes]

He'd do a job off the bench for us.

Are we winning this or what's the story? How long is there left?

[screenexile]

Ireland don't really seem to have capitalised on the phenomenal bowling performance they had this morning.

Still highly likely England win this!

[gallsman]

Why is the Irish captain of England, Eoin Morgan not playing?

He's the one day captain, not the Test one.

As Boycey said last week, that ship has long since sailed.

[magpie seanie]

Ireland don't really seem to have capitalised on the phenomenal bowling performance they had this morning.

Still highly likely England win this!

A lead of 122 is still not too bad on a pitch that seemed to be deteriorating rapidly. Today's record temperatures will hasten that. Though if England bat properly and see today out without much damage then it's back in their favour big time. I wouldn't like us to be chasing more than 200 and even that might be tough.

[Clov]

Ireland don't really seem to have capitalised on the phenomenal bowling performance they had this morning.

Still highly likely England win this!

A lead of 122 is still not too bad on a pitch that seemed to be deteriorating rapidly. Today's record temperatures will hasten that. Though if England bat properly and see today out without much damage then it's back in their favour big time. I wouldn't like us to be chasing more than 200 and even that might be tough.

The TMS crowd reckon the heat will play into England's favour. Drying out the pitch and making it a fairly flat track to bat on - today might be the best day for batting before it deteriorates further. The outfield will also be pretty quick. Early wickets before it gets too hot would help Ireland a lot.

[magpie seanie]

Ireland don't really seem to have capitalised on the phenomenal bowling performance they had this morning.

Still highly likely England win this!

A lead of 122 is still not too bad on a pitch that seemed to be deteriorating rapidly. Today's record temperatures will hasten that. Though if England bat properly and see today out without much damage then it's back in their favour big time. I wouldn't like us to be chasing more than 200 and even that might be tough.

The TMS crowd reckon the heat will play into England's favour. Drying out the pitch and making it a fairly flat track to bat on - today might be the best day for batting before it deteriorates further. The outfield will also be pretty quick. Early wickets before it gets too hot would help Ireland a lot.

Yes, fair point and it's all changed round now after a good morning for England.