William Porterfield, Andrew Balbirnie(c), Harry Tector, George Dockrell, Lorcan Tucker(w), Curtis Campher, Simi Singh, Mark Adair, Andy McBrine, Barry McCarthy, Craig Young, Joshua Little, Benjamin White, Neil Rock
Ireland threw away a great opportunity to pick up 10 points today. Hopefully they can still get a win from the remaining two games especially when Stirling comes back.
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West Indies Cricket needs to set up their road map on longer format cricket. Too many average and inconsistent cricketers in their set up. Great to see Heynes & Sarwan given the job of selection.
Gayles, Bravos, Narines, Russel have destroyed longest format culture in West Indies and have shown the path to the upcomming young players how to earn by playing 20-20 and 10 over cricket and give less or no importance to international cricket
Ireland have pulled off a win. I think the rain effected game helped Ireland. Chasing 228 in 50 overs might have caused them problems.
Nonetheless 10 important points for the Irish.
They were in reasonable control in both games and should have won both. Any decent team would have pocketed 20 points, so 10 is fair for a side like the Irish.
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Ireland have lost 2 points to slow over rate, and I won't be surprised if they are docked more points before the end of this series. Their over rate is absolutely disgusting.
213 for Ireland to pull off a big series win here.
Just about to post that. but at 119-7, they should have been chasing around 150-170 tops. Still 200 ain't a huge chase, but we've seen Ireland bottle some very easy chases in the recent past.
A series win would be great for them though.
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213 for Ireland to pull off a big series win here.
Just about to post that. but at 119-7, they should have been chasing around 150-170 tops. Still 200 ain't a huge chase, but we've seen Ireland bottle some very easy chases in the recent past.
A series win would be great for them though.
Ya they should have closed it out. I'm also Surprised that despite Odean Smith doing so well with the bat, WI continue to send him at no. 10, thats ridiculous.
Big series win for Ireland. This really makes the WSL table open up. Ireland now sit 3rd in that table, would you believe it?
Why not ? West Indies in longer format has been below the belt after the rise of T20 cricket. They might have to face more upsets in the comming years, if they fail to inject the importance of odis & test in youths
Irish team has been underrated because of their poor show in ICC Events. They have been doing well in odis now had neck to neck fight with Proteas now beat the West Indies.
Irish team surely be the power house in this decade and its good for World Cricket
No they are not as good. It reflects more on the WI I'd say.
But still Irish win against West Indies will make many lower ranked teams positive when they face them in shorter format. The game requires more team and this kind of result is good for the game