5th Match - Ireland v West Indies

[GotSpin]

The ICC can still change the format right?

 

[WalkingWicket]

I reckon Ireland's barrage of slow bowlers, who will be more experienced come 2018, could have a shout at downing Bangladesh in Bangladesh, although their batting might need some work.

 

[Uppercut]

I don't feel 'like a room without a roof', Williams. I don't know what feeling that's supposed to represent. Incomplete? Vulnerable to the elements?

Like a cake without the icing; like a West Indies batting lineup without Chris Gayle and Devon Smith.

 

[Zinzan]

sounds like india, apart from the good at county cricket bit

below is a list of county standard indian bowlers

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The Indian bowling attack isn't strong at all when compared with the likes of Aust, SA, NZ & Eng...but to suggest this bunch of dibbly dobblers & handy spinners from Ireland are better than the likes of Ashwin, Jadeja, Kumar & Shami is stretching it a little.

 

[Pratters]

Windies have cake on their face today.

 

[Athlai]

The thing is, the Irish bowl with discipline and are dogged. That's better than quite a few international teams.

Yeah Ireland are definitely a well drilled team and a very good fielding team. Helps a lot, but they'll get in trouble against equally disciplined but higher skilled teams. Military medium and accurate darts won't slow down India or Australia.

Bangladesh and to a lesser extent Zimbabwe have a slightly higher ceiling in the bowling department.

I think a combined minnow XI would have a few Irish bats in it though.

 

[Cabinet96]

India's bowling attack is strong in the right conditions (see 2013 Champions Trophy) but in Aus/NZ it's pretty average.

 

[Flem274*]

The Indian bowling attack isn't strong at all when compared with the likes of Aust, SA, NZ & Eng...but to suggest this bunch of dibbly dobblers & handy spinners from Ireland are better than the likes of Ashwin, Jadeja, Kumar & Shami is stretching it a little.

I didn't expect to catch a nice fat kiwi trout when I cast my line off the Indian coast today.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Are the posts made by this Bleed Blue bloke always this crap?

These are his good ones.

 

[Gnske]

The Indian bowling attack isn't strong at all when compared with the likes of Aust, SA, NZ & Eng...but to suggest this bunch of dibbly dobblers & handy spinners from Ireland are better than the likes of Kumar & Shami is stretching it a little.

Fixed that for you

 

[Athlai]

Huh, 5 matches in to the WC and the only two ones that have played like a contest have been the ones featuring minnows. Ok, maybe 14 teams is too many, but cutting the whole thing back to 10 is overkill. 12 strikes a nice balance, and addresses many of the current concerns about the length of the group stage and the ubiquity of boring mismatches (at least between established and minnow countries).

I think 12 is too few. The Irish are showing today that they can challenge a "top 8" team, Scotland are in great form, Afghanistan have risen faster than anyone ever and the Dutch tend to be quite decent too. I think 14 is a good number.

 

[Howe_zat]

20 of the first 30 being finger spin.

Will be surprised if it's more than 6-8 overs in the second innings.

 

[Bleed_Blue]

Unfortunately India won yesterday.

Yes perfect start from the defending champions yesterday nothing unfortunate about that! Anyway we are talking about minnows so I don't know why you have to talk about the World Champions!

 

[Zinzan]

Fixed that for you

lol, I rate Jadeja & Ashwin.

 

[Pratters]

Lendl Simmons has been quite the disappointment, hasn't he? Started at 22/23 as a promising ODI player. Has managed 1 century in ODIs and none in tests, managed to play a few games, not doing too well.

 

[Goughy]

Surely Ireland have a genuine chance of making the 10 teams by knocking either Bdesh or Zim out of the Qualifier?

TBH, another change of format wouldn't surprise me.

I like having a lot of teams involved but I agree with you. Ireland would have a fair chance of making the 10 from the qualifying tournament. As long as there is an open door and a defined path for qualification then I dont have a real issue with a 10 team event.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Max Sorensen is a good name.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

All these dibbly dobblies and loopy doopies take me back to how NZ played in 92. Just need somebody to come out and bat like Mark Greatbatch later.

 

[Zinzan]

Minnows or not. At least we're shaping up to see the first competitive game of what's been a fairly boring & one-sided WC to date.

 

[Pratters]

Minnows or not. At least we're shaping up to see the first competitive game of what's been a fairly boring & one-sided WC to date.

Ireland might coast this.