5th Match - Ireland v West Indies

[Gnske]

lol, I rate Jadeja & Ashwin.

Neither have been too impressive overseas really

 

[Bleed_Blue]

I don't think Ireland has a better ODI attack than India, but I do think you're overstating India's bowling by a large margin tbh. They bowled well against a pretty moderate Pakistan side last night, but they were well beaten up by Australia and England in the recent tri series here. Their batting will almost always keep India in games, but IMO they'll give up 300-320 against other top 5 or 6 sides more often than not in these conditions

Disagree with you, take the tri series we were experimenting with our batting Kohli at 4 etc and didn't really click but were still competitive for the ball, for example even after being bowled out for 200 by England we had them 7 down and 60 odd for 5 at one stage, hardly a terrible bowling attack if you ask me.

 

[Howe_zat]

Max Sorensen is a good name.

his name sounds good in your eeeeaaaar

 

[Zinzan]

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.

Indeed. Stirling can do that job can't he?

 

[morgieb]

WIndies icing to jump Ireland like South Africa's did to Zimbabwe.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Mr. T padded up.

 

[Athlai]

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.

With the demise of the FTP system, who is going to host Ireland besides England every few years for a bilateral series?

I think thats the bigger issue really. A 10 team event would be fine if minnows occasionally got to actually gain experience against the big teams outside of the World Cup event.

I think Ireland / Scotland (and when they requalify Dutch) ODIs should be scheduled for any tour of England. Afghanistan/UAE to play pre-Pakistan and maybe even Indian tours. Would be gun.

 

[Mike5181]

This is such a beautiful ground.

 

[Pratters]

hardly a terrible bowling attack if you ask me.

Except, no one is asking you. But seriously, even the most fanatical of the Indian fans don't rate the bowling. Batting maybe. The bowling can be average, or good or plain bad depending on the day and the pitch. The last time the Indian bowling was any where close to really good was in 1932 when we played our first test series, tbh.

 

[Goughy]

With the demise of the FTP system, who is going to host Ireland besides England every few years for a bilateral series?

I think thats the bigger issue really. A 10 team event would be fine if minnows occasionally got to actually gain experience against the big teams outside of the World Cup event.

I think Ireland / Scotland (and when they requalify Dutch) ODIs should be scheduled for any tour of England. Afghanistan/UAE to play pre-Pakistan and maybe even Indian tours. Would be gun.

Completely agree.

 

[Bleed_Blue]

Except, no one is asking you. But seriously, even the most fanatical of the Indian fans don't rate the bowling. Batting maybe. The bowling can be average, or good or plain bad depending on the day and the pitch. The last time the Indian bowling was any where close to really good was in 1932 when we played our first test series, tbh.

See I think this is where people get too caught up in wanting to blast sides out, have a look when we beat Sri Lanka 5-0 often they would be in the game but our bowlers are so good at choking the scoring pushing up that requires run rate and out pressure on them that way! We did it again today, not saying we have the best odi attack far from it, but it's a very useful one IMO.

 

[Athlai]

Good knock this from Sammy.

Is the West Indian Misbah for sure.

 

[Zinzan]

West Indies, 123/5 - how cute, providing some nostalgia for the locals in the crowd.

 

[Cabinet96]

With the demise of the FTP system, who is going to host Ireland besides England every few years for a bilateral series?

I think thats the bigger issue really. A 10 team event would be fine if minnows occasionally got to actually gain experience against the big teams outside of the World Cup event.

I think Ireland / Scotland (and when they requalify Dutch) ODIs should be scheduled for any tour of England. Afghanistan/UAE to play pre-Pakistan and maybe even Indian tours. Would be gun.

Yeah. And even on top of that Ireland and Scotland's summers are during most countries off seasons, so there's no reason why sides shouldn't have to play ODI series against them.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Good knock this from Sammy.

Is the West Indian Misbah for sure.

Yeah I remember when him being captain was supposed to be the only thing stopping West Indies from being good again.

 

[Howe_zat]

Off to bed. Expecting 240.

 

[Burgey]

Except, no one is asking you. But seriously, even the most fanatical of the Indian fans don't rate the bowling. Batting maybe. The bowling can be average, or good or plain bad depending on the day and the pitch. The last time the Indian bowling was any where close to really good was in 1932 when we played our first test series, tbh.

The odd thing is there's a few of the Indian bowlers I genuinely like, particularly Nostrils Yadav, but I don't know that he's all that well suited to ODI stuff. I enjoy watching him bowl though. I tend not to rate Shami as highly as some do on here, but again, if they stick with him in longer formats I think he'll end up decent. As the WC is really the only time I give too much of a razz for LO cricket, I tend to talk more about test match bowling. Granted those two were pretty average in the tests just gone here, but they're green and definitely should be persisted with IMO.

 

[MW1304]

West Indies, 123/5 - how cute, providing some nostalgia for the locals in the crowd.

For the time they learned to count?

 

[Midwinter]

Except, no one is asking you. But seriously, even the most fanatical of the Indian fans don't rate the bowling. Batting maybe. The bowling can be average, or good or plain bad depending on the day and the pitch. The last time the Indian bowling was any where close to really good was in 1932 when we played our first test series, tbh.

This post takes the cake, for a IREvs WI thread

 

[Gnske]

Yeah. And even on top of that Ireland and Scotland's summers are during most countries off seasons, so there's no reason why sides shouldn't have to play ODI series against them.

Ticket sales probably and lack of television coverage.

Which is odd given the last ODI i remember seeing in Ireland had a good crowd, not to mention turnouts for Afghanistan.