**Official** Ireland in England 2019

[_Ed_]

Edge would be the only thing that could save Woakes here.

 

[Pup Clarke]

A club batsman would feel embarassed with that shot

 

[Bahnz]

Please, please, please

 

[_Ed_]

 

[Groundking]

Both

Well.....

****ing rubbish this England.

 

[morgieb]

LMAO

This is amazing.

 

[NUFAN]

Murtagh in the first.

 

[Bahnz]

Yusss!

 

[Beamer]

This is hilarious. Talk about back to earth with a bang. Terrible team selection. If this were Windies I would be fuming.

 

[ScottyMuser]

So, if Denly is not good enough for Test cricket (which I might agree with), what about the rest of the team? At least Denly scored some runs, and at a decent SR. The rest of the bats look considerably worse.

 

[StephenZA]

Ireland the true WC heroes...

 

[Groundking]

I actually can't wait for Bayliss to **** off.

Can we please have Gillespie as our next coach please?

 

[wpdavid]

This is hilarious. Talk about back to earth with a bang. Terrible team selection. If this were Windies I would be fuming.

I think it was morgieb who described the selection as arrogant. He wasn't wrong, was he.

 

[morgieb]

This isn't even great bowling. It's solid but it's basically not that much above what you see at CC level. Ridiculous to see.

 

[Jarquis]

I love all the talk about how we should have picked another specialist batsman as though we aren't already picking three who'd struggle to make another top 8 side. I'm sure Dawid Malan at 5 would have been the answer.

 

[vcs]

Holy ****

 

[morgieb]

I think it was morgieb who described the selection as arrogant. He wasn't wrong, was he.

It really, really is. Terrible selections all round. Though given Root and Bairstow failed.....

 

[Jarquis]

I love all the talk about how we should have picked another specialist batsman as though we aren't already picking three who'd struggle to make another top 8 side. I'm sure Dawid Malan at 5 would have been the answer.

Unless of course you disagree with the concept of workload management

 

[mr_mister]

Ashes are ours

 

[Jarquis]

Ashes are ours

I wouldn't be so confident to be honest... the top 12 batsmen in Australia barely managed to limp to 100 against an A side attack. Imagine how they'd be faring against a Test side's attack!