Ireland to host ICC Trophy in 2005

[Craig]

The ICC announced that Ireland will host the 2005 ICC Throphy with the majority of matches in Dublin and Belfast.

I would love to see Ireland qualify for a WC. I guess this would be the few times Ireland and Northern Ireland will play under "Ireland"?

 

[Waughney]

The ICC announced that Ireland will host the 2005 ICC Throphy with the majority of matches in Dublin and Belfast.

I would love to see Ireland qualify for a WC. I guess this would be the few times Ireland and Northern Ireland will play under "Ireland"?

Wouldn't it be great? I think Kenya will win.

 

[Craig]

Do you hail from Kenya or are you their number one supporter?

Nothing wrong in doing so, just wondering.

 

[Waughney]

No. I choose Kenya as they were by far and away the best fringe team at the world cup.

 

[Sehwag309]

Canada

 

[Linda]

The ICC announced that Ireland will host the 2005 ICC Throphy with the majority of matches in Dublin and Belfast.

I would love to see Ireland qualify for a WC. I guess this would be the few times Ireland and Northern Ireland will play under "Ireland"?

Tell me Craig, is the 2005 ICC Throphy anything like the 2005 ICC Trophy?

 

[Neil Pickup]

1) Kenya won't play in the ICC Trophy as they have full ODI status
2) Northern Ireland and the Republic play as a United side in Rugby Union
3) Canada don't have a snowball's chance without Davison
4) I reckon it'll be very close between five or six if the recent Six Nations is anything to go by

 

[marc71178]

5 qualifying is quite a high number actually.

 

[tooextracool]

i hope USA qualifies....they'll do plenty of good to world cricket if they can develop into strong opposition

 

[Neil Pickup]

Likely candidates are:

Holland, Namibia, Scotland, UAE and USA

Denmark, Canada, Nepal and Uganda are likely to be there or thereabouts.

 

[marc71178]

But alas no Norway yet.

 

[tooextracool]

id love to see a South american team in there....would be amazing to see a tour in one of the south american countries. does brazil play cricket?

 

[Neil Pickup]

id love to see a South american team in there....would be amazing to see a tour in one of the south american countries. does brazil play cricket?

What about Guyana?!

Brazil became an Affiliate member in 2000, and Argentina are comfortably the strongest, thanks to a large ex-pat community. They also boast the record for the oldest International cricketer, 81-year-old George Ferguson, who played in the 1994 ICC Trophy in Kenya having made his first-class debut a remarkable 64 years earlier against Sir Julien Cahn's XI.

 

[Langeveldt]

Namibia for the trophy

 

[Craig]

Namibia for the trophy

They would be favourites.

 

[Craig]

2) Northern Ireland and the Republic play as a United side in Rugby Union

Do they play as a United side in cricket?

 

[Neil Pickup]

Do they play as a United side in cricket?

Yes. And no, Namibia won't be favourites. They've won nothing before to suggest they should be.

 

[tooextracool]

What about Guyana?!

guyana is more central american for me. id like to see a traditional south american team filled with those rain dancers some where in the middle of those amazon rainforests