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*Official* England v Ireland Test

chris.hinton

chris.hinton

International Captain
Ashes81 said:
The whole test match has a pointless feel to it and isn't helping either team.

To be fair to Ireland, its pretty much mission impossible. They have no domestic red ball structure and their survival as a cricketing nation depends on white ball cricket and that understandably has to be their main focus.T

For England, the match provides nothing in terms of Ashes preparation. I'm a fan of Ben Duckett but tonking a run a ball 150 against this attack won't help him one iota when he takes guard against Cummings and Co.
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That's the problem. ICC should has a minimum say that all Test Playing nations have a First Class Structure or at the very least have an XI another country (Zimbabwe have in South Africa in the past for example). FIFA insist on every country having a domestic league and aside from Liechtenstein they do.
 
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Blenkinsop

U19 Captain
Seems to me there's also an obvious difference in fitness levels between the two sides. Pope and Duckett were still running lightning singles after scoring 150+. The Irish bowlers looked knackered by noon.
 
andruid

andruid

Cricketer Of The Year
chris.hinton said:
That's the problem. ICC should has a minimum say that all Test Playing nations have a First Class Structure or at the very least have an XI another country (Zimbabwe have in South Africa in the past for example). FIFA insist on every country having a domestic league and aside from Liechtenstein they do.
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One of the things that got Ireland test status in the first place was that they had a FC tournament. It got shut down by Covid and apparently Cricket Ireland won't afford to get it up and running again till at least 2024.

I think Full Membership in the ICC and Test status should be separate things and that their should be a 2nd tier FC competition like the WCL for the upcoming teams to get used to the format against similar strength opposition. The current financial climate is against such, but I stand by my wishful thinking.
 
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Ali TT

International Vice-Captain
Kenneth Viljoen said:
What do you do in this situation if you're Ireland , pretty hopeless and pointless .
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Personal pride - there's enough time for one or two to make a contribution, possibly even get on the honours board. Not like Ireland are going to be overrun with test match opportunities.
 
Niall

Niall

International Coach
GIMH said:
Gonna be so funny when we do exactly this to Australia.

tbf I should be balanced. It’ll probably be more like 480/5 at this point against them.
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If you were to pick a combined Ireland/Australia test team how many Ireland players would you have in it?🤔
 
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