Re: Cricket World Cup : Wed Mar 02, 2011 4:58 pm  

syphur55* wrote:

Bloody brilliant thought!

I think they need to drugs-test the Irish team, and especially Kevin O'Brien!!

Never seen an innings quite like that. Outstanding batting, but poor in the field and poor bowling from England again.

Well done Ireland, amazing.

Re: Cricket World Cup : Wed Mar 02, 2011 5:01 pm  

Disgraceful.

Send them home.

Re: Cricket World Cup : Wed Mar 02, 2011 5:06 pm  

Oops!

Brilliant effort by the Irish lower order but, seriously, a lot of this England team need to hang their heads in shame. I'm just glad I'm in work so I haven't had to sit through watching that shambles!

Re: Cricket World Cup : Wed Mar 02, 2011 5:07 pm  

Abysmal, England poor bowling in ODI's over the past couple of years has finally caught up with them, are they incapable of bowling straight?. The worst aspect of the defeat is that it was a comftable win for the Irish, you knew with about 15 overs remaining that there was only going to be one winner today?.

Re: Cricket World Cup : Wed Mar 02, 2011 5:35 pm  

England doing their bit for the record books.

Also Strauss thought we had dropped two or three catches ... excuse me captain ... keep up.

Every dot ball worth a fortune ... containment being the name of the game ... the key to winning ... it creates its own pressure.
England seem to lose sight of that.

Well done Ireland ... England in the field a shambles.

Re: Cricket World Cup : Wed Mar 02, 2011 5:51 pm  

Can fatigue from a gruelling Ashes series be a valid excuse? A lot of these guys have hardly been home in 6 months.

Just putting the thought out there . . . .

Re: Cricket World Cup : Wed Mar 02, 2011 5:53 pm  

littlerich wrote:

Can fatigue from a gruelling Ashes series be a valid excuse? A lot of these guys have hardly been home in 6 months.

Just putting the thought out there . . . .

Possibly ... but it would be a 'lame' excuse (pun intended).

I would say the answer lies in mental attitude and being organised and motivated. They have the skill, but are poor at applying it (in the field mainly... their batting is OK).

Re: Cricket World Cup : Wed Mar 02, 2011 6:14 pm  

Well played Ireland

Re: Cricket World Cup : Wed Mar 02, 2011 6:33 pm  

littlerich wrote:

Can fatigue from a gruelling Ashes series be a valid excuse? A lot of these guys have hardly been home in 6 months.

Just putting the thought out there . . . .

I think it's a perfectly valid excuse. I never expected much out of England in this World Cup. I know if it was me I'd be ready for home now.

Re: Cricket World Cup : Wed Mar 02, 2011 6:40 pm  

littlerich wrote:

Can fatigue from a gruelling Ashes series be a valid excuse? A lot of these guys have hardly been home in 6 months.

Just putting the thought out there . . . .

The winter has dragged on too long and their minds will be on the summer series against Sri Lanka and India and trying to establish ourselves as the world number 1 team. We would have been better off sending the fringe players/ODI specialists out for this and letting the first teamers put their feet up at home.

Put Ireland against England over five days with white clothes and a red ball and that slogger wouldn't last five minutes, we'd knock them over for about 120 and Anderson would have 6 for 30 odd. Then Ireland would spend two days in the field while Cook and Trott accumulated double centuries.

The world cup is a bit like the League Cup in football when you have a Champions League match coming up, best thing to do is send out the reserves, see what happens, if you lose be magnanimous in defeat and then move on. The World Cup used to mean something back in say 1987 and 1992 but somehow since the 96 World cup there has been so much ODI cricket and now the 20/20 stuff that it makes it devalued.

50 over cricket is dying on its booty anyway, limited over cricket is going to focus on the 20/20 form of the game where we are World Cup Winners, although to be honest I forgot we even won that.

Winning the World Cup = a good night on the sauce
Winning the Ashes = immortality