England vs Ireland - Only Test, Lord's, 24th-27th July 2019

[Harlequin Dream]

 

[Van_Dyke]

this ashes series will see some batting for the ages

 

[The Passenger]

Billy Murdoch also played for and against England.

Albert Trott as well. I remember him from my test cricket lists book and couldn't understand why he wasn't considered as good as Bradman with an average of 102.5 (for Australia).

 

[Milang_Panthers]

9 down...great stuff.

 

[The Passenger]

Epic field placement. International Cricket Captain sorta stuff that is.

 

[Richard Pryor]

Albert Trott as well. I remember him from my test cricket lists book and couldn't understand why he wasn't considered as good as Bradman with an average of 102.5 (for Australia).

Precursor to Voges

 

[Ok Boomer]

Lmao

 

[StillAtLarge]

You know it's not your day when ian rankin is taking wickets

 

[Drummond]

Epic field placement. International Cricket Captain sorta stuff that is.

Loved that game wow! Spent hours playing it!

 

[Richard Pryor]

Oliver Stone taking a break from directing to be the rock of this innings

 

[Stig O'Hara]

Have a rest, Thompson.

 

[Badesumofu]

Rankin has been a problem for England in a Test match before... I mean he was playing for them at the time but still.

Now taken more wickets against England than he did for them. This is very enjoyable.

 

[The Passenger]

Stop it Thompson. You're wrecking everything!!

 

[Richard Pryor]

Surely there must be some glory hunting county player who Ireland can poach who'd be better than Thompson

 

[Whiskers]

Of course I start watching and the #10 bat makes 3 glorious shots for 4.

 

[Shiv]

How ******* good...soo proud of my people

 

[Richard Pryor]

Under 100. Was scared Thompson was going to get smashed to get England the ton but Ireland managed to get it done.

 

[Milang_Panthers]

85!!! Wow!

 

[VirgilHilts]

Outstanding by Ireland, particularly Tim Murtagh. Abject from England, again.

 

[Badesumofu]

85. That was glorious. Except for Thompson who was terrible -without him England would have been all out for 55 which is 5 less than the 60 they got us out for at Trent Bridge 4 years ago. Regardless, that was excellent and makes me feel a lot better about our own batting. Really going to be a question of who can buckle down, focus, and play those long innings.

 

[Wilso24]

I'd laugh, but this could be Australia next week

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[SportsCentre]

what on Earth has happened here?

 

[Voice of the G]

How ******* good...soo proud of my people

Great result so far for Ireland and all test cricket playing nations looking into the future.BUT now is the big test for Ireland batting on this wicket which it seems has a fair bit of life in it.

 

[The Passenger]

Great result so far for Ireland and all test cricket playing nations looking into the future.BUT now is the big test for Ireland batting on this wicket which it seems has a fair bit of life in it.

Yep without wanting to burst Ireland's bubble, this is not going to be an easy wicket to score runs on.

Nevertheless they should be aiming for an absolute bare minimum lead of about 100 runs, but really their batsmen should be expecting to come back to the sheds some time tomorrow with about 250 to 300 on the board. Anything above that is probably a big bonus.

 

[Shiv]

Great result so far for Ireland and all test cricket playing nations looking into the future.BUT now is the big test for Ireland batting on this wicket which it seems has a fair bit of life in it.

Yeap, pretty excited to see the Irish bat. Hopefully the Irish luck runs with us. Not trying to get ahead of myself but if Ireland become a competitive test cricket nation then it would be another massive cricket rivalry created.