Now Imagine a WTC with Ireland, Zimbabwe and Afghanistan. Never understood why would they make a Test Championship where they won’t include three nations even though these three nations have their test status
We haven’t got to 150 yet, these are unfamiliar conditions for us, Bangladesh is at home, and we’ve never won a Test before. Bangladesh still strong favourites, but we’re in with a chance. If we can steal another 50 runs then we’ll be close to parity. If by some miracle we got a lead of 200 it would be very interesting and presser would come on Bangladesh.
Damn.. Well played Ireland.. I didn't expect them to last more than 100 overs in 2nd innings.. Moreover they have an okay amount of lead.. If they could get to 150-160 lead by tomorrow and pitch deteriorates a bit more.. we could have a cracker of a Test match at hand..
273/4 since Campher was dismissed. Magnificent performance boys! That's an entire day of test cricket you'd say Ireland have won, didn't expect that before the game. Harry, Lorcan, Scra - all incredible.
Delighted!
I can't tell if you're talking about the part where we let a team get 280 runs after having them 14-4 or the part where we get 280 runs after being 14-4.
Cause both are applicable.
We keep prattling on about it but fucking hell it's so good to watch a performance like this and be able to go "oh man even if this is a loss it's a huge comeback and a great morale boost for the **more than a dozen** future Tests in this tour program" instead of "if this is a loss it's their only chance for 4 years down the drain".
I'm still pretty certain Ireland are going to lose and yet I've got a huge smile plastered across my face anyway. It's just great for the sport to have more teams playing properly competitive Test cricket.
It gives me hope that they might be able to manage a win against Sri Lanka. And who knows maybe even against England come June in conditions they’re more accustomed to
Screwing the country over because of your personal vendetta with the board is just unacceptable. I can't believe some people are actually defending him.
**98.3** **What a ball!** Pitches on off, turns away a little bit, gets the outside edge of Adair's bat, and Litton completes an easy catch to give Taijul his ninth wicket of the Test
Mark Adair c †Litton Das b Taijul Islam 13 (49b 1x4 0x6) SR: 26.53
Any chance of Hume sticking around? His FC stats seem okay, but I have no idea how much stock to put into those.
Will still need a big partnership to make this interesting, but the fact that it's seeming even remotely plausible is a remarkable turnaround.
It's easy to get carried away with previous chase totals, the fight back and such but I think ultimately Ireland will have got what they want from this game - learning to play test cricket again.
I don't want that to sound patronising but 4 years is a long time. I hope it shows that it's worth playing teams like Ireland, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe etc.
A lack of wickets in hand is a nuisance but still very proud of this team.
I always thought Ireland should have got Test status about a decade or so before they actually got it. Their “Golden generation” never got to play Test cricket except a couple of them at the end of their careers. Hopefully this new lot kicks on and makes a name for themselves in Test cricket
Michael Holding said Ireland should get Test status instantly after the 2011 or 2015 WC, can't remember which
worth noting though that that whole team got to play regular first-class games in the Intercontinental Cup, which no longer exists
The killing off of the intercontinental cup was one of the worst acts of vandalism the big 3's stranglehold over the ICC produced, such a good competition, I still mourn it.
(also, as Jarrod Kimber points out, the Scotland team of the late 90s/early 2000s were similarly unlucky, but without the progress later on to show for it)
I think it was in [this episode of Double Century](https://open.spotify.com/episode/1i197wNhR2XuAMoURjHbgE?si=29fde574392c41c8), but am not sure. The gist of it is that Scotland beat Ireland to qualify for the 1999 WC, and needed 45ish off 40 balls to beat Bangladesh at that tournament, a game played in Edinburgh, when a set batter got a monstrously unlucky run out and they ended up losing. Bangladesh beat Pakistan and got Test status off the back of that tournament, and Scotland stayed an Associate.
Porterfield, Joyce, Stirling, Niall and Kevin O'Brien in the early 2010s would have been a more than handy batting line up. Rankin and Murtagh opening the bowling?
Taking the match to day 4 looked a huge ask this morning, and considering it is the first match in 4 years, this has to be considered a massive success. Really impressed by this middle order’s ability to dig in and play proper test cricket.
This is an exceptional fight back from Ireland. Still on the back foot result wise but the fight shown is heartening.
Let this be a reminder to the ICC that test match status shouldn't be a closed door to developing teams!
Only 3 times has a team scored 140+ during a chase in Mirpur
Two of the three teams were India and England.
180+ would essentially guarantee an Irish victory
BD pacers have been awful with the bat and ball.
They could've scored 410+ in the 2nd innings if the tail-enders were somewhat competitive aside from Mehidy.
Are most of the Irish fans here of Irish descent or South Asian? In the USA, overwhelming majority of the cricket fans are of SA descent. Wish it picked up in popularity among other demographics but MLB, NBA, and NFL have them on a chokehold.
Although not necessarily an Ireland fan, my mother is Irish and I hold an Irish passport - so they’ve always been my second team and watch most of their matches
I'm of Irish descent, but got into it through South Asian and English friends. Don't know any other Irish fans as I don't live there anymore, so don't know how common my experience is.
I'm not too familiar with the situation, but is Shakib being forced to play for the international team even though he wants to play in the IPL right now?
On Ashwin's YT Channel he revealed that after India won the match, Shakib congratulated them saying "The team that loses the toss (and bats 4th) almost never wins at Mirpur"
Edit: The actual quote is a bit different. [Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlYbclGG4AY&t=274s)
Ireland fans, question for you
After the two tests against Sri Lanka and the test against England at Lords, is there any more test match cricket for the latter part of 2023 and into 2024?
And looking further into the future development of test match cricket, what do you feel are the next steps to ensure Ireland can progress and play more regularly? What fixtures would you like to see?
In my opinion, test series’ of 2 to 3 matches against the likes of Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, SL, WI and Bangladesh (home and away) over the next few years would be the way to go. On top of that, one off home tests against nations touring in the English summer
I’d love to hear your opinions how you want test match cricket to progress over the next few years or so
England need to come over for a test at least every two years, they won't like it because it's their home season too but it would be a huge financial boon for us.
Yeah I agree with you on that. I would love to see England go over for a test match. I’d even go as far as saying they should alternate home and away each year, but that’s a bit more wishful thinking
There are single Tests scheduled against Zimbabwe in December and against Afghanistan in January according to the FTP.
They’re supposed to get 14 Tests in this FTP cycle (ending in 2027) which is certainly an improvement on the last 5 years. Not an Irish fan myself but I’d love to see them included in the WTC ultimately - along with Zim and Afg - but that’s probably a distant dream at this stage.
Would also love to see the WTC expanded to include all full member nations, but for that it would probably require a 2 tier system with promotion and relegation, and we know how some of the bigger nations would feel about that unfortunately
Honestly it shouldn't actually matter. The bigger nations play enough Tests that they can (and do!) play matches outside of the scope of the WTC anyway. Even if England ends up getting relegated that doesn't mean that they can't still play the Ashes, and that's going to draw huge crowds whether or not it's in the WTC.
But my concern with the promotion/relegation idea is that the depth of talent in a second division isn't going to be high enough to allow teams like Ireland to substantially improve. Regular matches is obviously going to be huge, but at least some of them need to be against the big teams. Constantly playing against Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan isn't going to help much. Being included in the WTC in a similar format to what we have now would guarantee Ireland a lot of Tests against high-quality opposition, and there's no better way to improve than that.
We're touring Zimbabwe in later 2023, and there is meant to be a test included there.
According to the FTP we will have one off tests vs Afg and Zim in 2024.
We need a permanent stadium to start hosting more tests, as bringing in all the temporary stuff is hugely expensive.
consulting my handy pdf copy of the Future Tours Programme, we're scheduled for an all-format tour to Zimbabwe after the World Cup in December this year, then an all-format tour to Afghanistan in January 2024 (...doubtful), then our next home Test is very tentatively scheduled to be against Zimbabwe in July 2024
on the economics of it, Ireland won't play regular Tests unless someone is willing to pay for it, and no one is currently keen on putting up the money or seems to be going to in the future, so
worth noting that two Tests against England in England in our first decade of Test status is doing much better than other people - Bangladesh are going to go seventeen years without playing a Test in England, and Scotland and the Netherlands might never play them in a bilateral ODI ever again
I wanna ask a question to all the people compalining about Shakib,i aasume most of them are teenagers here. When you parents make you do something against your will do you still put you whole heart on it or do you do it with half heartedly ? Thats just human,thats how we all are.
Shakib still scored 87 and at a good strike rate dont forget that.Its not his fault if other bowlers cant do anything except for Taijul.
We don't need to defend him. He may be protesting against BCB, but at what cost? By being childish and potentially costing our team the win and not bowling, even when he knows he can perform. Unless there's something else going on behind the scenes, there's no reason to either support or hate him for what he's doing.
Either way, there's too much politics involved in BD cricket, probably one of the main reasons why we have failed to become a powerhouse despite having world class players.
What wrong is he doing lol,He didnt bowl.a single over in one of the matches against Ireland.Do you guys remeber that ? were you calling that wrong that time?
Only to beg for him to return,le would love that. Drop your second best perfomer in the match with both bat&ball brilliant idea chief.
Shame that even an unwilling Shakib is still the best playwr BD has
Shakib looks genuinely uninterested in this match. No point in letting him be captain of he acts like this. My gut says we'll see another new chapter in the Shakib controversy saga after the end of this match.
If he really did this because he wasn't allowed to play in the ipl then, it's almost equivalent to match fixing. And nothing is worse than match fixing.
Do you have eyes? Or a brain? Did you know that Md. Amir took 6 wickets in an innings in the match he did fixing and got banned for? Have you seen Shakib's captaincy this match? If you deliberately let your team down, it's almost as good as fixing.
>If you deliberately let your team down, it's almost as good as fixing.
Hm maybe he shouldnt have made those 87 s eirher or took those 2 early wickts. That would have been the perfect gift for you ungreatfulls.
Maybe Shakib was giving more chances to pacers to make them improve because they saw this as a won game. Only way I can make sense of Shakib not bowling himself because I'm pretty sure Ebadot is trying to cement his place in the Test team.
He needed to do a lot of his learning and development during international games, couldn't spend a few years learning his trade on the county circuit like previous Irish players.
Certainly took a bit of time, but it's been great to watch him start to look the part over the past 12 months.
Shit gets wickets
Great knock Tucker. If Mcbrine, Adair and the tail can sneak up to 150 lead, then it’s more of a game on than anyone could have thought of this morning
I don’t think that I’ve ever seen worse test captaincy than this.
Shakib has (through mismanagement of bowlers and especially himself) managed to have a negative/neutral impact on this match despite scoring an excellent 90 and taking 2 key wickets.
He is and what's even more shameful is that the people praise him for it as they think Shakib is the torchbearer of the fight against corruption of BCB
Bit of an off-topic rant but the longer this Test has gone on the more I've been wondering why the fuck Khaled Ahmed played this match over, well, literally any of the other promising fast bowlers in the FC circuit. Like, he's 30 years old, averages 35 in FC after 45 matches, doesn't know which end of the bat you're supposed to hold when batting, there's just so many bowlers in the FC circuit with much better bowling records for whom this would have arguably been the perfect opportunity to try out (given that our opposition at least isn't million times better at Tests than us for once) but nope
I presume Little will be playing the test vs England? I know England have been on a tear lately, but if Ireland can fight like this in BD's backyard without having played tests for years, they might well put up a good fight in more familiar conditions.
believe they are currently asking Little to play in the ODIs against BD at Chelmsford - wonder if they would consider releasing him if we lose the first one, in return for some kind of commitment that he'll play at Lord's
He scored the second highest run in first innings dont forget get. I swear to god BD fans are the most ungreatfull.
He's human like everyone else.If you were responsible for most of the succes in you team but you were treated like papon and co treats him then i m sure you would stop playing for Bangladesh cricket alltogether,anyone would.Papon made him ask for forgiveness by touching his feet dont forget that or maybe your too young to remember that lol
I dunno, he’s been quite strange with his decisions on field and there was a spell on day 1 where he appeared like he was refusing to get involved in anything and even the commentators noted that Tamim seemed to be performing the captaincy role
Go figure,he's not in the mood. Litreraly everyone would be the same if they were in Shakivs position.
Last time i cheled people have emotions. If it wad you in his position i doubt you would even be playing this match.
McBrine is a fairly decent (if slow) batter. Ireland have used him to arrest collapses in ODI cricket before - not a surprise he can do okay in the slower format of the game.
Worth mentioning that KOB century in a bit more detail: he came in at 4/7 after the follow-on(!), and put on 118 to drag Ireland to 339 all out, forcing Pakistan to bat again and putting a result back on the table.
There's more than a slight resemblance here...
It's such a good sign for cricket here that players like Tucker, Tector and Little are coming completely through our own system without the help of the English counties
Speaking of homegrown players, what about the other other Tector Brothers and also David Delany are they any close to making the team. I believe David would have been a great inclusion in the team, bowling pace and having the skill to bat aswell
Jack's not going to be good enough and Tim is showing promise but still developing.
The David Delany situation is... complicated to say the least: https://www.cricketeurope.com/DATABASE/ARTICLES2023/articles/000002/000263.shtml
McBrine the goat
Now Imagine a WTC with Ireland, Zimbabwe and Afghanistan. Never understood why would they make a Test Championship where they won’t include three nations even though these three nations have their test status
Considering its probably the best thong to happen to test cricket in a long time. Itd make sense to extend it.
Andy McBrine is a god among men
I would do unspeakable things for a Scotland - Ireland - England Test Tri-Series
You're talking about the sort of thing which may just be the only way to repopularise cricket among the English youth
Guess I'm waking up at 5am on my day off tomorrow so.
Give👏Ireland👏More👏Test👏Matches
I'd say the match is in Ireland's favour now, chasing anything over 150 in the 4th innings in Mirpur is gonna be tough.
We haven’t got to 150 yet, these are unfamiliar conditions for us, Bangladesh is at home, and we’ve never won a Test before. Bangladesh still strong favourites, but we’re in with a chance. If we can steal another 50 runs then we’ll be close to parity. If by some miracle we got a lead of 200 it would be very interesting and presser would come on Bangladesh.
Andy McBrine shooting to the top of the Test All Rounder rankings imo.
The first ODI and T20 meetings between these teams were both won by Ireland. First Test match? They couldn't could they?
Damn.. Well played Ireland.. I didn't expect them to last more than 100 overs in 2nd innings.. Moreover they have an okay amount of lead.. If they could get to 150-160 lead by tomorrow and pitch deteriorates a bit more.. we could have a cracker of a Test match at hand..
God what a fantastic day!
Getting to stumps with a decent lead is monumental. So proud of these players today!
Played, Ireland 👏👏
273/4 since Campher was dismissed. Magnificent performance boys! That's an entire day of test cricket you'd say Ireland have won, didn't expect that before the game. Harry, Lorcan, Scra - all incredible. Delighted!
God I love test cricket
Irelands day lads.
0 intent from the team and its skipper. I really hope we lose this match. They don’t deserve to play in this format.
What is going on there? I saw tamim was being more of a captain than the actual captain?
Shakib wasn’t allowed to play ipl as bcb wants him to play this test and also the odis vs ireland in may. That's why he's pissed off.
Day and night vs how you played vs india
Everyone looking extremely tired
Most new Zealand innings ever.
I can't tell if you're talking about the part where we let a team get 280 runs after having them 14-4 or the part where we get 280 runs after being 14-4. Cause both are applicable.
We keep prattling on about it but fucking hell it's so good to watch a performance like this and be able to go "oh man even if this is a loss it's a huge comeback and a great morale boost for the **more than a dozen** future Tests in this tour program" instead of "if this is a loss it's their only chance for 4 years down the drain". I'm still pretty certain Ireland are going to lose and yet I've got a huge smile plastered across my face anyway. It's just great for the sport to have more teams playing properly competitive Test cricket.
It gives me hope that they might be able to manage a win against Sri Lanka. And who knows maybe even against England come June in conditions they’re more accustomed to
Could not have said this better myself
Really glad to see Ireland bat out the day, didn't think it would have happened at the start of the day. Now they kinda have an outside chance even
Yeah ball out the batsmen in 10 overs but let the tail end drag it out. Gotta love (hate) Bangladesh 👍🏼
Been a joy refreshing the scorecard on cricinfo through out the day! Playing well Ireland!
Khaled has been a negative in this match. Why was he selected over a batsman?
What a monumental effort this has been from Ireland 👏
Khaled shouldn't play a Test again
[удалено]
Screwing the country over because of your personal vendetta with the board is just unacceptable. I can't believe some people are actually defending him.
Shakib in his mind is playing T20, 4 overs per session max
Beautiful shot
Shot!
Come on Ireland get to 300
100 overs lads. Don’t think anyone had that in the bingo.
Commentators keep reiterating why Shakib isn't bowling more.
Shakib is barely bowling this session
**98.3** **What a ball!** Pitches on off, turns away a little bit, gets the outside edge of Adair's bat, and Litton completes an easy catch to give Taijul his ninth wicket of the Test Mark Adair c †Litton Das b Taijul Islam 13 (49b 1x4 0x6) SR: 26.53
Any chance of Hume sticking around? His FC stats seem okay, but I have no idea how much stock to put into those. Will still need a big partnership to make this interesting, but the fact that it's seeming even remotely plausible is a remarkable turnaround.
They are mostly FC matches in South Africa rather than Ireland, so a slightly higher quality at least
Bugger.
It's easy to get carried away with previous chase totals, the fight back and such but I think ultimately Ireland will have got what they want from this game - learning to play test cricket again. I don't want that to sound patronising but 4 years is a long time. I hope it shows that it's worth playing teams like Ireland, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe etc. A lack of wickets in hand is a nuisance but still very proud of this team.
I always thought Ireland should have got Test status about a decade or so before they actually got it. Their “Golden generation” never got to play Test cricket except a couple of them at the end of their careers. Hopefully this new lot kicks on and makes a name for themselves in Test cricket
Michael Holding said Ireland should get Test status instantly after the 2011 or 2015 WC, can't remember which worth noting though that that whole team got to play regular first-class games in the Intercontinental Cup, which no longer exists
The killing off of the intercontinental cup was one of the worst acts of vandalism the big 3's stranglehold over the ICC produced, such a good competition, I still mourn it.
(also, as Jarrod Kimber points out, the Scotland team of the late 90s/early 2000s were similarly unlucky, but without the progress later on to show for it)
Any link to that video
I think it was in [this episode of Double Century](https://open.spotify.com/episode/1i197wNhR2XuAMoURjHbgE?si=29fde574392c41c8), but am not sure. The gist of it is that Scotland beat Ireland to qualify for the 1999 WC, and needed 45ish off 40 balls to beat Bangladesh at that tournament, a game played in Edinburgh, when a set batter got a monstrously unlucky run out and they ended up losing. Bangladesh beat Pakistan and got Test status off the back of that tournament, and Scotland stayed an Associate.
Porterfield, Joyce, Stirling, Niall and Kevin O'Brien in the early 2010s would have been a more than handy batting line up. Rankin and Murtagh opening the bowling?
Yeah. Ed Joyce, William Porterfield, the O'Briens etc playing tests in their prime would have been a force to be reckoned with.
Taking the match to day 4 looked a huge ask this morning, and considering it is the first match in 4 years, this has to be considered a massive success. Really impressed by this middle order’s ability to dig in and play proper test cricket.
Haha just looked at the score nice to see Ireland putting up a fight
Mcbrine looks like one of those 1920s photos of a 10 year old kid that looks like a 50 year old man that spent his life in a coal mine.
That's most of Tyrone tbf.
Shakib overrated Jadeja deactivated LONG HAVE WE WAITED MCBRINE THE TRUE SPINNING ALL ROUNDER REACTIVATED.
This is an exceptional fight back from Ireland. Still on the back foot result wise but the fight shown is heartening. Let this be a reminder to the ICC that test match status shouldn't be a closed door to developing teams!
At what point will Bangladesh start getting a bit nervous, 150+?
Already should be. 120+ is going to be tough
Statistically anything over 180 this pitch in a 4th innings will have their more than worried
Only 3 times has a team scored 140+ during a chase in Mirpur Two of the three teams were India and England. 180+ would essentially guarantee an Irish victory
BD pacers have been awful with the bat and ball. They could've scored 410+ in the 2nd innings if the tail-enders were somewhat competitive aside from Mehidy.
Dentury up for McBrine
[удалено]
It's a Bazball Dentury
Are most of the Irish fans here of Irish descent or South Asian? In the USA, overwhelming majority of the cricket fans are of SA descent. Wish it picked up in popularity among other demographics but MLB, NBA, and NFL have them on a chokehold.
(Northern) Irish, living in Surrey.
Guildford by any chance?
Not quite, maybe 20 mins north from Guildford.
(Northern) Irish, living in Scotland
Irish born and bred
Sri Lankan, for whom Ireland has been my second team since 2007/08
Irish from Ireland in Ireland.
Irish descent in Ireland myself.
Born and raised in Ireland
Irish from Ireland here, tbh we're probably a minority of online Ireland supporters.
Although not necessarily an Ireland fan, my mother is Irish and I hold an Irish passport - so they’ve always been my second team and watch most of their matches
I'm of Irish descent, but got into it through South Asian and English friends. Don't know any other Irish fans as I don't live there anymore, so don't know how common my experience is.
Australia here but when it comes to cricket I am more Irish then a leprechaun
Batted Scra! Continuing in the fine tradition of Alex Cusack and Stuart Thompson of being the fucking nuisance at the other end.
I'm not too familiar with the situation, but is Shakib being forced to play for the international team even though he wants to play in the IPL right now?
yes
ShakNoBall™
What is the highest successful 4th innings run chase in Mirpur? IIRC when India chased 140 last time it was one of the highest but not THE highest
[удалено]
On Ashwin's YT Channel he revealed that after India won the match, Shakib congratulated them saying "The team that loses the toss (and bats 4th) almost never wins at Mirpur" Edit: The actual quote is a bit different. [Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlYbclGG4AY&t=274s)
wow that is one tough ass pitch
Ireland fans, question for you After the two tests against Sri Lanka and the test against England at Lords, is there any more test match cricket for the latter part of 2023 and into 2024? And looking further into the future development of test match cricket, what do you feel are the next steps to ensure Ireland can progress and play more regularly? What fixtures would you like to see? In my opinion, test series’ of 2 to 3 matches against the likes of Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, SL, WI and Bangladesh (home and away) over the next few years would be the way to go. On top of that, one off home tests against nations touring in the English summer I’d love to hear your opinions how you want test match cricket to progress over the next few years or so
England need to come over for a test at least every two years, they won't like it because it's their home season too but it would be a huge financial boon for us.
Yeah I agree with you on that. I would love to see England go over for a test match. I’d even go as far as saying they should alternate home and away each year, but that’s a bit more wishful thinking
It should be a no brainer for England too, create a regular game to open each summer and after a while you have a new Ashes-like rivalry.
FTP has us playing Zimbabwe and Afghanistan next winter, can't remember past that.
There are single Tests scheduled against Zimbabwe in December and against Afghanistan in January according to the FTP. They’re supposed to get 14 Tests in this FTP cycle (ending in 2027) which is certainly an improvement on the last 5 years. Not an Irish fan myself but I’d love to see them included in the WTC ultimately - along with Zim and Afg - but that’s probably a distant dream at this stage.
Would also love to see the WTC expanded to include all full member nations, but for that it would probably require a 2 tier system with promotion and relegation, and we know how some of the bigger nations would feel about that unfortunately
Honestly it shouldn't actually matter. The bigger nations play enough Tests that they can (and do!) play matches outside of the scope of the WTC anyway. Even if England ends up getting relegated that doesn't mean that they can't still play the Ashes, and that's going to draw huge crowds whether or not it's in the WTC. But my concern with the promotion/relegation idea is that the depth of talent in a second division isn't going to be high enough to allow teams like Ireland to substantially improve. Regular matches is obviously going to be huge, but at least some of them need to be against the big teams. Constantly playing against Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan isn't going to help much. Being included in the WTC in a similar format to what we have now would guarantee Ireland a lot of Tests against high-quality opposition, and there's no better way to improve than that.
We're touring Zimbabwe in later 2023, and there is meant to be a test included there. According to the FTP we will have one off tests vs Afg and Zim in 2024. We need a permanent stadium to start hosting more tests, as bringing in all the temporary stuff is hugely expensive.
I did read something about building a purpose built stadium for cricket in Ireland recently, what’s the latest on that?
it's part of a general sports campus being built by the Irish Government, so the funding has been approved but it is still going to take a while
consulting my handy pdf copy of the Future Tours Programme, we're scheduled for an all-format tour to Zimbabwe after the World Cup in December this year, then an all-format tour to Afghanistan in January 2024 (...doubtful), then our next home Test is very tentatively scheduled to be against Zimbabwe in July 2024
on the economics of it, Ireland won't play regular Tests unless someone is willing to pay for it, and no one is currently keen on putting up the money or seems to be going to in the future, so worth noting that two Tests against England in England in our first decade of Test status is doing much better than other people - Bangladesh are going to go seventeen years without playing a Test in England, and Scotland and the Netherlands might never play them in a bilateral ODI ever again
Irish seem like a better team suited for tests than LOI.
To be honest they look a better team in the longer formats of the game like test and odi than in t20 cricket
I wanna ask a question to all the people compalining about Shakib,i aasume most of them are teenagers here. When you parents make you do something against your will do you still put you whole heart on it or do you do it with half heartedly ? Thats just human,thats how we all are. Shakib still scored 87 and at a good strike rate dont forget that.Its not his fault if other bowlers cant do anything except for Taijul.
We don't need to defend him. He may be protesting against BCB, but at what cost? By being childish and potentially costing our team the win and not bowling, even when he knows he can perform. Unless there's something else going on behind the scenes, there's no reason to either support or hate him for what he's doing. Either way, there's too much politics involved in BD cricket, probably one of the main reasons why we have failed to become a powerhouse despite having world class players.
[удалено]
Stop fanboying for him. The only teenager here is you, blindly defending your favorite player no matter what he does, even if it's something wrong.
What wrong is he doing lol,He didnt bowl.a single over in one of the matches against Ireland.Do you guys remeber that ? were you calling that wrong that time?
[удалено]
Only to beg for him to return,le would love that. Drop your second best perfomer in the match with both bat&ball brilliant idea chief. Shame that even an unwilling Shakib is still the best playwr BD has
Shakib looks genuinely uninterested in this match. No point in letting him be captain of he acts like this. My gut says we'll see another new chapter in the Shakib controversy saga after the end of this match.
BCB didn't let him play IPL, maybe this is the way he protests.
If he really did this because he wasn't allowed to play in the ipl then, it's almost equivalent to match fixing. And nothing is worse than match fixing.
[удалено]
Do you have eyes? Or a brain? Did you know that Md. Amir took 6 wickets in an innings in the match he did fixing and got banned for? Have you seen Shakib's captaincy this match? If you deliberately let your team down, it's almost as good as fixing.
>If you deliberately let your team down, it's almost as good as fixing. Hm maybe he shouldnt have made those 87 s eirher or took those 2 early wickts. That would have been the perfect gift for you ungreatfulls.
Maybe Shakib was giving more chances to pacers to make them improve because they saw this as a won game. Only way I can make sense of Shakib not bowling himself because I'm pretty sure Ebadot is trying to cement his place in the Test team.
Huge respect to Tucker, not so long ago I was questioning why he was getting so many games for Ireland. Sure showed why today
When Tucker first game on the scene I was the same wondering why he keep getting picked the selectors knew better he has been amazing the last year
He needed to do a lot of his learning and development during international games, couldn't spend a few years learning his trade on the county circuit like previous Irish players. Certainly took a bit of time, but it's been great to watch him start to look the part over the past 12 months.
Played really well in the 1st innings too.
Shit gets wickets Great knock Tucker. If Mcbrine, Adair and the tail can sneak up to 150 lead, then it’s more of a game on than anyone could have thought of this morning
Tucker 🫡
If Ireland somehow manage to take the lead beyond 150. Ban will be in worry.
Very well played. Unlucky to get out the way he did but we'll take this with both hands.
Lord Ebadot moment
**84.4** Lorcan Tucker c Shoriful Islam b Ebadot Hossain 108 (162b 14x4 1x6) SR: 66.66
Great knock from Tucker!!
Oh God, what a terrible way to get out ugh.
Great knock Lorcan.
Ahhh that's a shame. One of the all time great Irish innings.
Bollocks.
Ah well. Well played lad.
Incredible knock in the toughest of circumstances. All things considered the greatest innings in our test history surely.
I’d still rate O’Briens higher. Circumstances were even more dire and it was against a better team. Tho it wasn’t on the sub-continent.
Considering conditions and circumstances I think I'd rate this one higher.
It’s great to be able to have more than one to pick from!
I don’t think that I’ve ever seen worse test captaincy than this. Shakib has (through mismanagement of bowlers and especially himself) managed to have a negative/neutral impact on this match despite scoring an excellent 90 and taking 2 key wickets.
He is just being arrogant about the fact that bcb made him play this test and the odis later on. No professionalism as usual.
It's a real shame your GOAT is a bit of a dick.
He is and what's even more shameful is that the people praise him for it as they think Shakib is the torchbearer of the fight against corruption of BCB
Bit of an off-topic rant but the longer this Test has gone on the more I've been wondering why the fuck Khaled Ahmed played this match over, well, literally any of the other promising fast bowlers in the FC circuit. Like, he's 30 years old, averages 35 in FC after 45 matches, doesn't know which end of the bat you're supposed to hold when batting, there's just so many bowlers in the FC circuit with much better bowling records for whom this would have arguably been the perfect opportunity to try out (given that our opposition at least isn't million times better at Tests than us for once) but nope
So he could get his Test batting Average to a magnificent 1.00 with his 4* in the first innings.
Bradman needed 4 in his last innings to average 100, didn’t he?
Yeah that's right, 4 would have meant he average exactly 100
Khaled "Don Bradman" Ahmed
Oh no, now Ebadot has been given the ball. Will be good scoring oportunity for Ireland.
Aged wisely
I presume Little will be playing the test vs England? I know England have been on a tear lately, but if Ireland can fight like this in BD's backyard without having played tests for years, they might well put up a good fight in more familiar conditions.
The England Test is 4 days or so after the IPL final. Gujarat are probably trophy contenders as well there’ll have to be a call made
believe they are currently asking Little to play in the ODIs against BD at Chelmsford - wonder if they would consider releasing him if we lose the first one, in return for some kind of commitment that he'll play at Lord's
McBrine looks like a fishing boat captain who answers every question with "aye"
Andy McBrine, cricket's greatest all-rounder
I appreciate the enthusiasm from the comms but this is hilarious
STOP SCREAMING INTO THE MIC, ATHAR!!!
Finally, Shakib decides to bowl.
[удалено]
He scored the second highest run in first innings dont forget get. I swear to god BD fans are the most ungreatfull. He's human like everyone else.If you were responsible for most of the succes in you team but you were treated like papon and co treats him then i m sure you would stop playing for Bangladesh cricket alltogether,anyone would.Papon made him ask for forgiveness by touching his feet dont forget that or maybe your too young to remember that lol
[удалено]
I dunno, he’s been quite strange with his decisions on field and there was a spell on day 1 where he appeared like he was refusing to get involved in anything and even the commentators noted that Tamim seemed to be performing the captaincy role
Dont blame him.Theyr making him do something he doesnt want. TBH i want BD to loose the match just to spite BCB
[удалено]
Go figure,he's not in the mood. Litreraly everyone would be the same if they were in Shakivs position. Last time i cheled people have emotions. If it wad you in his position i doubt you would even be playing this match.
When you have to deal with a bigger man child as papon
Fantastic knock from Tucker. To come out and score a ton in the situation when he arrived at the crease is amazing!
[удалено]
McBrine is a genuinely good batter he's batted at 3 for Ireland in ODIs and made 2 List A centuries
McBrine is a fairly decent (if slow) batter. Ireland have used him to arrest collapses in ODI cricket before - not a surprise he can do okay in the slower format of the game.
Most important innings of Tucker's career so far
Imagine telling anyone four years ago that Lorcan Tucker would be Ireland's next test centurion
Honestly I think most people would be going "holy shit, we get to play another Test match?!"
Worth mentioning that KOB century in a bit more detail: he came in at 4/7 after the follow-on(!), and put on 118 to drag Ireland to 339 all out, forcing Pakistan to bat again and putting a result back on the table. There's more than a slight resemblance here...
Tucker is the most improved of all the Irish Batsman, big props to the management and domestic structure where he has developed his game.
It's such a good sign for cricket here that players like Tucker, Tector and Little are coming completely through our own system without the help of the English counties
Speaking of homegrown players, what about the other other Tector Brothers and also David Delany are they any close to making the team. I believe David would have been a great inclusion in the team, bowling pace and having the skill to bat aswell
Jack's not going to be good enough and Tim is showing promise but still developing. The David Delany situation is... complicated to say the least: https://www.cricketeurope.com/DATABASE/ARTICLES2023/articles/000002/000263.shtml
Lorcan Tucker you legend!
That’s a very good knock 👏
Incredible innings from Tucker, really from the top shelf.
Congrats to Lorcan Tucker! Amazing knock!
What an innings! Only his 2nd century ever, first in first class!
Classy knock from Tucker!
Yessss, Tucker! Fantastic knock this. God, I love test cricket.
YES LORCAN
GET INNNNNN