Story ACL - Match 1 - Ireland VS Netherlands - IRE - 233/8 in 50 Overs

[Harshshah]

With the end of era of Associates entering the World Cup, the ICC have decided to organize a 50 Over tournament where the winners qualify for the 10th spot in the World Cup. This Tournament will be played by 7 teams who fight for a place in World Cup. The teams that are participating are Kenya,Netherlands,Afghanistan,Zimbabwe,Canada,Ireland & Scotland.

The 7 Teams will face off each other in Single Round Robin Tournament and the top four qualify for the Semi Finals and Finals. The winner gets the chance of a berth in World Cup.

ICC will soon announce the team and its respective squads.​

 

[Prats]

This is a league or story?

 

[Harshshah]

Fixtures Announced & Squad Rules Announced By ICC

ICC have announced the fixture for the upcoming Associates Cricket League. Although Zimbabwe do not come under Associates tag they need to pass through this competition for qualifications for the World Cups 10th team. Each 7 teams will play the other team 2 times and ICC have contacted BCCI and South African cricket board to make this tournament better with them funding for this tournament too.

Fixtures For Associates Cricket League

The squad for this tournament is not fixed it depends on the cricket boards and they can replace injured players if any with the consent of ICC. ICC has decided to hold this years tournament in New Zealand.

Logos For Teams Participating In This Years Associate Cricket League

 

[The Rock]

Good presentation there. But is this a league or story? Or a story based league?

 

[Dipak]

Will be rooting for the Irish here

 

[Harshshah]

Good presentation there. But is this a league or story? Or a story based league?

Story it is

 

[Harshshah]

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The ICC Associate Cricket League starts off with a match worth its build up. Its the upcoming heavy weight Irish taking on the Netherlands team.
The build up and the practice have been perfect, Irish were seen practicing for this season of Associate League from couple of weeks and on the other side player like Ryan Ten Doeschate have had a good IPL and others practicing well for this league.

Teams Practicing For This Match


More To Follow​

 

[Harshshah]

VS

MATCH NO : 1
VENUE: Eden Park
UMPIRES: Asoka de Silva and Aleem Dar​

Welcome one and all for the 1st match of this ACL. This tournament is very important from all the teams point of view, winning this tournament for 3 times in 4 years will lead to the qualifications for the World Cup and that is what all team is looking for to. Both teams have match winners in their side with Ireland bowling is dependent on Johnston and batting on the O'Brien brothers. From Dutch's point of view, Ryan Ten Doeschate is an important player who likes to play well in big games like this. Dutch's bowling will be successfully lead by Peter Boren who is an experienced player.

Toss

Ireland Have Won The Toss & Elected To Bat First

So it's Ireland who will be batting first on this tough but good looking pitch. Best Of Luck to both the teams and may the best team win.

BATTING SCORECARD

Player              Status                                  Runs   Balls  4s     6s     S/R    

WTS Porterfield     b M Bukhari                             15     28     1      0      53.57  
PR Stirling         c A Kervezee b P Borren                 35     37     4      0      94.59  
AR Cusack           c T Cooper b P Borren                   47     72     3      0      65.28  
KJ O'Brien          c B Loots b M Bukhari                   15     23     1      1      65.22  
NJ O'Brien          c B Loots b P Borren                    0      2      0      0      0.00   
GC Wilson           c E Szwarczynski b R ten Doeschate      3      7      0      0      42.86  
JF Mooney           c T Heggelman b T Cooper                64     73     6      0      87.67  
AC Botha            c +W Barresi b E Szwarczynski           18     32     0      0      56.25  
DT Johnston         not out                                 12     19     1      0      63.16  
GH Dockrell         not out                                 2      7      0      0      28.57  

BOWLING SCORECARD

Player              Overs  Mdns   Runs   Wkts   E/R    Wd     NB     

RN ten Doeschate    10.0   1      43     1      4.30   4      0      
M Bukhari           10.0   0      42     2      4.20   5      0      
PW Borren           10.0   1      38     3      3.80   9      0      
PM Seelaar          10.0   1      35     0      3.50   0      0      
TLW Cooper          6.0    0      26     1      4.33   0      0      
ES Szwarczynski     4.0    0      27     1      6.75   0      0

Ireland - 233 / 8 in 50 overs
RPO: 4.66

Ireland 233 with the loss of 8 wickets at the end of 50 overs, its just a mediocre total and must admit there were some careless shots that were played. A total of 260 would have been good but if Irish boys bowl well and stick to one line and length this could be a total that could be defended well.

Ireland lost their first wicket on 38 runs and from then they were not been able to build good partnerships. 20's and 30's what they got. The highest partnership and the most important partnership of the Irish came down the order from Alex Cussack & J Mooney. They scored pretty well and added 48 runs of just 58 deliveries. Botha and Mooney too build a decent partnership of 55 runs and Ireland got 2 back to back good partnerships. Peter Borren the captain of Dutch lead the side perfectly by taking 3 wickets and just giving 38 runs in 10 overs. Mooney's innings or Borrens Bowling? What will be the crucial factor in this game? Stay tuned for the 2nd innings.

Ireland Partnership

Ireland Manhattan

J Mooney's spider

J Mooney's Wagon Wheel

Peter Borren's Pitch Map​

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