New Zealand in England

[Crew of Black]

Bracewell, Turner & Nash, there is more sanity in a mental asylum than those 3 combined, so you can't really sleep soundly If your in the side with those idiots around.

 

[irottev]

Lots of records might be broken if this partnership and especially McCullum aren't gotten out. His six tally is rising rapidly as is his score.

Ireland can thank Botha that we won't make 400.

I don't wanna jinx us. But I doubt there's ever been a case of both openers carrying their bat in the first innings of a fully played ODI (all 50 overs that is, or 60 for that matter) That'd be an awesome record.

irottev added 19 Minutes and 25 Seconds later...

looks like McCullum's gone. Tis a shame.

irottev added 12 Minutes and 51 Seconds later...

Credit to Marshall. He stuck in there and played anchor to McCullum and now he's going nuts. 370+ would be nice.

irottev added 4 Minutes and 59 Seconds later...

Watch out, Taylor shared fastest 50 is on the cards. Needs 20 off 5. 17 came off his last 5 so it's a possibility. Won't get it now.

21 off this last over gets us 400. Come on.

 

[Crew of Black]

Connell looks like he will get 100 on ODI debut, unfortunately not the hundred you want.

 

[irottev]

104 for Connell hahaha. No 400 though. Tis a shame. A bit gutted about that to be honest. If we bowl them out for under 100 i'll forgive them.

 

[Mighty Pies]

ireland 2/33 in desperate trouble

leaves them with 368 runs o go with 8 wickets 44 overs left

 

[Crew of Black]

Mason & Southee are ripping through the Irish Top Order.

5/52 38 overs to go

 

[angryangy]

This isn't even the strongest Ireland team. I don't understand why some Irish players aren't playing for their country.

'Ireland, already depleted by players staying with their counties and a host of others unavailable, have been struck by another late injury blow. Allrounder Alex Cusack, who won the Man-of-the-Match award on his debut against South Africa last year, has had to pull out with a broken finger. Captain Kyle McCallan, Andre Botha and Reinhardt Strydom, are the only players remaining from Ireland's last ODI, against Bangladesh, in Dhaka.'

http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/scotland/content/current/story/359204.html

Basically, Ireland doesn't pay very well. While a top player for a Test nation can generally expect a game every week in a first class competition, a top player for Ireland playing in the same competition has to work a bit harder to get games. Furthermore, plenty of players would be hanging on to a career outside cricket, so they would also need to prioritise which events they can leave work for. Events like World Cup qualifiers are going to take precedence over a one off.

Also, Ireland should be banned for letting Marshall get a hundred.

 

[Sureshot]

Well, that seemed ever so pointless.

 

[Will_NA]

@ Will_NA

i'm putting a fullstop at this topic.

No, I didn't think you had an answer

 

[irottev]

Oh, so we did get 400, awesome. But yeah, that was about as big a win as you can get. Ireland obviously aren't ready for the big boys yet.

 

[0601731]

seemed like an absolute pointless match and surely such a loss wouldnt do ireland any good.

 

[Mighty Pies]

NZ 3/402
McCullum 166
Marshall 161
Taylor 59*

Ireland all out for 112
Southee 3/22(6)
Mason 3/35(7)

NZ smashed the record of largest victory by runs. The record was owned by Indias 257 run victory over Bermuda. NZ beat that by 33 runs to beat ireland by 290runs.

McCullum hit the 20th highest ever ODI score, 3rd highest by a new zealander. while Marshall was 23highest and 4th highest by a new zealander. The opening partnership of 266 was 20 runs short of the highest ever.

The crowd didnt even reach 100 because it was in Scotland.

NZ now has 2 points Ireland 0

The next match is Wed 2 - 2nd match - Scotland V Ireland
Mannofield Park, Aberdeen - 7.45pm AEST

 

[khalek]

great game by the kiwis... mccullum and marshall batted superbly...

Ireland must beat scotland now..

 

[Owzat]

Well, that seemed ever so pointless.

T'was. And the one sided nature of the game should make the ICC realise that Ireland are far from ready to be a proper ODI team, not that it stopped them anyway. As if there weren't enough weak teams in the top levels of International cricket. It's about time they pulled their heads out of their backsides and split the countries into divisions with promotion and relegation. Then when teams are ready to play with the big boys they'll prove it by beating the rest, not by beating one or two Test nations and then getting "promoted" for what are still shocks. When they stop being shocks then they're ready, that's when a team can win games AND not get thumped all the time

 

[Mad Snake]

that was a HUGE win, anyone know if theres any video of this anywere?