Only ODI: Ireland v England

[TheGreemSim]

Nothing like a good Irish scrae to burst Englands ashes bubble

 

[drainpipe32]

brilliant performance by the ashes champions, smashing the highly rated ireland by three runs

meanwhile the aussies just managed to scrape through by a sparing 186 runs vs the lowly scotland....

 

[pcfan123]

brilliant performance by the ashes champions, smashing the highly rated ireland by three runs

meanwhile the aussies just managed to scrape through by a sparing 186 runs vs the lowly scotland....

you lot can win this series 7-0 and 10 years from now no one will remember or care, but they will all remember England regaining the Ashes

 

[Owzat]

you lot can win this series 7-0 and 10 years from now no one will remember or care, but they will all remember England regaining the Ashes

A win is a win, the aussies did have the advantage of batting on a good pitch and playing 50v50 over match. I think if the Ireland innings had been batted to 50 overs, they might well have been bowled out for less than 150. That may seem unlikely given they reached 117 off 20 overs, but they would have batted less aggressively and England could have used their more effective bowlers more. They had licence to hit boundaries as they were only facing 120 balls, so hit as many fours as England did in 50 overs. As T20 over innings go, that wasn't a good total they hit and it's only down to worthless duck methodology that it was close. Make them bat 50 overs and they would have faced more of a test