Railway Union's Niall and Kevin O'Brien (pictured) starred with the bat this afternoon as they repeated their heroic exploits from the 2007 World Cup to see Ireland's cricketers through to the Super 8 stage of the T20 World Cup.
Kevin - who captained Railway's division one hockey side for the first half of the 2008/09 season - hit a heroic 39 off 17 balls as Ireland overhauled Bangladesh's total of 137 for a six-wicket win. Earlier, Niall clubbed 40 off 25 balls to set Ireland up for the win.
4 comments:
Fantastic display by the Irish Cricket Team - it is great to see another minority sport gaining recogination.
great stuff for the irish lads this result will help ireland hopefully gain test match status.
Be realistic Ireland will not be a Test team for at least 10 years and even that might be a little generous. They may get One Day status soon though.
its going to be sooner than that i think sure dont bangladesh have test status????Besides ireland have been the pick of the second tear odi and t20 sides for a long time so i do feel that we will achieve test status soon. besides all of the people behind the scenes in in irish cricket will be pushing for test status to try and stop the real good quality players being tempted into playing for england, even this t20 world cup team would have been much stronger if some players had not have been selected for the english sides, however this begs the question whether these players would have been tempted away if there had been the prospect of test cricket for ireland.
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