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Sorry Stevie - that last message was from me, I put in your name in the my name box in error
Stevie - I played in the last tournament with Tim, and it is fair to say there was a considerable breadth of standard. The top teams (australia and india who contested the final for example) would have probably beaten Premier League teams. There were 3 or 4 decent teams who wouldnt have looked out of place in Section 1/PL. Then there were 3 or 4 teams who had a mixture of players, some who played to a decent standard, others who, charitably, were social cricketers. Ireland fell into this last category.
Lawyers of all cricketing abilities are therefore welcome and your teammate should contact Tim if interested. The 2011 competition is in Barbados, the game on 12 June to which Tim refers is at the magnificent Oakhill in Wicklow and your teammate would be more than welcome I imagine.
Tim,
Have you any idea of the standard of cricket played at these Lawyers World Cup matches? We have a lawyer involved in our club in Dundrum who has played a bit of cricket and may be interested.
Wayne - you are arguably over-qualified! In the last Lawyers World Cup in England (2009), our squad succummbed to a number of injuries. As a result of a chance conversation at breakfast at our accommodation, it transpired that one of the staff had completed a law module at Cambridge University, and his father was from Co Tyrone. This permitted Kieran (yep!)to keep wicket for the Ireland team for the last 2 games of the tournament, and he turned out to be one of our best performers! So there is hope for you (and the editor!) yet to make the reckoning for Barbados 2011. My task is to persuade the Mrs, but I am adopting a "long" game on that one!
tim - I did contract law at uni and my wife is a lawyer. Surely that must get me in???
The bloody rain, is there no justise at all, Ireland brilliant, England on the ropes... but that dam rain ruined it all........ I'm scundered,totally scundered,they got out off jail, its 10.00pm I'm away for a long-walk!
Good-nite.
The Irish Lawyers are endeavouring to organise a North v South game at the wonderful Oakhill Ground in Wicklow on Saturday 12th June. Any Northern based lawyers interested should email at browne_timothy@hotmail.com. Some of you may be aware that the next Lawyers Cricket World Cup is due to be held in Barbados in 2011.
Do you need to be fully qualified to be eligible for this World Cup...
D/L calculations:- Nasser is at it as well "Maybe D/L neds updated to take account of the big hitting today.....etc."
England's problem was simple!
Windies scored 30 off 14 balls BEFORE the stoppage.
The target was always going to be 60 in 6 overs. (Actually like the initial Sky report my copy of D/L says the target was 59!!)
If WI had scored at a run a ball and been 14 off 2.2 overs England would have looked a better bet with WI needing 46 off 22.
So blame the bowlers who let the Windies off to a good start.
Anyway it's not as if it hadn't happened to him before.
Englad performed badly at Stormont and the rain handed Ireland 100 off 20 overs. For a man who prefixes every answer with "To be honest......" he continues to be naive in his pronouncements.
Can't say I'm disappointed that Paul Collinwood is unhappy again, wait to you hear the excuses to-nite if the Irish beat them,surely he'll not complain about the pitch,he's already done that one,same for Duckworth-Lewis !
What will it be this time, George Doctrall spins the ball too much or Paul Stirling hits the ball too hard........ Yes I can hear him already!
" Come on Ireland,we're shout'en for you"!!
I got a bit of stick last year because of my postings about the attitude displayed at Stormont and in the press by Mr. Collingwood so I hesitate to breach the subject but I see he's not happy (again!) Apparently the use of D/L in T/20 doesn't please him. Also congratulations to CSNI on their victory over Carrick in the under-13 cup yesterday. Lots of talent on show on both teams but I was really impressed by the Carrick off-break bowler Fittis
What about the big show-down this evening, winner takes all ! Losers on the boat home.
It's a pity and even ironic that the biggest threat to Ireland to-nite against England is not from one of their much vaunted South-African players, their most dangerous oponent is actually an Irishman who indeed not long ago, was one of Irelands best players.
But there you go, maybe an Ireland win to-nite may make him and others think again !
So come on Ireland, good-luck and may the best team win !!
Quite correct Andy.
I played with Wesley on numerous occassions (indeed he was one of my references for the job i am curently in)and he put a lot of time and effort into running the MUCG, i even had the privilidge in representing the MUCG in Galway for their 25th anniversery, and played at almost every level in the midweek 20 over competitions from under12's to 1st eleven.
Congratulations to Armagh who convincingly won the 2009 Colts Cup today beating Muckamore at Laurelvale.
Left arm seamer Harry Doyle ripped out the Muckamore top order with an excellent spell of bowling. Only a battling 56 not out from Gary Nicholl helped by 20 extras got Muckamore to reach 110. Armagh knocked the runs off in only 28 overs for the loss of 4 wickets.
Congratulations also to Laurelvale for being excellent hosts.
in a reflective mood this morning watching the sun over Slemish and the Braid Valley and reading Neale's tribute to the various secretaries who "run" the youth competitions reminds of the work of the late Wesley Ferris who ran the whole thing under the aegis of the Mid-Ulster league. I recall reading one of his fixture books with the incredibleble list of honorary vice-presidents including the likes of Sir Leary Constantine! And I'm sure there might be a few guys who can recall playing in the Mid-Ulster Cup. And people think T/20 is a modern invention.
Re: Stephen Dyer
I quite agree quality always shines through at the green. I once had the privilege of watching a certain Ian Rutledge amass 99 on the main ground for Cooke Collegians 3rdXI. A fine knock during which he got a bit tired and needed a runner, who subsequently ran him out.
Oh and by the way he still talks about the day he dismissed Kyle Mccallan. I think Kyle may have been 12 playing for cliftonville fifths but thats a minor detail.
