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Ireland Cricket Team: Introduction

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Rorser at English Wikipedia, CC BY 2.5. On 17 March 2007, in Sabina Park, Jamaica, Pakistan needed 133 runs to beat Ireland in the Cricket World Cup. They were ranked fourth in the world. Ireland had been Associate members of the International Cricket Council for fourteen years and had never played a real Test nation in a World Cup. By the end of the match Pakistan were out of the tournament, their coach Bob Woolmer found dead in his hotel room the following morning under circumstances still debated, and Ireland - Ireland - had won by three wickets on Saint Patrick's Day. It was the kind of result that does not happen in cricket, except it had just happened, and the celebrations in Kingston went on for hours.

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Ireland Cricket Team: Banned for Seventy Years

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Cricket reached Ireland early. The Military of Ireland and the Gentlemen of Ireland played each other in Phoenix Park, Dublin, in 1731, and the club founded there is still going - one of the oldest in the world. The first Ireland national team played England's Gentlemen in 1855. ...

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Ireland Cricket Team: The Day at Sabina Park

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Rorser at English Wikipedia, CC BY 2.5. The 2007 World Cup was Ireland's first. Their match against Zimbabwe ended in a tie - Jeremy Bray scoring Ireland's first World Cup century, Trent Johnston and Andre Botha bowling out the closing overs with miser-like economy. Then came Pakistan on St Patrick's Day. Wicketkeeper ...

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Ireland Cricket Team: Kevin O'Brien's Fifty Balls

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Dan Heap, CC BY 2.0. Four years later, in the 2011 World Cup, Ireland needed 328 to beat England in Bangalore. They were 111 for 5. Kevin O'Brien - red-haired, hard-hitting, slightly chaotic - walked out and played one of the most extraordinary innings in cricket. He reached his century in 50 balls, ...

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Ireland Cricket Team: Test Status

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Rorser at English Wikipedia, CC BY 2.5. On 22 June 2017, at an ICC meeting in London, Ireland and Afghanistan were both granted Full Member status - the eleventh and twelfth Test-playing nations. Ireland's first Test was played at The Village in Malahide, near Dublin, against Pakistan on 11 to 15 May 2018. Kevin O'Brie...

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