**Official Ireland in England 2020**

[flibbertyjibber]

Willey and Billings help our depth of squad. Good to see them perform.

 

[grecian]

Would find the continued Vince selection, and utterly predictable result mildly amusing, as we have a fair few decent bats playing in tests, bt the fact Sam Hain (particularly) or Livingstone isn't getting a game for Vince or Denly is more than a little irritating.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Banton's presence looks very much a "treating ODIs as practice for the T20 world cup" sort of a pick too.

His List A record not fantastic and really struggled to rotate the strike today.

 

[Bijed]

Banton's presence looks very much a "treating ODIs as practice for the T20 world cup" sort of a pick too.

His List A record not fantastic and really struggled to rotate the strike today.

I think Banton's List A record is basically an awful first season followed by a much better second one so his overall List A stats aren't as much of a problem as they might appear, but he doesn't seem quite ready to make the step up to internationals just yet

 

[Daemon]

First look at Saj Mahmood jr - Reasonably quick, but not express. Seam presentation is quite crap though that could just be because there was no movement on offer to take advantage of.

 

[Howe_zat]

Reece Topley is back and here to represent a 1978 badminton player.

 

[Bijed]

Not sure I'd realised Topley had played 10 ODIs already, thought it was only two or three. Seems to have done better in them than I'd imagined too.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

It appears that Topley has time-traveled from the future.

 

[morgieb]

I forgot Reece Topley was still a thing, lol.

Was a quality bowler pre-injuries.

 

[Howe_zat]

First ball back gone for four lol.

But yeah, really worth keeping an eye on. Had a fantastic T20 season last year especially.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

I expect a Stirling century and nothing less!

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

A very easy decision there for the umpire. Hitting middle

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

That angle across the right-handers is vicious. The Irish batsmen seem to be in trouble against it.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

A smart catch at backward point . Stirling departs.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Come one Harry, give us a better knock this time.

 

[Howe_zat]

Er it's happening again

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

James Vince with the ball

 

[Bijed]

I do sort of remember Vince's bowling being mentioned as (just barely) a bit of a thing when he was first selected by

Mind you, his batting was mentioned as being a thing too

 

[BoyBrumby]

James Vince with the ball

Yeah, didn't even know that was a thing.

Not awful either. No pace, but wobbles it off the seam.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Vince gets the Irish skipper