Specials – Recalling the best of Alex Cusack

Plucky Irish all-rounder Alex Cusack decided to call it quits yesterday after an eight-year career that coincided with Ireland’s rise as an international force to reckon with. Known for his stifling medium-pace and useful lower-order batting, the 34-year-old Brisbane-born cricketer was part of quite a few memorable wins for his adopted country. Cusack […]

SPECIALS – The greatest World Cup matches, Part 2

Continuing from Part 1 of this two-part post, let us look at five more great matches in the history of the World Cup that left many a viewer enthralled. Australia v West Indies, Final, Lord’s, 1975 The final of the inaugural World Cup was akin to a drama full of twists and turns. […]

SPECIALS – Top five World Cup performances by Irish batsmen

Ireland took the cricket world by storm with their giant-killing feats in the 2007 and 2011 World Cups. Victories over Test nations such as Pakistan, Bangladesh and England made the plucky Irishmen household names in the cricketing fraternity. As the 2015 edition beckons, there are similar expectations from the leading Associate nation to make […]

Specials – Northern Ireland’s Commonwealth moment

Cricket has been part of the Commonwealth Games only once, i.e in 1998 in Kuala Lampur, the Malaysian capital. Sixteen countries took part in the event, consisting of 50-over-a-side List A matches. Among the teams was Northern Ireland, who qualified by virtue of being a Commonwealth nation. The Ireland cricket team has always been […]

Specials – Ireland’s best T20 wins

Even though T20 is a fickle format and much dependent on luck, the forthcoming T20 World Cup in Bangladesh is as important a tournament as any for the six Associates who will have to undergo qualifying in order to reach the main round. For Ireland, this tournament assumes even more importance as they […]

SPECIALS – Recollecting Anglo-Irish ODI duels

Ireland are all set to play arch-rivals England in the first one-day international at the redeveloped ‘Fortress’ Malahide Cricket Club in Malahide, Dublin on 3rd September in what is touted to be the biggest cricket match on Irish soil. With a capacity of nearly 11,500 and the tickets almost sold out, this game is […]

SPECIALS – Ireland’s finest ODI wins

If there is one Associate nation today that reminds us time and again of its capability of being a full member, it is Ireland. After years of second-class treatment to cricket, shunned for being an English sport, the Irishmen finally made their international debut in 2006, and have quickly risen to become, by far, […]