The one-off international is on now. England have just lost Collingwood, 92-3 after 14 overs. All the batsmen out to careless shots. BTW anyone in the UK can get live coverage on their PC via the BBC website. You will need to have a video/audio player like Realplayer installed. I'm watching it now!
And Trescothick has just gone to his 50. England could do with someone staying with him. No KP in the side today.
Trescothick is looking good for a hundred. He's just become the fourth England player to reach 4000 runs in ODIs. Only Stewart (4677) and Gooch (4290) are ahead of him now.
Trescothick is looking good for a hundred. He's just become the fourth England player to reach 4000 runs in ODIs. Only Stewart (4677) and Gooch (4290) are ahead of him now.
Thats some achievement, i'd back him to smash the Stewies record.
Ireland innings (target: 302 runs from 50 overs) R B 4s 6s SR DI Joyce b Harmison 0 3 0 0 0.00 JP Bray c Collingwood b Mahmood 22 29 3 0 75.86 AC Botha b Collingwood 52 89 5 0 58.42 WK McCallan c Jones b Harmison 24 46 2 0 52.17 PG Gillespie c Joyce b Collingwood 0 3 0 0 0.00 DT Johnston c Collingwood b Harmison 5 4 1 0 125.00 AR White c Jones b Bell 40 43 5 0 93.02 KJ O'Brien c Plunkett b Bell 35 48 3 0 72.91 D Langford-Smith st Jones b Dalrymple 12 11 0 0 109.09 JF Mooney not out 20 13 1 1 153.84 PJK Mooney not out 3 2 0 0 150.00 Extras (lb 6, w 17, nb 9) 32
Does this match have full one day international status?
Yes, it's Ireland's first ODI. Along with Scotland, Bermuda, Canada and Holland: all matches those teams play against Test sides and Kenya (and each other) qualify as full ODIs as of this year. I was surprised to see Ireland get 263, they don't usually do that well against county teams!