Team India has started their tour of the British Isles.
Northern Ireland, Scotland and eventually England.

Chapter 1: Northern Ireland.
Match 1: v Ireland @ Belfast

Team India won by 9 wickets.
Thumping?
Depends on whether one is an optimist or a realist.

The Irish team
that had caused upsets in the WCC were without World Cup stars,
Eoin Morgan, Jeremy Bray, Boyd Rankin, David Langford-Smith, Andre Botha and the Mooney brothers.

Captain Trent Johnton had this to say

“We’ve struggled this year against county teams so when you come and play against a team like India, with the quality they have, we are always going to struggle because we’re not together, we’re not a professional outfit.

“We are in a rebuilding process. Our two opening bowlers [Whelan and Fourie], have probably played three or four games in total between them for Ireland. To open the bowling against [Sourav] Ganguly and [Sachin] Tendulkar is a huge step up.

The real tests starts from Tuesday 26th June, v South Africa.

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