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Author Archives: andruid

When not obsessing over over the difficulty in trying to dig up every little tiny bit of information there is to know about non-test cricket Andrew is busy head scratching over the works of philosophers such as Walter Benjamin and Roland Barthes in his Comms degree at the University of Leeds.

Meaningful Victory?

November 7, 2008 – 11:16 pm

A blog by Andruid After One year of sweat and toil in locations all over the cricketing world, and some scarily close moments along the line, Ireland finally claimed their third consecutive Intercontinental Cup  with a 9 wicket win over a very stubborn Namibia in the final in South Africa. With that they moved further [...]

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On Eng vs Sco, and other Test v. Associate ODIs

August 23, 2008 – 1:56 pm

  England v Scotland: Just recently the second of a number of one off One Day Internationals between England and her Associate neighbours (The first being a 50 odd run win for the English against Ireland in 2006) was played in Edinburgh, with steady rainfall eventually putting paid to any hopes of a result with [...]

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World Cup here we come, Eventually

May 3, 2008 – 9:21 pm

  In the backwaters of global cricket, out of the view and generally out of the comprehension of majority of cricket followers, the path to the 2011 Cricket World cup in the Subcontinent begins in earnest. Division five of the World Cricket league, will see 12 nations compete in a week long tournament from whence [...]

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Growing domestic cricket: then and now

March 24, 2008 – 6:01 pm

  -a blog by andruid: On the 6th of June* in Kenya, a country that is considered by many among the leading nations in the game outside that test world, two 3 day matches will begin between four franchise teams known respectively the Northern Nomads, The Southern Stars, The Western Chiefs, and the Eastern Aces. [...]

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Irish dreams shattered by harsh reality

March 23, 2008 – 10:03 pm

  Almost a year to the day Ireland backed by their ‘Blarney army’ attempted to turn the world of cricket on its head when they sent home the mighty Pakistan from the cricket world cup, the Irish were once again on the cricket field. However unlike the overwhelming media coverage and the attention that surrounded [...]

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More than another meaningless ODI series

March 13, 2008 – 8:31 pm

    A look at Ireland’s tour to Bangladesh When Ireland rock up in Bangladesh later this month to engage the world’s lowest ranked Test team in a series of 3 ODI matches not may people will take much attention to the action on the field fro various reasons including that their will be the [...]

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The New World cup Format: What it means for the little guys

February 22, 2008 – 1:24 am

Come the 14th of March the ICC will meet to discuss among other things the recommendations for the 2011 Cricket World Cup (The 50 over one) and what should be done to preventing it degenerating into the sort of farce that we were all forced to endure in the West Indies last year. Among the [...]

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Kenya forced to grind to regain initiative

February 7, 2008 – 8:30 pm

Kenya after 4 days of unusually difficult and to some extent self inflicted labour finally ground out a win against a stubborn and a t times plucky UAE in the second of their two intercontinental cup matches in Sharjah. Having been undone by the superhuman efforts of a certain Gerry Snyman only a few days [...]

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Snyman rampage takes Namibia top.

February 1, 2008 – 5:57 pm

When Kenya and Namibia took to the field in Sharjah on Tuesday morning it marked the first time that these two leading African associate cricket nation were meeting in senior competition since 2006 in which resulted in a draw, this match however right from the off looked like it would be a different affair all [...]

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