Toss: Ireland will have a bowl.
William Porterfield: "They keep coming at you. It’s not
going to be a easy game but we are up for it and ready to go. It’s not a bad
pitch, might turn out later but I don’t think it’s going to play a [...]
Netherlands form a cuddle-huddle - they’re really, really fired up for this. Bopara and Wright are the openers. Australia’s Netherlands’ Dirk Nannes has the ball. Here we go…
England’s anthem drones out of the speakers - Swann’s belting it out, good on you Graeme. Collingwood, too, is stretching those vocal chords. Not a whimper from Anderson, [...]
All of a sudden it feels as though there might just, perhaps, be a big cricket tournament heading our way. Emerging from the mist of assorted footballing excitements and a funereal West Indies tour, the first traces of the World Twenty20 – which kicks off at Lord’s on Friday – are coming into view. South [...]
