Jemisi wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2019 6:00 am
Ireland are in rough form
Ireland gave England plenty to worry about in their ODI last week. "Hot and cold" would be the more apt description.
The side that gave us the heroics of their last few WC appearances has mostly retired (or is on the verge of retiring) now, and replacement talent is taking longer to make itself known than CI would like, especially now that they have Full Member / Test status and need to keep showing that they deserved it. Not losing players to England, and having a domestic first-class competitions now, will both help, but not instantly.
All that said, given we're happy to show endless patience for Zimbabwe to get their act together again (how many years now..?), we can cut them some slack. But the Ireland v Zimbabwe ODI series will be an interesting pointer to where both teams currently stand versus where they think they should be.