Through Irish Eyes: ‘The real possibility of Test cricket for Ireland is on the agenda’

"It certainly feels more like a reality than before"

“It certainly feels more like a reality than before”

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What do you want to be when you’re older? A question that is asked around the world to the younger generation. My answer was always to be a Test cricketer. Now being a kid growing up in Dublin, not only did you have to explain what cricket was but also what Test cricket was.

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Through Irish Eyes: What went wrong at the World T20

Balbirnie is still at a loss of words to explain Ireland’s early exit from the World T20

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What a difference a year makes. It was only a year ago that we were within a whisker of a cricket World Cup quarter-final against either New Zealand or Australia. Roll on to now and we lose two out of three games at the WT20 in India to send us on the earliest possible flight back to Dublin. What went wrong?

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