Eoin Morgan stars in Funslog Millionaire

“You’ve taken your Fifty/Fifty. So for £1million, Eoin Morgan will be playing in the 20/20 Cricket World Cup finals in 2009 for (a) England or (b) Ireland?” 

Imagine I am a Liverpool fan but currently hoofing the ball about Drumahoe for Institute. (Hoofing is a better descriptive word than stroking when you are talking about Irish League football).

County Tyrone 2008

With Boyd Rankin and Phil Eaglestone spending more time on the treatment table than bowling in the middle it takes two of the big guns out of the Tyrone attack. Therefore it is time to ring the changes for the 2008 selection.

County Londonderry 2008

Last year I picked my County Teams for 2007 and hoped to instigate a little bit of debate. By and large I tried to pick balanced teams and concentrated on picking the players who I felt deserved to be in the team on performance rather than reputation. However good players are good players and not unsurprisingly the same people are there or thereabouts each year.

Fast and Furious

I happened to sit down in the lounge when my wife was watching one of those period dramas on TV that women seem to love so much when there was a brief cricket scene.

A man with a moustache that would have done Merv Hughes proud delivered a ball with an action that was as dodgy as his facial hair. The ball then proceeded to clatter into the stumps at which point 19th century Merv felt it was well worth an appeal.

World Cup, bring it on!

I’m delighted that both Ireland and Netherlands have qualified for the 20/20 World finals in England next year. There is no finer sight at a cricket match than seeing a row of attractive young ladies all wearing Dutch caps!

Scotland’s defeat of Kenya now means that Kenya haven’t made it to the finals. Their position of being next in line for full membership of the ICC is in real trouble. Inter Continental and European Champions Ireland is now the one banging on the door of the ICC for acceptance to the next level.

North West Intermediate Cricket

This year there has been great difficulties in Intermediate cricket in the North West. The difficulties are the continuity of fixtures. This has arisen because of the fact there are 8 team leagues. Intermediate 1, 2 and 3 will therefore play 14 leagues games. Intermediate 4 still have 10 teams will play 18 games. The program has been thrown into confusion because senior cricket has still got 10 teams. This means the corresponding fixtures don’t always match up i.e. 1sts at home and 2nds away to the same opposition on the same day doesn’t happen as often as it should.