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Kevin Howells

St Patrick's Day will come again

A year ago on St Patrick's Day, Ireland were celebrating one of the biggest upsets in cricket history when they beat Pakistan in the World Cup.

I was hoping its impact on the game back in Ireland would have been a launch pad to a bigger and brighter future. St Patrick's Day 2007 was very special in Kingston, Jamaica, and one of very few highlights in that disappointing two months of so-called 'carnival cricket'

Sadly, since then their finances and their results on the field tell a different story.

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Jonathan Agnew

Selectorial decisions pay off

Statistically this was a comprehensive victory, but England are honest enough to know that this rated seven out of 10.

A win is a win, of course – and this was England’s first overseas victory for two years, and their first anywhere for eight Tests.

They will take a great deal of confidence with them to Napier where they should prove that they are the better of the two teams.

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