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Should this article not have some mention of Ireland's famous recent victory over Brian Lara's West Indies at Belfast?

Contents 1 List A/First-class records 2 Ladies' cricket 3 1998 Commonwealth Games 4 The Flag 5 Three separate or joined Shamrocks? 6 Moved

[edit] List A/First-class records

I updated the ODI record in the info box yesterday. But the List A and the First class records have also changed since September. Does anyone know where to get the current List A/1st class records? 07:59, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Cricket Archive is best for this. Use their scorecard oracle function. When doing the List A search, make sure you use the exact match check box to avoid picking up the three List A matches played by Northern Ireland. Andrew nixon 08:42, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. They are now up to date. I made just an incremental update (i.e. I added the matches played since last September) wild8oar 12:03, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ladies' cricket

Shouldn't there be something about the ladies' team in this article? They competed in the World Cup last year. --Ryano 10:45, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

For the women's team, it should be created at Irish women's cricket team following the current convention. Please see Category:National women's cricket teams Gizza^{Chat ©} 11:00, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough. Hopefully somebody will do just that - I don't know enough about the subject to contribute much. --Ryano 11:06, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1998 Commonwealth Games

"A Northern Ireland team, a 'de facto' 'full' Irish team under a different name, did play three matches at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia." I'm pretty sure this is incorrect. Although composed of "full" Irish internationals, the squad was restricted to players born in Northern Ireland. DublinDilettante 22:15, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

You're right; I've just checked CricketArchive and every man who played was born in NI, so I've edited that para. I think it might have been me who was (at least in part) responsible for the earlier version of the para, so apologies. Loganberry (Talk) 02:13, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Flag

Perhaps an explanation of the singificance of the team flag is in order. Initial googling brings up nothing, but it just seems so symbolic of...something. Any explanation?

[edit] Three separate or joined Shamrocks?

Recently, another unregistered user going by the name of Dr. Durthwithogham has taken to removing the purported flag of the Irish cricket team, stating that the image is incorrect in having 3 joined shamrocks and that the correct image is of three separate shamrocks. However, if the image was incorrect then instead of leaving a space and coding text, Dr. Durthwithogham should at least leave a place-holder flag and then leave a message on the flag's discussion page and on the discussion page of the author of the image. In that way, if the flag is indeed incorrect, then the author will actually be notified and can fix it instead of finding out possibly weeks or months later that his or her image has been removed by a user for being supposedly incorrect. As to whether, logo on the flag is incorrect, I doubt that for the simple reason that two logos are used in Irish cricket (if anyone was paying attention in the Ireland-Zimbabwe match recently). On the helmets can be seen the 3 joined shamrocks that are found in the flag, while on the upper left breast of the team shirt can be seen the 3 separated shamrocks (with the words "Irish Cricket Union" written underneath) that Dr. Durtwithogham is referring to. In such a case it could well be that:

• one logo is older (and thus not incorrect)
• or both logos are currently used (and thus neither is incorrect as might well be the case)
• or one logo is for the Irish cricket union while the other is used for the flag (in which case the one with the words might be solely for the cricket union, while the simpler image is for insignia and flags)
• or one logo is used only for the helmets, while the other is used for the shirts (as to which would then be used for the flags, I don't know).

Seeing as how you have a user name, Dr. Durtwithogham why not just fix the flag yourself instead of constantly removing it and leaving the page looking poorly? If anyone wants external links to show that both images are used then for the 3 joined shamrocks look at [1], [2] & [3]; for the 3 separate shamrocks see [4] & [5] and for both the joined and separate shamorcks look at [6] (picture 4 has the joined shamrocks on the helmet clearly, while picture 11 has the separate shamrocks on the shirts clearly) & [7]72.27.85.98 03:31, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Moved

I moved this back across from Ireland cricket team to Irish cricket team. It was at Irish cricket team before, but someone moved it. I done this so that it was the same as all the other national cricket teams, such as Bangladeshi cricket team, Sri Lankan cricket team and so on. The template at the bottom was bolding Ireland when we were on that page because it linked to Irish cricket team. If a consensus is reached to move all of the national teams to their country name, rather than their country adjective, then we'll do it then. Cream147 _{Shout at me for doing wrong} 09:57, 18 March 2007 (UTC)