Play cricket — it will bowl you over, says union

THE IRISH Cricket Union are calling for people of all ages to get involved in the sport in light of Ireland’s Cricket World Cup success.

“There’s certainly a lot of interest already because of the World Cup,” Jim Doran, chairman of the Munster Cricket Union, said yesterday. “I’ve been taking a lot of calls from people for the last couple of days.

“Cricket was already quite strong in Dublin and the North, less so in Munster, but we’re hoping to change all that.