Ireland foiled by weather

ENGLAND scraped unimpressively through to the ICC World Twenty20 Super Eight stage after a rainy no-result to their Group D shoot-out with luckless Ireland last night.

Paul Collingwood’s team could muster only a vulnerable 120 for eight on an awkward pitch, after being asked to bat first at the Guyana National Stadium.

But after Ireland had started and had to stop their reply twice and got as far as 14 for one from 3.3 overs, the 5pm local time cut-off (10pm Irish time) was reached.