Ireland appeal World Cup snub

IRELAND’S cricket board will appeal the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) decision to block them from entering the 2015 world cup.

Cricket Ireland has been feverishly talking to other non-Test nations following yesterday’s decision to restrict the next world cup to the ten Test teams despite the fact that Ireland rank higher than Zimbabwe and have flourished at the 2007 and ‘11 events.

They are likely to fight the ruling at the annual conference in June but they won’t show their cards to the ICC just yet.