Ireland wait as ICC to decide World Cup fate

IRELAND’S cricketers will discover their World Cup fate inside the next three days as intense lobbying continues in a bid to convince the International Cricket Council (ICC) to allow them a chance to qualify in four years’ time.

The four-day Intercontinental Cup game against Namibia, due to start at Stormont tomorrow, has been postponed over a visa issue, but the focus of attention was always going to be 6,000 miles away in Hong Kong when the men in blazers meet to decide the line-up in Australasia 2015.

Cricket Ireland’s CEO, Warren Deutrom, flew to the Far East on Friday to continue the incessant lobbying he first embarked on back in April when Ireland and their fellow Associates were ruled out of the tournament.