Ponting: Ireland can challenge Test big boys
Ireland’s status in one-day cricket has steadily improved over the last decade, and they can lay claim to being the best Associate nation in the world after winning the last three Intercontinental Cups.
Ireland have built upon their breakout performance in the 2007 World Cup, where they beat Pakistan in Jamaica and progressed to the Super Eights. Last month, William Porterfield’s men came close to beating eventual winners England in the Twenty20 World Cup in Guyana, only for rain to intervene in their group stage encounter.
