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General Cricket => World Cricket => England => Topic started by: mcgill123 on February 17, 2016, 12:54:58 AM
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Can someone save me the effort of working it out for myself and explain how Boyd is back playing for Ireland again?, thanks.
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Cause he cant get in the england team im guessing
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Because he's Irish so plays for Ireland, except when they think they are good enough to play for England then qualify for England.. Then they realise they aren't or get old so go back to playing for Ireland
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Last England game was 2014 ashes and odis that followed. Served his two years and is eligible for Ireland selection.
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Basically he qualified for England, realised he wasn't good enough so went back and re-qualified for Ireland. Ed Joyce did the same thing, and unless his form improves Eoin Morgan may be doing the same before long!
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Thanks for the replies, can't help but think this seems flawed, didn't Ronchi do something similar?.
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Basically he qualified for England, realised he wasn't good enough so went back and re-qualified for Ireland. Ed Joyce did the same thing, and unless his form imporoves Eoin Morgan may be doing the same before long!
Hmmm....we have a 'special' relationship with Irish born players, there's no test cricket they can play so it's associate rules which enable them to play for us. And yes almost all of them have returned to play for Ireland once the chance is Test cricket slips away. Morgan of course is England captain so there's more of an incentive to play for us...and who knows his Test career may start again.. unlikely I know..but possible.
Plus how far would Ireland get in a World tournament?
He's not English thou...and we know that, he doesn't sing our national anthem, presume that didn't escape anyone's notice ! :) You can't blame the bloke, he plays for England but he's Irish..
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This is a similar thing to what could happen with KP. Apparently he can qualify to play for South Africa next year. Would be interesting if that was to happen.
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Thanks for the replies, can't help but think this seems flawed, didn't Ronchi do something similar?.
Ronchi was born in NZ.
This is great for Associate cricket btw. It also shouldn't be ignored that England treated him like poo and Warwickshire actively pressed him to give up international cricket with Ireland before they offered him his livelihood. You can understand the choices he made. Given all that, a return to Ireland strikes me as being perfectly reasonable.
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This is a similar thing to what could happen with KP. Apparently he can qualify to play for South Africa next year. Would be interesting if that was to happen.
let's hope that comes true, presuming the quota system that blocked his path is now not stopping him any longer.
:) :) :) :) :) :) :)
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Hmmm....we have a 'special' relationship with Irish born players, there's no test cricket they can play so it's associate rules which enable them to play for us. And yes almost all of them have returned to play for Ireland once the chance is Test cricket slips away. Morgan of course is England captain so there's more of an incentive to play for us...and who knows his Test career may start again.. unlikely I know..but possible.
Plus how far would Ireland get in a World tournament?
He's not English thou...and we know that, he doesn't sing our national anthem, presume that didn't escape anyone's notice ! :) You can't blame the bloke, he plays for England but he's Irish..
He never sang the Irish anthem either
It was on A League Of Their Own
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He never sang the Irish anthem either
It was on A League Of Their Own
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you could well be right about that....
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Maybe he's not good at remembering a lot of words in sequence.
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Maybe he's not good at remembering a lot of words in sequence.
Ha ha. I laughed out loud when I read that!
I have no idea whatsoever how he can become England captain. He's Irish. I think the law is a complete joke that just because a country doesn't have a test qualified team their players can play for other countries.
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Maybe he's not good at remembering a lot of words in sequence.
hehe.. you're on form today
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I have no idea whatsoever how he can become England captain. He's Irish. I think the law is a complete joke that just because a country doesn't have a test qualified team their players can play for other countries.
Are you against the law or giving a foreign player the captains armband ? We've had plenty of non English born captains over the years.
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Lets play the game...
Mike Deness
Andrew Strauss
KP
Ted Dexter (I think)
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Dexter was born in Italy I believe. Pasta muncher like myself.
Out most famous one is Nasser. the beak. born and made in India.
love you Nass.
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George Harris (Trinidad)
Sir Tim O'Brien (Ireland)
Pelham Warner (Trinidad)
Frederick Fane (Ireland)
Douglas Jardine (India)
Gubby Allen (Australia)
Freddie Brown (Peru)
Donald Carr (Germany)
Colin Cowdrey (India)
Ted Dexter (Italy)
Mike Denness (Scotland)
Tony Greig (SA)
Allan Lamb (SA)
Nasser Hussain (India)
Kevin Pieterson (SA)
May have missed 1-2.
I believe the selecting of non England and Welsh born captains isn't a new thing, that is of course separate from debate about how English a player is though.
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Are you against the law or giving a foreign player the captains armband ?
I'm against both to be honest. What is the point of having international sport if all players are able to choose the country they wish to represent? Isn't that simply franchise-type cricket on a per-country scale? Most players would do what club cricket is turning into - gravitate towards the clubs with the most money/rewards/resources rather than play for their village or town. I certainly don't like the fact a player coming up through one country's age groups, then switching allegiances to a whole different country/culture at a later date a la Pietersen. Otherwise you're going to end up with one big homogenised cricket culture without any individual identities - after all, isn't that part of what makes cricket/sport in general great?
We've had plenty of non English born captains over the years.
And almost all of them are from old British colonies. That's opening up a whole can of political worms ;)