KEVIN MCCALLUM: Yet another stunning victory for Ireland, 11 years later
27 October 2022 - 16:49
The last time I watched Ireland beat England was in the bar of the Taj hotel in Chandigarh in northern India during the 2011 Cricket World Cup. I was with a fellow Irishman who then worked for the International Cricket Council. I was on the Kingfisher lager, he was on the clock.
Thanks to Kevin O’Brien, a strongly built right-hander from Dublin, we were both on cloud nine. Ireland were in all sorts of trouble at 111/5, chasing England’s 328 in Bengaluru. O’Brien, a former electrician, whose brother Niall was in the same team, began swinging free and easy. ..
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