World Cup 2011- Australia vs New Zealand and Bangladesh vs Ireland
Today in Group A of World Cup 2011 Australia play against New Zealand at Nagpur and in Group B, Bangladesh will be in front of Ireland at Mirpur.
Today’s match in Dhaka will be Ireland’s first in World Cup cricket since their extraordinary performance in the Caribbean four years ago, in which they eliminated Pakistan in a thrilling three-wicket victoryin the group stage in Jamaica, and qualified for the Super Eights where Bangladesh also fell victim to their team of talented part-timers.
Warren Deutrom, the chief executive of Cricket Ireland has told his players to focus solely on the challenge of competing on the world stage, starting with their opening fixture against Bangladesh on Friday, and let the administrators handle the wider issues surrounding Associates cricket, as the debate hots up about the proposed exclusion of non-Test teams from the 2015 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
