ISABELLE WESTBURY

ECB BROADCASTER OF THE YEAR

It hasn’t been a bad fortnight to be Irish. Results at the Cheltenham Festival were dominated by Irish-trained horses while last Saturday, St Patrick’s Day, Ireland’s rugby team crushed England at Twickenham to win only their third Grand Slam.
However Ireland’s cricket team are only just hanging in there in the World Cup Qualifiers, unable yet to clinch one of the two final spots for next year’s tournament in England.
It would be a cruel blow to a burgeoning cricket nation that in almost the sam...