WC 2007 New Zealand Vs Ireland

If you have read my last night blog you must have seen that I wrote: Australia and New Zealand are among the runaway. I sound like one of my friend who will always tell if something wrong happens, in a rood way "I told you so". Okay okay enough about I told you so lets talk about New Zealand Vs Ireland match.
New Zealand 263-8 beat Ireland 134 all out by 129 runs. Daniel Vettori claimed four wickets as Ireland collapsed to 134 all out to hand New Zealand a 129-run victory in their Super 8 encounter in Guyana.
Peter Fulton (83) laid the foundations for New Zealand, but Brendon McCullum (47) and James Franklin's eighth-wicket partnership of 71 proved crucial.
That helped the Kiwis to 263-8, and Niall and Kevin O'Brien's stand of 75 looked to have given Ireland a chance.
But they lost six wickets for just nine runs to hand New Zealand an easy win.
Since the St Patrick's Day defeat of Pakistan, Ireland have never quite scaled the heights, going down meekly to West Indies before England and South Africa ground out fairly comfortable victories.
Things will get tougher for New Zealand in the next ten days. Because New Zealand, have more formidable opponents: Sri Lanka, South Africa and of course the old foes the Australia. The performance of their top order batting will be important, and along with Stephen Fleming and I assume Peter Fulton, they must provide solidity to allow their long batting line-up to take control of the matches. After these three games we will have a better idea if this is the New Zealand team that may take the first World Cup for their country.

The long goodbye:Adrian Birrell will be collecting his P45 shortly. Ten more days is all he has in his current job as Ireland coach. Ten more days to shake the world. Today they face New Zealand, and then finish the Super Eights with games against Australia, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Tomorrow I will come up with more cricket news about South Africa v West Indies.Till then good night. I am too sleepy now.