Key events19 Sept 2025Match abandoned!19 Sept 2025PreambleShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureJames WallaceRighto, that’s it from us today. Apologies for this damp squib of an OBO. Fingers crossed for better weather on the Emerald Isle for Sunday, I’ll be back for that one too. Enjoy your afternoon, goodbye!Taha HashimHere’s a mini-report and a bit of news from Taha at the ground:Rain ruined the second Twenty20 international between England and Ireland at Malahide, the match abandoned without a ball bowled.
Prospects were low when a damp outfield delayed the scheduled 1.30pm start and spurts of heavier rain added to the frustration of a sell-out crowd. Ireland, already struggling to arrange home fixtures due to budget constraints, have had four out of their eight games this summer washed out, three without any play.
The sides will return to the same venue on Sunday with a brighter forecast. There will be no England debut in that final T20 for Scott Currie, who will fly back to play for Hampshire in their One-Day Cup final against Worcestershire on Saturday.Match abandoned!You knew it, I knew it. This one is kiboshed by rain.Still nowt official outta Malahide. There was some action with the covers a while ago but in a ‘kicking the tyres on a clapped out old banger’ sort of way rather than a ‘chances of play are significantly improving’ sort of way.No news from Malahide, Taha seems to think it is a case of ‘when’ rather than ‘if’ they call this off.We wait. We quiz?I think a five over thrash might even be too much to ask today, apparently it is still hosing it down in Malahide and the crowd has started to thin out.Brian Withington is still feeling lyrical though:“The thing that struck me most about Phil Salt’s last two innings is how very well he was timing the ball. He appears to have eased up a touch on the outright grievous 1970s Sweeney style brutality (Liam Livingstone please note) and instead settled for just boxing the ball about the ears as a 1950’s police constable might have dispensed to a scallywag truant schoolboy.”Lovely stuff.“It was spitting and now it’s back to a light drizzle.” Taha is really earning his corn today. I’d call him Michael Fish but he’s too young to know who that is. He’s probably too young to know Schafernaker. Not a criticism.My friend/comrade/mentor/squeeze Jon Hotten has also dipped his quill about all things Phil Salt, you’ll have a squizz if you know what’s good for ya:
