West Indies' Matthew Forde equals fastest ODI half-century record before rain earns Ireland share of spoils at Clontarf
Josh Little suffered the brunt of the brutality, being hit for four maximums in one over as the Windies tail took full advantage of the small boundaries at Castle Avenue to plunder 98 from the final six overs and post a mighty 352-8.
Liam McCarthy was the pick of the Ireland attack, again bowling with good pace and claiming his first international wicket in his second match when he found an edge from West Indian captain Shai Hope.
The Railway Union speedster also had Keacy Carty caught behind for 102 and ended Forde's rampage on 58 by knocking out his leg stump with a yorker, as he returned figures of 3-66.
Rain then prevented the start of the reply, allowing the Boys in Green to escape with a share of the spoils and take a 1-0 lead into Sunday's final game of the series.
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We had jokes with them, spoke about the event, spoke about the game, said, listen, the possibilities of you winning is real. So understand that the next steps , make it count. "Make it your World Cup, is what we said. Josh and Daryl was celebratory towards us, we miss you on tour and all of that stuff." Rock and Gurley went on to win the tournament - but Petersen says he was left feeling disappointed by the pair after seeing the headlines Rock created with his comments about him. He continued: "You get back home to the hotel, you see these headlines. Most read in Darts BEST ONLINE CASINOS - TOP SITES IN THE UK 'And I was almost like, number one, cowardly. I felt like it was a coward move because I was stood right in front of you, could have said it to my face. "Number two is, there should be a player etiquette. When you talk nonsense on stage and you're speaking to a global audience, and it's the World Cup, so it is the global audience. 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'There was nobody talking about winning All-Irelands' - Class of 2016 revel in Tipperary's rags to riches transformation
This time last year a third All-Ireland medal seemed a far-fetched dream. But that is what Tipperary's Michael Breen, Jason Forde, Seamus Kennedy, captain Ronan Maher and John McGrath have today. Kennedy played the last 20 minutes of yesterday's All-Ireland final victory over Cork, coming on shortly before now four-time winner Noel McGrath, and the others all started, making key contributions to a sensational 15-point win. "The resilience of this man," said manager Liam Cahill of Forde (who scored two points from play) afterwards. "He's like a good wine, he gets better with age. Breen gave an exhibition today and Noel comes on, Seamus Kennedy, John McGrath, they're just different class." How did a team that finished bottom in Munster last year - with just a single point from drawing with Waterford - get back on top so quickly? "It's a number of things," says Forde, 31, who reveals he sat down with Cahill to discuss the future after a rough 2024 in which he lost his role as free-taker. "We were so hurt after last year. Tipp is obviously such a mad hurling county. I remember meeting Jake Morris a couple of weeks after and you're nearly ashamed to show your face around because of the manner in which we went out. "When I met Liam, I just said we couldn't leave things like that, the year that we had. Having played for Tipp for 13 seasons and winning All-Irelands, to leave it on that note, it just wouldn't have felt right. "And you could see the younger players that were coming. This is Liam's third year with this group of players. We are after finding exceptional young players, three players in Darragh [McCarthy], Sam [O'Farrell] and Oisin [O'Donoghue] that we didn't have last year. "We just went back to the grindstone, we trained really, really hard. We've been finishing all the games really strong and I put that down to work our S&Cs have done with us. 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We had been playing reasonably well. But that second half, we just attacked everything. And we came up trumps. "This is really sweet. 2016 and '19, they were brilliant, but I'd never seen the colour and the excitement around the county [this week]. And the supporters again today were unbelievable." Did they really believe they could turn things around so dramatically? "When I met Liam you got a really good sense that there was going to be no stone left unturned to get the team back," says Forde. "You need a bit of luck in these situations too. There was nobody talking about winning All-Irelands. Can we get this team [going] and get a bit of pride back in the jersey, get out of Munster and maybe reconnect with the Tipperary supporters?
