“A very strange World Cup”: Ireland coach before clash with Pakistan

Ahead of their clash against Pakistan in the 2024 ICC T20 World Cup, Ireland coach Heinrich Malan expressed his feelings about the ongoing mega event, saying this tournament has been very strange so far. Ireland are currently bottom of Group A with just one point from three matches they have played in the ongoing tournament so far. They have already failed to qualify for the Super Eights of the ongoing marquee event. In their final group stage match of the competition, the Irish team will face the Men in Green at the Central Broward Regional Park Stadium Turf Ground in Lauderhill, Florida on Sunday.

The Ireland coach stated that the team had not trained at all since being in Florida last week.

“We’ve been very lucky. We played them a few weeks ago at home in Ireland. It’s been a challenge from a preparation point of view. We haven’t trained at all since we were in Florida last week, so I mean, that’s what we have done in our unity meetings and preparation meetings and just going over some of those plans that we managed to execute really well at home and we won the first game. piggyback on that for a little bit longer period and hopefully we can come back strong tomorrow,” Malan said. at the pre-game press conference.

The Irish coach also stated that the management has tried to keep the team busy.

“It’s been a very strange World Cup, as you said. Yeah, look, we try to keep the lads busy as much as we can, obviously doing our preparation and our analytical work in the background, and just keeping them active physically. The boys are currently playing a bit of football and trying to get the energy up. competitiveness also flows into the future”, added Malan.

Squads:

Pakistan Squad: Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Babar Azam (c), Usman Khan, Fakhar Zaman, Imad Wasim, Shadab Khan, Iftikhar Ahmed, Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Amir, Abrar Ahmed, Saim Ayub, Azam Khan, Abbas Afridi .

Ireland squad: Paul Stirling (c), Mark Adair, Ross Adair, Andrew Balbirnie, Curtis Campher, Gareth Delany, George Dockrell, Graham Hume, Josh Little, Barry McCarthy, Neil Rock, Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker, Ben White, Craig Young.

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