Excited: Irish CEO Warren Deutrom
By Richard Edwards
IRELAND are eyeing a 2019 to remember as an historic Lord’s Test looms into view.
The country’s four-day Test against England is all that stands between Joe Root’s men and the Ashes in the sport’s longest format.
With more questions than answers after the tour to the Caribbean, the match against Ireland – or the ‘noisy neighbours’ as Warren Deutrom, the CEO of Cricket Ireland describes them – has taken on even greater significance.
And Deutrom tells TCP he’s confident the first Test...