Our  house is full of Irish cricket supporters! 

England 1-7 which supports Baggers and my contention that One Day Cricket is poor preparation for Test Cricket. 

Roy already back in the pavilion! 

Murtagh bowling tightly and the other Irish opener getting nice shape. 

The latter dismissed Denly, as Murtagh induces an outside edge to the keeper and dismisses Burns. The Poms are 3-36. 

Bairstow is so far out of his crease against the pace bowlers. 

The Aussie quicks will knock his block off if he does this against us! 

Go DRS for Root LBW! 

Root out for 2! 

A shocking original decision by umpire as action replay showed the ball hit half way up the middle stump! 

Mark Adair has 2 wickets. 

England 4-42! 

Bairstow clean bowled by Murtagh! 

England 5-42! 

Another DRS! 

Woakes out! 

England 6-42. 

Murtagh 4-10! 

Terrific figures. 

Murtagh takes his 5th wicket  80 mins into the Test! 

Outside edge to the keeper, Ali dismissed, 

England are 7-43. 

Outstanding effort from Murtagh and Ireland. Hopefully they polish off the tail cheaply and bat well.

I’m gobsmacked! 

Ireland’s bowling has been superb on a pitch doing a bit. 

Curran has played a decent cover drive and a good  off drive. 

England is really in strife. 

I’ve just tuned in. I don’t believe what has happened thus far. Ireland are thrashing the Poms. 

Lords seems full apart from the members area. I must say I’m surprised. 

I don’t believe this! Rankin gets an edge to the keeper and wins the DRS appeal. 

Poms 8-59. 

Impossible. 

How has it happened? 

Ireland has bowled well on a helpful pitch. 

England have batted atrociously too. 

Now 9-59 after Rankin induces an edge to bat pad or silly mid on. 

I’ve never heard of Stone and Leach  - the last two  batters in the English innings. 

Stone bowled Adair! 

England all out for 85. 

Amazing! 

37 year old Murtagh will be a hero in Ireland. 

Paddy supporters going nuts in my place.  Guinness nowhere near as good as Tassie dark craft beers. 

That's pretty shocking batting by England but Ireland bowled very well. They actually have a couple of good bowlers - Boyd Rankin (played one test match for England) and Tim Murtagh (800 FC wickets) are very experienced county pros who know how to bowl in English conditions. Sadly for Ireland they are both over 35 of age, so they'll only get a couple more years out of them. 

Decentric - Jack Leach is a very handy left arm orthodox bowler. I think he's the best specialist spin bowler in England, however the selectors have been going for the all rounder in Moeen Ali or Adil Rashid. 

I was quite impressed by Rashid's wrist spin in the WC.

I knew Murtagh had played a lot county cricket, but didn't realise he was 37.

I thought Rankin was in English squads in the past .

Pommies rolled by 38 year old journeyman Murtagh in first innings. Back to earth in the second tho. At his generous pace and with little movement he is far less potent. Adair and Rankin gifted the Englishmen far too many four balls. Early days on whether Roy is Test material as he scored at a white ball rate and looked untroubled by the bowling.. unlike the first innings when he was all at sea against the movement.

Murtagh looked  far less potent in the second innings, Baggers.

Roy is an interesting red ball proposition.

Just had a look at some of the highlights - Adair looks like a useful bowler. Murtagh is not quick any more - only bowling about 120kph. But he still bowls in good areas and gets some nibble off the seam. 

If England's top order can't face that, Australia's bowlers will eat them for breakfast. 

I’m always worried about our  fragile batting. 

Ireland lose their first and are now 1-38.

The pitch is still doing a bit, but Ireland have crept to 1-45.

Now Ireland are 2-50.

It looks good compared to England's total ATM.

Current batsman, Balbirnie, only has a FC average of 33. 

Ireland at 2-83 are looking good.

Stirling is scoring quickly - 23 from 25 balls. 

Ireland's batting will always be their downfall against the big sides, it's a bit of a shame they only managed 200 or so, but overall what a great day for them. I don't have much faith in them chasing a second innings total of 150+ even though they do have some handy county batsmen..need to not let England get away early on day 2.

I'm not all confident of Ireland chasing any total over 100!

I've really enjoyed this Test though.

How are you watching? Which network is showing it?
I’ve only got TMS radio & channel 5 UK hilites

Fox Sports 1 or station number 501 in Aus on pay TV, 

Lucky you - only live sport I’ve got right now is Spurs vs Manure friendly in Singapore

You could always move to Aus, TP.

It is probably the country, along with NZ, that is most like the UK anywhere in the world, but with a different climate.

It is an English home away from home!

Tbh I love it there, I have visited every four yrs since 1994 (Ashes tours periods) in December (Japanese winter).
I used to go to the grounds for the Ashes Tests when I was single, now we just go and  take the opportunity to play golf, enjoy travelling and seeing the country in summer etc

Somewhere along the line it became difficult for us poms to get visas (retirement would be ideal) :-(

It was bordering on pitiful seeing Broad get the no look hook treatment from a 37 yr old bowler

It’s meant to be a brutally (for the UK) hot day today so no excuses if England’s chancers fail with the bat in 2nd innings

Bookies still have England as favourites

I thought Broad bowled well devoid of luck. 

Unfortunately I couldn’t watch live the whole time. 

Ireland had little luck bowling today in the first session. 

Every time the ball hit the edge yesterday it flew to an Irish fielder in a catching position.

Just the opposite today.

After Woakes’ clean bowled wicket, Ireland at 3-19, look unlikely to chase down 183. 

Ireland 4-24, as Woakes induces an edge to the slips. 

183 looks impossible for a batting line up with so little Test experience. 

WOakes is getting movement too, as he uses DRS to get an LBW! 

5-24. 

What has happened? 

Is it 7-32? 

I thought Adair hit a six. 

I went to have a slash and he’s gone! 

Woakes has 5 already.

Ireland are 8-36.

After the  first day, the game has changed incredibly.

Broad really swung that one!

Caught in the slips. 

Will Ireland reach 40? 

With this batsman stepping away, he isn’t going to last long! 

England doesn't even look that excited about victory after winning by 143 runs.

 Ireland 38 all out is the lowest score at Lords.

This may set back Irish cricket years. 

They would have been expecting it, I think.

They would probably think the first day was a bonus.

Yes perhaps a touch harsh. Reckon you have said it better than I DC. In one word inexperience.

I reckon they would think they are lucky to be playing international cricket. 

It’s a pity they weren’t given Test status 10-12 yrs back when these oldies were at their peak

Agree wholeheartedly.

Not a bad idea.