Coach http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Philip-Verant-Simmons-c82175 urges Ireland team to prove its worth in ICC World Cup 2015
Enormously delighted over International Cricket Council’s (ICC) decision to include associate teams in the World Cup 2015, the Ireland cricket coach, Phil Simmons, has asked his players to work even harder and justify their place in the next mega event.
In the ICC Chief Executives meeting in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 finally accepted their demand and announced
a new World Cup format, to include 14 teams.
However, the committee reduced the number of teams in the next two World Twenty20s from 16 to 12.
Apart from ten full members, four minnows will be able to make their way into the World Cup after playing a qualifying round.
The Irishmen performed outstandingly in the last two World Cups but failed to qualify for the second round. After the Irish side hurled http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 out of the 2007 World Cup by beating them convincingly, they continued the good work in the recent ICC World
Cup 2011, notching up a comprehensive victory over http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013.
Although, the whole Irish nation is jubilant over ICC’s decision, the coach has urged his players to pull up their socks up and be ready to perform even better show in the next competition in 2015.
"That means reaching semi-finals and finals, not just the occasional shock. We've got to take our cricket to the next level and show we belong as a right at these global events", said Simmons.
Expressing complete satisfaction over his team’s improvement in the recent years, the former West Indian aimed to make Ireland one of the toughest sides in the world.
"We put so http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gordon-Muchall-c1499 of that down to the success at a World Cup because for the very first time, rather than looking overseas to have heroes, we think your average Irish cricket fan can now look to Irishmen as cricketing heroes - and that is a massive seismic
shift. If we were to remove the World Cup we would remove all of that potential", added the 48-year old former cricketer, who served http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 in 26 Tests and 143 ODIs.
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