Cricket Ireland have always shown to be ambitious with their approach to the game. So with the announcement today about their plans for the future which includes their goal of gaining test status by 2020.

The saying 'nothing lasts forever' is so in keeping with sport with the hysterical Indian fans facing that very reality with the end being nigh for their legendary batsmen. Impossible for them to fathom and accept, but the truth of the matter is no one is irreplaceable in Life. 

Zimbabwe might be paying $10 at New Zealand's TAB to win the one-off Test starting at Napier on Thursday (local time), but captain Brendan Taylor must fancy his team as better than that, and his namesake and rival Ross Taylor will be aware that his eighth-ranked New Zealand barely scraped a win at Bulawayo in the previous encounter between the two sides.

Been thinking about this for sometime now. Luckily Colm has something similar in his mind...

Believe it or not, Shane Watson is 30 years old. Yes, it surprised me too. For a man used to spend as much time on the physio’s table than the padding on it, now mixes up time in front of the mirror to being Australia’s vice captain, and is now Australia’s most valuable player.