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Article: Birrell tactics achieve result.(Sport)
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- The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- May 22, 2006
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Byline: IAN CALLENDER REPORTS
IRELAND stumbled over the winning line against Namibia but, in spite of being held up for more than half the available time by rain or a wet outfield, they achieved their objective and joined Scotland at the top of the Inter-Continental Cup group table.
The four-day game between the teams, starting in Aberdeen on August 17, already looks like a winner-take-all with the prize an almost certain place in the final next year.
It didn't matter how they did it but Ireland's only target at Clontarf was to match Scotland's ...