Aiming For Test Status
In January 2012 Cricket Ireland chief executive Warren Deutrom made the bold declaration that Ireland will be playing Test cricket by 2020. Their desire to reach Test status is in part to stem the tide of Irish players using residency rules to switch to playing for England in order to play at full international Test match level. Warren Deutrom outlined the ambition as he unveiled the new strategic plan for Irish cricket to 2015. The plan sets out a series of stretching goals including increasing the number of participants in the game to 50,000, setting a target of reaching 8th in the World rankings, establish a domestic first-class cricket structure and reinforcing cricket as the 4th major team sport in Ireland.
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