Bowing out among the big boys

Ireland are still mixing it with the big boys and one man who helped to put them there is their coach Adrien Birrell.

He has just ten days left in his job before he hands over to Phil Simmons. In his five years in the job, Birrell’s noted changes aplenty, as he tells the Sunday Tribune, an Irish newspaper. "It was a bit dispiriting in the beginning. Cricket was never in the press. It was a really low-key affair."