International recognition for the women’s national cricket team of Ireland came very slowly. With years of history depicting resilience, talent, and a high level of determination, the women’s national cricket team of Ireland has now made something remarkable that is achieved today, making it one of the most successful sides in recent times after it went through many ups and downs while facing some of the world’s finest. We will look closer in this blog about the top 5 achievements defining them as success and growth in this world of their sport.
1. Historic First ICC Women’s World Cup Qualification 2014
The most memorable victory of the Ireland Women’s National Cricket Team is that in the year 2014 they managed to qualify well enough to play in the ICC Women’s World Cup. This indeed is an excellent milestone for them since this is the first qualification of its kind that will feature in the history of women playing in the greatest tournament on earth.
This indeed is no cakewalk journey. Qualification to Ireland was through the ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifier, which meant facing some of the best women from all around the world in order to bring out every last ounce of skills and determination that qualified them to be among the contenders of a slot for the 2014 ICC Women’s World Cup scheduled in India. Indeed, qualifying to get into the group stage only was a monumental achievement as it represented all the emerging strength and talent within Ireland’s women national cricket team.
2. Win in the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 Qualifier 2013
The Ireland Women’s National Cricket Team has been victorious over all to emerge victorious in 2013 by winning the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 Qualifier-their second major title. To date, that remains their maiden title in an international tournament like a world cup, thus, giving them both much-needed confidence and much-needed stature boost.
The next was the 2013 ICC Women’s World Twenty20 Qualifier towards the qualification for the 2014 ICC Women’s World Twenty20, to be held in Bangladesh. The team proved terrific team spirit and perseverance at every stage of the tournament, winning against very strong teams in crucial matches. It was very much a team’s victory, but the growing strength of women’s cricket in Ireland too.
3. Amazing Performances at ICC Women’s Championship (2016-2017)
Irish Women National Cricket Team is one of that teams which always deserves to be observed in the time of ICC Women’s Championship. There was nothing less than expectation in the session of 2016-2017 as all the performances have been of extra ordinary with rich skills and sportsman spirit competing against the toughest teams of this world like England, Australia, and New Zealand.
Though they could not complete the season at the top of the table, this top league saw them play pretty well. Stars like their captain and other top bowlers have given performances which have helped them get a few vital wins for Ireland. The experience earned from playing in the ICC Women’s Championship is indeed priceless and will help the team get a much better understanding of the competitive nature of international cricket.
4. Winning the Full Members in ODI (2017)
In 2017, the team won with a big victory. This was the first time they were able to beat one of the full member teams in an ODI. It was when they defeated the West Indies Women’s Cricket Team in the ODI series. The reason is that a top team in women’s international cricket was defeated for the first time by the team.
This is an important reason. It was the first win for Ireland from the Full Member side in the history of cricketing, in the format of Women’s ODI, that testified them with skills in the international playing stages. The win has been highly boosting their confidence to a great extent, and at the same time, the overall success also makes the whole team feel confident about their complete performance. Further recognition is on the rise among cricket circles. This was, in fact an achievement of a side which was indeed outstanding but spoke much about the strength of the side that was growing in women’s cricket.
5. Consolidation of Positions in International Rankings and Growing Acceptability at Home
While Irireland Women’s National Cricket Team is slowly emerging step by step with the improvement in ICC Women’s ODI rankings, not really a great performance but a good enough one that the team has been coming at diverse international and bilateral series competitions where it got the pace in turn out slowly in form of good one. Now, this Ireland Women’s National Cricket Team is going slow in pace where the following comes inside home turf that increases day by day.
Of course, all the difference it has made has been from the Women’s Super Series, which became Ireland’s first domestic women’s competition. These young and talented players can show off their skills, and this is how they could help the national team in search of new faces for its roster. Cricketing has become pretty professional on a domestic front, and the team performs accordingly at international levels.
Improvements in that form, such as better media coverage and sponsorship deals towards women’s game recognition and finances contributed to such improvements. It was this which enabled the Ireland Women’s National Cricket Team to gain more support and then access the necessary tools and training centers, development for the game.
Many brilliant performances recently came from the Ireland Women’s National Cricket Team. The amount of growth and resilience of this team since they qualified to the 2014 ICC Women’s World Cup for great successes over Full Member teams, their constant progression into international competition as well as home cricket promises great hope for this team. This team inspires the young cricketers from Ireland and the world at large by showing one that if they try hard and work hard, putting in all their time, and being good, they could also be like them.
The performances of the national women’s team are wonderful, since further preparation in these newer challenges facing them will make their task successful, in turn making next year ahead to them also with good performances, in turn succeeding in their careers.
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