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Fri 08 Aug 2009Ireland just fall short as England gets a scare
CRICKET ONE-DAY INTERNATIONAL:IT WAS almost Ashes to ashes, flush to bust for England in Belfast yesterday as Ireland got within a whisker of pulling off a dramatic victory in the RSA Challenge One-Day International.
In the end it will go down in the record books as a three-run victory to Paul Collingwood’s side, but that tells you little of the drama that unfolded on a day when the four seasons came into play.
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