{"id":346591,"date":"2026-06-06T14:56:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T09:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=346591"},"modified":"2026-06-06T14:56:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T09:26:37","slug":"recent-zealand-dominate-ireland-as-test-cricket-returns-to-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/recent-zealand-dominate-ireland-as-test-cricket-returns-to-belfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Zealand dominate Ireland as Test cricket returns to Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>By Roger McCann<\/p>\n<p>May 27-29, Civil Service Cricket Club, Stormont, Belfast<\/p>\n<p>Recent Zealand 490-8 dec (Blundell 186, Ravindra 121, Adair 3-66, Wilson 1-89, Tector 1-33)<\/p>\n<p>Ireland 179 (McBrine 73*, Adair 40, Smith 6-40, Sears 2-27) &#038; 232 (Doheny 57, Tucker 50, Tickner 5-76, Smith 2-53)<br \/>Recent Zealand won by an innings and 79 runs<br \/>Toss: Ireland won the toss and decided to field<br \/>Officials: Alex Wharf, Rod Tucker, Roly Black, Andy Pycroft, Aidan Seaver<br \/>Barbecue weather in Belfast! All cricket discourse in Ireland has to incorporate fatalistic predictions of the skies.<br \/>With Test matches sprinkled so li&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Roger McCann May 27-29, Civil Service Cricket Club, Stormont, Belfast Recent Zealand 490-8 dec (Blundell 186, Ravindra 121, Adair 3-66, Wilson 1-89, Tector 1-33) Ireland 179 (McBrine 73*, Adair 40, Smith 6-40, Sears 2-27) &#038; 232 (Doheny 57, Tucker 50, Tickner 5-76, Smith 2-53)Recent Zealand won by an innings and 79 runsToss: Ireland won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":346592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20675],"tags":[14326,5624,4830,9568,548,4344,3587],"class_list":["post-346591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-belfast","tag-cricket","tag-dominate","tag-ireland","tag-returns","tag-test","tag-zealand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346594,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346591\/revisions\/346594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}