{"id":292663,"date":"2026-02-11T16:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/292663\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T16:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:36:10","slug":"lorcan-tuckers-clarion-call-as-ireland-are-mauled-by-aussies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/292663\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorcan Tucker\u2019s clarion call as Ireland are mauled by Aussies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland's Lorcan Tucker during the ICC T20 World Cup group stage match against Australia at R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Photo: Viraj Kothalawala\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/7d3985cb-7e61-4594-912e-6bb505c6e01e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ireland&#8217;s Lorcan Tucker during the ICC T20 World Cup group stage match against Australia at R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Photo: Viraj Kothalawala\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Lorcan Tucker claimed Ireland must remain \u201ccompetitive and keen\u201d after a 67-run mauling by Australia in Colombo effectively ended their T20 World Cup campaign after just two matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Vice-captain Tucker, who stood in for injured skipper Paul Stirling at the post-match presentations, did his best to sound positive following a second defeat, four days after losing to Sri Lanka, as he insisted: \u201cPlenty of things can still happen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s Lorcan Tucker during the ICC T20 World Cup group stage match against Australia at R Premadasa Stadium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27606,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-292663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-david-townsend","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}