{"id":146920,"date":"2025-09-19T07:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T07:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/146920\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T07:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T07:02:07","slug":"ireland-v-england-t20i-series-craig-young-back-in-action-after-long-road-to-recovery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/146920\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland v England T20I series: Craig Young back in action after &#8216;long road to recovery&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Young believes Ireland can overcome England on Friday if they can replicate their batting display in the first encounter between the teams and perform well with the ball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t think conditions played a massive part [on Wednesday] &#8211; the wicket was on the slower side, but we are familiar with that,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There wasn&#8217;t much nip or swing for us, but hopefully there&#8217;s still a bit in the track for Friday to help particularly our seamers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We all know how good England are, but we will back ourselves. Our batters were brilliant on Wednesday, and hopefully they can come again and we as bowlers back them up and we can get out on the right side of a result.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Young revealed that he &#8220;didn&#8217;t look at the scoreboard&#8221; when he was introduced to the home side&#8217;s attack as their fourth bowler with England sitting at 52-0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I just wanted to get started and into my work,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We knew they would come out swinging at everything &#8211; and they did, and did it well. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We had our plans, and I felt we stuck to them as best we could, but it was a challenge, that&#8217;s for sure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The right-handed bowler is Ireland&#8217;s second-highest wicket-taker in T20Is and says he in enamored with the format.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;T20 cricket has possibly grown to be my favourite format. I love Test cricket &#8211; when it comes along there is a huge spike in workload to try and get the overs under the belt, but nothing apart from playing can get you used to a day in the field and bowling in spells,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t say I particularly enjoyed T20 at the start of my career, but when Gary Wilson became captain he really supported me and gave me a good run &#8211; and, in particular, I felt he backed me and gave me confidence in that he wanted me and needed me in the team. I never really looked back after that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;With T20Is, for me it really comes down to trying to keep it simple and understanding &#8216;the nature of the beast&#8217;. Some days you can bowl well and get no wickets, and vice versa, but it&#8217;s just about trying to be consistent and embracing it all.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Young believes Ireland can overcome England on Friday if they can replicate their batting display in the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-146920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}