The Irish team are losing their top players to England because they are unable to gain test status, pitting them in elite forms of the game.
The Independant reports that top quick Boyd Rankin is heading across the ditch to play for England Development, a sure sign he will be wearing the English Whites very shortly.
The reason he is heading to play for the poms? He wants to play a higher form of cricket, which Ireland cannot get without playing test match cricket.
It is interesting that players like Rankin, Ed Joyce and Eoin Morgan are leaving Irish cricket to play in a higher grade of cricket, which is also the “dying form” of cricket.
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Couls anyone blame him or other Irish players?