Features FeaturesRSS FeedFeeds  Part two  What more are Ireland
supposed to do?  They have shown the ambition, drive and talent
needed to earn Test status. But does the ICC have the vision to
make it happen?  Jarrod Kimber  September 14, 2013  Comments: 50
| Text size: A | A  In part one, read how cricket in Ireland,
played since the 18th century, fell out of favour and then
fought its way back  Clare Shillington was dismissed for 9,
Australia v Ireland, women's World Cup, Christchurch, December
3, 2000 By 2000, Ireland's women's team was playing its fourth
World Cup © Getty Images  At Malahide the crowd was alarmingly
not drunk. There was a lack of beer snakes and men running
around in costumes behaving like morons. No one seemed to be
thrown out. And attractive women weren't whistled at every time
they moved. Had it been an ODI at a ground in Australia or
England, some of those things would have happened.  This was
different. This was a group of intelligent fans who were there
for the cricket, not the day o