Cricket Ireland's Chair of National Men's Selectors Andrew White talks about the significance of Stormont Test match
Cricket Ireland's Chair of National Men's Selectors Andrew White talks about the significance of Stormont Test match
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00:00What's the significance of today and how much it means to you?
00:03I think for everybody involved in Irish cricket it's obviously a huge day.
00:07Specifically in the NCU, I suppose you think of all those people, the volunteers down through the years who have put in so much time and effort
00:16in bringing the players through and getting the game to where it is nowadays.
00:21It's a magnificent day all around.
00:24A lot of work has gone into getting this moment hasn't it?
00:27Yeah, I suppose as somebody who came through the transition from the amateur game into the professional game,
00:34the work behind the scenes, the belief, going back 15-20 years, the belief to believe that we could someday play test cricket.
00:44It started with Eddie Burrell, the players jumped on the back of his every word.
00:49There were significant wins along the way, you do start to believe.
00:54We felt invincible for a period of time in associate cricket.
00:58It's all culminated both on and off the field with today.
01:02Has this been a dream of yours for a while, this sort of rain test cricket here?
01:05Yeah, when I arrived this morning I thought to myself this is a day I'd love to be out there.
01:10But pleased to have played a small part in the journey and delighted to see the boys out there in whites.
01:17It's a massive opportunity for them as well isn't it? One they can really seize over the next five days.
01:21Having had our first victory in test cricket away against Afghanistan, to back it up with a win here would be an outstanding achievement.
01:30It's going to take five days of hard work and given the fact that they're 45 for none, we're going to have to dig deep here over the next few days.