McBrine and Adair dig deep to restore Irish pride and frustrate England | Emma John

Some lusty hitting from Ireland’s lower order lit up Lord’s and made England’s bowlers work hard for their victorySteve Waugh’s Australians travelled to Gallipoli to get them in the right mindset for the 2001 Ashes. We must assume that Ireland made a similarly inspirational visit to St Johns Wood High Street on Saturday morning. The usually chi-chi thoroughfare is currently closed off for roadworks, where a hive of workers occupied in major excavations are manning JCBs an