EXTRACTS FROM THE DAILY NEWSPAPERS 26TH AUGUST 2011

Belfast News Letter (Peter Dunbar) 

Headline: England Trott Out a Victory   Extract: Porterfield would have liked to get rid of his childhood team-mate Morgan cheaply but accepts his failures are less frequent now than his successes. Dunbar quotes from Porterfield "But then Kevin was in and he got the spinners off fairly quickly. Another few overs of him and it would have been over fairly quickly."

Belfast Telegraph (Ian Callender)

Headline: Eoin savours special win on home soil   Extract: With a bit more conviction Mooney could have hit another six but he just held back enought in his attempt to clear long-off and Ben Stokes, one of three England debutants , coolly held the catch which effectively won the match.

The Irish Times (Emmet Riordan)

Headline: Irish expectations are dampened as England and Morgan shine at Clontarf   Extract: Disappointment then for Phil Simmons's men but at least one Irishman ended up with a smile on his face as Eoin Morgan collected the RSA Challenge Trophy and the man of the match award for his earlier knock of 59 that added the spark of momentum his side needed following a padestrian start as they eventually made 201 for 8 off their 42-over allotment.

Irish Independent (David Townsend)

Headline: Captain Morgan proves too strong    Extract: Like the clash with Australia last season, the game was there for the taking, perhaps more so as England awarded three new caps, with only Jonathan Trott surviving from the defeat by Ireland in Bangalore.

Irish Daily Mail (Jonathan Coates)

Headline: Washed Away - Rain no help as Ireland see English cream rise    Extract: The players were on, then were off, the day was dismal and then delightful, there was beautiful and ugly cricket and another fireworks display from Kevin O'Brien. But England won this Duckworth.Lewis dispute with a degree of comfort in the end.

The Times (Richard Hobson)

Headline: Morgan bats away boo-boys before England hold their nerve in tense finale    Extract: None of the three players making their debuts - James Taylor, Ben Stokes and Scott Bortwick - made a strong first impression after being presented with their caps by Sir Ian Botham. Jade Dernbach confirmed his ability as a death bowler, but the debate over Jonathan Trott will remain polarised by an innings of 69 from 105 balls.

The Daily Telegraph (Derek Pringle)

Headline: Morgan leads England to soggy sort of revenge     Extract: A messy game in Clontarf, which saw Ireland requiring 129 off 23 overs after England had batted first and made 201 for eight from 42 overs, was hardly a worthy stage for avenging their defeat in the last World Cup. The home side falling 11 runs short off their alloted overs would hardly have assuaged that pain.

The Independent (Stephen Brenkley)

Headline: Morgan's trip home ends in victory without much honour    Extract: Trott never takes the game by the scruff and never looks concerned by it, a virtue to a limited extent. He makes the others play round him. If ever he was going to hit a six in ODI cricket this was the match, for the boundaries at Clontarf are small. But he did not and never looked loke doing so.

Daily Mail (Paul Newman)

Headline: Dernbach denies Ireland on happy return for Eoin    Extract: The ghost of World Cup failures past almost came back to haunt England yesterday but they were able to make a hurried exit from Dublin relieved to have avoided another defeat by Ireland. The Irish were privately upset that England brought a near second team here to Clontarf for this biennial one-day international and the sense that the visitors were not exactly taking it seriously was enhanced by their decision to fly home straight after the game.

Daily Express (Gideon Brooks)

Headline: Morgan leads from the front    Extract: England's decision to rest some of their big names was entirely understandable. The one to rest captain Cook, only five matches into his tenure, less so. However what upset the Irish was less team selection issues and more England's apparent desire to spend as little time here as possible. It led to the decision to make certain the match finished by 6pm to ensure they made their plane home at nine. Given that they only come here once every two years, you would have thought England might have at least stayed overnight - if only for the goodwill it would have created.

Daily Mirror (Dean Wilson)

Headline: Blarney Bubble - Irish hopes burst as local hero Morgan leads the English to revenge win between Dublin showers      Extract: England left Dublin last night after managing to do what they could not do in the World Cup - beat Ireland. It was the men with the most international experience who made the difference as skipper Eoin Morgan, Jonathan Trott, Samit Patel and Jade Dernbach all shone on a gloomy rain-ravaged day.

The Sun (John Etheridge)

Headline: Jon's OK at Half Trott'll     Extract: And Morgan received a warm welcome from the locals, although some believed his appointment as captain for this one-off match was provocative. Many involved in Irish cricket were unhappy England sent a second-string side and flew out immediately after the game. It wasn't great public relations, although Taylor and Craig Kieswetter are involved in tomorrow's Twenty20 Finals day.