Blarney talk

Trent Johnson, the Ireland captain, is delighted with the way that the Pakistani pair, Saqlain Mushtaq and Shahid Afridi, have fitted in to his side this season and has revealed to Line and Length that they have been given their own Irish names by the dressing-room.

"We call them Sean and Seamus," he said. "Sean McMushtaq and, of course, Seamus O'Fridi."