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may be more of the clash of the ash man than willow against leather, but Ned Quinn (left) was going down a treat outside Malahide as punters trooped though the turnstile for Friday’s sold-out T20 clash with India. ‘Hurry up, lads,’ we overheard a punter in an ill-fitting Meath jersey, ‘I can’t stay out here much longer because the animosity is killing me.’

You had to be there…