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Mon 04 Apr 2007Ireland get rude awakeningCRICKET:After a week of media engagements and being feted by politicians, Ireland's cricketers came back to earth with a bit of a bump yesterday. Ireland were denied a winning start to their Friends Provident Trophy season by a blistering hundred from Joe Denly, the 21-year-old Kent batsman, who plundered a quickfire total of 102 in 97 balls.It was a match-winning innings containing five sixes and seven fours, with 34 runs coming off the penultimate over of the Kent innings, bowled by off spinner Andrew White.