Hitting hundred or playing rugby: Ireland's T20I hero Ross Adair reveals pick

Ireland's Ross Adair has picked scoring a hundred in cricket over playing rugby after his heroics with the bat in the second T20I against South Africa on September 29, Sunday.

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