Wilson wants the luck of the Irish to rub off at the Oval

By sosborn bysimon osborn simon.osborn@essnmedia.co.uk

Gary Wilson hopes to take his success with the Irish national side in the Twenty20 World Cup back with him into the Surrey dressing room.

The 23-year-old wicket-keeper was an instrumental part of the Ireland side who qualified for the Super Eights of the tournament - the same stage England and India crashed out.

And Wilson hopes the experience of playing in a major tournament will help him establish himself in the Brown Caps line up.

He said: "It was a brilliant experience especially when we got into the Super Eights.

"We went into the tournament thinking we had a chance against Bangladesh and thanks to two great innings by the O'Brien brothers chased down their total.

"We wanted to beat another Test side in the Super Eights but it didn't quite happen for us. The positive thing though was that we competed in every game.

"Our bowling and fielding were good enough but we just lacked a bit of batting."

Wilson has broken into the Surrey side in both forms of limited overs cricket, but he admits the Brown Caps face a tough time qualifying for the knockout stages of the Twenty20 Cup after a poor run of results.

"Every time our backs have been against the wall this season we have come out and done ok," he added.

"All we can do is take one game at a time and see where it gets us. Against Sussex we simply didn't get enough runs and it is hard to defend totals like that."

However, Wilson's desire to become a mainstay in the Surrey line-up have been thrown into doubt after the club put an official 28 day approach for Worcestershire's highly rated young keeper Steven Davies.

Worcestershire chief executive Mark Newton admitted the club face a battle to keep the player.

"We have made an offer which was accepted in principle by his agent. We have met exactly the terms he wants but Steven wants to keep his options open," said Newton.