- BATSMENRB4s6sSR12.2 full, on middle, and he looks to clear the bowler, but sliced in the air. Rashid calls for the catch and runs backwards to take the catch. Stirling was looking dangerous here... 111/26 and Mujeeb gets the last laugh! Ireland lose O'Brien at the end of the powerplay. This was full on leg, and he misses the sweep, beaten by the quicker ball. The delivery just clips the outside of leg stump and the big man is out bowled 63/114.5 chopped on! Good length, outside off, and the attempted cut takes an inside edge and pegs off stump back 127/317.3 top of middle! Good length, angling in, and he makes room to slog over deep midwicket. Ball stays low, goes under his bat, and brings Delany's innings to a close 147/418.2 he redeems himself! Full, outside off, and goes for the sweep again. Top-edged once more, but this time Mujeeb slides in sharply to take a low catch 152/519.1 full, on leg stump, and clipped to deep midwicket. They want the second, but the throw is flat, and it looks like the batsmen at the keeper's end is short. The slide from Singh was good, and the bat is inside the crease, but it's in the air and therefore not grounded 161/6Extras2 (lb 1, w 1)TOTAL172/6 (20 Overs, RR: 8.6)Fall of wickets: 1-63 (Kevin O'Brien, 5.6 ov), 2-111 (Paul Stirling, 12.2 ov), 3-127 (Andy Balbirnie, 14.5 ov), 4-147 (Gareth Delany, 17.3 ov), 5-152 (Lorcan Tucker, 18.2 ov), 6-161 (Simi Singh, 19.1 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB Mujeeb Ur Rahman 4 0 49 1 12.25 0 0 Shapoor Zadran 4 0 39 1 9.75 0 0 Gulbadin Naib 3 0 19 0 6.33 1 0 Karim Janat 4 0 28 0 7.00 0 0 Rashid Khan 4 0 22 3 5.50 0 0 Mohammad Nabi 1 0 14 0 14.00 0 0
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- BATSMENRB4s6sSR5 bowled him! The ball stayed low as Zazai tried to cut, but a bottom edge took his off-stump as Singh gets both openers in the same over 55/24.3 and given! He attempted sweep again but missed the fuller ball this time which would have hit middle stump. Ireland get their first breakthrough. 54/17.4 is it a run out again? There was confusion among the batsmen for the second run and he is clearly short of his crease. Quick work from the keeper for taking the throw from deep backward square 70/45.3 is that a run out? Yes, he's gone! Simi Singh's direct hit from square leg accounts for the Afghanistan captain Afghan. It was touch and go, with Singh sending back another batsman 55/315 middle stump pegged back! It was full on off as he went for the pull but the ball took the bottom edge to send him back 133/5Extras6 (lb 3, w 3)TOTAL133/5 (15 Overs, RR: 8.86)Fall of wickets: 1-54 (Rahmanullah Gurbaz, 4.3 ov), 2-55 (Hazratullah Zazai, 4.6 ov), 3-55 (Asghar Afghan, 5.3 ov), 4-70 (Karim Janat, 7.4 ov), 5-133 (Samiullah Shinwari, 14.6 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB Simi Singh 3 0 18 2 6.00 0 0 WB Rankin 4 0 44 1 11.00 1 0 JB Little 2 0 15 0 7.50 0 0 CA Young 2 0 12 0 6.00 1 0 GH Dockrell 2 0 22 0 11.00 0 0 GJ Delany 2 0 19 0 9.50 1 0
Match Details
Series
Toss
Ireland , elected to bat first
Player Of The Match
Series result
Afghanistan led the 3-match series 1-0
Match number
Season
Hours of play (local time)
14.00 start, First Session 14.00-15.30, Interval 15.30-15.50, Second Session 15.50-17.20
Match days
06 March 2020 (20-over match)
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Match Coverage
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Afghanistan's win was their seventh straight T20I victory over Ireland in India