- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR31.5 now Shahzad looks to go over the bowler's head, it was tossed up a bit, Shahzad was shuffling in his crease, never a stable base but looks to go for a six. Doesn't middle it though, O'Brien takes a couple of steps to his left at long-on and grabs another one 176/33.1 full and holds its line outside off, Noor Ali aims to clear mid-on. No dice. He can only chip it to the fielder on the edge of the circle 25/131.1 caught at long-on. Use of feet by Rahmat Shah, reaches to the pitch of the ball and goes aerial but fails to clear Kevin O'Brien. An easy catch there for the allrounder 175/237.4 another batsman perishes while looking to clear long-on. Length ball around off, Asghar comes down the track and goes aerial. An easy catch for McBrine there 204/440.3 Top-edged to short midwicket! Rankin runs in hard and hits the pitch harder. He rushes Naib into a hook. He skies it and it drops into the hands of a tumbling Stirling 212/550 pitched up and outside off, dragged away in the air but holes out to wide long-on 305/7Extras13 (lb 5, nb 1, w 7)TOTAL305/7 (50 Overs, RR: 6.1)Fall of wickets: 1-25 (Noor Ali Zadran, 3.1 ov), 2-175 (Rahmat Shah, 31.1 ov), 3-176 (Mohammad Shahzad, 31.5 ov), 4-204 (Asghar Afghan, 37.4 ov), 5-212 (Gulbadin Naib, 40.3 ov), 6-298 (Hashmatullah Shahidi, 49.2 ov), 7-305 (Rashid Khan, 49.6 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB TJ Murtagh 10 0 74 0 7.40 2 0 MR Adair 10 1 71 3 7.10 2 1 BJ McCarthy 4.3 0 34 0 7.55 1 0 WB Rankin 10 1 54 1 5.40 1 0 AR McBrine 10 1 43 2 4.30 1 0 KJ O'Brien 2.3 0 11 0 4.40 0 0 PR Stirling 3 0 13 1 4.33 0 0
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR17.5 dug in short and outside off, Stirling aims for the pull and picks out Rashid Khan at deep square leg. Straight into the lap of the outfielder 84/36.4 and he does go for the big shot but fails to middle it, ends up lobbing it to mid-off where Naib takes an easy catch. Was a length ball around off but the dot-ball pressure worked in the bowler's favour 29/116 on a length and on a sixth-stump line outside off, not quite full enough for a drive. Balbirnie still goes for the strike and sends a thin edge behind to the keeper to leave Ireland two down 77/226.1 another bouncer and this time it does the trick. Porterfield pulls it in the air, makes a fine connection but Rahmat Shah runs to his right and takes a good catch, it was hit firmly 117/521.5 Asghar Afghan takes a tumbling catch to his right. Short of length outside off and O'Brien pulls it off the front foot but fails to keep it down and Asghar takes a neat catch 102/441.2 and that's the sixth wicket for Naib. A slower one around off, swipes it across but cannot clear Rashid at midwicket 179/1027.2 length outside off, McBrine plays back, gets an inside edge towards short fine leg, looks for a single but he's struggling there, Rashid collects the ball in front of the stumps and dislodges the bails to find the batsman short 119/637.3 slower one on the stumps, looks to work on the leg side and misses. An appeal for lbw and given 163/838 and that's fifer for Naib. Fuller around off, looks to go aerial but cannot clear mid-off, Asghar Afghan pedals back completes the catch 163/9Extras13 (lb 4, w 9)TOTAL179 all out (41.2 Overs, RR: 4.33)Fall of wickets: 1-29 (James McCollum, 6.4 ov), 2-77 (Andy Balbirnie, 15.6 ov), 3-84 (Paul Stirling, 17.5 ov), 4-102 (Kevin O'Brien, 21.5 ov), 5-117 (William Porterfield, 26.1 ov), 6-119 (Andy McBrine, 27.2 ov), 7-138 (Mark Adair, 31.2 ov), 8-163 (Barry McCarthy, 37.3 ov), 9-163 (Tim Murtagh, 37.6 ov), 10-179 (Gary Wilson, 41.2 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB Dawlat Zadran 7 0 35 1 5.00 2 0 Mujeeb Ur Rahman 5 1 27 0 5.40 1 0 Aftab Alam 7 0 27 1 3.85 2 0 Gulbadin Naib 9.2 0 43 6 4.60 1 0 Rashid Khan 9 0 31 0 3.44 0 0 Rahmat Shah 4 0 12 1 3.00 2 0
Match Details
Toss
Ireland , elected to field first
Player Of The Series
Series result
2-match series drawn 1-1
Match number
Season
Hours of play (local time)
10.45 start, First Session 10.45-14.15 Interval 14.15-15.00, Second Session 15.00-18.30
Match days
21 May 2019 (50-over match)
Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Match Notes
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1-10.0 (56 runs, 1 wicket)
- MOhammad Shahzad 50 off 40 balls (9x4)
- Rahmat Shah 50 off 78 balls (6x4, 1x6)
- Mohammad Shahzad 100 off 85 balls (16x4)
- Powerplay 2: Overs 10.1-40.0 (156 runs, 3 wickets)
- Najibullah Zadran 50 off 30 balls (7x4, 2x6)
- Powerplay 3: Overs 40.1-50.0 (93 runs, 2 wickets)
- Ireland Innings
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1-10.0 (47 runs, 1 wicket)
- PR Stirling 50 off 55 balls (4x4, 2x6)
- Powerplay 2: Overs 10.1-40.0 (127 runs, 8 wickets)
- Powerplay 3: Overs 40.1 - 41.2 (5 runs, 1 wicket)
Match Coverage
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