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NEW ZEALAND 179/4 (20 OVERS)
- Dane Cleaver*78 (55)
- Finn Allen35 (20)
- Craig Young2/34 (4)
- Josh Little2/31 (4)
IRELAND 91 (13.5 OVERS)
- Paul Stirling21 (15)
- Mark Adair27 (22)
- Michael Bracewell3/5 (0.5)
- Ish Sodhi3/21 (3)
Scorer: @Thilak_Rama | Commentator: @PeterDellaPenna
6.52 pm A sorry effort from Ireland. The visitors nearly double them up in the end. It means that New Zealand has taken the series with a match to spare. Cleaver sets up the win with a half-century, Sodhi wipes out the middle order before Bracewell's extraordinary tour of Ireland continues now with a hat-trick after his heroics in the ODIs.
Player of the Match is Dane Cleaver: "Pretty special day and obviously contributing to a good win for the country, pretty happy. The wicket offered a little bit of variation so it probably wasn't my most fluent innings but you try to stick to your options so it paid off. Very special to have my family here. It's a beautiful island and they're enjoying it. Wanted nothing more than playing for my country with my entire life so it's great to contribute to a win."
Ireland captain Andy Balbirnie: "Sometimes you can have days like that with the bat. When you're 50-odd for 7 chasing 170, you're never really in the game. [The pitch] played similar throughout the whole game so we as batters have to take responsibility that this isn't good enough in international cricket. We've got one more crack at them and we'll see how we go."
New Zealand captain Mitchell Santner: "The wicket looked a little better in the first innings but it was a bit up and down. The way Dane paced that innings was good and then our bowlers did well. There's not a lot that [Bracewell] can't do at the moment so I thought I'd get him in there. We're pretty happy with the win today."
That's it for today's coverage. Come back on Friday for the final match in this T20I series. On behalf of Sreshth Shah, I'm Peter Della Penna. Take care!
CA Young c Sodhi b Bracewell 0 (2m 1b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00
Slip comes into place for the hat-trick ball to be faced by Young.
BJ McCarthy c Phillips b Bracewell 11 (17m 8b 2x4 0x6) SR: 137.50
MR Adair c Phillips b Bracewell 27 (22m 22b 4x4 1x6) SR: 122.72
Bracewell enters around the stumps for his offspin.
END OF OVER:13 | 10 Runs | IRE: 86/7 (94 runs required from 42 balls, RR: 6.61, RRR: 13.42)
- Mark Adair27 (21b)
- Barry McCarthy6 (5b)
- James Neesham1-0-10-0
- Ish Sodhi3-0-21-3
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