Live Cricket Score | Ireland vs Afghanistan Live Score & Commentary | IRE vs AFG Scorecard, Afghanistan tour of Ireland

2nd T20I • Civil Service Cricket Club • Belfast

Afghanistan

122/8 (20)

Ireland

125/5 (19)

IRE won by 5 wickets

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Stadium

Civil Service Cricket Club, Stormont, Belfast

Pitch

Batting-friendly track with some help available for spinners.

Type

Balanced Track

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Fantasy Top Picks

Expert Team 1

P Stirling

M Nabi

Expert Team 2

H Tector

U Ghani

Venue Details

Civil Service Cricket Club, Stormont, Belfast

1st Innings

151Avg Runs

6Avg Wkts

2nd Innings

123Avg Runs

8Avg Wkts

Fantasy Tips Exclusive

Mohammad Nabi, a right-handed batsman and right-arm off-break bowler from Afghanistan has smacked 1633 runs and grabbed 77 wickets in his 92 matches T20I career. He is going to be an important player to pick in fantasy teams.

Paul Stirling vs Afghanistan Spinners: Paul Stirling (110M, 2971 runs) struggles a lot against spinners. He has lost his wicket 10 times to spinners in 19 games vs Afghanistan in the shorter format of the game. The star batsman will look to go big in the second affair of the series. In the series opener, he smashed quick 31 runs for Ireland.

The star Irish wicketkeeper batter, Lorcan Tucker (38 M, 595 runs) continued his red-hot form with another match-winning knock in the first match against Afghanistan. He smashed 50 runs off just 31 balls, which is his third fifty in his last five matches.

Ireland and Afghanistan have faced each other in 19 T20Is so far. Out of these 19 games, Ireland has won 5 whereas Afghanistan has come out victorious on 14 occasions.

Hot Picks: M Nabi, H Tector, P Stirling

Risky Picks: U Ghani, Rashid Khan, C Campher

Stay away: S Doheny, S Ashraf

Player of the Match Josh Little

2/18

AFG s

IRE s

Info

Afghanistan s

122/8 (20)

Batters

Rahmanullah Gurbaz

50.00

c BJ McCarthy b MR Adair

Usman Ghani

11.11

b JB Little

Hashmatullah Shahidi

85.71

c A McBrine b G Delany

Ibrahim Zadran

130.77

c A McBrine b C Campher

Najibullah Zadran

100.00

c BJ McCarthy b C Campher

Mohammad Nabi

(C)

100.00

c G Dockrell b G Delany

Azmatullah Omarzai

84.62

c HT Tector b JB Little

Rashid Khan

90.00

c C Campher b MR Adair

Naveen ul Haq

76.92

Not out

Mujeeb Ur Rahman

50.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 11, NB: 1, W: 7)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 6.1)

122/8

Did not Bat

Fazalhaq Farooqi

Bowlers

EXT

4.50

4.00

8.75

4.33

7.00

4.75

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Rahmanullah Gurbaz

c BJ McCarthy b MR Adair

1-6

1.1

Usman Ghani

b JB Little

2-20

2.5

Ibrahim Zadran

c A McBrine b C Campher

3-41

5.6

Najibullah Zadran

c BJ McCarthy b C Campher

4-55

8.2

Mohammad Nabi

c G Dockrell b G Delany

5-69

11.2

Hashmatullah Shahidi

c A McBrine b G Delany

6-99

15.5

Azmatullah Omarzai

c HT Tector b JB Little

7-103

16.3

Rashid Khan

c C Campher b MR Adair

8-117

19.1

Ireland s

125/5 (19)

Batters

Paul Stirling

33.33

b N Haq

Andy Balbirnie

(C)

127.78

c Rahmanullah Gurbaz b MU Rahman

Lorcan Tucker

96.43

c N Zadran b M Nabi

Harry Tector

71.43

c N Zadran b M Nabi

George Dockrell

131.58

Not out

Curtis Campher

100.00

c Rahmanullah Gurbaz b F Farooqi

Gareth Delany *

60.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 1, LB: 5, NB: 0, W: 2)

TOTAL

(19 Ov, RR: 6.58)

125/5

Did not Bat

Andy McBrine, Mark Adair, Josh Little, Barry McCarthy

Bowlers

EXT

4.00

6.75

6.75

7.50

5.75

7.50

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Paul Stirling

b N Haq

1-7

2.2

Andy Balbirnie

c Rahmanullah Gurbaz b MU Rahman

2-72

11.2

Harry Tector

c N Zadran b M Nabi

3-82

13.2

Lorcan Tucker

c N Zadran b M Nabi

4-86

13.5

Curtis Campher

c Rahmanullah Gurbaz b F Farooqi

5-110

16.5

Match Info

Date & Time

11 Aug, 08:00 PM IST

Venue

Civil Service Cricket Club, Stormont, Belfast

Match

2nd T20I,

Afghanistan tour of Ireland

Umpires

Paul Reynolds(Ireland), Paul Reynolds(Ireland),

Referee

Graham McCrea(Ireland)

Pitch Report

Batting-friendly track with some help available for spinners.

Toss

Afghanistan elected to bat

1 1 2 1 4 4lb

Over 16

Runs: 13

1 1 4 1 W 0

Over 17

Runs: 7

2 0 1 1 1 0

Over 18

Runs: 5

1 1 1 1 0 6

Over 19

Runs: 10

All Overs

Player of the Match Josh Little

2/18

Commentary

Last week, Ireland were down and out after getting whitewashed by New Zealand in the ODI's and T20's. They were on a forgettable losing streak, but now, it looks like the tables have turned, as they swept Afghanistan aside in the first two matches. Not long to go for the third encounter as these two teams will battle it out tomorrow once again. We will find out what we have in store tomorrow, but for now, this is Pragadeesh and Pradeep saying goodbye and goodnight

Andrew Balbirine: To lose the toss was good and to keep a side like Afghanistan under 130 was incredible. Bowling in the powerplay is a tough thing to do and the bowlers did an outstanding job. Delany gets better and better and I am happy about it. We were pretty good on the field lately and we want to go from strength to strength. I have great support from the players and we want everyone in form and also help the players who are out of form. We want to gel well as a team and that's important. We will swim for a bit now and think about what's ahead of us tomorrow. Surely we have momentum in the series and we can't afford to slip

Mohammad Nabi: We didn't read the pitch properly. At the start it was seaming and it was hard for the batters to bat. Maybe we were 20-30 runs short in the end. We struggled to build good partnerships. The pitch was seaming a lot and that's why we started with a seam in the powerplay. Yeah, we will try our best and work on the mistakes we did in the batting and comeback strongly tomorrow

Josh Little has been adjudged the Player of the Match!

Josh Little: Go out there and keep my rhythm. I’m sort of go and keep this simple as possible and hopefully swing a couple back along the way. Yeah there's something I was pretty successful at the World Cup and at UAE as well last year so spoke with Scotty there today and I'm just gonna try and go back to always work to do what's worked for me in the past. Always I think if you can just say you know if you get through it's in the power play if 70% chance of winning so and wickets in the power play is always key so yeah we could do that today.

Ireland beat Afghanistan by 5 wickets
Andrew Balbirine 46(36) | Shahidi 36(42)
Mark Adair 2-12(3) | Mohammad Nabi 2-`5(2)

Not scoring enough runs on the board cost Afghanistan in the end. They got the start they wanted as Paul Stirling was removed by Naveen Ul-Haq in the third over but Balbirine and Tucker made sure there weren't any further slip-ups as they stitched together a 65-run partnership for the third wicket.

Balbirine was the aggressor and once again, he made a valuable contribution of 46 runs from 36 balls. Mohammed Nabi removed Tucker and Tector in the same over but Ireland were in firm control of the match from the start, and eventually, Dockrell kept his calm and helped the team to cross the line with minimum fuss

Dockrell seals it in style and Ireland go 2-0 up in the series. Farooqi was looking for the yorker but ended up as a juicy full toss and Dockrell just times this over long-on

overs

125 /5 score

runs

George Dockrell *

25 (19)

Gareth Delany

3 (5)

Fazalhaq Farooqi

1 /27

18.6 Fazalhaq Farooqi to George Dockrell, SIX! IT'S ALL OVER! Dockrell gets Ireland over the line as they go 2-0 up in the series now! Full toss, Dockrell chips it but that goes all the way over long-on for a maximum and that's the end of the game as Afghanistan need to regroup and come back a better side in the third T20I.

18.5 Fazalhaq Farooqi to George Dockrell, completely outfoxes Dockrell there, takes all the pace of it, Dockrell waits for it to get some bat and misses.

18.4 Fazalhaq Farooqi to Gareth Delany, searing yorker, tails into Delany, right up in the blockhole, Delany backs away and carves it to deep covers for another run.

18.3 Fazalhaq Farooqi to George Dockrell, short into Dockrell, he's pulled that one powerfully but straight to deep mid-wicket on the bounce for another single.

18.2 Fazalhaq Farooqi to Gareth Delany, short on the outside off, Delany stood tall to hammer it towards cow corner, the long-on gets around as they get only a single.

This is the third injury delay in this innings. The physio is out in the middle to check Farooqi as he goes down now

18.1 Fazalhaq Farooqi to George Dockrell, OH! Length delivery from around the wicket, Dockrell absolutely thumped it straight back to Farooqi, he's hurt himself in the process of stopping it, bursts through the hands, down the ground for a single.

The batters are trying to milk easy singles on the on-side, so Nabi could bring in the extra fielder and make things difficult

overs

115 /5 score

runs

George Dockrell

17 (15)

Gareth Delany *

1 (3)

Naveen-ul-Haq

1 /12

17.6 Naveen-ul-Haq to Gareth Delany, OH! Short on the outside off, Delany was looking to slap that one away but toe ends it to extra-cover fielder for another dot.

17.5 Naveen-ul-Haq to George Dockrell, change of pace, slants the back of a length into Dockrell, tucks it to deep square-leg for just a single.

17.4 Naveen-ul-Haq to Gareth Delany, back of a length, tails into Delany on the off-stump, on the backfoot he taps it to covers for a quick single.

17.3 Naveen-ul-Haq to George Dockrell, short on the outside off, Dockrell makes roo much room and toe ends it down to mid-off, there was a wayward throw and wide of the keeper as well as they pick up a single.