Ireland vs Afghanistan 2024: Afghanistan vs Ireland Match Preview, Ireland vs Afghanistan 2024

3rd ODI • Sharjah Cricket Stadium • Sharjah

Afghanistan

236/9 (50)

Ireland

119 (35)

AFG won by 117 runs

Info

Fantasy

Live

Scorecard

Stats

Playing XI

Date & Time

12 Mar, 05:00 PM IST

Venue

Sharjah Cricket Stadium

Match

3rd ODI,

Ireland vs Afghanistan 2024

Schedule

Stats

Umpires

Ahmed Shah Pakteen (Afghanistan), Paul Reiffel (Australia), Bismillah Jan Shinwari (Afghanistan, TV)

Referee

David Boon (Australia)

Toss

Ireland elected to bowl

Pitch Report

PitchGreen Pitch

Pace BowlingPace & Bounce

Batting ConditionAverage

Spin BowlingAverage

1st Innings

228Avg Runs

8Avg Wkts

80.84Avg SR

2nd Innings

188Avg Runs

7Avg Wkts

80.8Avg SR

Playing XILineups Out

Head To Head (Last 10 Matches)

AFG

6- 3

IRE

Team Form (Recent 5 Matches, Latest First)

Afghanistan

Ireland

Players to Watch

Top Batters

Harry Tector

IRE . BAT

138 Runs

1 Match

Rahmanullah Gurbaz

AFG . WK

121 Runs

1 Match

Lorcan Tucker

IRE . WK

85 Runs

1 Match

Top Bowlers

Fazalhaq Farooqi

AFG . BOWL

4 Wkts

1 Match

Theo van Woerkom

IRE . BOWL

3 Wkts

1 Match

Azmatullah Omarzai

AFG . ALL

2 Wkts

1 Match

Playing XILineups Out

Fantasy Top Picks

Expert Team 1

A Omarzai

H Tector

Expert Team 2

R Gurbaz

F Farooqi

Venue Details

Sharjah Cricket Stadium

PitchGreen Pitch

Pace BowlingPace & Bounce

Batting ConditionAverage

Spin BowlingAverage

1st Innings

228Avg Runs

8Avg Wkts

80.84Avg SR

2nd Innings

188Avg Runs

7Avg Wkts

80.8Avg SR

Toss winners opt to

72%Bat First Bowl First15%

Team Batting First

51%Wins Losses49%

Recent Matches on venue

1st ODI • Mar 7 • Afghanistan vs Ireland in UAE

AFG 310/5 (50)

IRE 275/8 (50)

AFG won by 35 runs

vs live score

5th ODI • Feb 19 • Afghanistan tour of United Arab Emirates

AFG 241/9 (50)

ZIM 95/10 (32.1)

AFG won by 146 runs

4th ODI • Feb 16 • Afghanistan tour of United Arab Emirates

AFG 135/0 (21.1)

ZIM 134/10 (38)

AFG won by 10 wickets

3rd ODI • Feb 13 • Afghanistan tour of United Arab Emirates

AFG 158/4 (27.3)

ZIM 154/10 (34.3)

AFG won by 6 wkts (135b rem)

2nd ODI • Feb 11 • Afghanistan tour of United Arab Emirates

AFG 179/10 (30.1)

ZIM 333/5 (50)

ZIM won by 154 runs

1st ODI • Feb 9 • Afghanistan tour of United Arab Emirates

AFG 333/5 (50)

ZIM 179/10 (34.4)

AFG won by 154 runs

3rd ODI • Dec 10 • Afghanistan tour of United Arab Emirates

AFG 177/10 (48.2)

IRE 180/5 (38)

IRE won by 5 wickets

2nd ODI • Dec 7 • Afghanistan tour of United Arab Emirates

AFG 220/10 (45.2)

IRE 271/9 (50)

IRE won by 51 runs

1st ODI • Dec 5 • Afghanistan tour of United Arab Emirates

AFG 238/9 (50)

IRE 100/10 (31.4)

AFG won by 138 runs

Team Form (Last 5 Matches, Most recent first)

Team Form (Last 5 Matches)

Afghanistan

Ireland

Head To Head (Last 10 Matches)

AFG

6- 3

IRE

Team Comparison (Last 10 Matches)

Matches Played

Matches Won

279

Average Score

237

381/3

Highest Score

289/9

179/10

Lowest Score

170/6

Player of the Match Mohammad Nabi

48(62)

5/17

AFG

IRE

Info

Afghanistan

236/9 (50)

Batters

Rahmanullah Gurbaz

96.23

c & b A McBrine

Ibrahim Zadran

(C)

70.97

c C Campher b BJ McCarthy

Rahmat Shah

44.44

c LJ Tucker b MR Adair

Hashmatullah Shahidi

103

66.99

lbw b MR Adair

Azmatullah Omarzai

44.44

runout (A McBrine / HT Tector)

Mohammad Nabi

77.42

c HT Tector b TF van Woerkom

Ikram Alikhil

50.00

b HT Tector

Nangeyalia kharote

125.00

c LJ Tucker b BJ McCarthy

Allah Ghazanfar

62.50

b MR Adair

Naveed Zadran

128.57

Not out

Fazalhaq Farooqi

71.43

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 4, NB: 1, W: 2)

TOTAL

(50 Ov, RR: 4.72)

236/9

Bowlers

EXT

5.10

5.00

4.67

4.60

3.60

5.67

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Ibrahim Zadran

c C Campher b BJ McCarthy

1-62

10.5

Rahmat Shah

c LJ Tucker b MR Adair

2-73

13.4

Rahmanullah Gurbaz

c & b A McBrine

3-85

17.6

Azmatullah Omarzai

runout (A McBrine / HT Tector)

4-96

21.4

Mohammad Nabi

c HT Tector b TF van Woerkom

5-193

42.4

Ikram Alikhil

b HT Tector

6-202

43.6

Hashmatullah Shahidi

lbw b MR Adair

7-207

45.2

Nangeyalia kharote

c LJ Tucker b BJ McCarthy

8-219

46.6

Allah Ghazanfar

b MR Adair

9-221

47.4

Ireland

119/10 (35)

Batters

Andy Balbirnie

12.50

c I Alikhil b F Farooqi

Paul Stirling

(C)

94.34

c AM Ghazanfar b M Nabi

Curtis Campher

68.25

c I Alikhil b N kharote

Harry Tector

21.43

lbw b M Nabi

Lorcan Tucker

42.86

c N kharote b M Nabi

George Dockrell

12.50

b N kharote

Mark Adair

0.00

lbw b N kharote

Andy McBrine

0.00

b M Nabi

Barry McCarthy

44.44

b N kharote

Graham Hume

26.32

b M Nabi

Theo van Woerkom *

33.33

Not out

Extras

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

TOTAL

(35 Ov, RR: 3.4)

119/10

Bowlers

EXT

4.60

2.60

7.00

4.33

1.70

3.33

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Andy Balbirnie

c I Alikhil b F Farooqi

1-4

2.2

Paul Stirling

c AM Ghazanfar b M Nabi

2-77

17.3

Harry Tector

lbw b M Nabi

3-93

21.5

Lorcan Tucker

c N kharote b M Nabi

4-101

23.3

Curtis Campher

c I Alikhil b N kharote

5-101

24.4

George Dockrell

b N kharote

6-102

26.1

Mark Adair

lbw b N kharote

7-103

26.6

Andy McBrine

b M Nabi

8-103

27.5

Graham Hume

b M Nabi

9-111

33.4

Barry McCarthy

b N kharote

10-119

34.6

Match Info

Date & Time

12 Mar, 05:00 PM IST

Venue

Sharjah Cricket Stadium

Match

3rd ODI,

Ireland vs Afghanistan 2024

Schedule

Stats

Umpires

Ahmed Shah Pakteen (Afghanistan), Paul Reiffel (Australia), Bismillah Jan Shinwari (Afghanistan, TV)

Referee

David Boon (Australia)

Toss

Ireland elected to bowl

0 0 1 0 0 0

Over 32

Runs: 1

0 0 0 1lb 1 2

Over 33

Runs: 4

0 0 1 W 0 1

Over 34

Runs: 2

0 0 0 1 6 W

Over 35

Runs: 7

All Overs

Player of the Match Mohammad Nabi

48(62)

5/17

Commentary

With that the ODI series comes to fruition. Having lost the Test, Afghanistan have come back strongly and dominated the two matches that were played. (The second ODI was washed off by rain). Now, we would head to the T20I series which begins on 15th of March. Given that this is a T20 WC year, that series is going to be crucial for both teams. And neither are likely to take it for granted. We'd be on our toes bringing you the ball by ball coverage. But for now, it is a goodbye from Darpan Tikiya and Rajarshi Das. Stay tuned to Sportskeeda for more sports coverage.

Hashmatullah Shahidi (Afghanistan Captain): First of all happy about my team's performance. I'd like to congratulate my whole team. When I batted, wicket was not that easy. So I trusted my spinners and Nabi and Kharote did the job. It was a crucial partnership between me and Nabi. We wanted to take the game deep. I told Nabi "let's take it to 45th over." Pitch was a bit slow in comparison to the last game. The ball wasn't coming on very easily. But I think credit also goes to our spinners who bowled in the right areas today. Nabi is an amazing player. He is almost 40 years old but he contributes in fielding, bowling and batting. He is an inspiration for the youngsters.

Paul Stirling (Ireland Captain): We were a lot better today than the 1st odi. We were happy with 236 at the mid innings break. It was better than conceding close to 300 like the first ODI. We were happy with today's bowling performance we should have chased down it. Can't put my finger on what went wrong we were in a good position. But we have to put that behind focus on T20 series coming up and the World Cup later this year. We decided to bowl with dew in our minds. But with the wind, there was no dew. That cost us today.

Rahmanullah Gurbaz (Player of the Series): First of all thanks to the almighty. It was great series for me and my team. But I am not happy with my performance today. I batted through the tough phase. I always try to do something better for my country. After losing Test match we were focused and prepared hard. And we would try and do our best in the upcoming T20 series too. I was fasting today, T20 will be played after Iftar. So looking forward to it. I would like to dedicate this Player of the Series award to Nangeyalia Kharote.

Mohammad Nabi (Player of the Match): Really happy to perform in those sort of conditions. I have played ODI cricket for 17-18 years and it is my first fifer. Stirling hit me for a six in my first over. So I put mid off back and tried to bowl in the wickets and he made a mistake. I didn't think too much about my fifty. Just happy to contribute.

Post-Match presentation is coming up in a few minutes. Stick around for the captains quotes and till then, guess who'd be the Player of the Series.

Afghanistan win by 117 runs, win the ODI series by 2-0.

Hashmatullah Shahidi 68 (103) | Mohammad Nabi 48 (62) & 5/17
Paul Stirling 50 (53) | Mark Adair 3/51

Ireland were cruising at one stage. They had lost Balbirnie early but Stirling and Campher had things under immaculate control. They had seen off the new ball and were just beginning to push the accelerator. Then came on Mohammad Nabi.

He bowled tight lines and lengths and it seemed as if the Irish batters couldn't distinguish between his off-break and the arm ball from the release. That comes as a bit of surprise as Nabi has played a lot of cricket against Ireland. They tried to counter him with some attacking shots which erred on the side of recklessness.

And from a comfortable position, Ireland went into a situation where it was almost impossible for them to even buy a run. They played 15 overs after the 20th over, only adding 26 runs and losing all the remaining 8 wickets.

Amidst all of those wickets, it is only Campher who can feel hard done by with the umpire's decision. Rest was all due to poor shot selection or brilliance from Nabi.

On the other hand, debutant Nangeyalia Kharote too returned brilliant figures of 9-4-30-4. This is particularly impressive given he was smashed for 10 runs off his first two balls in international cricket. In the end, it's a big victory for Afghanistan and Ireland's confidence would be severly dented going into the T20I series next.

Jonathan Trott, Afghanistan head coach: I thought we were a bit short with the runs, we were in a good position after the first 10 overs. But then we saw the wickets slow up a little bit. The way that Nabi bowled, he took the responsibility as a senior player. Nangal, the way he bowled on debut after a rough first over shows good steel and his ability to come back. We've got two new spinners whom you won't necessarily see in the white ball side. Necessary that we perform well in series like this, but it's also necessary to start blooding younger players for the future. Against Sri Lanka, we didn't play the kind of cricket we can, but with a developing side, you're always going to have ups and downs and as a side, we pride ourselves in white ball cricket and look to grow in red ball cricket. The series against SL was disappointing, then we came back in this series. Cricket's a great leveler, it's important that we maintain this momentum

It is an early finish at Sharjah. Ireland collapse! Afghanistan have won the ODI series by 2-0.

overs

119 /10 score

runs

Barry McCarthy *

8 (18)

Theo van Woerkom

2 (6)

Nangeyalia kharote

4 /30

34.6 Nangeyalia Kharote to Barry McCarthy, BOWLS HIM! That is that! Kharote darts this one in on off stump, McCarthy camped on his back foot looking to cut. The ball stayed low, sneaked through from under the bat, and crashed onto the timber. Afghanistan triumph over the Irish rather emphatically eventually, and take the ODI series 2-0!

Barry McCarthy b Nangeyalia Kharote 8 (18b, 0x4, 1x6)

First boundary after the 23rd over.

34.5 Nangeyalia Kharote to Barry McCarthy, SIX! Well well! Barry McCarthy seems to have made his mind on going down while having a swing! Fired in on a full length on off, McCarthy got a good stride forward, pumped this one through its line, and proceeded to clear the ropes at long on!

34.4 Nangeyalia Kharote to Theo van Woerkom, fired in on a full length around middle, worked towards the mid wicket region for a single

34.3 Nangeyalia Kharote to Theo van Woerkom, beaten! Fired in on a length outside off, van Woerkom looked to play from the crease and was done in

34.2 Nangeyalia Kharote to Theo van Woerkom, full, darted in towards leg stump, turned down to the man at fine leg

34.1 Nangeyalia Kharote to Theo van Woerkom, full, just outside off, chipped towards the mid on region

Nabi finishes with his quota of 10 overs! It has been a night that he'd probably not forget in a long long time. Excellent figures for him.

overs

112 /9 score