Ireland v Afghanistan - http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Afghanistan-c745 164-run chase – Live Score and Update
Aided by the efforts of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-Graham-Downton-c44379 Joyce’s unbeaten half-century, Ireland managed to recover from a poor start against Afghanistan, and post a respectable total of 163 runs on the board, during the 26th match of the ICC World Cricket League Championship,
currently being played today on July 5 at the Clontarf Cricket Club Ground in Dublin.
A wet outfield caused some initial delays, but the match got underway after Afghanistan won the toss and captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/WTS-Porterfield-c2801 (7), but the opening stand yielded only
9 runs, after which Stirling granted wicketkeeper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Shahzad-c77324 an easy catch off Shapoor Zadran in the 4th over.
Porterfield faced a total of 25 deliveries to bring his individual total up to 7, after which http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shapoor-Zadran-c89730 struck once again, dismissing the Irish skipper in the 6th over.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ed-Joyce-c1417 was next up to bat, and remained the top scorer for his side with an unbeaten contribution of 67 runs, although he used up a total of 124 deliveries for the feat. His partnership with Niall O'Brien (6) yielded only 16 runs, and got their side up
to 30 by the 11th over, after which Gulbodin Naib sent the latter packing.
Wicketkeeper batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/GC-Wilson-c1474 was ineffective, scoring just one run after becoming Shapoor Zadran’s third victim. The Afghan medium pacer succeeded in dealing effective blows to the Irish line-up early in the innings, and finished with figures of 3 for
20, with an impressive economy rate of 2.50.
Joyce and Kevin O'Brien (31) succeeded in establishing the highest partnership of their team’s innings – a 47-run stand which brought http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ireland-c751 up to 80 by the 22nd over, after which confusion in running led to Kevin O'Brien being run out by Samiullah
Shenwari.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Nabi-c77111.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/George-Dockrell-c59135 (9) were both sent packing by Dawlat Zadran (10-3-32-2), and Ireland
found themselves all out, at 163, by the end of the 47th over.
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