Pakistan v http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ireland-c751- One Day International- Recap
Pakistan thrashed Ireland in the first One Day International (ODI) by a huge margin of seven wickets using the overcast conditions perfectly. The match was played at Civil Service Cricket Club, Stormont, Belfast.
Ireland was playing their first match since http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 World Cup. The match was delayed due to rain and the officials allotted 36 overs to each side.
Pakistan after winning the toss opted to put the home side into bat. Ireland started their innings with their openers EC Joyce and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/PR-Stirling-c2200. They could not provide their team a dream start.
The hosts lost their first wicket at seven when Joyce was caught behind by Muhammad http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Salman-c88163 off the bowling of Tanvir Ahmad. He scored just one run off four balls.
The Irish skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/WTS-Porterfield-c2801, came into bat as a one down batsman. He supported Stirling, who played a blistering innings and made a decent partnership with his skipper.
However, Stirling contributed http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gordon-James-Muchall-c60376 in the partnership and pushed his team’s score to 47 before he was caught by Mohammad Hafeez off Junaid Khan’s bowling.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AR-Cusack-c1075 was the next man in but could not impress his fans with the bat. His time at the crease was ended by Pakistani left-arm fast bowler, Junaid Khan, who clean bowled Cusack. He scored just five runs off five balls.
The hosts came under immense pressure after losing their top three wickets for 49 runs in the eighth over. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/GC-Wilson-c1474 came into the middle to join his captain.
After the addition of just two runs to the total, the Irish skipper after playing 17 balls, was caught behind off the bowling of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Umar-Gul-c94604 and scored just four runs. The Captain was replaced by Kevin O’Brien with Wilson on the crease. O’Brien after scoring
a quick 15 runs off 18 balls was clean bowled off the bowling of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Junaid-Khan-c77037.
Wilson did his best but his effort was not enough and after making just 11 runs, he dejectedly returned to the pavilion. He was caught behind off the bowling of Pakistani off-spin magician http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Saeed-Ajmal-c87859.
After http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Wilson-c98046, the Irish tail was exposed and quickly succumbed to Pakistan. The fighting Irish were bundled out for 96 runs in just 20 overs.
Pakistan started their chase with openers http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Taufeeq-Umar-c92889 and Mohammad Hafeez, who provided the Cornered Tigers with a sound start of 73 runs. Umar was the first to be dismissed after he made 23 runs off 62 balls, with the help of one boundary. He was caught
by Stirling off the bowling of Cusack.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Asad-Shafiq-c46208 scored just four runs and was caught behind off Cusack’s bowling.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Misbah-ul-Haq-Khan-Niazi-c76385 at the crease. The visitors won the first match of the two match ODI series by a convincing margin of seven wickets.
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