Ireland cancel Afghanistan T20Is due to financial constraints
Cricket | December 17, 2019 12:41 ISTIreland has cancelled a five-match T20I series against Afghanistan and converted a one-off Test against Bangladesh to a T20I.
Ireland has cancelled a five-match T20I series against Afghanistan and converted a one-off Test against Bangladesh to a T20I.
Andrew Balbirnie has been handed the captaincy in T20Is, thus assuming the role of a skipper in all the three formats for Ireland.
Ireland finished at the numero uno spot in Group B after Jersey earned a shock 14-run win over Oman on Sunday.
Chris Woakes and Stuart Broad bagged six and four wickets respectively in the fourth innings as England folded Ireland for 38 in their chase of 182.
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England finished Day 2 303/9 with a lead of 181 runs against Ireland at Lord's after day two's play.
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England were bundled out for 85 in 23.4 overs on the first morning of the four-day Test at Lord's as Irish fast bowlers Murtagh, who took five wickets for 13 runs, and Mark Adair, who took 3/32, dominated.
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Paul Stirling's 131 went in vain as Bangladesh dished out a clinical all-round performance with the bat and ball, seeing a fifer by Abu Jayed and fifties by Iqbal, Das and Shakib.
Ambris hit 19 fours and a six in his 126-ball 148 as Ireland's 327-5 was overhauled with 13 balls to spare.
John Campbell and Shai Hope put on an opening stand of 196 runs as West Indies registered a landslide 196-run win over Ireland in the first ODI of the tri-series also involving Bangladesh.
Chasing 199 to win, England were reduced to 66/5 and 101/6, but wicketkeeper Ben Foakes scored an unbeaten 61 and Tom Curran added 47 not out to see the visitors home.
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Rashid's 5-27 included the wickets of George Dockrell (18), Shane Getkate (2) and Simi Singh (0) of the first three deliveries of the 18th over.
Mohammad Nabi took 2/16 with his off-spin bowling and then scored an unbeaten 49 off 40 balls to carry Afghanistan to 136/5 in 19.2 overs.
Afghanistan will host Ireland in Dehradun for three T20Is and five ODIs before a five-day Test match — only the second for both countries since their admission to cricket's elite.
In their last encounter, when Ireland hosted Afghanistan, the latter defeated them in both the T20 series as well as ODIs.
Earlier in 2018, Ireland started out at home against Pakistan, losing by five wickets, while Afghanistan took on India in Bengaluru and went down by an innings and 262 runs.
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