Irish Cricket 2024

Hume stops the Nabi onslaught

311 the target. Afghans took full advantage of the wickets in hand in the closing overs

Stirling out early and run rate v slow

Edit and Balbirnie out now too

Looking ominous already. Two down and scoring about 3 per over...

yes, Campher gone now too.

that was a really good delivery in fairness.

id be worried now, this has all the hallmarks of a hammering…

Need 8.53 an over….

almost 5 overs since the last boundary…. Need to put the foot down, probably lose anyway but with wickets in hand I don’t get this tactic.

Given both batsmen have over 50 runs a piece, I’d kinda say that their partnership is well built and the required run rate should be the focus. You are the only poster bringing ‘flaking wickets away’ to the equation.i simply mentioned putting their foot down and increasing the run rate. This is more like it, hitting towards the boundaries now !

It's been a good effort but looks beyond them now unfortunately,11 per over required.

Afghanistan death bowling far superior to ours. Great yorkers, when our lads were bowling dross, short, wide and all sorts of rubbish.

Done a lot better than I thought. We can hardly blame Tector, looks out on his feet. Needed our openers to protect their averages more so!!

If Harry Tector plays after again a single days rest, he'll be some man. Looks knackered at the end.

If only our death bowling was better today and our first three contributed more than a handful..

Good (and pretty deflating) piece by Nathan Johns here in the aftermath of that Test win

We bring the rain with us wherever we go

See we're on again today, more or less the same team doesn't vary much by format. Won toss and chose to chase again. At least we have consistency there I guess.

Still can't help but feel a few of our lads could shed a bit of weight. Hume there now is fairly rotund and working hard in the heat.

Gurbaz now is lean & mean, saved himself being run out by a stretchy dive. No way Stirling would have been near that.

Badly needed breakthrough that

A lot fewer loose deliveries.. Better from the Irish bowlers. A lot fewer erroneous deliveries and they’ve been pretty tight with their fielding too.

only 13 boundaries so far in the 30 overs we’ve bowled.

Hopefully we can limit them to around 260-270.

Tector getting a few overs today

Make or break of us now for the moment - Adair bowling short again a bit too much? Can he vary with a few good tight yorkers?

Nabi gone which is no harm at all.

well played

live forecast right now on cricinfo is 244

Afghanistan finish on 236/9. Getting a six with the last ball