Ireland vs India, 2nd T20I: India beat Ireland by 33 runs to win series

India took an unassailable 2-0 lead today against Ireland, in the three-match T20I series.

Under warm, near cloudless conditions Ireland’s captain Paul Stirling won the toss and sent India in to bat first. After the visitors raced to 29 in the fourth over, Craig Young made the initial breakthrough for the Men in Green with Yashaswi Jaiswal out caught by Curtis Campher for 18 off 11 balls. Barry McCarthy then struck a second blow three balls later by removing Tilak Varma for 1, leaving India at 34-2 in the 5^th over.

With Ireland sensing in-roads into the Indian batting line-up, Sanju Samson (40 from 26 balls) and Ruturaj Gaikwad (58 from 43 balls) fought back with a sprightly 71-run stand from 49 balls – peppering the boundary with 10 fours and a six to provide a launch pad for the expected final overs onslaught. Samson, in particular, was finding the straight boundaries with ease. However, just as he was looking set for a game-changing knock, he dragged on a ball that kept low from Ben White. Gaikwad – shortly after registering his 2^nd T20I half-century – was soon back in the pavilion as well, having picked out Harry Tector at long on, India 129-4 with 5 overs to go.

Overs 16 to 18 went by modestly, with only 14 runs coming from them, but the tide then turned in the final two overs as the Indian batters took 42 from the last 15 balls. 22 runs came from the 19^th by McCarthy, while 20 runs – and a wicket – from the last from Mark Adair as Rinku Singh (38 from 21 balls) and Shivam Dube (22 from 16 balls) smashed five sixes in a death overs assault on the home side attack. With that late boost, India finished on 185-5 from their 20 overs.

Needing a positive start in the run chase, Ireland stuttered losing three wickets in the powerplay to be 31-3 after 6 overs – Stirling (0), Tucker (0) and Tector (7) falling cheaply, each looking to play aggressive strokes on a pitch that was becoming a little slower as the day progressed.

Andrew Balbirnie (72) and Campher (18) steadied the ship with a 35-run partnership from 27 balls, before George Dockrell entered the fray at 63-4 at exactly the halfway mark of the innings. Balbirnie brought up his 10^th T20I half-century as he and Dockrell began to up the run rate. The pair put on 52 in five overs before an unfortunate mix-up saw Dockrell run out for 13.

After two crowd-pleasing sixes from Balbirnie, the opener fell feathering a ball outside off from Arshdeep Singh, and Ireland’s cause looked lost at 123-6.

Adair provided a late flurry of runs (23 off 15 balls), but Ireland couldn’t sustain the rate and eventually fell 33 runs short.

 

 

Match Summary

India: 185-5 (20)
Fall of wickets: 1-29 (Yashasvi Jaiswal-3.4 ov), 2-34 (Tilak Varma-4.1 ov), 3-105 (Sanju Samson-12.2 ov), 4-129 (Ruturaj Gaikwad-15.1 ov), 5-184 (Rinku Singh-19.5 ov)

Ireland: 152-8 (20)
Fall of wickets: 1-19 (Paul Stirling-2.3 ov), 2-19 (Lorcan Tucker-2.6 ov), 3-28 (Harry Tector-5.2 ov), 4-63 (Curtis Campher-9.6 ov), 5-115 (George Dockrell-14.6 ov), 6-123 (Andy Balbirnie-15.4 ov), 7-126 (Barry McCarthy-16.4 ov), 8-148 (Mark Adair-19.4 ov)

SCORECARD

Playing XIs

Ireland: Paul Stirling(C), Andy Balbirnie, Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker(WK), George Dockrell, Curtis Campher, Barry McCarthy, Craig Young, Josh Little, Mark Adair, Ben White

India: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson(WK), Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Rinku Singh, Washington Sundar, Jasprit Bumrah(C), Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Ravi Bishnoi

Match Details:

Date: Sunday, August 20, 2023 15:00

Venue: The Village, Malahide, Dublin

Toss: Ireland elected to bowl

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