Tour of Afghanistan in India 2019

HonalD

Anyone going?

Any early thoughts?

gavinoontheweb

Quite fearful to be honest we struggled against the Afghan's at home last summer so we are going to be up against it in Asian conditions. Team composition has changed a bit with some new blood getting a run of games, J.Little in particular looks a decent death bowler, something we have need since A.Cusack retired. I hope S.Singh has a good tour, a guy who has really upped his game recently, adding to his variations with the ball and better performances with the bat aswell.
In short I'd say we should aim to win 1 T20I
Make the ODI's competitive (Afghan's gunning for the summer CWC)
Our best shot at a win could be the stand alone Test (Which should be a great occasion regardless).

KevIRL

Ireland to bat first after winning the toss in the first T20

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11/0 after 3 overs

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KOB out for 5. 27/1 after 5

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Balbirnie out for 5 next over 33/2

schemingbohemia

Balbirnie gone now - this could be awful

KevIRL

Stirling gone. 39/3. Thats the top 3 batsmen gone within 7 overs.

VillaMad

First proper tour for the Irish cricket team which is exciting although it appears that every single game is in the same place in Dehra Dun in Northern India, so not really much of a tour.

Will be tough as the Irish team is in something of a transition but some fresh players have been introduced and hopefully the experience will do them some good.

Nice six there by Simi Singh.

VillaMad

Singh stumped and Ireland 52/4. Tough going.

KevIRL

64/4 after 11. Hopefully we can get to some sort of respectable total and give the bowlers something to aim for

Kahn just into the attack. Eeek.

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Kahn takes Thompson with his second ball.

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two balls later and Getkate out.

66/6 after 12.

Will be a miracle to get to 100 now

Joe_ Public

120 reachable. Not great but at least give some semblance of a chance for the bowlers, slim as it would be. These 2 guys done decent job in the circumstances.

KevIRL

101/6 after 17 overs. Something of a recovery.

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132/6 at the end. Great stuff from Dockrell and Poynter top scoring batsmen with 34 and 31 respectively. Some sort of respectability to the total

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16 off first over, but a wicket in the second

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Zazai is out. 30/2

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30/3. Two in an over for Rankin

Joe_ Public

Decent chance of winning this game way it’s going.

KevIRL

62/5 after 10

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84/5 after 14. Afghanistan behind run rate but Ireland need wickets now

Joe_ Public

Gonna need couple of quick wickets, still a chance.

Joe_ Public

15 run over, that’s just about it. Made it interesting for a while at least.

KevIRL

All done with 4 balls to spare, at least it wasnt as grim as things looked early on I suppose

KevIRL

Afghanistan win toss and will bat first in second ODI

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5/0 after 1.

The sprinklers came on unexpectedly and play has been stopped. That's a new one to me.

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15 off the 3rd over after a solid start of 7 off the first two

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64/0 after six. Getting pummeled

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122/0 after 10.

Zazai 83 off 35

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152/0 after 12.

Better get the record books ready.

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Zazai ton (102) from 42 balls

gavinoontheweb

This is just grim, getting absolutely pummelled for 6 consistently. This could be a very long series

KevIRL

Stirling goes for 24 runs in the 13th over including 4 wides, 3 sizes and remarkably a dot.

175/0 after 13

Joe_ Public

263 is the record innings i believe. Certainly very achievable from here you’d imagine.

KevIRL

Can someone turn on the sprinklers again please and leave them on this time

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Miracle as KOB keeps an over in single digits. 192/0 after 15

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3 sixes in a row in kobs second over

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KevIRL wrote: »

3 sixes in a row in kobs second over

Four sixes, 2 wides and 2 singles

234/0 and three overs left

VillaMad

Highest t20 score is 263 by Australia and Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Highest individual score is 175 by Chris Gayle. Could all go in the next few overs.

Depressing.

KevIRL

This now the record t20 international partnership

VillaMad

A wicket!!!!!

KevIRL

73 off 48 for ghani

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248/1 with two overs left. This all about the records now

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New batsman six off his first ball, of course

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Another wicket but not zazai

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This now the record t20 score ever

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Nabi out after hitting a pair of sixes. Three balls left

VillaMad

Absolutely pathetic bowling. Yes Afghanistan are batting brilliantly but the bowling is short or wide and just asking to be hit.

KevIRL

Boundary to finish for zazai. 278/3

A superb 162 off 62 for zazai

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KevIRL wrote: »

This now the record t20 score ever

Unfortunately looking like a 9th t20 defeat on the trot to Afg.