In the year Afghanistan and Ireland played a tournament in which both the teams played a very good cricket. So today’s topic will also be Afghanistan National Cricket Team vs Ireland Cricket Team Match Scorecard. Matches were played in two formats one was One Day International and the other was Twenty 20 Internationals. This tournament was dominated by Afghanistan in the whole tour. It does not mean that Ireland did not play the better cricket. Still Afghanistan is a better and more focussed tem right now in the world cricket. Afghanistan is giving a tough competition to every team in the world cricket. In the recent Twenty 20 world cup Afghanistan defeated New Zealand and Australia. Through this article we will see the scoreboard of the matches played between Afghanistan and Ireland. Even the other details will also be mentioned in the article.
Basic Information: Afghanistan National Cricket Team vs Ireland Cricket Team Match Scorecard
So under this section some of the basic information will be shared. Afghanistan and Ireland played a tournament in the month of March 2024. The tour comprised of two series of two formats. So there was a series of 3 matches of One Day Internationals and another series of 3 matches of Twenty 20 cricket. All the matches were played in the Sharjah Cricket Stadium. Sharjah is a stadium located in United Arab Emirates. UAE always loves to host or conduct a cricket match or series in their country.
First ODI Match: Afghanistan National Cricket Team vs Ireland Cricket Team Match Scorecard
Toss
In the first match of ODI series Ireland won the toss and decided to field first.
Afghanistan Batting
Then Afghanistan set the target of 310runs in 50 overs. They lost total 5 wickets. Rahmanullah Gurbaz was the top scorer from the Afghanistan team. He scored 121 runs in just 117 balls. On the second spot Ibrahim Zadran scored 60 runs in just 93 balls. Then the another top scorer was Hashmatullah Shahidi. He scored a super-fast and a smashing 50 in just 33 balls. All of them played their knock according to the condition.
Afghanistan Bowling
Fazalhaq Farooqi was the one who bowled a great spell. As he gave only 51 runs in 10 overs and took 4 wickets. Omarzai took 2 wickets and Gulbadin took 1 wicket.
Ireland Batting
Ireland also fought very well and did not give an easy win to Afghanistan. They scored total 275 runs and they lost 8 wickets in 50 overs. Harry Tector was the top scorer who scored 138 runs in 147 balls. Then Lorcan Tucker scored 85 runs in 76 balls.
Ireland Bowling
Ireland did a great bowling but it was not that good to keep Afghanistan below 300. Theo Van Woerkom was the one who took 3 wickets in 10 overs and conceded 55 runs.
Result
Afghanistan won this match by 35 runs.
Second ODI Match: Afghanistan National Cricket Team vs Ireland Cricket Team Match Scorecard
In the second ODI match the match was abandoned and it was not even started. It happened due to heavy and continuous rain.
Third ODI Matc
Toss
In this match as well Ireland won the toss and decided to field first.
Afghanistan Batting
Afghanistan again did a great batting but this time they were as good as last ODI. They just scored 236 runs and lost 9 wickets in 50 overs. Hashmatullah Shahidi was the top scorer in this match. As he scored 69 runs in 103 balls.
Afghanistan Bowling
Mohammad Nabi did a great bowling in this match and he just conceded 17 runs in 10 overs and took a fifer as well. Nangeyalia Kharote was the another bowler who bowled a great spell of 30 runs in 10 overs and took 4 wickets. Their bowling was the reason behind their win.
Ireland Batting
Ireland batting in this match was so poor as they just scored 119 runs in 35 overs and the whole team was all out. In 119 run Paul Stirling scored 50 runs in 53 balls and was the top scorer from Ireland. On the other hand, Curtis Campher was the one who scored 43 runs in 63 balls. These were two batters who scored some runs for Ireland.
Ireland Bowling
The bowling of Ireland was good in this match as compare to the last match. They managed to stop Afghanistan on 236 runs. Mark Adair was the one who bowled a great spell of 51 runs in 10 overs and took 3 wicket haul.
Result
Afghanistan won this game by 117 runs.
First T20 Match: Afghanistan National Cricket Team vs Ireland Cricket Team Match Scorecard
Toss
In this match Afghanistan won the toss and decided to field first
Ireland Batting
In the first ever T20 match of this series Ireland set a target of 149 runs in 20 overs and lost 6 wickets. Harry Tector scored the highest run form the Ireland. He scored 56 runs in 34 balls.
Ireland Bowling
Ireland did a great bowling in this match. Benjamin White took 4 wickets in 4 overs and conceded 20 runs.
Afghanistan Batting
Afghanistan batted very poor in this match or we can say Ireland bowled very well. They were not able to chase the target and got all out at the score of 111 in 18.4 overs. Mohammad Ishaq was top scorer from Afghanistan and scored 32 runs in 22 balls.
Afghanistan Bowling
Rashid Khan was the one who delivered a tremendous spell for Afghanistan. In 4 overs he conceded only 19 runs and took 3 wickets.
Result
Ireland won this match by 38 runs.
Second T20 Match: Afghanistan National Cricket Team vs Ireland Cricket Team Match Scorecard
Toss
Ireland lost the toss and Afghanistan decided to bat first.
Afghanistan Batting
Afghanistan set a good target of 152 runs by losing 9 wickets in 20 overs. Mohammad Nabi was the top scorer for Afghanistan. He scored 59 runs in 38 balls.
Afghanistan Bowling
Afghanistan did a great bowling in this match. Rashid Khan was the one who bowled a tremendous spell of 14 runs in 4 overs and took 4 wickets.
Ireland Batting
In this Ireland also batted well but were not able to chase the target. They scored total 142 runs and lost 8 wickets in 20 overs. Andrew Balbirnie was the top scorer for Ireland. He scored 45 runs in 44 balls.
Ireland Bowling
Ireland bowlers were good in this match but they were not as good as they were in the last match. Mark Adair was the one who took 3 wickets and conceded 27 runs in 4 overs.
Result
Afghanistan won this match by 10 runs.
Third T20 Match: Afghanistan National Cricket Team vs Ireland Cricket Team Match Scorecard
Toss
Ireland lost the toss and Afghanistan decided to bat first.
Afghanistan Batting
It was good and same like the last match. Afghanistan scored 155 runs in 20 overs and lost 7 wickets. Ibrahim Zadran was the one who scored some good runs for the team and due to his batting Afghanistan was able to set a good total. Zadran played a knock of 72 runs in just 51 balls and he went not out in this match.
Afghanistan Bowling
In this match Afghanistan showed their best bowling skills again. The best bowling figure in this match from Afghanistan was from Azmatullah Omarzai. He just conceded 9 runs in 4 overs and took 4 wickets.
Ireland Batting
Ireland batting was below average in this match as they were not able to cross 100 runs even. The whole team got all out at the score of 98 runs in 17.2 overs. Curtis was the top scorer who scored 28 runs in 23 balls.
Ireland Bowling
The bowling was quite good. Nobody got some better figure than other bowler as all were at the same position by taking 1 wicket each.
Result
Afghanistan won this match by 57 runs
Conclusion
Lastly, we will mention that the tour ended with 2-1 in both the formats. Both the series were won by Afghanistan. It was a great series in which both the teams played a very good cricket and made this tour memorable.
