Ireland vs Afghanistan, 1st T20I at Greater Noida, , Mar 08 2017 - Ball by Ball Commentary

takes the aerial route to finish it off. Full and outside off, frees his arms and clears the long-on boundary. Shovels it from outside off and with the fielders inside the circle to prevent the single it was a chance he could liberally take. Makes clean contact and the ball sails a long way over the boundary

oh, gone! Got to ask, was that really necessary? Full and outside off and Nabi drills it hard through midwicket. Cannot keep it along the ground and sends it straight into the hands of the midwicket fielder

fullish length outside off, eases it down to long-on for a single. Scores level

short of good length, swivels around and pulls it to deep square leg. Just two needed now

short and no pace again. This time he anticipates well and hangs in the backfoot, waits for it before pulling but cannot beat the deep backward square leg fielder

short of a length, no pace at all, tries to pull and goes through with the shot too early

good length outside off, drops it in front of covers off the front foot and they take a quick single

full and outside off, tries to squeeze it out through the off side and cannot make contact

superb catch at long-on. They go upstairs to check if he has taken that fine, but does not seem like there's any problem. It was full and the batsman was using the inward angle and lofting it. It's the long part of the boundary there and the ball nearly carries but not over the fielder there. He moves to his right, takes it reverse-cupped and is arching back. The angle and momentum takes him over the ropes, so he flicks it in the air, crosses the boundary and steps back in to take it again. It's a pretty clean effort, no part of the foot was on the ropes

fuller ball outside off, defended off the front foot into the off-side and the bowler runs to his left to cut it off

comes down the track and ends up nearly yorking himself, the ball goes off the inside part of the blade to the square leg region

angled down leg, misses the flick and the ball goes off the pad to the left of the diving wicketkeeper and towards fine leg

Kevin O'Brien's struggle in this over ends with another boundary. Too full and lofted straight down the ground. One-bounce over the straight boundary

and another wide. Sprays it too wide outside off and the batsman chases it. Goes so wide that he almost loses balance as he reaches out for it. The ball misses the flashing blade and the wicketkeeper appeals for a catch as he takes it. Not given

whatever Afghanistan are doing now are working in their favour. Short of a length and outside off. Not much room and does not sit up as well as he would have liked. Gets a top edge on the attempted pull and the ball goes on the bounce over third man

full and angling away, comes forward and drives off the front foot to extra cover

sprayed down leg again and the keeper collects it this time

sprayed down the leg side. Ireland getting it all horribly wrong here. The batsman misses the glance and the keeper misses the ball as well as the wicketkeeper dived to his left and the ball goes to the fine leg boundary

full and on leg stump, picked up off the pads and drilled hard between long-on and deep midwicket. This one's getting over in a hurry

slower short ball, tries to pull it away and does not time it as the ball goes to fine leg