Ireland keep their World Cup hopes alive! Back of a length on off, Rankin bowls a heavy ball. Wheal backs away again for a biiiig slog. He only snicks it behind. Niall throws himself to his right, and clings onto the one-handed catch to wrap things up for Ireland
Ireland vs Scotland, 28th Match, Super Sixes at Harare, Mar 18 2018 - Match Result
4.44pm That is that. No Ed Joyce, no problem for Ireland. Andy Balbirnie led the way for them with a sublime century and was ably complemented by punchy knocks from the O'Brien brothers - Niall and Kevin. Coetzer's brisk fifty upfront and a late counterattack from the Scotland tail threatened Ireland, but they hung on to wrap up a 25-run win. Coetzer was particularly severe on Rankin, but the Irish seamer overcame a difficult start to take 4 for 63, securing the victory as the clouds parted and the ground was bathed in afternoon sunshine.This is Scotland's first loss in this tournament. Liam Brickhill's report will tell you the full story of the day.Thanks for reading. Goodbye for now
Balbirnie, Man of the Match: The quick turnaround has helped. It hasn't been a great tournament for me, but happy to get some runs. Luckily Niall played a run-a-ball innings, Kevin did the same, and that helped me. We are going to take a couple of days off and get back to it.
Porterfield: We knew we had to turn up and two points today. We were disappointing with the bat against Zimbabwe, so this turnaround was pleasing. We were good against Afghanistan over the last winter and back ourselves.
Coetzer: This was one of the best wickets in the tournament, maybe they got too many runs. A couple of crucial moments in the game did not go our way.
Kabir: "Ireland & Afghanistan live another day. They have only chance if West Indies too beat Scotland and looses to Zimbabwe, then there would be a point tie between West Indies & Afghanistan/ Ireland"
bouncer on middle, too high, and called a wide
backs away and slices it away to the right of sweeper cover for four
back of a length and bounces over middle, Wheal still can't connect with a slog
swings and misses outside off
Scotland need 31 off 18 balls to pull off a heist
floated full on middle stump, gets underneath the length and nonchalantly lifts it over the bowler's head for a flat six
sam: "@bimal nah watt and wheal are going for the win"
full and outside off, flat-batted down to mid-off
swings hard and inside-edges the ball onto his pad. They hare across for a single. Murtagh swoops in and kicks the ball onto the stumps but Wheal is in
slower short ball outside off, Watt picks the change-up and launches a six over square leg
Bimal: "Scotland should look to play full 50 overs and make try to reach close to 250. NRR might come into play in the end."
heaved away to deep square leg
backs away and slogs to deep midwicket
back of a length and outside off, thumped across the line, Simi Singh at deep midwicket stretches to his right but the ball evades his reach
swings and misses outside off
drilled down the ground to the left of mid-on
Watt clears his front leg, shows the full face of the ball, and lofts this full ball on middle over the bowler's head. Lovely swing
pitches outside leg and swings away to hit the thigh pad
backs away, swipes, loses his shape, and inside-edges the ball onto the pad
on a length and outside off, skies it in the air.... lands beyond extra cover and in front of long-off running in
slower ball, worked off the pads to deep midwicket
sliding in to hit the pad and roll away to the leg side
Harare Sports Club | |
Toss | Scotland, elected to field first |
Series | |
Season | 2017/18 |
Player Of The Match | |
Match number | ODI no. 4001 |
Match days | 18 March 2018 - day (50-over match) |
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Match Referee | |
Points | Ireland 2, Scotland 0 |