It's a hat-trick for Bracewell as Young slices a simple catch to backward point! Having his first bowl in T20Is, he takes three in his first five balls to end the match! Young could have left this alone. It was floated full on sixth stump, but he tries to attack and instead skews this fluttering comfortably to Sodhi on the ring.
Ireland vs New Zealand, 2nd T20I at Belfast, IRE v NZ, Jul 20 2022 - Match Result
6.52 pm A sorry effort from Ireland. The visitors nearly double them up in the end. It means that New Zealand has taken the series with a match to spare. Cleaver sets up the win with a half-century, Sodhi wipes out the middle order before Bracewell's extraordinary tour of Ireland continues now with a hat-trick after his heroics in the ODIs.
Player of the Match is Dane Cleaver: "Pretty special day and obviously contributing to a good win for the country, pretty happy. The wicket offered a little bit of variation so it probably wasn't my most fluent innings but you try to stick to your options so it paid off. Very special to have my family here. It's a beautiful island and they're enjoying it. Wanted nothing more than playing for my country with my entire life so it's great to contribute to a win."
Ireland captain Andy Balbirnie: "Sometimes you can have days like that with the bat. When you're 50-odd for 7 chasing 170, you're never really in the game. [The pitch] played similar throughout the whole game so we as batters have to take responsibility that this isn't good enough in international cricket. We've got one more crack at them and we'll see how we go."
New Zealand captain Mitchell Santner: "The wicket looked a little better in the first innings but it was a bit up and down. The way Dane paced that innings was good and then our bowlers did well. There's not a lot that [Bracewell] can't do at the moment so I thought I'd get him in there. We're pretty happy with the win today."
That's it for today's coverage. Come back on Friday for the final match in this T20I series. On behalf of Sreshth Shah, I'm Peter Della Penna. Take care!
Slip comes into place for the hat-trick ball to be faced by Young.
length ball on fourth stump, another big heave toward the leg side, another basic catch at chest height five yards inside the rope. Bracewell is on a hat-trick.
charges a full ball on middle, flicked high in the air toward deep midwicket, simple catch at chest height five yards in from the rope.
good length on fourth stump, swats this to long-on for one.
flighted full on fifth stump, McCarthy slog sweeps this over midwicket to the rope.
Bracewell enters around the stumps for his offspin.
short on fourth stump, pulls this to Phillips at deep midwicket who makes a sliding stop trying to flick this back to a support fielder but it goes through Phillips' hands in the rush to make the flick and winds up trickling into the rope.
back of a length on middle, goes to cut and beaten for pace.
slower ball lands short on fifth stump, goes to late cut this and picks out short third man on the ring.
slower ball lands full on middle, driven to long-on for one.
slower length ball on sixth stump, slaps at this and it comes off the toe of the bat and barely clears mid-off before going to the rope.
back of a length on the hips, goes back to flick through the leg side for one.
full on fifth stump, Adair charges and scuffs a drive down the pitch through mid-on.
good length ball on middle, goes back to defend.
short on middle, slogs a pull over midwicket and clears the rope.
good length ball on fourth stump, goes to cut, very fine edge beats Ferguson at third man on the ring and goes to the rope.
Slip leaves after the successful reverse sweep.
full on middle, goes for a reverse sweep and connects to get this behind point to the rope.
good length ball on sixth stump, left alone.
full on fifth stump, driven firmly to Guptill at extra cover.
flighted full on fifth stump, defended back to Santner.
short and wide, cuts this behind point for one.
1W | 1W | |||
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Civil Service Cricket Club, Stormont, Belfast | |
Toss | Ireland, elected to field first |
Series | |
Season | 2022 |
Player Of The Match | |
Series result | New Zealand led the 3-match series 2-0 |
Match number | T20I no. 1678 |
Match days | 20 July 2022 - day (20-over match) |
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Over 14 • IRE 91/10