Easiest of catches at mid-on! Launched straight into the sky and miscued it completely, shortish delivery around the line off, labored pull and Josh Little called it early and settled under it. Ireland have won by 124 runs, massive feat!
Ireland vs West Indies, 1st ODI at Dublin, IRE vs WI, May 21 2025 - Ball by Ball Commentary
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1st ODI, Dublin, May 21, 2025, West Indies tour of Ireland
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Thank you for your company throughout this game. This is Rvel Zahid, signing off on behalf of Rashad Mahbub and our scorer, Chetan Kumar. Goodbye and goodnight!
West Indies were going nowhere in their reply as the Ireland pacers were on top of their game extracting every bit of juice from the surface, hitting nagging lines and lengths and reaping the rewards. The top order was never allowed to break free and the pressure of too many dot balls eventually forced errors as they tried to break the shackles. Chase and Forde showed gritty resistance but once the former fell, the fight completely faded. Dockrell mopped up the tail with his clever spin methods while McCarthy inflicted the early damage and finished with four crucial wickets. Ireland didn't put a foot wrong throughout the day. Andy Balbirnie's composed century and Paul Stirling solid hand paved the way for a par score. Later, Harry Tector's fifty and Lorcan Tucker's quickfire 30 pushed the score past 300 which proved more than enough on a spicy surface
Andy Balbirnie, Player of the Match: We had a tough few weeks with injuries but guys have stepped up. 10000 runs is an amazing achievement (on Paul). None of us knew about that achievement but he has been an incredible player for Ireland. Hope he can keep contributing this way. That's the role I have been given (to bat deep). Some days it will come off, some days it won't. Lucky it came off today. Historically we have been slow to get into a series with our better performances coming later on. But this sets up nicely for us. We know the conditions, they know the conditions, need to pat ourselves down tomorrow and go again on Friday
Paul Stirling, Ireland Captain: Everything went as we spoke...absolutely delighted. They have come in and not looked out of place, great thing for Irish cricket to see the depth of the talent. I had no idea, delighted to get there. It was something I dreamt of (scoring 10,000 runs) as a kid but as a professional cricketer you can't dwell too much about it. He played a typical Balbirnie innings; saw off the new ball and batted throughout the innings. The way Lorcan and Harry came in was pretty special
Shai Hope, West Indies Captain: We have got to make sure we get wickets with the new ball and then the batters need to set the tone in the powerplay. Hopefully, we can correct these things in the next game. We needed to show more intent. The guys hit the right lengths and the rest is history. We just need to set the tone from the start. We know the firepower we have with quality players coming in at back end. This series isn't over yet... we'll take this blow since they outplayed us
34.1
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McCarthy to Forde, OUT
Matthew Forde c Little b McCarthy 38 (48b 4x4 1x6 88m) SR: 79.16
end of over 348 runs • 2 wickets
WI: 179/9CRR: 5.26 • RRR: 7.81 • Need 125 runs from 96b
Shamar Joseph0 (1b)
Matthew Forde38 (47b 4x4 1x6)
George Dockrell 2-0-21-3
Barry McCarthy 7-0-32-3
33.6
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Dockrell to Shamar Joseph, no run
Good length and pushed wide of off, spins in a touch, attempted cut
33.5
W
Dockrell to Motie, OUT
Given some flight and plenty of width, he takes the bait and larrups it down the ground, pouched comfortably by the fielder at long-off. Excellent spell of bowling, he's doing a stellar job in wrapping up the tail as WI inch closer to a massive defeat. This was given extra bit of flight and his eyes lit up, wanted to hit a few out of the park instead of dying wondering and didn't want to just hang around
Gudakesh Motie c Mayes b Dockrell 8 (4b 2x4 0x6 2m) SR: 200
33.4
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Dockrell to Motie, no run
Good length and outside off, stands tall, opens the face to punch it down to cover-point
33.3
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Dockrell to Motie, FOUR runs
Fuller and outside off, advances and thumps it past extra cover for four, got plenty of legs to reach the rope, dominating shot
33.2
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Dockrell to Motie, FOUR runs
Good length and offers some room, opens the face and steers it behind backward point for a gorgeous boundary, doesn't become the hattrick victim
33.1
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Dockrell to Alzarri Joseph, OUT
Makes an impact straightaway, continues to produce magic. Settled into his rhythm in no time, bags his second. Another beautifully tossed up delivery, zeroing in on the stumps, he steps back and gets an under-edge, drags the ball back onto the stumps and now the resistance from WI is melting away quickly
Alzarri Joseph b Dockrell 0 (4b 0x4 0x6 5m) SR: 0
end of over 332 runs
WI: 171/7CRR: 5.18 • RRR: 7.82 • Need 133 runs from 17 overs
Matthew Forde38 (47b 4x4 1x6)
Alzarri Joseph0 (3b)
Barry McCarthy 7-0-32-3
George Dockrell 1-0-13-1
32.6
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McCarthy to Forde, no run
Searing in towards off from a good length, tapped to cover fielder inside the ring
32.5
1lb
McCarthy to Alzarri Joseph, 1 leg bye
Skiddy from a slightly shorter length, he jockeys across middle and tries to work it away, gets hit on the pads, height looks like an issue, lbw appeal turned down
32.4
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McCarthy to Alzarri Joseph, no run
Skids through from back of a length, wide of off line, left alone
32.3
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McCarthy to Alzarri Joseph, no run
One slip in place. Shortens his length, ball, straightens down the line middle and off, shanks it back to the bowler
32.2
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McCarthy to Forde, 1 run
Fraction short and angling in at off, inside-edge goes behind square on the leg side, quick intervention inside the ring
32.1
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McCarthy to Forde, no run
Dug in short around the line off, tries to club a pull off the backfoot and gets beaten comprehensively
end of over 3213 runs • 1 wicket
WI: 169/7CRR: 5.28 • RRR: 7.50 • Need 135 runs from 18 overs
Matthew Forde37 (44b 4x4 1x6)
George Dockrell 1-0-13-1
Josh Little 7-0-43-1
31.6
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Dockrell to Chase, OUT
Forces him to lunge at it and he was guessing which way the ball is going to spin, arm ball kept going on with the arm, he plays down the wrong line and the ball disturbs the furniture. Marvelously bowled, extra zip and floated fuller, making him play, got the prized scalp and broke the threatening partnership[p
Roston Chase b Dockrell 55 (76b 4x4 2x6 99m) SR: 72.36
31.6
5w
Dockrell to Chase, 5 wide
Quicker and fuller, errs down the leg side, keeper can't get it, everybody misses it and the ball dribbles away to the rope at fine leg
31.5
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Dockrell to Forde, 1 run
Pushed full on off, leans out and drives it nicely to deep extra cover
31.4
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Dockrell to Forde, SIX runs
Dances down the track to create his own length and clubs it for a six over the bowler's head, stamps his authority on the bowler. It's a superb fightback from West Indies, keeping them in the contest
31.3
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Dockrell to Forde, no run
Zips it quicker and outside off, patted away to short cover-point
31.2
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Dockrell to Chase, 1 run
Around the wicket, tossed full on middle, driven to long-off
31.1
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Dockrell to Chase, no run
driven down the ground but not that far from the bowler
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