Both Ireland and Pakistan are cricket loving nations and both the teams have fans across their countries and also world wide. For over the years the Ireland cricket team and the Pakistan national cricket team have enjoyed a friendly rivalry with limited over matches between them. But in 2018 Ireland played their inaugural test match with Pakistan national cricket team. Here in this blog let us completely discuss about this test match and we will also let you know the Ireland cricket team vs Pakistan national cricket team match scorecard details clearly.
Overview Of The Match
Date: May 11, 2018
Format: Test Match
Venue: The Village, Malahide, Dublin
Toss: Ireland, elected to field first
Importance Of the match: Ireland’s inaugural Test
Playing XI Of Both Teams
Ireland: Paul Stirling,William Porterfield, Ed Joyce, Andrew Balbirnie, Niall O Brien (WK), Kevin O Brien, Gary Wilson, Stuart Thompson, Tyrone Kane, Tim Murtagh, Boyd Rankin
Pakistan: Azhar Ali, Imam-ul-Haq, Haris Sohail, Asad Shafiq, Babar Azam, Sarfaraz Ahmed (C & WK), Shadab Khan, Faheem Ashraf, Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Abbas, Rahat Ali.
Ireland Cricket Team Vs Pakistan National Cricket Team Match Scorecard
Pakistan Batting
Pakistan 1st Innings: 310-9 d (96 Overs)
Pakistan 2nd Innings:160-5 (45 Overs)
|
Player |
1st innings |
2nd Innings |
|
Azhar Ali |
4 |
2 |
|
Imam-ul-Haq |
7 |
74 |
|
Haris Sohail |
31 |
7 |
|
Shafiq |
62 |
1 |
|
Babar Azam |
14 |
59 |
|
Sarfraz (c & wk) |
20 |
8 |
|
Shadab Khan |
55 |
4 |
|
Faheem Ashraf |
83 |
DNB |
|
Amir |
13 |
DNB |
|
Mohammad Abbas |
4 |
DNB |
|
Rahat Ali |
0 |
DNB |
Ireland Bowling
|
Bowler |
wickets(1st innings) |
wickets(2st innings) |
|
Murtagh |
4 |
2 |
|
Rankin |
2 |
1 |
|
Tyrone Kane |
0 |
0 |
|
S Thompson |
3 |
1 |
|
Kevin O Brien |
0 |
0 |
|
Stirling |
0 |
0 |
Ireland Batting
Ireland 1st Innings: 130-10 (47.2 Overs)
Ireland 2nd Innings: 339-10 (f/o) (129.3 Overs)
|
Player |
1st innings |
2nd Innings |
|
Ed Joyce |
4 |
43 |
|
Porterfield (c) |
1 |
32 |
|
Andy Balbirnie |
0 |
0 |
|
Niall O Brien (wk) |
0 |
18 |
|
Stirling |
17 |
11 |
|
Kevin O Brien |
40 |
118 |
|
S Thompson |
3 |
12 |
|
Tyrone Kane |
0 |
53 |
|
Wilson |
33 |
14 |
|
Rankin |
17 |
6 |
|
Murtagh |
5 |
5 |
Pakistan Bowling
|
Bowler |
wickets(1st innings) |
wickets(2st innings) |
|
Amir |
2 |
3 |
|
Mohammad Abbas |
4 |
5 |
|
Rahat Ali |
0 |
0 |
|
Faheem Ashraf |
1 |
0 |
|
Shadab Khan |
3 |
1 |
|
Haris Sohail |
0 |
NA |
Match Highlights
Winning the toss Ireland elected to field first. Although they are playing their first international test match against one of the top teams they are very disciplined in their strategy. With their clever bowling they reduced Pakistan to 310 runs. Then when it came to batting, Ireland batsmen struggled against the top quality bowling of Pakistan. They got all out for just 130 runs and Pakistan had made Ireland to follow on. This time the Ireland batsman stood up and posted a good score and gave a target of 160 runs for Pakistan.
Chasing
While chasing Pakistan batters struggled at the beginning and lost 4 quick wickets with the top bowling by the Ireland bowlers. But two of their top batsmen Imam ul haq and Babar Azam joined hands together and bailed out their team and crossed the line. They had chased the target easily. You can look at all the score details in the above mentioned Ireland cricket team vs Pakistan national cricket team match scorecard.
Historic Match
This match has become one of the historic matches for the Ireland cricket team because it is the first of many test matches for them. Even though they have less experience they had given a tough fight for the Pakistani team.
Player Of The Match
In this match Kevin O Brien was declared as the player of the match for his excellent century in the second innings of the game. With his century he had helped his team to post a decent target to the Pakistan team. He is one the best players of Ireland.
Conclusion
Every nation’s cricket board dream is to get test status for their team and play test matches regularly. One such dream was fulfilled for the Ireland cricket team on May 11, 2018. So it will be marked as one of the historic moments in their cricket history. Even though modern day cricket is only for white ball cricket with short formats. The craze for test cricket remains the same over the years and every player wants to represent their country in the test format at least once in their career.
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