Quote from: Tony116 on Today at 05:31:17 PM

Quote from: Iranus on Today at 01:42:22 PM

Quote from: MusaPk on Today at 12:36:08 PM

Quote from: BobK71 on Today at 10:39:23 AM

Ireland Cricket has been performing well for the past few days. Although their calculation of winnings are not more, but they shows a good sign. I fully support what you said that they are competing well with the big teams. I never imagined that a team like Ireland would be able to score such a big score against Bangladesh. Because Bangladesh team has some remarkable bowlers from whom getting more score is not a very easy task. Also my prediction was maybe Ireland team will win that match. If Ireland win the toss and decide to bowl then they might have a chance of winning the next match.

Ireland were going with 3.7 RPO till 12th over and they ended giving a target of 320 runs in just 45 overs. Harry Tector 140 runs on 113 balls along with George Dockrell 74 runs on just 47 are the main contributions in setting a target of 320 runs for Bangladesh. It was a dream target for any bowling lineup to defend but Irish bowling gave it too easily. In fact Bangladeshi batting didn't faced any problem while chasing the target and won the match in 45th over with 3 balls to spare.

I was really surprised by the way Ireland's batsmen batted. The batting line-up of this team is very strong day by day. Batsmen are gradually becoming more experienced and their performance is improving. In the first 25 overs, Ireland could only score 124 runs with the loss of three wickets. And their collection was 195 runs in the last 20 overs. Ireland's players scored around 9.75 runs per over. They batted well. I would have been happy if Ireland had won the match. This would increase the confidence of this team. And they will be motivated to play better in future matches.

I think we all are going to agree that the pitch was really good for batting and not good at all for bowling. That's why both of the teams actually performed really well while batting. This chase was a really good one. But at the same time, I thought this should have been easier for Bangladesh.

Considering the fact that they were in such a good position in this match. When Shanto got out things started to change in favour of Ireland. But it was good to see the experienced Mushfiqur Rahim saving the match for Bangladesh. At the same time, I will also say that Bangladesh was actually lucky. I thought Rahim was going to be given run out and there was the no-ball as well.

Bangladesh batting was top good in last ODI although they started badly but the partnership of Najmul Hossain Shanto and Tawheed Hriday saved them from defeat . Ireland on other hand were good too they have shown great improvement in last matches but unfortunately couldn't win any .