Oman is chasing the target in a very comfortable and confident way. For Ireland it is Dockrell's 91* runs helped the team reach good score of 281 runs. For Oman starting from the opener there is good contribution. Oman requires another 22 runs from 30 balls with 5 wickets in hand. Three players have contributed with half centuries. The World Cup qualifier matches were really interesting as teams are performing really well and beyond the expectation.
Oman won this match and i would say it was an upset as Ireland is a much better team and I never heard of Oman cricket team before. The way they chase 281 runs was remarkable. In the Ireland innings I thought that George Dockrell played a match winning innings of 91 runs but not to be.
Oman batsmen collectively played a much composed innings and each of their batsmen scored around 50+ runs and made sure that they reach the target.
I absolutely agree. I also think that this is actually an upset. I never thought Ireland was going to lose against Oman. When I saw Ireland, giving a target of 282 to Oman I thought it is over for Oman because they are not going to reach that total at all. But I was wrong. It was a great performance from Oman to actually win the match. An unbelievable chase from them.
If we look at the scorecard, we will see that Ireland did have a feel better individual score, but on the other hand, almost all of the batsmen from Oman contributed to the win that they got. In the end, they reached the target quite comfortably. Congratulations to them for this very important win. I thought if Ireland was able to perform well in this qualifier, probably they will be able to attract the eyes of the ICC and they will probably get more serious about Ireland in the future. But things have started pretty badly for Ireland.