Take a good look at how badly Ireland's batting has performed in the main phase. The performance was so bad that there was no way this team could have won against Afghanistan. The players of the Ireland team were not patient, due to which the match was forced to be lost by 57 runs. And the batsmen of the Afghanistan team performed very well and won because of their good bowling performance. Certainly the optimistic Afghanistan team got its due result in this match.
Agreed. Poor performance from Irish batsmen. But then the bowlers were not much better either. Mark Adair and Barry McCarthy leaked too many runs. And the captain didn't allowed the economical Gareth Delany to bowl more than one over. Ireland was in dire straits at 46/5 (this was when George Dockrell got out). There was some fightback from Curtis Campher and Gareth Delany, but that was not enough to get them to the three digit mark. After winning the first match, Ireland went on to lose the series 1-2.