Quote from: fuguebtc on Today at 06:25:58 PM

Quote from: Essential10 on Today at 05:39:13 PM

Had Zimbabwe scored 30 to 40 more runs, the outcome of the match could have gone in a different direction. But in the end the second match of the series went in favor of Ireland, Ireland did not have to get much momentum to win the match. Stirling and Curtis Campher's second-wicket stand of 144 made it easy for Ireland to win. Curtis Campher performed very well in both the batting and bowling units for which he bagged the man of the match award. Ireland leveled the series today won by 6 wickets, so the third match on Tuesday will be crucial for both sides.

For a team like Zimbabwe, it is not an easy task to collect close to 300. I would say that Zimbabwe managed to deliver a decent target. I would not call the target of 246 runs on this pitch a small target. If Zimbabwe's bowlers could have done well, they had a chance to win. But the performance of Zimbabwe's bowlers was quite weak. So Ireland reached the target of victory by losing only 4 wickets. Paul Stirling played two very important innings of 89 runs and Curtis Campher 63 runs. As a result, Ireland reached the target of victory quite easily.

In this match 246 is not a small target but if you watch the previous match then you can guess that 246 runs is not very suitable for winning in this match. Moreover, there is no way to say that Ireland will be very weak compared to Zimbabwe team. They have won one test match.

According to an approximate idea of the first and 2nd ODI match, we can say that Zimbabwe team is strong. There are some players in Zimbabwe team who have experience of playing in good franchise teams. Due to this, the chances of Zimbabwe team winning the final match are very high.

The main reason why Ireland did well in today's match is because 4 of their batsmen scored well. I will especially mention Paul Stirling who took charge of the team as captain. Curtis Campher played an important role for the team.