Ireland looks to comeback after losing the opening T20 International against South Africa on Monday, the game has shifted from Malahide to Stormont, a place all-rounder Mark Adair reminiscences.
Speaking ahead of training, Adair said:
“I've grown up playing around Stormont, I remember even helping out the groundsman with the covers when I was young. In fact, my first live game of cricket was Ireland v England at Stormont where I was helping to pull the covers - so it will be nice to be back playing there again.”
“It's been great to be back playing in front of crowds too. When Bal [Andrew Balbirnie] got his hundred the other day you saw the entire ground stand up for him. I don't want to say it was emotional, but you got that tingling feeling once more. It gives us hope that in the not-too-distant future when teams like this come over we'll once again see big crowds - and hopefully we’ll put in a performance against them.”
“T20 cricket can be a complicated game at times, but from game one we know that if we just closed out their innings better, and started ours a bit better, we could have been looking at 150 plays 150. We just need to simplify our game plan - I don’t think we need to do anything too differently, we just need to be aware of how we go about executing our plans and getting people within the team involved.”
In cricket news the second T20 match between Ireland Men and South Africa Men will commence tomorrow at 4pm, with the Proteas leading 1-0 in the three match series.
WHERE TO WATCH THE SERIES
- Ireland/UK: BT Sport
- North America: Willow
- Middle East / North Africa: Etisalat
- Sub-Saharan Africa: SuperSport
- India: Fancode
- Australia: Fox Sports
- New Zealand: Sky NZ
FIXTURES
The series schedule is:
- 19 July: Ireland v South Africa, 1st T20I (Malahide, scorecard)
- 22 July: Ireland v South Africa, 2nd T20I (Stormont, 4pm – sold out)
- 24 July: Ireland v South Africa, 3rd T20I (Stormont, 4pm – sold out)
IRELAND MEN’S SQUAD
- Andrew Balbirnie (captain), Mark Adair, George Dockrell, Stephen Doheny, Shane Getkate, Josh Little, Barry McCarthy, William McClintock, Kevin O’Brien, Simi Singh, Paul Stirling, Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker, Ben White, Craig Young.
DUBLIN – Leinster Lightning announced their intentions to dominate the Inter-Provincial T20 Trophy by comfortably beating Munster Reds in the morning game at Pembroke on Friday.
After being asked to bat first, the Munster Reds batsmen seemed composed early with Jack Carty (31) and PJ Moor (18) adding a quick 38-run opening partnership in 34 balls.
Murray Commins then took control of the proceedings and continued his batting form from the 50-over fixture into the T20 format on friday with a brilliant 51 off 34 balls - hitting 3 fours and 3 sixes during his 56-minute stay at the pitch.Reds skipper Tyrone Kane hit a cameo of 20, but a rash of late wickets slowed the Munster side's innings, as they finished with 148-7 from 20 overs.
David O’Halloran, the tall 20-year old pacer from Malahide, put up an impressive show claiming 2-20 from his four overs, that caused the Reds batters a moments of worries on a batting-friendly pitch.
In reply, the Lightning lost the wicket of Kevin O’Brien early but man of the match Simi Singh (44) and Andrew Balbirnie (20) steadied the innings with a 49-run partnership.
Singh looked in great touch and picked 22 runs off the first five deliveries of Fionn Hand’s first over, however on the last ball of the over he struck a hard low delivery back down the pitch, and Hand – moving in the opposite direction – stuck out a hand and held on to a brilliant catch.When Balbirnie was dismissed shortly after, the Reds sensed an outside chance given the opponent's longer than usual tail, however, the in form batters of George Dockrell (48*) and Lorcan Tucker (28*) took the match away in a rush smashing the last 73 runs in 37 deliveries to seal a 7 wicket win with 29 balls left.For More Cricket Update MATCH SUMMARY Leinster Lightning v Munster Reds, Inter-Provincial Trophy, Dublin, 18 June 2021 Reds 148-7 (20 overs; M Commins 51, J Carty 31; D O’Halloran 2-20) Lightning 149-3 (15.1 overs; G Dockrell 48*, S Singh 44; A Cawley 1-22) Lightning won by 7 wickets
The host group is coming into the arrangement with a triumph in the as of late closed Indian T20 Cricket Leagues arrangement, be that as it may, this one will be an alternate ball-game.The last time these two teams met in a 50-over conflict was the semi-last of the 2019 World Cup when England steered Australia convincingly.
All the more so after the ODI World Cup Super League has included a decent piece of setting and significance to practically every one of the restricted overs games, finishing every single dead elastic.Australia continued playing after a bizarrely long break of five months and did very well to not be whitewashed when the danger looked up and coming.
All things considered, those three games have just adjusted Australia to the fuming power of global cricket.Australia have been a splendid pack in the shortest form of the game and a triumph in the third and last game at Southampton likewise made sure about their crown in the ICC rankings.
Their spat the 50-overs fantasy game has been a long way from good and they have had the option to win just two of the nine arrangement over the most recent three years.After they met England in the WC experience, Australia have lost five of the seven games they have played, including a 0-3 whitewash against South Africa prior this year.
It should, consequently, not be amazing to see Aaron Finch saying something about his group's consistency.
"Driving into this one-day arrangement we're simply appearing to be as steady as could reasonably be expected, we realize that our reality positioning mirrors the irregularity we've had in the one day design… ", the Australian captain expressed in the pre-arrangement collaboration with the media.Then again, England have played six ODIs with everything taken into account after the decisive WC last against New Zealand a year ago, and have drawn an arrangement 1-1 against South Africa and vanquished Ireland 2-1 as of late.
In the first match of CPL 2020 or Caribbean Premier League to be played at the Brian Lara Cricket Stadium in Trinidad, Jamaica Tallwahs will take on Trinbago Knight Riders.
After the COVID-19 heartbreak the T20 cricket is finally back on the Caribbean ‘s T20 land.
The match is scheduled to start from 3.00 AM, onwards Live on Star Sports Network.
