The 3rd and final ODI Match of the Afghanistan v Ireland in UAE, 2024 was played today at Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah. In which Afghanistan defeated Ireland by a big margin of 117 runs to seal the the series by 2-0.
TOSS- Ireland won the toss and invited Afghanistan to bat first.
Afghanistan Innings- Afghanistan batted first and started the inning very well, Hashmatullah Shahidi played a very brilliant half-century inning of 69 runs with the help of 4 boundaries in 103 balls, Rahmanullah Gurbaz also played a brilliant half-century inning of 51 runs with the help of 1 six and 7 boundaries in just 53 balls, Mohammad Nabi played a brilliant inning of 48 runs with the help of 3 boundaries in 62 balls, Ibrahim Zadran scored 22 runs in 31 balls, Rahmat Shah dismissed just for 4 runs in 9 balls, Azmatullah Omarzai 4 runs in 9 balls, Ikram Alikhil 2 runs in 4 balls, Allah Ghazanfar 5 runs in 8 balls, Naveed Zadran remained unbeaten for 9 runs in 7 balls, Fazalhaq Farooqi also remains unbeaten for 5 runs in 7 balls. In this way, Afghanistan scored 236 runs after losing 9 wickets in the stipulated 50 overs and was given a perfect target of 237 runs in front of Ireland.
Ireland bowlers- Mark Adair took 3 wickets for 51 runs in his spell, Barry McCarthy 2 wickets for 42 runs in 9 overs, Andy McBrine 1 wicket just for 36 runs in his spell, Theo van Woerkom 1 wicket for 46 runs in his spell, Harry Tector 1 wicket for 17 runs in 3 overs, Graham Hume was wicketless for 40 runs in 8 overs.
Ireland inning- Ireland chasing 237 runs in the second inning the entire team dismissed just for 119 runs in the last ball of the 35th over and lost the match by a big margin of 117 runs. Ireland started the inning well till after losing first wicket very quickly, after that Paul Stirling and Curtis Campher handled the inning and played a very brilliant half-century partnership of 73 runs for the second wicket, after that no batsman could play well, Paul Stirling played a brilliant half-century inning of century inning of 50 runs with the help of 2 sixes and 4 boundaries in just 53 balls, and Curtis Campher also played a brilliant inning of 43 runs with the help of 1 six and 5 boundaries in 63 balls, apart from this no batsman could touch double-digits runs, Andrew Balbirnie dismissed just for 1 run in 8 balls, Harry Tector 3 runs in 14 balls, Lorcan Tucker 3 runs in 7 balls, George Dockrell 1 run in 8 balls, Barry McCarthy 8 runs in 18 balls, Graham Hume 5 runs in 19 balls, Mark Adair and Andy McBrine dismissed without scoring, and Theo van Woerkom remains unbeaten for 2 runs in 6 balls. In this way, continuously wickets failed one after another, and end of the result the entire team was all-out just for 119 runs in just 35 overs, and lost the match by a big margin of 117 runs, and also lost the series by 2-0.
Afghanistani bowlers Mohammad Nabi and Nangyal Kharoti performed very brilliant bowling, Mohammad Nabi took 5 wickets just for 17 runs in his spell, Nangyal Kharoti 4 wickets just for 30 runs in 9 overs, Fazalhaq Farooqi 1 wicket for 23 runs in 5 overs, Azmatullah Omarzai was wicketless for 13 runs in 5 overs, Allah Ghazanfar was wicketless for 13 runs in 3 overs, and Naveed Zadran also wicketless for 21 runs in 3 overs.
PLAYER OF THE MATCH- Afghanistani all-rounder Mohammad Nabi was selected as the player of the match, he performed very brilliant as well as in bowling, played a brilliant inning of 48 runs with the help of 3 boundaries in 62 balls, and took 5 wickets just for 17 runs in his spell.
PLAYER OF THE SERIES -Afghanistani batsman Rahmanullah Gurbaz got the series, he performed very brilliant batting scored a total of 172 runs in the entire series, scored 121 runs in 1st match, and 51 runs in 3rd and final match
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