Ire v Afg highlights today – first twenty/20 from Bready Cricket Club, Magheramason, Bready (Ireland) Monday 20th August 2018. Afghanistan 160 for 7 (Hazratullah Zazai 74, Asghar Afghan 31, Mohammad Shahzad 29, Joshua Little 2-20) beat Ireland 144 for 9 (Paul Stirling 27, Gary Wilson 34, Rashid Khan 3-35, Mujeeb Ur Rahman 2-14, Fareed Ahmad 2-29) by 16 runs.
Two young men who had played a combined three T20Is before Monday’s contest between Ireland and Afghanistan at Bready served notice of potentially bright futures. Hazratullah Zazai’s 33-ball 74 had turbo-charged Afghanistan before Joshua Little’s 2 for 20 in four overs reined them in. but the visiting team’s 160 for 7 in a rain-shortened match still proved too many for Ireland.
Toss: Ireland , elected to field first.
1st T20I (D/N), Afghanistan Tour of Ireland Highlights
Afghanistan team/playing XI
Mohammad Shahzad †, Hazratullah Zazai, Asghar Afghan (c), Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Nabi, Samiullah Shenwari, Usman Ghani, Rashid Khan, Aftab Alam, Fareed Ahmad, Mujeeb Ur Rahman.
Ireland team/playing XI
PR Stirling, SR Thompson, WTS Porterfield, KJ O’Brien, GC Wilson (c) †, A Balbirnie, Simi Singh, GH Dockrell, J Little, TE Kane, PKD Chase.
Match Timings: 16.00 start, First Session 16.00-17.30, Interval 17.30-17.50, Second Session 17.50-19.20
Umpires – Alan Neill, Roly Black
TV Umpires – Mark Hawthorne
Match Referee – Ranjan Madugalle
Reserve Umpire – Paul Reynolds
Match number – T20I no. 696
