Mohammad Nabi:
“We didn’t read the pitch properly, we thought it was dry but the ball was seaming a lot. We were 30 runs short. We threw away wickets back to back up front. We started with a quick because it was a seaming wicket.” Fielding: “We missed a lot of balls, hopefully, we will come back well in the next match. We will work on the mistakes.”
Andy Balbirnie:
“We were brilliant in the powerplay. Josh Little gets better and better. We’ve been great against world-class layers in the last few weeks.” Fielding: “We know we have to be good at it. We are working on various things, glad to see the benefits for it.” His own batting: “You’ve to remind yourself you’ve done good stuff in the past. We’re gelling well as a team as we’ve been playing a lot together.”
Josh Little is Player of the Match for his 2/18:
“I had a nice little rhythm. Something I was successful at the World Cup last year, always going to look at what works for me. if you get wickets in the powerplay you always give yourself a chance.”
Afghanistan vs Ireland 2nd T20I Highlights today, Thursday 11-8-2022. 1st T20I, Afghanistan tour of Ireland from Civil Service Cricket Club, Stormont, Belfast.
Mohammad Nabi chose to bat first.
Afghanistan team: 1 Rahmanullah Gurbaz, 2 Ibrahim Zadran, 3 Usman Ghani, 4 Hashmatullah Shahidi , 5 Najibullah Zadran, 6 Mohammad Nabi (capt), 7 Azmatullah Omarzai, 8 Rashid Khan, 9 Mujeeb Ur Rahman, 10 Naveen Ul-Haq, 11 Fazalhaq Farooqi.
Ireland team: 1 Paul Stirling, 2 Andy Balbirnie (capt), 3 Lorcan Tucker (wk), 4 Harry Tector, 5 Gareth Delany, 6 Curtis Campher, 7 George Dockrell, 8 Mark Adair, 9 Andy McBrine, 10 BJ McCarthy, 11 Josh Little.
Head to Head In T20I’s: 19
Afghanistan Won: 14
Ireland Won: 5
Match Timings: 14:30 GMT | 15:30 Local
Umpires – Jareth McCready, Paul Reynolds
Match Referee – Graham McCrea
Reserve Umpire – Roly Black
Match number – T20I no. 1729
