Filed under IndvIreland-WT20-10 June 09

Match : India vs Ireland, Match 3 of Group A, T20 World cup 2009.
Venue/Date : Trent Bridge ground in Nottingham in UK.. 10 June 2009.
Debuts : none.
Toss : India, elected to field.
Result : India won by 8 wickets.
Point table : India 4, Ireland 2, Bangladesh 0 (failed to qualify) .
Man of the match : Zaheer Khan.
Umpires : Ian Gould and Nigil Llong.
Head to head : First meeting.. India now lead Ireland 1-0 in all T20 matches.
Match Summary :-
How can you not bowl your highest wicket taking bowler his full quota of overs? a 18 over per side match, Indian captain MS Dhoni bowled Pragyan Ojha 4 overs (probably his left arm spinner needed bit of practice of bowling under mild rain before the big games), and hence, Zaheer could bowl only 3. After wrecking Ireland top order with 3 wickets in first two overs, Zaheer got his 4th wicket in 3rd over and had he bowled 4th one too, we might have seen first five wicket haul in T20 cricket. Best T20 bowling figures.

Struggling all the way, Irish team scored 41 runs in last 3 overs to finish in style but their below par score was never going to trouble the defending champions. Indians reached victory target with 8 wickets and 2.3 overs in hand.

Ireland Innings (18 overs maximum):-

Batsman			Runs	Balls	4s	6s
William Porterfield	c Y Pathan	b Zaheer	5	8	0	0
Jermey Bray		b Zaheer	0	7	0	0
Gary Wilson		b Harbhajan	19	23	1	0
Andre Botha	c Y Pathan	b Zaheer	8	5	1	0
Kevin O'Brien		b Ojha	2	4	0	0
JF Mooney	c Yuvraj	b Ojha	19	22	1	0
Andrew White	c Dhoni	b Zaheer	29	25	3	1
Regan West	run out	(Raina)	1	1	0	0
Alex Cusack	not out		12	6	2	0
Kyle McCallan	not out		9	7	1	0
Boyd Rankin

Total = 112 for 8 wickets in 18 overs
Bowlers :-	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	Extras
Irfan Pathan	3	0	22	4	1 wide
Zaheer Khan	3	0	19	4	1 wide
Ishant Sharma	3	0	18	0	--
Yuvraj Singh	1	0	18	0	--
Pragyan Ojha	4	0	18	2	--
Harbhjan Singh	4	0	25	1	--

India Innings (Target = 113 in 18 overs) :-

Batsman			Runs	Balls	4s	6s
Gautam Gambhir	c Rankin	b West	37	31	3	1
Rohit Sharma	not out		52	43	4	1
MS Dhoni	c Bray	b McCallan	14	13	1	0
Yuvraj Singh	not out		3	4	0	0
Suresh Raina
Yusuf Pathan
Irfan Pathan
Harbhajan Singh
Zaheer Khan
Ishant Sharma
Pragyan Ojha

Total = 113 for 2 wickets in 15.3 overs.. won by 8 wickets.
Bowlers :-	Overs	Runs	Wickets	Dot balls	Extras
Boyd Rankin	4	28	0	10	--
Kevin O'Brien	2	17	0	3	--
Alex Cusack	2	13	0	5	--
Regan West	4	23	1	9	2 wides
Kyle McCallan	3.3	28	1	6	1 wide

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