ICC World Cup 2011: Bangladesh V Ireland
The Ireland cricket team open their ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 tournament today against Bangladesh at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh won the toss and decided to bat.
Concern about the Bangladeshi openers may have been justified, but a discplined Ireland managed to bowl them all out for 205 runs, in 49.2 of the 50 overs.
Ed Joyce will be hoping for a successful return to the Ireland side in the innings to come.
Bangladesh 205 all out.
Ireland 206 to win.
I’ll update when I can, but here’s the BBC scorecard, and a text commentary, and the cricinfo ball-by-ball text comentary.
Update Stirling st †Mushfiqur Rahim b Abdur Razzak 9 (10balls 1×4 0×6) FoW 23-1
Porterfield c Raqibul Hasan b Shakib Al Hasan 20 (30b 2×4 0×6) FoW 36-2
Joyce c & b Mohammad Ashraful 16 (35b 0×4 0×6) FoW 75-3
White b Mohammad Ashraful 10 (27b 1×4 0×6) FoW 93-4
NJ O’Brien c Tamim Iqbal b Shakib Al Hasan 38 (52b 3×4 0×6) FoW 110-5
KJ O’Brien c sub (Suhrawadi Shuvo) b Shafiul Islam 37 (40b 3×4 1×6) FoW 151-6
Mooney b Naeem Islam 0 (9b 0×4 0×6) FoW 164-7
Botha b Shafiul Islam 22 (36b 2×4 0×6) FoW 168-8
Johnston lbw b Shafiul Islam 6 (6b 1×4 0×6) FoW 171-9
Rankin c Junaid Siddique b Shafiul Islam 3 (13b 0×4 0×6) FoW 178-10
Ireland 178 all out from 45 overs
Bangladesh win by 27 runs. Has to go down as a missed opportunity for Ireland.
Topic: Sport
Region: Global, Ireland
Do we not have an away strip ?
Still a fine effort from our bowlers and good luck lads with the run chase . Hopefully , our own Barmy army – Fianna Fail will be stumpted before luchtime tomorrow ….
We need to get on our bikes pronto though , we need a Lance Klusener , ……….. we need a Lance Armsrong …..
looks doable
I agree Sammy …. we need O’Brien or Joyce to score 50 plus as Beefy gets into the commentary box…
Chris Martin is in the crowd ….
Decent effort from the Irish bowlers
Should win this.
Joyce gone for 16 runs. And just when Ireland were getting on top of the required run rate…
Come back Eoin Morgan … all is forgiven !!
We need Cane and Abel to hang there in for a while …. steady the ship
have to bat sensibly, stay at the crease
He plays like a young Victor Costello as well
Big over from Kevin O’Brien
Ireland 140-5 from 33 overs.
Just need to hold onto the wickets…
Still only 4 an over needed, no need to go mad.
Will we need the Irish tail to wag ?
Woff Woff ..
Wuff Wuff even ….
Dammit.
Kevin O’Brien gone for 37.
Ireland 151-6 from 36.4 overs.
Damp squib at the end …. Kyle make a few good points .
Paul Allott is no Richie Benaud or …….Richie Boyd Barrett
Dear me. Should have won this game, though once the 2 O’Briens were out always going to be tough.
Dominic Cork wanted Ireland to win ……. he looks like a young Richie Boyd Barrett who should be paying me at this stage lol .
Should have won a number of loose shots when there was no need the run rate was low so dont know why some of the middle order went for a few risky slogs. Not to worry progress to the next round is now impossible but at least they may get to scalp one of the big boys – West Indies looking vunerable.
The England v Ireland match is taking place right now.
England are batting first and are 233-2 after 38 overs.