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5th over: Ireland 39-1 (Adair 28, Tector 2) Luke Wood changes ends and bustles through a tidy over, just three singles off it.
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4th over: Ireland 36-1 (Adair 26, Tector 1) Harry Tector is in at first drop for Ireland. Name straight out of a Le Carre novel, he is a very decent player. He’s off the mark with a prod into the off side… Adair carries on regardless and clubs Dawson over cover for another boundary. England need to get Adair out, he’s in the mood and is extremely dangerous with it.
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WICKET! Paul Stirling c †Buttler b Dawson 7 (Ireland 30-1)
Liam Dawson enters the attack and he strikes with his second ball! Stirling rocks back to flay through the off-side and gets a thin feather through to Joss Buttler behind the stumps. The umpire said not out but England were convinced and the DRS proved why.
Liam Dawson successfully appeals for the wicket of Paul Stirling. Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 14.54 CEST
3rd over: Ireland 30-0 (Striling 7, Adair 21) The outfield is very slow but there’s one way to deal with it, take it out of the equation altogether! Adair slams high and long down the ground for SIX and then drives a full ball from Baker back past him with a whipcrack of the bat. Four more! Baker is getting some tap again in and England shirt – Adair backs to leg and lofts him away for a one bounce four over cover. Sixteen off the over, blistering start for Ireland!
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2nd over: Ireland 14-0 (Striling 7, Adair 5) Luke Wood opening up from t’other end, his first ball gives Stirling too much width and he doesn’t miss out, flaying over cover for four! Wood decks a few in and sends down a sharp short ball, there’s just a leg bye and a tucked to leg single to Adair off it.
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1st over: Ireland 8-0 (Striling 3, Adair 4) Baker tempts Stirling to play and miss with his first ball and hoops one into his middle with the next, that’ll settle the nerves a little, though he follows up with a leg-side wide. Stirling then opens the shoulders and slaps into the off side but the outfield is lush and a bit sluggish, they pick up three with Phil Salt doing fine work on the boundary. Baker darts one back that misses the off stump by a gnat’s eyebrow but the final ball is clubbed away for four by Adair. Eventful first over and the packed crowd loving it.
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Updated at 14.42 CEST
Righto, Sonny Baker has the new ball in his hand. Deep breaths son. The splendidly ursine Paul Stirling is on strike, Ross Adair is his opening partner. Let’s play!
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Anyone here able to help Troy in Indiana out?
“Dear Jim: Do you mind asking the following?
Does anyone know where this streaming in the U.S.? It is not on Willow or ESPN (usual places)… Also: is BBC sports carrying this and is it available for overseas listeners?”
There’s frozen oranges in the trees, in Indiana. In Indiana.
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Get to know Jordan Cox:
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The sun is indeed beating down in Malahide, the word is they will use the same pitch from the first game so a slightly worn surface for the batters and potentially something for the bowlers to work with. The players are assembling – we’ll be underway in about seven minutes.
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Those teams in full:
Ireland: 1 Paul Stirling (c), 2 Ross Adair, 3 Harry Tector, 4 Lorcan Tucker (wk), 5 Curtis Campher, 6 Ben Calitz, 7 Gareth Delany, 8 Barry McCarthy, 9 Matthew Humphreys, 10 Craig Young, 11 Ben White
England: 1 Phil Salt, 2 Jos Buttler (wk), 3 Jacob Bethell (c), 4 Jordan Cox, 5 Rehan Ahmed, 6 Tom Banton, 7 Jamie Overton, 8 Liam Dawson, 9 Adil Rashid, 10 Luke Wood, 11 Sonny Baker
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England to bowl first!
Jacob Bethell calls the coin correctly loses the toss for the first time in his nascent captaincy career and England are going to have a bowl first in Malahide. Sonny Baker is indeed given his T20I debut so we’ll see him in action very soon. Jordan Cox comes in for Sam Curran who has headed home for an undisclosed personal reason, we wish him well.
For Ireland – all rounder Ben Calitz is also handed a bayboo and leggie Ben White is given the nod too, George Dockrell and Graham Hume miss out.
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Updated at 14.21 CEST
Preamble
James Wallace
Hello and welcome to the third and final T20 International between Ireland and England from Malahide. Good news – the sun is shining! A glorious day in Ireland should see us get a full match in after Friday’s washout.
The word is we should be seeing Sonny Baker given his T20I debut, he seems to be a thoroughly well rounded young man and there’s no doubt he is incredibly talented, but, I’m sure he and everyone else in the England set up are hoping it goes a darn sight better than his ODI debut against South Africa a week or so ago when he chalked up the most expensive bowling figures for and England ODI debutant.
Taha Hashim spoke to young Sonny about it all the other day:
“All of the guys after were like: ‘Mate, defending 130, come on: unless we got five [wickets] in the powerplay, we were never really in it,’” says Baker. “Up the hill at Headingley can be tough sometimes. Markram fancied a piece and got a few away and he’s a very, very good player.
“We had to have really aggressive fields and then anytime the ball beats anyone inside the ring in the off-side, it’s four. From a figures point of view, it was not exactly how I’d planned my debut going, but not all good experiences are enjoyable experiences.
“At the time, I was thinking: ‘Fifteen an over for my first three or four overs is not what I had in mind.’ But in the long run, it’ll be a good thing.”
Baker is an upbeat character and likes to keep notes on his bowling plans, listing down ground dimensions, different grips, analysis on batters. “I try to be objective when I’m doing reviews and I don’t mind being detail-oriented,” he says. “[Harry Brook] was chatting to me after that and said: ‘What did you write down in your notebook after that game?’ I just said: ‘Shit happens.’
The game starts at 13:30pm, I’ll be back with the teams and the result of the toss very shortly.
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