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Ireland vs Afghanistan Scorecard, 2nd T20I, Afghanistan vs Ireland 2019
Result · Feb 23 2019, Sat - 06:30 PM (IST)
2nd T20I, - Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Dehradun, India
AFGHANISTAN278/3
IRELAND194/6
Afghanistan won by 84 runs
CRR:9.7
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | Afghanistan v Ireland in India 2019 |
| Date: | Feb 23 2019, Sat - 06:30 PM (IST) |
| Country: | India |
| City: | Dehradun |
| Venue: | Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium |
| Toss: | Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat. |
| Afghanistan Playing XI: | Hazratullah Zazai, Asghar Afghan (c), Samiullah Shenwari, Karim Janat, Mohammad Nabi, Usman Ghani, Najibullah Zadran, Shafiqullah (wk), Rashid Khan, Farid Malik, Mujeeb Ur Rahman |
| Ireland Playing XI: | Paul Stirling (c), Kevin O'Brien, Andrew Balbirnie, Shane Getkate, Simi Singh, Stuart Poynter (wk), George Dockrell, Joshua Little, Boyd Rankin, Peter Chase, Lorcan Tucker |
- Afghanistan will be out to claim their third T20I bilateral series win over Ireland with a victory in this fixture, after triumphing in each of the two-previous series.
- Ireland have lost their last eight T20I matches against Afghanistan; last beating them in 2013.
- Afghanistan have recorded victories in all eight of their T20I fixtures since the start of 2018, with their last three victories coming against Ireland despite losing the toss twice.
- Afghanistan have won their last three T20I bilateral series and will be looking to secure a fourth successive T20I bilateral series victory for the second time, after a run of four series win from November 2015 - March 2017.
- Ireland have won just once in their last 10 completed T20I fixtures against teams from Asia, their won win in this span coming against Oman last month.
- George Dockrell struck his highest T20I score in the first match of the series (34*) - this was just his second T20I match batting at higher than number seven in the order.
- Afghanistan's Najibullah Zadran has finished not out in 10 of his last 18 T20I innings; he has scored 315 runs in this time, at a strike rate of 137.6.
- Samiullah Shenwari has the opportunity to become only the fourth batsman to reach 1,000 T20I runs for Afghanistan (Mohammad Shahzad, Asghar Afghan & Mohammad Nabi); he needs 15 in order to get there.
- Mohammad Nabi (Afghanistan) struck his third-highest T20I score in the first match of this series (49*); he has claimed two wickets in three of his four games at this venue in Dehradun, conceding less than five runs an over there.
- Boyd Rankin requires two more wickets to go above Alex Cusack (35) as Ireland's third-highest wicket-taker in T20I cricket; Rankin picked up two scalps in the series opener with Afghanistan.